The art forms of comics can be mainly divided into the following categories:
(1) Line-drawing cartoon: Line-drawing works inherit Xiu Xiang in ancient China, and outline people, things, scenery and things with clear lines.
(2) Sketching comic books: using sketching techniques, without lines, using light and dark contrast, perspective and other ways to describe.
(3) Watercolor comics: Watercolor paintings from Europe, the amount and shade of water in the brush produce the effect of light and shade, wetness and blending.
(4) Woodcut comic books: The first woodcut is printed with a knife and then rubbinged. Because the woodcut can't be used when a certain amount of paper is rubbed, the early woodcut works have high cost and few prints. The collection value after 2000 has also been highly speculated. In the later period, woodcut comic books mostly used woodcut to express their contents, and woodcut was no longer really used for plate making and printing.
(5) Comics and comic books: Comics are very popular in western countries. They were introduced to China in 1930, exaggerating their characters. Representative works include Mr. Wang and San Mao's Wandering.
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Now, the comic book reading market has shrunk year after year. It is understood that modern comic books fall into convention in topic selection and painting techniques. The topic selection still follows decades ago, mostly ancient and modern Chinese and foreign masterpieces and revolutionary traditional stories, but it lacks attention to the present and originality. Now there are only a handful of new cartoons, and few of them can be recognized by readers, which leads to a sharp decline in the number of cartoons printed.
Like Comic Book, the only comic magazine before 20 18, the sales volume has dropped from1280,000 in the 1980s to10,000,000 since 2000. Xin Li, president and editor-in-chief of Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House, told reporters that after 2000, the number of comic books published by the publishing house ranged from 3,000 to 5,000, and in its heyday, the number was tens of thousands or even nearly one million.
He lamented: "Comics can't have collectors and readers. No matter how high the auction price is, it only represents the glory of the past. I hope that comics can be welcomed by the public. " He thinks it is very sad that comics leave readers and enter the collection field.
Xin Li is optimistic about the future of comics. "I have done experiments in many kindergartens. Nowadays, children don't know what comic books are, but when I tell them and show them comic books, I find that no one doesn't like this form of looking at pictures. " Through the farmer's bookstore, they greatly increased the comic book sales of the publishing house in 2006 to 6 million yuan. "I think comics are still alive, such as migrant workers' bookstores, community bookstores, primary and secondary school libraries, which are potential markets for future comics. "
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