Talk about the contribution of comics to art culture

Speaking of comics, few people will feel unfamiliar. Even people who can’t read comics can read them, so they have a wide reach. Comics accompanied me through my childhood and brought me infinite joy. The only two magazines I ever subscribed to were Children’s Comics and The Humorist. Comics have had a silent effect on me, but they have aroused my great interest. It was the richness of comics that prompted my research. Just as scientists study a substance, they usually start with the structure, because the structure determines the properties. The same approach applies to comics. In the case of comics, the structure is simple lines. It is no exaggeration to say that line is the basis of comics, is the key to a successful comic book. Different from other kinds of painting, comics not only need to show the spatial existence of a physical object, but also need to exaggerate some characteristics of the physical object, but not too much. In this, there is a burst of just the right kind of beauty, make people smile.

In fact, comics pay so much attention to the expression of lines, but also back to its origin. Comics culturalists generally believe that comics originated from ancient frescoes. Imagine, in the productive situation at that time, how to obtain and use color, is still quite a difficult thing, but the use of lines is not so difficult.

After a brief understanding of the structure and origin of comics, it is necessary to delve deeper into the connotation of comics. And the connotation of comics is the reason why it can influence society. Traditionally, comics are fun and humorous, educational and satirical at the same time.

Cartoons that are only interesting and humorous are usually educational at a relatively low level, so they can only affect readers at a narrow level. Such comics are usually found in children’s books such as Children’s Comics. In the real sense, cartoons that can influence society are usually humorous, ironic and educational at the same time. Once Lu Xun fought in the literary world with essays through one of his Jianbi. And the satire of the cartoon is like the essay, sharp and introspective, fully uses the characteristics of humor, through a silent means, its educational effect is stronger than the heart-wrenching cry, more in line with the ideology of the current society.

Comics come in many forms, roughly divided into single comics and comic strips. Single cartoons are more traditional and have a longer history.

Since then, the development of comics has developed at a normal speed. However, in today’s era with a strong trend of information technology, the development of comics has undergone a dramatic change. With the accelerated pace of life in modern society, modern people’s ability to process words gradually declines, and the visual culture that replaces them advances rapidly. On the one hand, people become dry and don’t want to think too much; On the other hand, people seem to go back to their childhood and prefer simple and practical things. But comics are not simple in the full sense of the word. They are condensed. Often the impact of a cartoon can outweigh the impact of thousands of words of vague reasoning. Not long ago, CCTV’s National Geographic Channel held a national cartoon contest on environmental protection. The combination of theme and form shows that the media has noticed the importance of comics in publicity and, through a contest, tried to use the wide readership of comics to raise public awareness of environmental protection.

With the development of history and the progress of science and technology, another branch of comics, the long comic book works, with the advent of television and film, originally stationary images on paper, began to move freely. Animation, or anime, is beginning to show its powerful influence.

The spread of comics along with the animation of wind and waves, travel all over the country, into thousands of households. Under the new form, the influence of animation, an existing form of manga, is gradually increasing, and it plays an important role in society together with the traditional comics that gain attention through exaggeration and humor. The aesthetic degree of comics has been greatly improved, and whether the plot can attract readers has become a standard to measure the quality of a comic. Comics are no longer just a carrier to influence culture, but really become a part of culture. It brought about a series of changes that no one could have foreseen. Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly globalized. As an active factor in the process of globalization, comics also play an extremely important role in the conflict and integration of cultures.

As a cultural form with personality, cartoon has become an important mirror to reflect social changes. It will be its humor, satire, as well as in the development of the formation of a unique aesthetic and expressive force, a steady flow of new cultural vitality to the society.