A picture that describes life or current events in a simple and exaggerated way. Generally, methods such as deformation, analogy and symbol are used to form humorous pictures in order to achieve the effect of irony or praise.

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As a unique art category, comics are deeply loved by people all over the world. People call comics an esperanto without national boundaries, and are praised as "the ninth art" by western art critics. The art of comedy has been promoted to an unprecedented height. Turkey is one of the countries where modern comics started earlier. They also promoted comics to the category of fine arts together with other painting arts, and called them six categories of contemporary art together with painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography and architecture. Comic art is the crystallization of human wisdom and embodies the essence of human civilization. It is these profound cultural accumulations that make comics exert strong artistic vitality.

2 1 century, the development of chinese comic is in the ascendant, and a group of cartoonists who are obsessed with the pursuit of comic art are trying to find the way of comic creation under the new historical conditions. It is particularly worth mentioning that the 6th World Comic Congress was successfully held in Beijing from June 5th to 10, 2004. In order to make the contest more international, famous foreign cartoonists and successful domestic cartoonists were invited to form a jury, and the selection rules of the contest were formulated in accordance with international practice, with special emphasis on the selection of comic works with artistic characteristics. This congress marks the beginning of chinese comic's artistry in the 2nd/Kloc-0th century, and also shows that chinese comic is being integrated into the world comic forest. This conference opened a new chapter in the integration of chinese comic art and world comic art.

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The word manga originated in Japan, and it was originally called Kochi Kitazawa. It lived in the Tokugawa era, about the early Qing Dynasty in China, more than 300 years ago. The comic book "North House" is the originator of comics.

1925 In May, Literature Weekly serialized Feng Zikai's paintings and marked them as cartoons, which was the first work called cartoons in China.

Western comics originated in Britain, and Du Miai, a French painter in the19th century, made the best achievement in the history of western comics.

As a branch of painting art, comics have evolved into three forms today, namely, satirical traditional comics, narrative comics or comic books, and exploratory avant-garde comics.

We usually see satirical and humorous traditional cartoons.

Cartoon painting is a kind of cartoon drawing lessons from comic techniques and styles.

Avant-garde comics-there is no clear definition in the world at present, which generally refers to traditional comics between traditional humor, narrative comics or comic books and exploratory avant-garde comics.

The marginal art form between comics and avant-garde art, or a new comic genre catalyzed by contemporary avant-garde art, emphasizes the exploration function of values and aesthetic orientation, which is "subversive" to traditional comics.

Tracing back to the source, comics have been marked with their noble artistic lineage since their birth. According to historical records, as early as the 15th century, some exaggerated figures appeared in European paintings. It is well documented that Leonardo da Vinci, a famous Italian painter during the Renaissance, and william hogarth, a painter during the British Industrial Revolution, frequently appeared some exaggerated figures in their sketches and oil paintings, especially Huo Jiasi's representative works Sleeping Brothers, Fashionable Marriage and Personality and Comics, which marked the formation of modern western comics. Thomas Rolandson is known as "the father of modern comics". Although he was greatly influenced by Hogarth, he has more modern cartoon characteristics in character modeling and conception, which laid the style of modern western cartoon.

Perhaps it is the exaggerated deformation characteristics of cartoons and the metaphor of mulberry curse that have become the sharp weapon of sectarian struggle in its embryonic stage. With the rise of the bourgeoisie, it also bears the heavy responsibility of political factional struggle. With the continuous development of society, satirical cartoons can no longer meet people's spiritual needs, and cartoons gradually expand to diversification. Since the 20th century, cartoonists have continued to criticize these shortcomings with their sharp brushes. However, with the advent of personalized society, people pay more and more attention to their own lives and feelings. Comics, once used as a tool of political struggle, have developed into humorous paintings with humanized characteristics, which are closer to the daily life of ordinary people. At the same time, comics have also been derived from different styles and different connotations, which has won more room for development. It is in this sense that when we refer to modern cartoons, we are not only referring to political satirical cartoons. From a historical point of view, it should be said that satirical comics are the originator of the development of contemporary comics.

/kloc-in Europe in the 0/7th century, under the background of the British industrial revolution, a group of outstanding cartoonists built the golden age of modern British cartoons, and the great satirist william hogarth was born. /kloc-in the second half of the 0/9th century, some European metropolises started comic magazines one after another, and the communication between cartoonists became more and more frequent. They describe city life with satirical and humorous brushstrokes, vent their emotions for the citizens and win people's love. 184 1 The publication of the satirical magazine Punch in London, England, set off a critical wave in Europe in the19th century, which quickly swept the whole world, and China and Japan were also infected.

Due to the influence of western humanitarianism and humanistic spirit, comics are people-oriented and pay attention to human nature. In order to meet people's spiritual needs, various types of cartoons have mushroomed, and humorous cartoons, groups of cartoons, long comic books and so on all appeared in this period. The successful commercial operation of comics has become a pillar industry in Japan and the United States in the twentieth century. They left Britain, the unique originator of comics in the19th century, far behind and opened a new era of modern comics.