Chapter 91: Comic Strip (2) (Part 2)
"It's hard to see each other, it's also difficult to say goodbye, how to tell this chest. I have all kinds of tenderness, and he is more ambitious, only complaining that he has no chance in this life. The Tao is not endless, and silently bless peace. Things in the world are often difficult to fulfill people's wishes, and look at the bright moon and a few rounds. Far away, far away, from now on the dream haunting the soul. The Tao is not endless, and silently bless peace. Things in the world are often difficult to fulfill people's wishes, and look at the bright moon and a few rounds. Far away, far away, from now on the dream haunting the soul. From now on, the dream will haunt the soul. Haunting ...... dreams"
With the song "It's Hard to See Each Other and It's Hard to Say Goodbye", "Daughter's Love" ended, and the thousands of women who walked into the cinema couldn't suppress the resentment and tenderness in their hearts no matter what. I cried over and over again. Then, these thousands of pear blossoms with rain aroused the interest of more women. Countless more women walked into the cinema. And those who have already seen it once feel that the abuse is not enough, so they go back and watch it again.
It turns out that once something is liked by women, women are never stingy with money. For example, clothes, such as shoes, such as cosmetics, but also for various designer bags.
The short 40-minute animation of "Daughter's Love" was forced by thousands of women in Shanghai to swipe the box office to a height that even "Havoc in Heaven", which has three times the screening time and belongs to the "Journey to the West" series, cannot reach!
Then, this "Daughter's Love" spread to the whole country with lightning speed!
This era is an era when a person cannot control his own life and death. It was also an era when there were no electronic communication devices developed in later generations. Therefore, this era still attaches great importance to separation. Because once you are born, you may be dead! What's more, most of the Chinese parted either because of the Japanese aggression, or because they wanted to go to the battlefield to resist the Japanese aggression!
Therefore, Xian Xinghai and Du Taosheng's "On Taihang Mountain", "The mother asked her son to fight the East, and the wife sent her husband to the battlefield." "Such a majestic and sad sentence!
And the song "It's Hard to See Each Other and It's Hard to Say Goodbye" shows the parting pain of Chinese in this era, especially women who are concerned. Indeed, it is in the hearts of many women.
None of this is unexpected for the rest of my life, but beyond the expectations of the rest of the business, is the sales of spin-offs of the animated film "Daughter's Love". There was no such thing as mascot sales in later generations, but there was one of the most important spin-offs - comic books!
Originally, although Yu Sheng cooperated with a comic book publisher after the launch of the cartoon "Havoc in Heaven", the artistic effect of the comic book in "Havoc in Heaven" was too far behind that of the cartoon. Although the characters are identical, they lack the continuous intensity of the action and the huge impact of the background music. So, sales are average. It didn't have a one-off effect.
However, this "Daughter's Love" is different, because it completely uses the painting style of Chinese classical gongbi ladies, so it is just in line with the characteristics of the art form of comic strips!
The art form of comic strips originated from rock paintings in ancient times, and was originally used for sacrifices and memorials. Later, with the development of civilization, this kind of memorabiliary painting was changed to be recorded on bronzes, masonry, and walls. As a result, several unique forms of literature and art in China have been formed.
By the Yuan and Ming dynasties, Chinese opera had developed, and printing and papermaking had matured after thousands of years of foreshadowing. Many of the operas that have been printed, and even later texts, contain not only illustrations of characters, but also illustrations of a certain theatrical scene. These were already the precursors of comic books.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the "Dianshizhai" pictorial illustrated with comic books appeared in Shanghai. On this basis, some small folio story albums have appeared in Shanghai. In 1889, the Shanghai Literature and Art Book Company published the first real lithograph comic strip "Three Kingdoms" in modern China! It is recognized by later generations as the earliest modern comic book. Loved by the people of that era.
Since then, the art form of comic strips has been out of control! There have been many long-form comic books such as "Journey to the West", "Water Margin", "Fengshen Bang", "The Legend of Yue" and countless short comic strips published! Borrow the mature skills of various traditional Chinese landscape paintings, figure paintings, and flower and bird paintings, and shine!
The streets and alleys of Shanghai are also full of comic book stalls. Even children from poor families can spend two coppers to rent twenty or thirty comic books for most of the day. Its status, its universality, is like the online novels of later generations!
And the art form of comic strips is unique to China! Completely different from the manga of later generations!
Later manga, whether in Europe or the United States, or in Japan, were developed on the basis of movies. Pay attention to the storyboard, pay attention to close-up and close-up, and pay attention to the connection of action. Most of the images are used to show the expressions and movements of the characters. Large close-ups are used particularly frequently.
Chinese comic strips, on the other hand, were developed on the basis of traditional Chinese landscape figure paintings. The composition has not only the characters, but also the scenes. The expression of the storyboard is not strong, and each painting can be used as a separate picture scroll, in which there are not only figures, but also pavilions, water pavilions, sun, moon and stars, flowers and trees. It doesn't express an action, it expresses a fragment of a story.
Therefore, if you want to draw a good comic book, it is impossible to do it without the corresponding foundation of Chinese culture and the foundation of Chinese painting. Because of this, there were many comics in later generations, but few comic books! The decline of Chinese traditional Chinese culture has also led to the complete collapse of the independent art form of comic strips. By the time the rest of his life had passed, there had been no improvement.
And the cartoon "Daughter's Love" for the rest of his life, when it was created, it recruited a large number of painters who ate on the beach but did not eat. A large part of these artists were originally comic strips!
Moreover, many of these painters have not learned any of the techniques used in Western painting, and most of them still learn Chinese painting, and the foundation of Chinese painting is very strong. This makes the work "Daughter's Love" meet the creative requirements of the rest of his life, but it also has the charm of comic books of this era.
You don't even need to adapt, you just need to take screenshots of the different original paintings in this "Daughter's Love" animation, which is enough to form a perfect comic book!
Therefore, although he didn't know comic books for the rest of his life, Wan Gu Chan understood that when he negotiated with the comic book publisher, he made the comic book copyright of "Daughter's Love" get a very high share! And to the surprise of Yu Business, almost everyone who has watched "Daughter's Love" has bought a comic book and collected it home.
In the end, the number of copies sold by the comic book was roughly the same as the number of viewers of the cartoon "Daughter's Love"! Far more than other works in the comic book industry! What a miracle!