Chinese Comic

Chinese comics (or Manhua 漫画) has a history of more than a hundread year. The following picture is "The Situation in the Far East" from Tse Tsan-Tai who is a Chinese people. Some of them were also used in political purposes such as "The True Record" was used to against the Qing dynasty.

The Situation in the Far East, 1899

In 1928, the first Chinese cartoon magazine was created, the "Shanghai Sketch". After that, many magazines were published in Shanghai to. These magazines runned until 1941, when the Japanese captured Hong Kong, manhua activities were forced to stop. After world war 2, manhua magazines continued and Hong Kong became the biggest market for Chinese comics in the 1950s-1960s.

SeaTiger III, a Chinese comic published in Hong Kong

Look at the Sea Tiger III comic and compare with a British comic (the Beano), we can see that the Chinese comic style was affected by the Western comic style at that time.

The Beano, a British Comic in 1940

In 1970, Chinese comics focused on creating the theme of Kung Fu which the main characters were Chinese heros in the history.

And in from the 80s, many Chinese comics has influenced by the Japanese manga style. An noteable example for this is Bowling King, a Taiwanese comic which used drawing technique, the narrative and comedy scenes from Japanese comics.

The Bowling King