Angry and Mournful Painting God: The Comic Art of Liao Bingxiong

Author: Liao Bingxiong
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: In China, which has long entered the "animation era," let us look up and gaze upon a lonely artist devoted to "angry comics"----Liao Bingxiong. "To grieve for the victims of kindness, to be angry at the evil-doers, hence I create mostly angry comics." Liao Bingxiong's understanding of comics is: comics are not jokes, not decorations, comics are a responsibility, Chinese comics should have a sense of responsibility. He spent his life using comics to critique reality, speaking for the people, and became a folk hero with art as his weapon. Through multiple eras, his sharp critique as a "tough guy" spirit remains unchanged. In his own words, it is all because "he has a soft heart." His concern for the people struggling in "Cat Country Chronicle," for the hearts nearly paralyzed by the extreme "leftist" system, and for the suffering, sick, and orphaned children near and far are the inexhaustible driving force behind his artistic creation. This book collects Liao Bingxiong's world-famous masterpieces such as "Cat Country Chronicle," "Self-Mockery," and "Nightmare Chronicle." It is essentially a complete collection of Liao Bingxiong's works from various periods. Illustrated with both text and images, it uses Liao Bingxiong's comics to look at a segment of Chinese history.