Ding Cong's Old Comics -- The Ding Cong Comic Series

Author: Ding Cong
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: Ding Cong, pen name "Xiao Ding," has used "Xiao Ding" as his pen name since the mid-1930s. He describes himself as an eternal child who never grows up, often stumbling into mud pits yet still clueless about the world. At nearly eighty, he remains "Xiao Ding," and his current physical condition proves: vegetables, fruits, sunlight, morning exercises, disco, Tai Chi, ginseng, and Chinese softshell turtle essence are all unnecessary. What works for him: painting the art he loves, eating the meat he enjoys, having friends he adores, and being playfully ruled by the wife he loves. This book mainly includes the author's works from before the liberation, with only a small portion being Ding Cong's cartoons from the 1960s and 1970s, such as "Needle-like Insight," which leaves viewers speechless. He describes himself as an eternal child who never grows up, often stumbling into mud pits yet still clueless about the world. At nearly eighty, he remains "Xiao Ding," and his current physical condition proves: vegetables, fruits, sunlight, morning exercises, disco, Tai Chi, ginseng, and Chinese softshell turtle essence are all unnecessary. What works for him: painting the art he loves, eating the meat he enjoys, having friends he adores, and being playfully ruled by the wife he loves.
Author Bio: Ding Cong was born in Shanghai in 1916. In the early 1930s, he began publishing cartoons, and he has been doing so for 67 years. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, he moved between Hong Kong and the southwestern rear areas, working as a poster editor, stage design artist, art teacher, and creating anti-war propaganda cartoons. He also participated in numerous art exhibitions. From 1945 to 1947, he published many influential satirical cartoons in Shanghai with the theme of "Striving for Democracy." After the liberation, he served as the deputy editor-in-chief of People's Pictorial. For over two decades after 1957, he did not publish cartoons until after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, when he resumed creating satirical cartoons. Since 1980, he has worked with extraordinary energy, producing a large number of illustrations for literary works and satirical cartoons. Since the founding of Reading in 1979, his cartoon column has never been interrupted. Over the past two decades, he has published more than 30 collections, including Illustrations for Lu Xun's Novels; Ding Cong's Illustrations; illustrations for works by Lao She such as Four Generations Under One Roof and Rickshaw Boy; Ding Cong's Cartoon Series; The Chinese Cartoon Series—Ding Cong; Ding Cong's Album—Cartoons, Illustrations, Sketches, Quick Sketches, Portraits, and Designs; Overthinking; A Hundred Pictures and Two Hundred Parables (co-authored with Chen Siyi); and bilingual editions of Anecdotes of Old and Anecdotes of Modern. He is currently the director of the Cartoon Art Committee of the China Artists Association.