Comic Talk: 1910-1950 World Views

Author: Xie Qizhang
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: Comic book lists belong to a category that serves to amuse people, and most readers classify them as light and leisure reading—quite reasonable; however, this comic book somewhat challenges these perceptions. The difference lies in the fact that the author of this book, Xie Qizhang, is not a cartoonist but a super collector of classic comics. He views comics as microscopes for observing social phenomena, connecting comics with life, society, politics, and art in his works, transforming "reading comics" into "studying comics" and "writing comics," giving it a significance far beyond the ordinary. The author provides over two hundred rare images of old comic books, making this book not only "readable" but also "viewable." A key point is that such a "picture-text" combined "private reading" could be considered an experimental approach in the world of comic books.