Comic Talk: World Views from 1910 to 1950

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, most readers classify them as light and leisure reading——which is perfectly fine; now, 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 to observe social phenomena, linking them to 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 visually appealing. A key point is that this "picture-text" combined "private reading" can be considered an innovative attempt in the world of comic books.