Illustration:
ill. 6.10 (set: 6.8)
Author:
绘画: 南通市工农兵美术创作组
Date:
1973
Genre:
comic, comic strip
Material:
scan, paper, grayscale; original source: printed paper, black-and-white
Source:
Luo Shengjiao: Guojizhuyi zhanshi Luo Shengjiao 国际注意战士罗盛教 (Luo Shengjiao, fighter for internationalism). Shanghai: Shanghai renmin, 1973:111.
HeidICON Image ID:
56848
Keywords:
model hero, heroism, sun sunrays, iconography, Mao Zedong, Korean War, waves, religious, Mao´s words, Mao Zedong Thought

Comic: Luo Shengjiao (Lianhuanhua: Luo Shengjiao 连环画：罗盛教)

It is moments of greatest dramatic impact in these stories, and the moments of enlightenment, that call for the appearance of the sun and its powerful rays. In this 1973 comic, entitled Luo Shengjiao, which relates the story of a young soldier, Luo Shengjiao, who loses his life saving a Korean child from drowning in 1952, the martyr is depicted at the decisive moment: he knows he will have to sacrifice himself and is encouraged by the words of Mao and the red sun shining upon him. Indeed, the sun itself is talking to him, in the words of Mao!