Illustration:
ill. 6.20 (set: 6.16)
Date:
1975
Genre:
comic, comic strip， comic based on puppet theater film
Material:
scan, paper, colour; original source: print on paper, colour
Source:
Xiao balu 小八路 (The little eight roader), Shanghai: Shanghai renmin 1975:84-85.
Keywords:
hero, villain, Three Prominences, santuchu, rhetoric, child-hero, children, Cultural Revolution, Xiao Balu

The little Eighth Roader (Xiao Balu 小八路)

Cultural Revolution film and, of course, comics based on these films’ stills use the same rhetoric of style of the Three Prominences. One comic based on a puppet theater film, The Little Eighth Roader (小八路 Xiao Balu) published in 1975, shows the negative (adult) characters in darkish-green lighting, with greenish faces and dark attire, behind the brightly lit, strong, straight, and positive child-hero, the “invincible” Tiger (虎子 Huzi), clad in bright colors, a red shirt, a white jacket, and blue trousers.