Illustration:
ill. 6.22 (set: 6.16)
Date:
1950s
Genre:
comic, cover
Material:
internet file, colour, original source: paper, colour
Source:
DACHS 2009 Chinese Comics Blog, Blog.sina.com.cn., Heidelberg catalogue entry
Inscription:
春草闯堂
Keywords:
villain, hero, depiction, visualisation, gesture, before Cultural Revolution, official, red sun, comic, iconography

Chun cao chuang tang (Chun cao chuang tang 春草闯堂)

But it is not as if such exaggerated depictions were entirely peculiar to the Cultural Revolution comic, even if the technique became much more clear-cut and unambiguous during this time. Indeed, similar visual examples from before and after the Cultural Revolution can be found easily. The covers of a number of 1950s comics make this very clear. This one shows the ridiculed villain with a crooked official’s hat.