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)
![ill. 6.22](img/560w/img_254.jpg)
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.