Illustration:
ill. 6.28 (set: 6.26)
Date:
1974
Genre:
comic, comic strip, comic based on film
Material:
scan, paper, colour; original source: print on paper, colour
Source:
Xiao haoshou 小号手(The little trumpeter), Shanghai: Shanghai renmin, 1974:2/3.
Keywords:
hero, children, model hero, depiction, Cultural Revolution, comic, film, fight, landscape, mountains, clouds

The Little Trumpeter (Xiao Haoshou 小号手)

This technique of making heroes seem larger than life by drawing them larger in size than their entourage seems especially blatant when children as main heroes suddenly appear much bigger and stronger than their adult friends, and even more importantly, their enemies. This is the case with the little trumpeter in the 1974 comic by the same name, for example, shown here (The Little Trumpeter 小号手 Xiao haoshou), but again, it is a feature that predates the Cultural Revolution and that recurs after 1976.