Illustration:
ill. 6.39 b (set: 6.34)
Author:
Zhao Hongben (1915-2000) 赵宏本
Date:
1972
Genre:
comic, comic book, comic strip
Material:
scan, paper, black-and-white; original source: woodblock print
Source:
SWKSDBGJ 1972: Sun Wukong san da baigujing孙悟空三打白骨精 (Sun Wukong thrice defeats the white-boned demon). Shanghai: Shanghai renmin, 1973:26.
Keywords:
Sun Wukong, Journey to the West, fight, villain, demon, hero, heroism, iconography, Cultural Revolution, comic

Zhao Hongben: Sun Wukong thrice defeats the white-boned Demon 1972 (Zhao Hongben: Sun Wukong san da baigujing 赵宏本: 孙悟空三打白骨精)

The demons, on the other hand, are not made significantly uglier or less impressive in 1972: the young woman remains the same (ill. 6.39a&b), the old woman only gains a little in ugliness through a close-up depiction (see ill. 37a&b), and the old man is made to appear a little more helpless when his death is shown from behind rather than from the front (see ill. 6.40a&b). The number of scenes in which the demon appears central is reduced in the later version. Two panels (9&10) are exchanged for this purpose.