Illustration:
ill. 6.46 (set: 6.44)
Author:
Artist: Wang Shiying, Liu Baotong, Jiao Ben, Han Ziying 绘画: 王士英， 刘保同， 脚本， 韩子英
Date:
1966, March
Genre:
comic, cover
Material:
scan, paper, grayscale; original source: print on paper, colour
Source:
Zhongguo lianhuanhua 2000, Vols. I & II: Zhongguo lianhuanhua 中国连环画 (Chinese comics), Harbin: Heilongjiang, 2000:I/277.
Inscription:
只身炸虎穴
Keywords:
foreign comics, Cultural Revolution, foreign heritage, popularity of comics, comic, hero

Comics on Foreign Topics (Guowai lianhuanhua: Zhishen zha hu xue 国外连环画： 只身炸虎穴)

During the Cultural Revolution, too, as these cataloguess show, the number of foreign titles and themes was not as limited as one would assume. Most of the publications seem to adhere to Cultural Revolution standards and aesthetics rather closely: these “foreign comics” are obviously constructed according to the rule of Three Prominences, as this rather predictable depiction of a villain being caught by a policemen dating from a few months before the Cultural Revolution may illustrate.