Did ink comics really exist?

No. Ink animation is a new animation art created by China artists. It takes China's ink painting technique as the expression means of character modeling and environmental space modeling, and uses the special processing technology of animation shooting to shoot the ink painting image and composition one by one. Through continuous screening, it forms an ink painting image animation with virtual and real depth. From 196 1 to 1995, Shanghai Meiying Factory produced four ink cartoons. Every film has its own characteristics, innovation and progress. Ink animation refers to the artistic animation of ink painting style. Ink painting, people who don't understand, don't say that ink painting is only black and white. Ink painting refers to Chinese painting with rich colors. Chinese painting can be divided into freehand brushwork, meticulous painting and heavy color. Make a scene in Heaven can be said to be an ink animation, because many of the background paintings at that time were Chinese paintings. Little Tadpole Looking for Mom, Moody, Mountain Colors and Luming Literature Bell are freehand brushwork-style ink and wash animations frame by frame with rich colors. Meiying Factory has also done many paper-cut ink animation, such as Panda Department Store. Meticulous ink animation, such as Wonders of the Sky and Changes of Things, is also a meticulous type. Ink animation can be said to be a great innovation of China animation. It introduces China traditional ink painting into animation production, and makes a great breakthrough in the artistic style of animation with its illusory artistic conception and light and elegant picture. Different from ordinary cartoons, ink animation has no outline, ink is naturally rendered on rice paper, and every scene is an excellent ink painting. The movements and expressions of the characters are beautiful and smart, the background of the splash-ink landscape is bold and magnificent, and the feminine style is full of poetry. It embodies the aesthetics of "similarity and dissimilarity" in Chinese painting and has a far-reaching artistic conception. "Little Tadpole Looking for Mom" is the world's first ink cartoon, which was shot in July and produced by 196 1, 1960.