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What does a comic book mean?

Comic book is a kind of painting, which is arranged into a series of pamphlets with words and pictures according to the plot described in the story.

Shanghai, which rose at the beginning of the 20th century, compiled concise scripts based on literary works or real-life stories, and drew many vivid pages accordingly.

Comics, commonly known as "picture books", mainly describe various stories and portray characters through continuous pictures. As a well-known folk traditional art with a long history in China, comics are all the rage because of their rich subject matter, easy-to-understand language, theme modeling close to life and lively and interesting story.

As an independent painting with a long history, China traditional folk comic books have the unique artistic style and cultural characteristics of China traditional works of art, and the most intuitive performance lies in the plastic culture of comic books. It mainly includes the following characteristics: First, the diversity of painting techniques and expression styles. First of all, the creative methods of comics are pens, pencils, charcoal pens, watercolors, wood carvings, paper cuts and so on. These creative methods can complete continuous story lines and portray vivid characters. The most traditional is line drawing, including the earliest brush line drawing and common meticulous painting. Line-drawing comics are the main form of comics because of their smooth lines, clear pictures and simple shapes.