Modern Cartoon Art Genre

In recent decade, the domestic market of entertainment literature have been flooded with foreign comic&anmie, especially Japanese drawing cartoon and animated cartoon which take most share of the market, while homemade ones have been leave out in the cold .Even if there are still a few noticeable homemade comic&anmie works, they are regarded as copycat of Japan's. Why is this generation so crazy about foreign comic&anmie? In order to find out the cause of this phenomenon, we should first understand the modern comic&anmie's concrete contents, development history, main schools, expression styles, and so on. Furthermore, we can realize the advantages and peculiarities of foreign comic&anime art by comparison.This essay is beginning with the definitions of traditional cartoon and modern comic&anime which we often confuse. Then, it emphasizes the most distinguishing feature of modern comic&anime is the combination with films and the application of moment-to-moment, scene-to-scene, action-action, and subject-to-subject. Next, it analyzes the reason of the rise of modern comic&anime is its vividness, animation, and entertainment function, and invention function which bring about the appearance of modern comic&anime as a newly-rising media. Besides, the essay gives detailed introduction to the three main comic&anime schools(U.S.-style, Japan-style, and Euro-style)in terms of respective characteristics , history, and representative figures , works in each period, meanwhile, we can understand the clue of modern comic&anime' development around the world.Cartoon and modern comic&anime respectively originated from Europeand America. The comic&anime culture developing from Japan in post-war period, keeping pace with America and Europe has become one of the three main schools. Nowadays, Disney Cartoon in American plays an important role in America's invasion upon other countries, and Hero Cartoon exclusive in America is the representative of modern comic&anime; Japan deserves the title of country of cartoon. Subjects of cartoon involve fairy tales, science fictions, adventures, love, sports, history, economy, politics, education, and so on. Japanese cartoon can be classified into Young Girl Cartoon, Attacking Skill Cartoon, Science Fiction Cartoon, Sports Cartoon, History Cartoon, Commercial Cartoon, Sex cartoon, and so on. Osamu Tezuka, Toriyama Akira, and Hayao Miyazaki are famous masters of modern comic&anime in Japan, and their works such as Dragon Ball. Spirited Away, and Ghost once successfully entered American market and reached a high level of art; European comic & anime highlighting humanities seeks free expression styles and stress artists' personalities. It emphasizes reading cartoon by mind instead of eyes and notices deep thoughts embodying in pictures.