Classic and Modern Themes：“female comics” by Ting-Kuo Chen

• Main Authors: Lin,Tzu-Hsiu, 林姿秀
• Other Authors: Tsai,Yuan-jie
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/40878177809177564428

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 臺灣史研究所 === 102 === Comic is an art form expressed by concise and exaggerated drawings. In addition to the entertainment nature, it also features conveying political decrees and ironizing current events. And because comic readers cover all ages, it becomes a mass media to convey messages. During the Japanese occupation, Japanese cartoonists went to develop in Taiwan and introduced the manifestations of Japanesecomic into Taiwan through the comic strip in press, which posed the impact on the grammar system of post-war comics in Taiwan. After the mid-1950s, children’s comics began to rise and became two major trends of early post-war comics with the anti-communist comicsat the same period. Early local cartoonist Ting-Kuo Chen applied the costumes and Asian-eyes, the characteristics of local opera, in cartoon characters, and most of his “female comics” with female as the story protagonist were more representative with self-characteristics. His “female comics” could be divided into two types–classic and modern themes; his comic text took the women in “Li-Jiun Meng”,“Sz-Niang Liu”, “Hua little sister” and “Public jeng-xin” column comic, supplemented by “female comics” so as to discuss and compare the ancient and modern manifestations of the theme as well as the female image and value meaning that the author desired to construct and convey. In addition, the author tried to compare the comic manifestations of Ting-Kuo Chen’s classical “female comics” and Japanese Shoujo Manga during mid 1950s and 1970s, and further explored why Shoujo Manga had not yet existed in Taiwan in the early period based on the environmental factors of the political culture.