Cross-cultural dialogue between Chinese satirical cartoons and Western satirical cartoons in the 20th century — Taking Xi You Man Ji as an example

College of Arts and Humanities/Fine Arts (Art History), Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, 510006 Guangdong, China

^* Corresponding author: 2215092501042@email.gzarts.edu.cn

Abstract

In the 20th century, Chinese comics flourished for the purpose of saving the world and enlightening new knowledge, and during this period, comics took popular culture as the field and became an important force for the Chinese art world to participate in social change, and a number of artists emerged in the Chinese art world to create works. Zhang Guangyu organized the Shanghai Comics Society during this period, which played a key role in the development of Chinese comics, and his works such as “Journey to the West” also had an important impact on the development of comics and animation in later generations. This paper analyzes Journey to the West from the aspects of image and narrative, and compares it with representative satirical comics of the same period or early period in the West, and finds that Chinese satirical comics have absorbed many Western comics in terms of painting style and narrative, and at the same time, the artists also actively combine China’s own artistic style to create.