Horror comics introduction
Horror comics is a genre of comics and a branch of new comics. The earliest signs of horror and grotesque in new comics were born in Osamu Tezuka's early short comic works (such as Green Cat), but it began to flourish in the late 1960s and 1970s, with the emergence of outstanding horror comics writers such as George Akiyama (representative works "Miser" and "Asura"), Hideyoshi Hino, Jiro Zhu Xing, Osamu Tezuka and so on, and gradually began to create a large number of horror comics (the representative of this period is In 1980s and 1990s, Japanese horror comics tycoon Junji Ito (representative work Fujiang) began to rise, and gradually established horror comics's position in the new comics. The financial crisis in 2007-2009 made the horror comics market grow rapidly. horror comics, led by the Japanese, flourished and a large number of outstanding cartoonists emerged. 20 13 financial crisis faded out of people's sight, so horror comics fever gradually cooled down. Nowadays, some comic phobia artists no longer focus on the unique creation of grotesque horror comics, but integrate and transform the modern comic trend, adding blood, love, science fiction, reasoning and many other factors, making it very popular. Since 1980s, its genre selection has gradually increased, especially for girls' comics. Traditional girl cartoons also contain fantasy, science fiction, suspense and horror, and even some girl cartoonists don't use romantic elements at all. Girls' comics have actually become an important force in the horror comics market. So this kind of classification will overlap more or less, but horror comics, as a classification, is really loved by readers. Nowadays, horror comics is no longer exclusive to grotesque curiosity, but also an exploration of the unknown and fantasy. What remains unchanged is horror comics's in-depth discussion of human nature and philosophy.