Han Lu started publishing her first work in 2000. She was famous for her early drawing style that resembled that of Japanese manga artist Yuki Kaori. Now she has her own style and is constantly improving: dark, Decadent, gorgeous, dreamy, and visually shocking style is a distinctive feature in today's comic circle.

One of the most popular works recently is called "Chang'an Fantasy Night", which perfectly integrates ancient and rococo styles. The brushwork is delicate and the colors are soft. It is sought after by everyone, and her Diehard fans opened a post bar for her on Baidu, with as many as 13 pages of posts. Her main works include: "When Boy Meets Girl", "Suffering Baby", "Baby Boy, the Door Opens", "Angels Fly Flying", "The Big Battle", "The Fairy Tale of Paradise Lost", "Deep Food" ", "Black Tea", "1945 War Apocalypse", "The Wall", "The Mirror", "The Lips", "Sin", "Valentine's Day", "Angels and Demons", "Buddha's Heart", " "Four Player Game", "Hunger", "Bone-Eating Butterfly", "Hospital Zero", "Smoke", "Demon Fox", and "Ekou". Now she is a contract artist of "Manyou". She has drawn more than one hundred illustrations for "Manyou" and is very active.

BENJAMIN

Real name: Zhang Bin

Birthday: May 16

Constellation: Taurus

Nationplace : Heilongjiang Province

Education: Dalian Light Industry College, majoring in fashion design

Favorite movie: "The Graduate"

Debut time: 1999

Debut work: "SENA Police Officer" (formerly known as "SENA and Lover")

Representative works: stand-alone books "Remember", "ONE DAY", "BENJAMIN Computer Comic Techniques"

Author's statement

BENJAMIN is a boy from Northeast China. His father is a soldier and his mother is a teacher. Now Beijing is pursuing its own comics path, and is a fanatical comic fan with a bad habit of nosebleeds!

I majored in fashion design in college. It seems like everyone majors in fashion these days. Since I have no connection with the comics department, I am the same.

I live in a place similar to a wolf's den with a few comic friends. I often wear slippers on the street. If you like tight-fitting shirts, we call them "three-eight shirts." I really like punk rock, heroic music. PANTERA's music makes me write like crazy. I have a VENSON cutaway guitar. The guitar must be crying because I can't even play "Romance".

I like American skateboards and motorcycle gangs. Although I can only ride a "28" to go racing. Hey, my rock and roll dream is to draw a comic like this sooner or later! The cartoonist who has had a great influence on me is Taiwan's Chun Jing. I was still a newcomer when Mr. Jincheng of Manga introduced her paintings to me. Within a year, Jun Jing became so popular. It is said that her comic style is the most imitated in the South.

When I get tired from painting, I will lift dumbbells, first 25 kilograms, and now 40 kilograms. Sports are really magical. No matter how sleepy you are, just lifting a few sets will be very invigorating! Many guys who draw cartoons have sports addiction. Some run several kilometers every day, and some vow to win the Taekwondo championship. I also know the more perverted ones.

So far I have published 118 pages of comics as BENJAMIN, which is really pitiful. If you were a Japanese cartoonist, you would only need to work for a week. It is said that this is the real difference between Chinese comics and Japanese comics. However, it should be far more than this gap!

Personal profile of New New Human Cartoonist BENJAMIN

BENJAMIN graduated from a major. His works are super realistic, with a strong sense of substitution, love tragedies in the noisy city, and are completely domestic products (from painting) From tools to topic selection to style setting and virtual society, everything is domestically produced). Grandpas, don't be too happy. This "domestic product" does not mean wearing ancient costumes and using ink to educate children. Rather, it means that the object of expression of the work is purely China's new and new human beings: a group of Kazakhs, Japanese, Koreans, playing on computers, watching TV programs about bungalows and sports cars, living in illegal buildings passed down from generation to generation in the 1980s, with the latest modern technology in their minds, but they still want to go abroad tomorrow. The guys who are using squat toilets are the ones who the elderly think "they are just a small group", the middle-aged people think "Chinese cultural education needs to be strengthened", and the young people are all the same. This domestic product is not that domestic product. The true national conditions of China. A truly newest cartoonist! The red-haired boy couldn't bear it when he saw him working on a manuscript and his eyes were red, but he had no name, no status, no one knew about him... No no - it was "Infinite", it was really unbearable!

Media Yun Yun

BENJAMIN is considered a "geek" in the mainland original comics industry. Many times, it is impossible to define him by an exact "position". He designs, makes web pages, publishes collections of paintings, draws comics, and writes articles. It is almost all-encompassing. As a new generation cartoonist in China, the men in his works often smoke, drink, play the piano, play guns, and play drums. They have tall figures and wear low-waisted jeans. In short, they are wild and unrestrained. Of course, they also attract comic fans. It is this "COOL".

With the call of "New Talent", Manyou Culture has created this powerful domestic cartoonist. He once won the championship title of "Manyou"'s first "DOUBLE!" Original Comic Award with his super cool drawing skills. With his magnificent colors, The perfect character creation and personalized picture atmosphere have swept away the dull situation in the domestic animation industry and played an important role in promoting the fashionable process of mainland animation.

BENJAMIN's representative work is "Flowers Without Summer" published in May 2000. This work established the style of his future works and also won enthusiastic response from readers. BENJAMIN became a domestic One of the most influential authors. In 2001, he published "Pigeons Flying Silently". In 2002, he and Manyou Culture launched a personal collection of paintings "ONE DAY" and "BENJAMIN Computer Comics Techniques". In 2004, with his work "No One Can Fly, No One Will Remember", In one fell swoop, he won the gold medal for the best story comic in the first Golden Dragon Award (OACC) comic competition. In the same year, he launched the second single volume of his comic career "Remember" with Manyou Culture. Recently, he co-produced "Remember" with Tsui Hark *** The comic version poster of "Seven Swords" made him the focus of attention.

Jidi

Original name: Zu Yale

Gender: Female

Birthplace: Chengdu, Sichuan

Born Date: June 22, 1983

Constellation: Cancer

Interests: graffiti, watching movies, listening to music, writing

Dream: to live a relaxed and prosperous life I will draw pictures for a lifetime

Favorite cartoonists: BENJAMIN, Yao Feila, Osamu Tezuka, Hirohiko Araki, Rumiko Takahashi

Major: 2002 level picture book

Illustrations: "The Secret of Little Bear Beibei", "Holding Hand", etc.

Since 2002, he has been publishing comic works, short stories, illustrations, etc. in various comic magazines. In June 2003, the work "My Way" began to be serialized in the best-selling magazine "Xinlei·STORY100". With its fresh and warm painting style, infectious colors, and warm and sad text, it has been well received by readers and has quickly become a new force in Chinese comics.

In 2004, the picture book and comic collection "My Way" was published and became the best-selling picture book in the mainland of the year, with 9 reprints. "My Way 2 Ocean of Time" was published in 2005 and achieved remarkable sales results. It was reprinted five times within three months of its release, making it one of the most marketable comics in China. The "My Way" series has accumulated sales of more than 100,000 as of May 2006.

"My Road 3 Blue Biscuits" will be published at the end of May 2006. At present, the "My Way" series has obtained the copyright in Malaysia and Singapore. It has been favored by several French publishing houses, and the French version is currently in negotiation with Manyou Culture.

"Emotional Color Magician" Ji Di: A new generation picture book painter who warms the soul

In the mainland animation industry in 2004, a shining star suddenly jumped into everyone's attention view.

In June 2004, at the age of 20, Ji Di, who was studying at the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, began publishing the picture book comic "MY WAY My Way" in the magazine "Xinlei·STORY100". As soon as the work was released, Its colorful colors and delicate emotions immediately attracted the attention of readers from all walks of life, and the response was enthusiastic. In October of the same year, with its extremely high popularity, "MY WAY" was grandly released as a single volume. In addition to selling well in six major cities: Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai, Kunming, Wuhan, and Guangzhou, its national sales performance even surpassed that of "MY WAY". Jimmy's picture book work has been reprinted several times within six months of its release.

Also in 2004, "MY WAY" deservedly won the title of Best Picture Book and Comic at the First Golden Dragon Award. In 2005, it won the title of Best Mainland Picture Book of the Year in the Second Golden Dragon Awards.

All kinds of auras descended on "MY WAY", and Jidi's name quickly spread all over the country, receiving praise from all parties. "MY WAY" has not only exported authorized Malaysian copyrights, but has also attracted the attention of publishers in Europe and the United States. With this debut work, it has gradually become a rising star in the Chinese animation community, but it is even more brilliant. The future is gradually unfolding in front of her.

After a year of planning, "MY WAY 2" was born in November 2005. Also planned and packaged by Manyou Culture, "MY WAY My Road 2" has a deeper connotation and higher collection value than "MY WAY My Road". "MY WAY" has gone through continuous tempering and has formed its own unique series. It has become an important milestone in Jidi's creative process. It is well deserved to be the No. 1 original picture book in the Mainland.

With the success of Jidi, major media magazines across the country have reported and serialized Jidi’s works. Sina, Nanfang, 21CN, Manmi.com, "Southern Metropolis Daily", "Guangzhou Daily", "Girlfriend", you can see Jidi's name in these familiar media. On the Internet, Jidi's personal blog "Time Ocean" has been clicked more than 40,000 times since its establishment in March 2005. There are countless news and blogs about Jidi.

However, the story of Ji Di is still ongoing. In 2006, "MY WAY My Road 3" appeared in front of everyone, and once again warmed our hearts in its unique way——

Jidi is like an "emotional color magician". This little girl is good at using contrasting colors to create soft tones and emotional pictures. She is still studying hard in school. Do your duty as a student and bear the pressure of life alone. Although the divorce of her parents and the death of her beloved mother once filled the world of Jindi with gloom, this strong girl melted and absorbed all the hardships in life. In her writing, we can't see a trace of innocent moaning, what we see is warmth, sunshine and hope!

Awards

Best Picture Book Award in the First OACC Chinese Animation Competition

Best Mainland Picture Book of the Year in the Second OACC Chinese Animation Competition

Weng Ziyang

Date of birth: March 1975

Birthplace: Wuhan, Hubei

Constellation: Pisces

Blood type: Type O

Favorite season: summer

Favorite color: red

Favorite food: wine

Representative work: "Chele" "Ballad", "Moonlight·Phantom"

Favorite illustrator: JUSTINSWEET

Weng Ziyang, a person whose name is full of poetic and picturesque meaning. From 1993 to 1997, he studied Chinese painting at Hubei Academy of Fine Arts, and taught at Wuhan University in 1997. He has ten years of creative experience. Most of his CG illustrations are expressed in Chinese ink painting techniques, with a cold and poignant style. He is known as the master of ink CG among domestic cartoonists. In his paintings, there are Wu hooks, beauties, and He's jade from the Spring and Autumn Period, the Qin and Han Dynasties that conquered the mountains and rivers, and the prosperous great country paintings of the Tang, Song, and Five Dynasties. Therefore, some people commented that he is the most dazzling illustrator in China after Benjamin, and may even surpass him. former. At the same time, he is also a tall, handsome, long-haired guy who calls himself "a classical guy with a perm." Asked him again if you are very classical, he replied: No, the braids that have been growing for two years have just been cut, and they are no longer as handsome.

"I love drawing. Before I took the master's degree exam, I stopped drawing for a while. A good friend said to me after he was drunk, why don't you stop drawing? You can keep drawing. That day I remembered It reminds me of what I said when I was young, saying that I have always wanted to draw pictures all my life, and creation is the happiest thing for me. Everything is beautiful, always under the sunshine of Provence."

A Song of Everlasting Regret

What Weng Ziyang is currently doing is the finishing work of the comic "Song of Everlasting Sorrow". He had read this book ten years ago. Weng's grandfather once served as the president of Tongji University in Shanghai. He was uniquely wise about the humanities and sophistication of old Shanghai. For example, he described the heroine Wang Qiyao: "Every small place won, but the whole life was lost." As for Mr. Cheng, he just "fell in love with Wang Qiyao in the photo."

First the drama "Song of Everlasting Regret" was staged, then the movie "Song of Everlasting Regret" directed by Guan Jinpeng, and then the TV series "Song of Everlasting Regret" started filming. This old work by Wang Anyi has become very popular again. When the publisher was preparing to publish the comic book "Song of Everlasting Sorrow", they searched all over Shanghai but could not find a suitable candidate until they thought of Weng Ziyang in Wuhan.

“Draw a comic book that can be read ten or twenty years later.” This is Weng Ziyang’s goal. He usually first makes a black and white draft with a very fine pen, and then uses Photoshop to process it into a color draft. When conceiving the characters in "Song of Everlasting Sorrow", he decided to focus on realism, supplemented by tonal rendering in the style of ink painting. When he started creating, he once said that the most difficult thing to capture was the eyes of women of different ages. "Twenty years old is clear; thirty years old can see through you all at once, and then slowly turn back; at forty years old, let me think about it again..." Now facing the same problem, he only said that the problem has been solved, Just look at the paintings.

Weng Ziyang is very busy. In addition to "Song of Everlasting Sorrow", he also has a heavy teaching task, teaching animation comics, game production, basic art and other courses. As the comics industry is in the ascendant, the school also intends to open undergraduate and even master's degree programs in related majors. Therefore, although he claims to be online, if you actually meet him online and ask him a question that he has thought of, his answer will usually only be one or two words. A few times later, the cartoonist seemed uneasy and sent you a package with pictures and text, containing his works and a detailed personal questionnaire.

In it, I saw two paragraphs like this: "I love drawing, but I stopped drawing for a while before I took the master's degree exam. A good friend said to me after he was drunk, why don't you stop drawing? , you can keep drawing. That day I remembered what I said when I was young. I said that I would like to draw pictures all my life. Creation is the happiest thing for me. Everything is beautiful, always under the sunshine of Provence. We are destined not to be Mozart, and we should not give up the joy of playing.”

Among them, there are also many CG paintings of mythical characters such as Nuwa, Nezha, and Daji, with enchanting and even gorgeous styles. Weird. There is also an illustration from "Moonlight: Phantom", in which two swordsmen stand leaning against each other with cold eyes. I did not hesitate to set it as my computer desktop.

My paintings are made after drinking

Weng Ziyang once said that his paintings are made after drinking, so they are casual and chivalrous, which reminds people of Jing Ke and Gao Jianli. , white clothes fluttering, by the Yishui River, the heroes are gone forever, and perhaps Li Bai's "Journey into the Wine" and "Xia Ke Xing", as well as Gu Long, Jin Yong, Wen Ruian, Liang Yusheng, Huanzhu Louzhu and all other ancient and modern works Martial arts novelist. Asked whether he likes Gu Long or Jin Yong, or even which martial arts character he likes, he gave a broad and general answer: "Anyone who can drink is good." The implication is that he is also a drinker. Asked again how he drank, he replied casually: Not bad, just one pound of liquor. For me who can only drink some beer, this is still amazing. He immediately asked: You don’t know how to write this, right? Now that I'm older, I can't drink too much. We just had a physical examination.

Ask him what his hobbies are. Just say there is no time. "Oh, I like playing basketball." He always thought that at 1.8 meters tall, he should play basketball. Unexpectedly, he said: It’s badminton. It surprised me for a while.

Such a cool teacher should be very popular among students. "Just average." Weng Ziyang said that he left right after class and didn't have much time to hang out with the students. "But I was very noisy and crazy in class." I can't imagine how this state of being noisy and crazy is, but it is a fact that his public elective course "History of Western Art" has a very high occupancy rate at Wuhan University. When his business trip was postponed, several classes were held together, which the students often complained about.

Weng Ziyang answered the questions bluntly, which made him feel quite embarrassed during the initial conversation. After a few back and forth, he realized that this was called willfulness. For example, after having painted so many ancient paintings, I asked him if he felt he was in tune with the ancient people in his mind. He threw something over: Zhang Jizhong hasn’t been to ancient times yet. Why don’t he take photos of the vultures?

CG can stand side by side with oil painting and traditional Chinese painting

How could he, who studied traditional Chinese painting, come to draw comics? It is estimated that many people have asked Weng Ziyang the same question. I highly doubt that yet another of my questions was met with contempt by him. But a few days later, he still discussed the issue seriously. "My feeling about oil painting and traditional Chinese painting is that the former is very thick, and the latter has deep roots in China. At that time, I thought there must be a new type of painting that combines them. When CG appeared, I thought it was a new type of painting. It is a very good medium that gets rid of dependence on white paper and is more popular. It is actually difficult for ordinary people to come into contact with oil paintings. Think about how many times you have seen oil paintings and Chinese paintings in a year. But CG comics can be encountered in magazines, books, film and television works. Come. I think CG can stand side by side with oil paintings and Chinese paintings in the future.”

Weng Ziyang has drawn many pure and beautiful covers for comic magazines. On the forum, many fans are fascinated by it. Weng Ziyang is very clear about this, and he clearly distinguishes between market requirements and self-requirements. He even called the cover illustrations meaningless. "I will stop in the second half of the year." Compared with effortlessly drawing illustrations, Weng Ziyang put more effort into the design of game characters. One of his most proud game designs is South Korea's "Moxiang".

There is a long list of people he likes: musicians from Mozart and Bach to Kitaro who created "Silk Road"; writers include Yukio Mishima; painters include Katsushika Kita, the Japanese ukiyo-e painter Zhai, the master of symbolism painting Klimt, the great Russian peasant painter Repin. From Lin Hwai-min who founded Taiwan's "Cloud Gate Dance Theatre" to traditional Chinese inscriptions, Peking Opera and Kun Opera, he also included them all. His favorite creative themes also extend from the Spring and Autumn Period, the Warring States Period, the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to distant Rome, Egypt, and the Kamakura Shogunate. In addition to music, dance, Kun Opera, essays, and travel, sources of inspiration are said to be helpful even when sleeping.

After working with computers for a long time, he also plans to return. "I want to draw more and more on picture frames and rice paper, but unfortunately I don't have time. In the second half of the year I will make small sculptures, to be more precise. A toy with a Chinese flavor of ink and wash. It’s just for fun and has not been involved in commercial operations.” When it comes to more specific future creation and management, he only said three words: draw slowly

SHEL

Real name: Yang Tao

Birthday: May 20

Hometown: Guangdong

Constellation: Taurus

Mainly Creative experience: In mid-2003, I began to publish illustrations in "Manyou·STORY100" (now "Xinlei·STORY100"). He won the Best Illustration Gold Award at the 2nd Golden Dragon Award (OACC2005) for his illustration work "Children of Heaven".

Works that have been published in the "Manyou" magazine series: "Successful Misplacement", "Summer All Year Long", "Who Do You Meet", "Dinner for Three - Four Seasons Suite", "If the Sound Illustrations from the "Don't Remember" series, etc. Several Naruto fans.

Favorite comic works: "Naruto", "Mushishi", "GOKUSEN"

Favorite comics or illustrators: Rumiko Takahashi, Hiroaki Samura, Yoshi Sadamoto OK, Kenji Tsuruta, Lisbeth Zwerger

Favorite anime characters: Hatake Kakashi, Uchiha Sasuke...

Favorite movies/music/literary works: "Shawshank" Redemption" "The Horseman on the Roof" "Schindler's List"...

Favorite colors: red, white, blue

Favorite animals/plants: wolves, cats, sunflowers, Rose

Things she likes to do besides comics: watching movies, playing games, surfing the Internet, and cooking

As an illustrator from the earliest days of the publication of "Manyou STORY100", SHEL's delicate His painting style and elegant character modeling have been widely praised by readers, and he has gradually become the chief illustrator of "Xinlei STORY100". In 2005, the book "Those Warm and Beautiful Things in Life" co-published with the popular youth author Luo Luo became a hot seller, making more readers know her and become her die-hard fans. Since he has been studying at the Animation School of the Film Academy, he has also participated in the original painting work of many large-scale animations, including the popular CCTV animation "Dream Man". Recently, a collection of "Naruto" fan art that SHEL loves - "Oath Flame" has been published and distributed in Taiwan. SHEL's popularity has also been broadcast to the overseas Chinese market.

"Fengse Clover" launched by Manyou Culture in October 2006 is a summary and review of SHEL's past classic works. Let us look forward to SHEL bringing us more surprises and classics in the future!