Manhua

Manhua is comics created in Chinese-speaking regions, including mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Its forms range from traditional print albums to digital serials.

Chinese woodblock printing: A Chinese printing technique that transfers carved text or images from wooden blocks onto paper. Its long history of illustrated printing provides context for Chinese visual storytelling.
Sequential art: A visual medium that communicates through images arranged in a deliberate sequence. Manhua uses sequential images to narrate, pace, and imply movement.
Chinese web novel: A serialized prose fiction work published primarily on Chinese-language online platforms. Popular web novels are frequently adapted into manhua, extending stories across media.
Manga: Comics originating in Japan, published in a wide range of genres and formats. Manga is a neighboring tradition often compared with manhua in style and global circulation.
Lianhuanhua: A Chinese format of small illustrated books that narrate stories through sequential pictures and captions. These popular picture-story books formed a major print tradition before modern comics.
Comic strip: A short sequence of cartoon panels, commonly published in newspapers or magazines. Newspaper strips were an early and influential format for modern Chinese cartooning.
Tencent Comics: A Chinese digital comics platform operated by Tencent. It exemplifies the platform-based distribution and monetization of contemporary manhua.
Political cartoon: A cartoon that comments on political events, institutions, or public figures. Political cartoons overlap with manhua but serve a more specific satirical function.
Feng Zikai: A Chinese artist, writer, and educator known for concise, expressive cartoons and paintings. His early twentieth-century cartoons helped establish modern Chinese cartooning.
Serial publication: A publishing method that releases a work in installments over time. Many manhua stories were built for recurring magazine or newspaper installments.

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