Book title: "Railway Guerrilla"

Author: Liu Zhixia

Adaptation: Dong Ziwei

Painting: Ding Binzeng, Han Heping

Publisher: Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House

Published: 1955

In today's collection market, a set titled "Railway Guerrillas" The comic strips are worth a lot of money. Because it has its own glory - it won the first prize for painting creation and the second prize for literary script in the first national comic book award in 1963. Since its publication, *** has been reprinted 20 times and reprinted 47 times, with a total of 36.52 million copies printed. It is the most reprinted and highest-quality realistic comic strip in the history of Chinese comic book publishing, and has become a classic of Chinese comic books. This set of comic strips, containing 10 volumes and more than 1,000 pages, was jointly created by comic book artists Ding Binzeng and Han Heping from Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House. It is recognized by the two painters as "the work that took the most energy and took the longest to create."

According to Ding Bin’s recollection, “Han Heping and I went to Shandong five times. Through life experience, we mastered and accumulated a large amount of first-hand creative materials, and used the traditional single-line line drawing to express this comic strip. I was responsible for the pencil drafts of the styling creation, and Han Heping was responsible for the outline work. From 1955 onwards, we created and published the work. We encountered a difficult problem when it came to the plot of the battle, that is, it was difficult to express a single line of this kind of plot. Just when we were confused, the famous painter Cheng Shifa suggested learning from the martial arts expression techniques of the Peking Opera "Sanchakou", which enabled us to successfully complete the night attack. Lincheng’s creative work. "After they completed the tenth volume, they found that the style of the first two volumes was not unified enough, so they redrawn it. It took more than 7 years to create and publish this set of comic strips. At that time, the long-form reality for reference The subject matter is very limited, especially the use of elegant and free traditional line drawings to express modern life. The two painters rely on on-the-spot sketching, research of historical materials, and interviews with guerrillas and railway workers to create scenes and characters. , the plot is enriched bit by bit. The beautiful scenery of Weishan Lake and the description of the blending of urban and rural areas along the railway create strong regional characteristics, and also restore the historical reality of the design of the characters' movements, the control of rhythm and the connection of the pictures. , showing the maturity of skills. Most readers are interested in the battle scenes where the guerrillas count the Japanese invaders. Those scenes where they can jump while flying on the train are even more popular.