Put Your Rage Into a Cartoon and Exit Laughing

 

Published: May 9, 2012  

 

Have you ever read Rage Comics? If you have a numerous community in some social net work site like ‘Face book’, you must be familiar with it! 

In my variety single living, Rage Comics became a part of my life. Frequently do I open my ‘renren’ homepage and read some Rage Comics just for fun. Since I have read this article, I began to think about the thought connotation of Rage Comics.

 

Ever since I considered it as a product of Chinese net citizens before I read this article. But actually, Rage Comics came from the U.S. and spread rapidly in China. The article pointed out the definition of American Rage Comics.——‘When you get angry, you can lash out or seethe inside. Many strips focus on some small moment, a true-life anecdote, that sent the author spinning into inexplicable fury or burrowing deep into resignation to keep from exploding. Or you can head to the Web to assemble and publish a cartoon to share some of that rage. Many people with little to no artistic ability — but with some pretty funny tales — do that in something called rage comics. ‘ The authors of Rage Comics who are always less of art ability and anonymous collect some rage from our normal life and express the embarrassment or bashfulness especially the unbearable burden of dealing with other people’s stupidity through the characters with some constant exaggerated but easy pained expressions. In addition of some daily and poignant words and the stricken face in the end or one story, Rage Comics pour out a lot of people’s heart. And now, the author recommended us a way to create a Rage Comic of ourselves by going to ‘ragemaker.net’. Why not to share your funny embarrassment for some same feelings in others!

 

However, there’s another style of Rage Comics in China. The first Chinese story of Rage Comics was created in 2008. It is Called of ‘BaoZou Manhua’ in China. The hero and heroine are called ‘Wang Nima’ and ‘Wang Nimei’. And in addition of American Rage Comics, there are more famous people’s images emerged into the stories. For example ‘Yao Ming’ ‘Sister Feng’ ‘Shuhao Lin’ etc.

 

In China, it refracts many problem of society. After the black humor of the stories of Rage Comics, there is also a lot of dissatisfied and compromises to the irrevocable reality from young people. To start with the most widespread site in the youth of China as I know, it had to be ‘renren.com’. ‘Renren.com’ is a site of China which is almost the same as ‘facebook.com’. But in China, sites like ‘facebook.com’ are screened,   for the users’ sayings of all over the world cannot be control by the government. Because of the words’ screening of Chinese internet, mass of internet words which could not be screened are created by the Rage Comics. And these alternative but specific words become more and more popular and essential in our daily life.

 

Considering with the reason of the popularity of Rage Comics in the youth of China, the most important thing is the common view through the youth. Some stories are reacting the anxious and helpless of the grown up of we only child. It sharply points out the serious problems of our daily life. To face with some social trends, someone may feel overwhelmed and panicky though it is unnecessary. However in my view of Rage Comics, I could find something really verity. It makes me more awake and remind me to be hard. Not only a forced smile but to change the reality to be happiness as possible as I can.

 

connect： http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/technology/personaltech/rage-comics-turn-everyday-stress-into-laughs.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=technology

PAUL BOUTIN "Put Your Rage Into a Cartoon and Exit Laughing"New York Times(online) 9 May 2012. 13 May 2012.