100,000 yuan offered for erotic cartoons
by Echo Shan (chinadaily.com.cn) 2004-08-27 08:57China's first ever self-asserted adult cartoon magazine "Vision" has recently offered a 100,000 yuan reward nationwide for erotic cartoon works, which has lit up hot discussion among the public. ...China has long dragged behind many other countries and regions on the earth in adult cartoon development both in readership boost and market fostering. It's not until the 1990s that the adult cartoon began to catch on....
However, it's quite different in Japan and many western countries, where to read adult cartoons has long been a reading habit of many people and is indispensable of their daily life.
Cartoonists and readers in China now face a dilemma when decoding the concept of "adult cartoon." ... "That's all the problem," Li Weiping can't help complaining "We are open to those revealing materials in Vision while all in a resourceful manner rather than sheer erotic.
