Purple Cow recommended the book | cure all kinds of "unhappiness" in life, and Zhu Deyong's "Everyone Has a Disease" was newly revised and published

The reporter learned that Zhu Deyong, a famous comic book master who is well-known in the Chinese-speaking world, has recently revised and published a series of classic masterpieces "Everyone is sick" by the People's Literature Publishing House. The series consists of two titles, Everybody's Sick and Everybody's Sick 2: Falling in Love with the Idiot.

"Everyone is sick" tells the story of an era when there is a disease, you are sick, I am sick, he is sick, and this era has made a psychic joke for everyone... Zhu Deyong introduced the element of "gray humor" into his works for the first time, and with a strong picture impact, he added thinking about modern society and the current situation of modern people's existence in the consistent "Zhu humor". In "Everyone Has a Disease 2: Fall in Love with The Fool", Zhu Deyong once again focuses on the love theme he is good at, using love as the medium to depict this crazy world and poke through the gorgeous bubble of this era of love with a satirical pen.

"Everybody's Sick"

This era is a psychic joke for all of us

As a social observer with sharp eyes and sharp brushstrokes, Zhu Deyong began to conceive the book "Everyone Is Sick" as early as 2000. At that time, he began to feel that everyone was "sick", and he himself was "sick". In an interview, Zhu Deyong once said: "At that time, I was very busy, I arrived at the studio at eight or nine o'clock in the morning, the phone did not stop, and everyone was looking for me to ask for something. I couldn't come home until eleven or twelve o'clock at night, but I couldn't sleep in bed. Lying there alone, many things will involuntarily run into your head, and you will think about how this has not been done, how that has not been done well..." At the worst time, Zhu Deyong even wanted to jump from a tall building. Until his wife gave him two choices, "stop or divorce". So Zhu Deyong, at the peak of his career, gave up all his work and took his wife and children out on vacation.

During that time, Zhu Deyong did nothing on the surface, very relaxed, but in fact, he healed his wounds in his heart, learned to slow himself down, and learned to find his original self. Of course, he never stopped observing and feeling. By 2005, Zhu Deyong felt that he was well, and only then did he pick up the paintbrush again. "I want to paint a picture of the difficulties that this generation has encountered, so that everyone can know themselves better."

Zhu Deyong's previous works will have several obvious protagonists, and "Everyone Is Sick" has no specific protagonists, he draws all kinds of people and all kinds of behaviors into the work: "Suicide Three Brothers" commit suicide every day for various reasons; "Anxiety Duo" is a couple, and there are endless troubles every day; "OK Bandage" is almost full of Band-Aids, a person who is easily injured physically and mentally, in addition to doormen, hairdressers, bodyguards, psychologists and other people from different professions appear on the scene, and all kinds of absurd dramas are staged every day. The whole book is like a mirror without edges, reflecting all aspects of this era.

"When we 'progress' too fast, it is just to let the few get wealth and let the majority get mental illness." Zhu Deyong's humor is a joke, but also a cure, straight to the heart. Under the brush of depicting various pathological phenomena, he exudes a great sense of compassion, calling on modern people to simply slow down, slow down, have their own pace, and enjoy their own "slow fashion". "The world is running forward, and we're all chasing after it. Can you stop and catch your breath and choose 'yourself' instead of 'everyone'? Maybe this will no longer be the pursuit of speed, but lose our lives, and the essence of growth. ”

"Everybody's Sick 2: Falling in Love with Stupid People"

Interpret the crazy love of this era with crazy imagination

Love, marriage, and gender have always been topics that Zhu Deyong is good at discussing. His early fame work " Double Cannon " satirized the marriage of people at that time. In the "Shibu Girl" series, Zhu Deyong depicted women's concept of love and marriage in a beautiful way, which resonated with many readers.

In "Everyone Has a Disease 2: Falling in Love with Stupid People", Zhu Deyong once again pays attention to and ridicules modern love. In his view, the love of modern people is gradually bubbled. The absurdity of people is that they use secular standards to find love that is off-the-beaten- And love is not suitable for thinking, only for feeling, if you start thinking about love, it is over.

In the book, Zhu Deyong adheres to the usual sharp and humorous tone, and depicts the love of men, women, lovers, animals, and even robots, aliens and other modes of love in modern society, fully analyzing the uncertainty, confusion, certainty and happiness of people in love. Learning to love is another outlet in life. Zhu Deyong believes that love is a heavy rain in life, and everyone has their own love weather. In this book, readers can find their own love shelter from the rain.

"This is an uncertain time. We are not sure about ourselves, and we are not sure about others. We're not sure about love, and we're not sure about marriage. The only thing that is certain is that each of us will meet an idiot at least once in our lifetime, that is, the time we are really in love, and sometimes, we ourselves are the idiot. "Everyone has a disease 2: Falling in Love with a Fool" tells love to the fullest, but it is also the last time Zhu Deyong talks about love.

In an interview, he said: "I have talked enough about love, that is, I hope that everyone will calculate less and feel more when they are in love. What I want to tell you through this book is that true love is probably the easiest thing to do in such a complex time. "Choosing from a different perspective can solve the dilemma of life" is the original intention of Zhu Deyong who has insisted on hand-drawn comics for thirty years. He presents the diversity of sentient beings from a sharp and humorous perspective, and conveys to the reader the flow of emotions and brave insights that are connected with joy and sorrow. In the current context, reopening these two classic works and using "Zhu's humor" to cure all kinds of "unhappiness" in life, I believe it will bring readers a new reading experience. Yangzi Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Huang Yanwen