The people behind the funny faces
Updated: 2016-04-30 09:01
By Deng Zhangyu(China Daily)
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These emojis created by an art student were downloaded by 4 million users in one day. [Photo provided to China Daily] |
Independent operators
However, in China most cartoonists run their images independently. Zhong Wei, 32, a full-time cartoonist in Shenyang, Liaoning province, draws cartoon images and since 2014 has published two picture books.
He created a human-like white cat that behaves in a mean but comic way and after turning it into an emoji, it has received wide recognition. Before the cat was created, he drew cartoon images of a human-like bear, a man with a chicken head and a little boy for a children's book.
"Chinese Internet users draw on emoticons mainly to express emotions that they can't express unaided," Zhong says.
To express crying there is a while cat that can laugh even as it sheds tears, cries as it lies in a pool of tears, cries while clapping its hands and cries as it covers its face with its paws.
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