新中国成立一直到“文革”之前,由于政治形势的需要,美术的教育功能一直处在优先地位。连环画的兴衰便是新中国大众美术教育的一个重要现象。1949年-1965年间,政府把发展新连环画作为一项政治任务,其间共出版了一万多种连环画,总印数2.6亿册,规模空前。到1963年举办全国首届连环 Before the founding of New China until “Cultural Revolution”, due to the needs of the political situation, the educational function of fine arts has always been given priority. The rise and fall of the comics is an important phenomenon in the public art education in new China. Between 1949 and 1965, the government took the development of new comic books as a political task. In total, it published more than 10,000 kinds of comic books with a total print volume of 260 million books and an unprecedented scale. To 1963 held the first national chain