1930년대 『어린이』와 삽화

Abstract

Cover illustrations of Eorini in the 1930s borrowed images of cute children, dolls and animals from western famous paintings or postcards until the death of Bang Jung-hwan in July 1931. After Sin Young-cheol joined editing starting with Vol.10 in 1931, creative paintings of Kim Gyu-taek were adopted as cover illustrations. The images of rural juveniles, laboring juveniles, flags, hammers and so on expressing classism explorations and reality-critical ideologies of juveniles from the proletariat class were inserted for nearly a year. After Choi Young-ju came to take charge of editing, leisure and play cultures, such as fishing, walk, Neolttwigi and boys and girls playing the pipes were illustrated. After Yoon Seok-jung entered the magazine in May 1933, Eorini reverted to the ‘childhood-oriented’ tendency like the Bang Jung-hwan days. Starting with Vol.8 in 1933, Ahn Seok-ju took charge of cover illustrations and images of boys and girls exercising were inserted as cover illustrations. Contents with illustrations of Eorini in the 1930s adopted images of pure children, natural objects, animals, dolls and others that have an affinity with children, depending on the magazine content of the season and the month. The Gu-hwi section contained pictures of children’s activities, famous places and cultural properties that children wanted to see, sceneries of seasons, magazine advertisements, sport games, etc. After 1931, pictures of advertisements, Gaebyeok-sa Temple work sites, editors and animals were inserted, but pictures of children(babies) occupied the majority of them. In relation to illustrations in front of a unit, distinguishing from Gu-hwi from Vol.7 in 1933 to Vol.6 in 1934, magazine volumes were specified in the front of the first page like a title page. Also, special issues, or pictures related to children and nature matching the season and the month and creative paintings of Kim Gyu-taek were inserted. It was revealed that after Yoon Seok-jung joined the magazine, illustrations in front of a unit in Eorini were mostly western famous paintings rather than creative paintings. In addition, Eorini in the 1930s attempted to avoid the monotony of a word-centered magazine by inserting simple illustrations and pictures into each corner, but there was no room to do. Although each corner lacked images compared to cover illustrations, contents with illustrations and illustrations in front of a unit, the magazine editors, including Kim Gyu-taek, Ahn Seok-ju, Lee Seung-man, Gu Bon-woong, Lee Byung-heon, etc. began to insert illustrations into children’s songs, fairy tales and folk stories of the October issue in 1932 after Sin Young-cheol to visualize the magazine and help readers understand the contents. On the other hand, not only did Eorini in the 1930s achieve a visualization of the magazine but also provided children of the time with diverse things to read and enjoy by publishing a mime ‘Grandfather Adamson’ which is an overseas comic, serially as well as domestic comics.