The number of publications on Taiwan has increased dramatically since the lifting of martial law, and the flourishing situation is often cited as proof that local comics and cartoons are enjoying a new lease on life, but in fact they were in such a parlous condition to begin with that they can hardly be termed in the pink of health.
解嚴以來，報刊遽增，單格、四格漫畫也因此呈現一幅「百家爭鳴」的繁榮景象，這些情況常被解釋成本土漫畫邁向「第二春」的一個證明，但是原本就發育不良的連環漫畫卻沒有因此而重獲生機。