Two weeks have passed. During these two weeks, there has been a lot of turmoil in the comics industry in Los Angeles.
Fengyu Comics' top cartoonist Dong Yun did not choose to renew the contract with Fengyu after the contract expired. Instead, she chose to join the Cuttlefish Comics Club of the three major journals in the same Los Angeles province to start a series of new works.
According to Man Ying's five full pages in the last issue of the periodical and other periodicals of Cuttlefish Comics to promote its new work Hidden Girl, it can be said that Hidden Girl has not been officially serialized, and her name is already in the comic industry and reader circles. Has a great reputation.
On the contrary, another new work published on Man Ying in the same periodical as The Hidden Girl, Rurouni Kenshin Remembrance, has almost no publicity resources.
Originally, most people in the editorial department of the Cuttlefish Comics Club proposed to give Rurouni Kenshin Remembrance the work at least the same status as the new work of its quasi-first-line cartoonists.
However, at the meeting, Song Jiayu claimed that the qualifications of his author, Shui Xin, were too low to be worthy of cuttlefish to use resources for publicity, and the matter did not stop.
But in the entire Los Angeles province, to be precise, in the comic circles of Ming City, the name of Shui Xin was mentioned during this period.
The outsiders don't understand the inside story. They, comics practitioners, don't?
This previously only serialized a rookie cartoonist named Yanye Zhiting in a periodical of the ink film level. His second work was actually voted by many editors at the serialization meeting of the Cuttlefish Comics Club. Dong Yun's new serialization opportunity won by the secret girl squeezed down.
It made the entire Ming City comics industry shocked and couldn't believe it.
To say that the Cuttlefish Comics Club paid such a great effort to dig Dong Yun over, it certainly wasn't to suppress her, let her get rid of her!
So what's the trouble?
Dong Yun's new work lost to the newcomer's work? It was the cuttlefish cutting a piece of work that gave Dong Yun a chance to serialize it.
Is this funny?
Moreover, according to insider information, the new comic artist named Shui Xin has a high quality of new works, and is qualified for serialization by defeating the hidden girl at the conference with his strength.
Therefore, the new issue of Man Ying's issue is released today. Many people in the comics industry active in Los Angeles not only want to see the quality of Dong Yun's new works, but they are also very interested in the work of Rurouni Kenshin Remembrance. .
As a professional comic commentator, Xiao Shan naturally has great interest in this issue of comics.
After years of evolution, the literary world of Longguo has formed this kind of business model with geographical boundaries.
Literary works, novels, comics, etc. from various provinces are generally only disseminated in the provinces, and cannot be disseminated outside the local provinces. This is a self-protection policy of local powers, but it is also because of this that these local publishing houses and magazines As a result, the business scope of the comics club could not be expanded.
It can be considered pros and cons.
Because of the special nature of the network, the new comic network that Xiaoshan belongs to, this kind of real-world geographical spread restriction naturally does not radiate above the network, so the new comic network has also won the favor of fans from all over the Long Kingdom.
Fans from various provinces will exchange excellent comics from their respective provinces on this website.
Over time, the demand naturally gave birth to professional comic commentators like Xiao Shan.
Basically, Xinman.com has one or two persons in charge like Xiaoshan in every province, who are responsible for digging out the excellent cartoons of the local provinces, and act as commenters to post the manuscripts on Xinman.com!
This... is his hobby and his job.
The uniform publication time of the periodical on Man Ying is every Friday.
It is the time for the students to have their holidays on weekends.
Perhaps because of Dong Yun's new works being published in this issue of Man Ying, the sales of Man Ying in various bookstores today are extremely hot.
Xiao Shan searched several bookstores before finding a bookstore where Man Ying's periodical hadn't sold out.
at the same time,
After school in the afternoon, many students from major primary and middle schools also rushed to bookstores. After all, the biggest audience of comics and periodicals is them! Naturally, Qin Qianyu is no exception. She also bought this issue of comics today. She has always liked to buy Tianyin comics under Fengyu Comics. After all, most of the serialized works of Tianyin comics are girl comics. .
However, the new work of Dong Yun, a well-known cartoonist in Tianyin Comics, was serialized on the comics. Secondly, Qin Qianyu discovered that there was a small publicity on the last page of the last issue of the ink film.
"The original Ink Shadow serialized cartoonist, and the author of The Garden of Words, Shui Xin's new work Rurouni Kenshin Remembrance will be serialized in the next issue of Comics, so stay tuned!"
After the end of the Garden of Words, Shui Xin's popularity gradually declined. Now, two weeks later, few people mention this work and its author.
Even her younger sister and cousins, who are loyal fans of The Garden of Words and Leaves, will hardly mention the water after a long time after the end of the Garden of Words.
This is the reality of the comics industry. There is no classic, excellent, long-term serialization, and your readers will forget you in just a few days.
If it hadn't been confirmed that Chu Yu was Shui Xin, maybe Qin Qianyu would have done the same, although the two hadn't had much contact since that day when they suddenly asked for an autograph from Chu Yu.
But Chu Yu wandered around in front of Qin Qianyu all day, and it was difficult for Qin Qianyu to ignore his existence.
After realizing that Chu Yuxin had serialized a new book, as a fan of the Garden of Words, she finally couldn't help being curious and bought a comic book of this issue.
Only Chu Yu went straight to the house after school.
For him, the serialization of Rurouni Kenshin Remembrance and the Garden of Words only means that his manuscript fee has increased from 220 yuan per page to 600 yuan per page.
He also changed from a cartoonist with a weekly salary of more than 4,000 to a cartoonist with a weekly salary of more than 10,000.
Thinking like this... Chu Yu suddenly became a little uncomfortable.
"I seem to have become a rich man?"
Compared to Chu Yu, who used eight hundred yuan a month before, after Rurouni Kenshin serialization, his monthly income soared to nearly 50,000 Dragon National Coins.
Not to mention being in a second-tier city like Los Angeles, even in a first-tier city like Magic Capital or even Imperial Capital, he is a proper high-income group.
For a while, Chu Yu was a little confused.
This money is too unrealistic, and it seems to be completely different from the difficulty of making money taught in the school!
However, he was confused when he went upstairs and saw Su Lushi standing in front of his house carrying a large bag of vegetables, and he disappeared suddenly.
"Are you really addicted to me here?" Chu Yu said coldly.
"What is rubbing? Didn't I buy all the ingredients?" Su Lu said with a grin.
Since the three drank the drink together two weeks ago, the relationship between the three seems to have changed a little.
Except for the cooperative relationship in their respective identities, it seems that the mutual relationship is getting closer to friends.
At least when Chu Yu met Zhao Qinyin in school during this period of time, the two would stop and talk a few words.
The strangeness between each other is much less, and the guard is much less.
And since Su Lu came to discuss some comics with Chu Yu last week, after Chu Yu's chef made a table of food to entertain her, she ran to Chu Yu twice in three days. Originally, Chu Yu was lazy to order takeaways to settle the meal. The problem, she's okay. Every time she comes, she buys a bunch of dishes she wants to eat. The beautiful name is to add a little nutrition to the cartoonists under her. The province's takeaway food has problems. In fact, she wants Chu Yu to cook Give her food.
Ugh....
Chu Yu was speechless, gave her a blank look, took out the key and opened the door.
It's already December, and the weather temperature has dropped sharply, and white mist will dissipate when you breathe out.
Looking at the ingredients Su Lu bought, Chu Yu said.
"I'm too lazy to do any tricks, just boil it into a hot pot and stew it in a mess."
"Yes, yes! I listen to Chef Chu!" After Su Lu said, he ran to the stove, turned on the electric terminal and sat watching TV.
Seeing this, it was Chu Yu who did it alone again.
Shaking his head, Chu Yu was too lazy to talk nonsense, washing rice, vegetables, cutting meat, boiling water...
When it was almost time for dinner, there was a knock at the door.
Su Lu ran over and opened the door.
It is Zhao Qinyin.
"Here?" Chu Yu nodded and said.
"Just right, let's eat together!"
Today is the day when the first episode of Rurouni Kenshin Remembrance was released, and it was also the first day that Chu Yu and Zhao Qinyin agreed to continue to work as assistants for the follow-up comics of Rurouni Kenshin Remembrance.
Originally Chu Yu wanted to invite Zhao Qinyin out for dinner, but Su Lu didn't bother him anymore!
Zhao Qinyin was hesitant at first, but couldn't hold back the two of them to persuade each other.
Stove, hot pot, three people in a circle, boiling water mist.
For a while, Chu Yu felt that his house was also a lot of lively, and since his parents were gone, he seldom felt such a feeling.
Su Lu's face continued to smile, and Zhao Qinyin's mouth was not consciously smiling. Although Chu Yu was still unsmiling, his eyes softened a lot.
....
The author, assistant, and editor on the same side as Chuyu have different light meals.
Song Jiayu and Dong Yun had dinner together in a western restaurant.
"How?" Dong Yun looked at Song Jiayu.
"The popular vote result is out."
"The Demon Realm is number one, with more than 35,000 votes."
"The hidden girl is second, with more than 31,000 votes. UU reading www.uukanshu.com"
"Tianshu is third, just over 30,000 votes."
"Not bad, the first episode of the Hidden Girl has caught up with Manying's original two giants, and now with you, these three works are the mantle three giants! The momentum continues, and the summit is just around the corner!" Song Jiayu looks like It seems to be in a good mood.
"What about Rurouni Kenshin Remembrance?" Dong Yun asked.
"Is that work?" Song Jiayu smiled.
"It seems that the work is a bit uncomfortable!"
"The number of votes in the twelve hours was less than four thousand votes. It was ranked 11th among the 20 serialized works. It seems that my guess is correct. Although his work is of high quality, RB The setting of the human protagonist still has a huge impact! And I also used my strength to give up the propaganda resources originally given to this work to the hidden girl." Song Jiayu sneered.
"Even if the quality of this work is high, the wine smells deep in the alleys. A work does not mean that it will be popular when it is published on a good platform. The quality is very important, and the publicity is also the same. Otherwise, there will not be so many comics every year. Cut the work in half."
"Maybe the result of this issue is the pinnacle of this work, and the popularity has become lower and lower in the future, and it was finally cut in the middle?" Song Jiayu said.
"The situation is not settled yet, don't rush to conclusions." Dong Yun drew light makeup today, but the beautiful makeup can't hide the solemnity on her face.
"You said before that the main part of this work is that the third chapter is too amazing, especially the last scene of the third chapter. Because of the length of the new series, Rurouni Kenshin and the Hidden Girl both serialized the content of the two chapters in the first issue."
"In this case, until the voting results for the serialized work of Man Ying next week are released, the performance of this work cannot be determined.
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