1983 Past Life Manga King

“Do any of your friends have any daughters from the manga room? There is only one comic book in the house, Treasure Castle.”

“Sometimes I go to Jeongmi’s house and read comic books.”

“…are you coming to see me?”

“uh.”

what do you mean now

just come to see you?

“Aren’t you borrowing a picture and then drawing it?”

Kyunghee takes a deep breath in response to my question, then claps her palms as if frustrated and tells her to listen carefully.

“Come on, open your ears and listen, brother. It’s because you come from Jeongmi’s house just to read comics. And come home and draw it.”

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“Oh, it’s frustrating.”

Kyung-hee beats her chest as if it’s stuffy.

Then Seon-hee comes into her room with a towel around her head, and she looks at me and Kyung-hee with a blank look. Then she went straight up to the attic.

I reflexively look at Seon-hee and then look back at Kyung-hee.

“Are you saying that you just memorize the picture and draw it?”

“Ouch, now you understand.”

“Is that really true?”

“·················ogue.”

After a moment’s silence, Kyung-hee shakes her head and shoves me.

“Move away, I have to go up and change my clothes. I burst into death while talking to my frustrated brother.”

Saying that, Kyunghee was about to go up to the attic as well, but I reflexively grabbed her hand.

“Omma! What is it?”

“You really memorize the whole picture?”

“Ago go go. You got a handprint on your wrist because of you.”

“Tell me quickly.”

“Why do you keep asking the obvious? Seonhee You’ve been special since childhood. Memorizing everything.”

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“So, it’s the habit of drawing what you see with your own eyes. So Seonhee’s grades are almost perfect except for math.”

“·················ogue.”

I think I heard this somewhere.

What was it?

Oh right.

“Servant Syndrome!”

“What?”

“Is it Servant Syndrome?”

“uh? what is that?”

Oh, it’s a bit too much to say that Seon-hee has autism.

He speaks little, and although there are some four-dimensional corners, he is an ordinary child.

However, I heard that the memory ability to remember like a picture is like a symptom often seen in Servant Syndrome. Of course, it seems that even ordinary people have heard that there are such people.

Do you just have Servant abilities?

Anyway, it is clear that it is only a special ability.

“Anyway, I don’t know about anyone else, but Seon-hee has no problem with this high school entrance exam. Even the teachers, even if Seon-hee is drawing in class, no one cares. No matter what you ask, they answer everything.”

“·················ogue.”

“I wish Seon-hee! Pass the high school admission selection at once! Seon-hee would like that!”

“·················ogue.”

There was a monster living in this house.

If you could really apply that kind of ability only to comics, it would be a complete scam.

Ah.

The desire to ask about manga is like a chimney, but it is burdensome to bring it out with an exam in front of you.

Okay, once the exam is over, let’s ask a hint.

On the one hand, this alone cannot be said to be an absolute ability. This is because cartoons are not something that can be done simply by memorizing pictures.

In addition, if you are satisfied with simply drawing an illustration, you need to respect your taste as it is.

Because I don’t want to force myself to do something that doesn’t fit.

In any case, if the life you don’t want is not what you want, it will be unhappiness.

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A few days later, I visited Team B’s studio.

This time, Jeon Sang-gil is looking for us.

When he’s done some work, he’ll call us as usual.

While we waited on the sofa, Team B started working on the new ‘King of Management’ in earnest.

Chu Yang-gu has already completed the storyline based on the story we passed on.

And based on that, I started drawing.

Even if it’s a drawing, it’s almost croquis level.

There, he briefly divides the space to make a space for dialogue, and then passes it over to the person next to him.

Soon after that, the drawing men took over and started drawing with a pencil. Obviously, they are famous people in this industry, and their hand movements are unusual.

I have always thought that the completeness of the script manga was lacking, but considering the speed of the work now, I think the quality is not that great.

And while I don’t want to defend factory-style script book comics, I had to admit that there weren’t many options for cartoonists in those days.

In a situation where the serialization market is not yet fully equipped, and most of the market is concentrated in the script office, how many people can ignore it and show the spirit of a writer to create a cartoon?

Hey, let’s stop thinking like this.(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

For now, the priority is simply to adapt to this market.

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The drawing men’s hands move quickly.

A detailed drawing is applied on a pencil drawing with only rough shading and word spaces in the blanks, and it is handed over to the next person, the Pen Touch Man.

After drawing the face, it is handed over to another person, and this time the body drawing is drawn.

A series of images of the work being completed by going through the stages like that of the skilled workers in the factory.

Because it is a story that Park Sang-sik and I made, it is quite interesting to see how the painting is being completed.

But then a messenger came down from upstairs.

When the regular staff came to visit, Park Sang-sik and I were calling him messenger.

Anyway, the herald visits us as usual.

And the lines he throws are always the same.

“The teacher is looking for you.”

As I finished the work of 20 books at a time, I thought that I would not be working for more than a couple of months, but what did I call this time?

Anyway, we followed the messenger upstairs.

As soon as we enter Team A’s studio, Jeon Sang-gil sees us and waves his hand warmly.

“Hey, nice friends. Come here, come on.”

We approached him to say hello and introduced him to the person sitting next to him.

At first glance, he looked like a slender man in his mid-late 20s.

“You know ‘The Bass of the Storm’, right?”

Park Sang-sik nodded and answered his question.

“Yeah. It’s one of the most popular sports cartoons in Korea right now. But why?”

“This friend here is a story writer.”

“Yeah? Really?”

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Park Sang-sik was surprised, but so was I.

‘Base of the Storm’ isn’t as good as the Outsiders of Hell, but it’s still a very popular manga.

Of course, I read the manga too.

It is the story of a genius baseball player ‘Ha Kang-cheol’ conquering professional baseball with the harness of insane restraint, and I remember reading a book about how popular this cartoon was at the time.

Anyway, when we look at him with surprised eyes, he greets us with a grin.

“Good morning.”

“Ah yes. Good morning.”

“Good morning.”

Park Sang-sik and I greeted each other in turn.

Then Jeon Sang-gil points to the man and tells us.

“The best story writer right now, my name is Kim In-gi. As the name suggests, it is the most popular.”

“Oh really. Don’t play around with your name.”

“Kick kick. I want to do that too, but I have a natural ability.”

“What is agility?”

If it was Kim In-gi, I knew it well.

Of course, the face was not known, so I did not know the exact face, but it was very famous that he wrote the stories of Kim Joo-seok’s works ‘Base of the Storm’ and ‘Short Step’.

Of course, in the case of Short Step, it hasn’t been published yet.

In any case, he wrote the stories of two works that are representative of Kim Joo-seok’s desperate cartoons.

Anyway, the impression is very bright compared to the desperate work.

“Don’t float too much. I didn’t do it completely alone. It was created after talking at the food stall with Mr. Kim and collaborating.”

“But you’re right that you made up the story.”

“There are some things that Mr. Kim brought out the character well.”

“Why are you lowering yourself like this today? Unusually.”

At that, Kim In-gi laughed awkwardly. And then they turn to us soon.

“Ah, I saw the story of this work. It was really great, but you two said that it was completed in a few days?”

“This friend was more talented than me. It is thanks to this friend that all the detailed stories were completed in such a short time.”

Park Sang-sik smiles and gestures to me. Then Kim In-gi looks at me with curious eyes.

“As with imagination, I really envy the speed. The quality is also good. I heard you just started.”

“I’ve been around for about two years, and this is the first time this friend has worked on two projects together. I mean, it’s been over a month?”

“Wow, you are so talented.”

After a brief conversation, Kim In-gi stood up immediately.

It was probably because it was burdensome to keep talking in the studio.

Because of that, Jeon Sang-gil caught Kim In-gi.

“Are you going to write one of our works next time? Like Kim Joo-seok, I also want to see a successful work once.”

“Why are you like that? because he was lucky And put this aside.”

“It’s cheesy. Anyway, let’s have a drink sometime.”

“I see. And I want to talk to them a little more outside, okay?”

Jeon Sang-gil laughed at those words.

“Anyway, I called because of you. And these guys are freelancers. I can’t say this and that on my own.”

What is the sound of a subject that is called at any time.

“Why don’t we go out together and talk while having coffee?”

“Hey, it’s an honor. How about you?”

When Park Sang-sik turned to me and asked a question, I also nodded and answered.

“I’m fine too.”

“good. Then let’s go out together.”

Having said that, he greeted Jeon Sang-gil again and went out.

Park Sang-sik and I followed Kim In-gi outside. And as I was leaving the office door of Team A, I heard a sound from the bathroom at the end of the office hallway.

“A story writer? because it’s so funny Aren’t you getting too much money just by jotting down a few letters?”

“Will the story be endless? After I wrote one or two, I couldn’t write any more stories. Even if it looks good, it’s a business. There’s nothing to be so envious of. Don’t you remember the guy who wrote the story before? You were kicked out after only two works. Right now, he doesn’t have a job, so he’s just living a rough life.”

Upon hearing the story, Kim In-ki and Park Sang-sik’s expressions hardened. I also frowned a bit, not a very good story to hear.

The people who were making a lot of noise at that time came out to the bathroom and made eye contact with us. Soon after, they cough in vain as if they were embarrassed by themselves, and hurriedly rushed into Team A’s workroom.

Kim In-gi, who looked at it for a moment, smiled bitterly at us.

“Right now, the perception of story writers in the comics world is like this. It’s funny.”

Saying that, he went down the stairs.

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“It’s okay, the story writer is honestly just one of the staff members of the cartoonist.”

After moving the place to a nearby coffee shop and chatting about this and that, I found out that Kim In-gi was 29 years old. And as we talked, he naturally stopped talking because he had some kind of acquaintance with the eldest person here.

And at one point, he spoke out of excitement.

“Honestly, this time, a work that hit a jackpot came out, so I was treated a little less. Before that, I was worse than a drawing man.”

“That’s right.”

Park Sang-sik responds to his words.

In fact, it was the story writers who caused the revival of cartoons in the 80s. Still, it was hidden by the names of the cartoonists and was hardly known.

I read in a book that the story writer Kim In-ki also had a conflict with Kim Joo-seok over copyright issues and moved to Park Young-seok, and eventually split up due to conflicts like that. Of course, this is the case in the future by today’s standards.

He created a story that hit the jackpot anyway, and although he is a successful writer, he is a person who will continue to live a tiring life.

“Because there is not much work to be seen, some people think of it as just a job to play and eat. As you may have heard before, it is normal for people in the manga industry to think that way.”

“Still, you have been very successful.”

“Yeah, this is a huge success compared to other people. However, there is no change in the fact that my existence is not known because of the manga artist’s name.”

I just silently watched the two story writers lament each other, and Kim In-gi immediately turned to me and asked.

“It won’t make a big impact yet.”

“no. That’s the part I sympathized with.”

“Oh, right?”

Kim In-gi gives a look of surprise.

“It’s the same with comics and movies. It takes a good story to make a masterpiece. So, it is true that there is a problem with the current revival being attributed to the glory of only cartoonists.”

At my words, Kim In-gi put down the cup of coffee he was drinking and nodded his head.

“right.”

“Well, anyway, the popularity of manga now is better than it used to be. There is also a magazine specializing in cartoons called Treasure Castle, and I heard that there are many children who dream of becoming cartoonists.”