Hong Kong Island Comic Master

Chapter 10
"Renting books? Of course it will have an impact! But it's not a big problem!"

Looking at Li Chongjun and Uncle He who were very calm in front of him, Li Wannian immediately realized that he would not expect it because he did not understand this era.

But after all, they have been in this industry for a long time and know the current situation of the industry well.

It seems that I am thinking too much.

Sure enough, after Li Chongjun's explanation, Li Wannian figured out what was going on?

It turns out that the shop that rents books now has permission from the publisher, and it can even be said that the two parties have joined forces to combat pirated comics.

Although some sales were sacrificed, it made it difficult for piracy to survive. It can be regarded as the sharing economy of the 70s.

After understanding this, Li Wannian was completely relieved.

"By the way, have you finished drawing the second volume of "Death"? The first volume was too rushed and the comic book was very rough. This time we have to prepare at least five days in advance to make the comic more refined!"

Uncle He put down the report in his hand and began to care about Li Wannian's progress.

"No problem, I brought it to you today!"

With that said, Li Wannian took out a stack of paper from his schoolbag. Uncle He quickly took it with both hands and at the same time took out his glasses and put them on the bridge of his nose.

The name of this episode No. 11 is "Counterfeit Products". The picture in Chapter 1 at the beginning is of a box, and then Lu Qia appears.

"There's not much left, and there's a lot missing from this one. It's time to replenish it!"

That's right, the content of this chapter comes to the soul chapter.

Compared with the first ten chapters of the first volume, which had three large chapters, among the ten chapters of this volume, Li Wannian only has two chapters, namely the soul chapter and the mother chapter.

Li Wannian knows very well that the real popularity of "Bleach" is in the Soul Society chapter. At that time, the appearance of the Gotei Thirteen and the beginning and swastika interpretations of various Zanpakutō. That is the real attraction of this comic. .

Therefore, when Li Wannian was drawing "The God of Death", he intentionally or unintentionally shortened the previous modern chapter. The original 50-episode modern chapter was planned to be completed in 30 chapters.

Soon, Uncle He finished reading all 10 episodes.

"It's very good, the standard is still very high, and the new plot has more interesting things to watch!"

Regarding Li Wannian, Uncle He's compliments were directed towards Li Wannian as if they were free of charge!
"That's good, Uncle He, you will still be the one to do the editing this time!"

Li Chongjun felt relieved when he saw that the content of the second volume was approved by Uncle He.

In their plan, the first volume of "The God of Death" can be regarded as making a lot of money, but the second volume is the key to making big money. Of course, Li Chongjun must pay attention to it!

"Dad, Uncle He, there is something else I need to discuss with you!"

"what's up?"

“I guess we’ll have to start a magazine after all!”

As a comic, the best way to sell it is of course serialization. This is the best way to sell comics at home and abroad after decades of hard work.

After all, the construction period of comics is long, and it also takes time to promote. For the creator, if he sells the drawings after he is finished, he is afraid that he will starve to death!
More importantly, serialization can also help comics maintain long-term attention, prevent piracy, etc.

As for stand-alone books, they usually wait until they are serialized and have good results before selling them. What Li Wannian is doing now has reversed the order.Of course, Li Wannian had no choice but to do this!
On the one hand, he had to do this to save his father's printing factory. On the other hand, if they wanted to serialize it, they still had the biggest problem...

"It's not that simple to run a magazine! The simplest thing is that the magazine we serialize cannot only have one comic, right?"

As a veteran editor who had worked in magazines, Uncle He immediately raised the most practical questions.

If you want to start a magazine, the first and most basic thing is the people and departments. The editorial department, advertising department, and distribution department alone are indispensable. If it is larger, there will also be a marketing department, a financial department, The administrative department, etc., these are simply not something that a small workshop like Li Chongjun can afford!

All of this is easy to say, but more importantly, in a comic magazine, there can’t be just one comic in it, right?

"I've thought about this, so I'm going to serialize three comics at the same time!"

With that said, Li Wannian took out two piles of paper from his schoolbag and placed them in front of Li Chongjun and Uncle He.

"what?"

Seeing Li Wannian's actions, Li Chongjun and Uncle He were completely shocked.

Especially Uncle He looked at Li Wannian like a monster!
As an old editor, he knows how laborious it is to draw a comic!

The eight steps of making a story draft, composing a picture, drafting, tracing the frame, blackening, applying dot paper, drawing effect lines and then adding lines are almost exhausting for a cartoonist.

And Li Wannian actually plans to serialize three comics at the same time, all of which are high-quality. Is this something a human can do?
However, what Uncle He didn't know was that Li Wannian didn't need the previous steps at all. He could start directly from drawing the border.

Who would have thought that the most time-consuming part of drawing comics would be pasting dot paper?

Seeing the stunned two people looking at him blankly, Li Wannian couldn't help but remind him: "Do you want to take a look at the work first?"

"Oh, yes! Yes, look at the work!"

After coming back to his senses, Uncle He quickly picked up the two piles of paper on the table and flipped them over. They turned out to be two completely different comics. One was called "Pokémon" and the other was called "Chinese Little Chef". god".

In fact, there are many translations of the names of "Pokémon", such as: "Pocket Monsters", "Pokemon", "Pokémon" and so on.

The main reason why Li Wannian chose this name was that it would be more convenient to translate it into foreign languages ​​in the future.

After all, this anime was originally adapted from a game, but it was a huge money-maker, because how could it just be swimming in a small pond like Hong Kong Island?
As for the other comic, its name should actually be "The Little Master of China" or "Zhonghua Ichiban".

When Little Master Wanwan introduced animation, the sponsor was Uni-President, so many characters were named after their company's products.

For example: the protagonist Liu Pleiades is translated as "Xiao Dangjia" (Xiao Dangjia crisp noodles), Zhou Yu is translated as "Jidi Master" (Jidi Dumplings), and Zhou Meili is translated as "Dudu" (Manchu and Chinese Dudu). Duhao small sausage), Sanjie is translated as "Ah Q" (Ah Q barrel noodles) and so on.

Therefore, the animated version and the comic version at that time were confused.

Naturally, Li Wannian would not follow in this footsteps again. From the very beginning, he designed the names of the comic characters and the names of the comics themselves.

First of all, now that Li Wannian is drawing comics in Hong Kong Island, who knows why he started "China"?

It's better to call him Little Chef God. After all, such a concise and clear name makes people understand him at a glance.

Secondly, the names of the characters also mainly echo the habits of Chinese or Hong Kong people.

(End of this chapter)