Hong Kong Island Comic Master

Chapter 11 The New Magazine
When Uncle Ho opened the first book "Chinese Little Chef God", he was surprised to find that the painting style of this book was completely different from the aesthetic style of "Death", but more like the realistic style of Hong Kong comics, which was not visible at all. It was painted by the same person.

"Could it be that this guy can change his painting style at will? Isn't this too evil?"

After sighing, Uncle He forced himself to focus on the comics.

At the beginning of the comic, the background and cuisine of China are introduced.

Because the original author of this comic, Ogawa Etsuji, is a neon person, although he loves Chinese cuisine, he only has a partial understanding of Chinese cuisine and makes many common sense mistakes.

Therefore, Li Wannian made corrections. For example, in the opening chapter, he changed the four major cuisines to Sichuan cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Huaiyang cuisine and Cantonese cuisine.

As for the later eight major cuisines, they were all differentiated in the late Qing Dynasty.

In addition to the background introduction at the beginning of the comic, the story then unfolds from a restaurant called Juxialou in Chengdu, China, at the end of the [-]th century.

The protagonist of the story is a 13-year-old boy named Liu Angxing.

In fact, the original protagonist's name was Liu "洴(mǎo)" star, but it was only because of Wanwan's translation error that he became Liu Angxing.

Li Wannian adopted Liu Angxing's name. Firstly, the pronunciation of the original name in Chinese was too convoluted, and secondly, he could write one less character.

Don't underestimate this. When it comes to being lazy, Li Wannian will never waste another second!

Seeing Liu Angxing's age, Uncle He couldn't help but raise his head again, 13 years old?Li Wannian, this guy, has written himself into it, right?

Ju Xia Lou’s former abandoned disciple didn’t know where he acquired good cooking skills, and wanted to take away Liu Aung Xing’s mother Ju Xia Lou.

Fortunately, Admiral Li showed up in time to prevent Shao An from succeeding immediately, and finally chose a cooking competition to decide who should go downstairs.

As for the content of the competition, it was the Magic Mapo Tofu that Admiral Li had eaten in Sichuan Province and still remembers it.

After that came Liu Angxing's preparation and research. For a long time, he could not understand the magic Mapo Tofu with "six flavors in one". What exactly is this sixth flavor?
Just as Liu Angxing was thinking, this sentence came to an end.

"Ah? Is this the end?"

If you don't know it, Uncle He took a closer look and found that this chapter actually has 43 pages, which is already longer than the pages of ordinary comics.

"It's not satisfying, it's really not satisfying!"

Uncle He sighed and turned over the comic manuscript.

To be honest, this comic is not as amazing as "Death" in terms of its drawings, but the overall story is above the standard and is enough to defeat most comics on the market.

Moreover, his competition is based on cooking skills, which is much more novel than most martial arts comics today.

Then, Uncle He changed another book and picked up the comic "Pokémon".

Yes, the painting style has changed again!
At this time, Uncle He was already numb.

"Pokémon" originally did not have comics, it itself was adapted into an anime based on the game.

Therefore, among the three comics, "Pokémon", which seems to be the most easy to doodle, is actually the comic that Li Wannian took the longest to draw.

Because he needs to find the animation in his mind first, take screenshots frame by frame, then adjust the size, composition, add borders, dialog boxes and other steps before he can completely change it into a comic.

The reason why Li Wannian had to do such a thankless task was that the commercial value of Pokémon was so high, even higher than the two comics "Death" and "Chinese Little Chef God" combined.

As long as he makes the Pokémon IP popular through comics, then adapting anime, games, and even peripherals will definitely make Li Wannian's family a lot of money.

The comics of "Pokémon" fictionalize a world where the protagonist Xiaozhi sits called Zhenxin Town in the Zhongzhou region.

Because he got up late, when he came to Dr. Oak's house, all the other Pokémon were picked away. He could only get a Pikachu with a weird personality and unwilling to stay in the Poké Ball.

Later, the two of them embarked on an adventure trip and experienced an attack by a flock of Spearow, and finally gained Pikachu's recognition.

Compared with Little God of Cooking, the storyline of the first chapter of this comic is relatively complete.

Of course, this comic was not to Uncle He's taste, and he even found it a bit boring.

However, after reading these three comics, Uncle He had already admired Li Wannian.

Three comics, three different styles, can still be easily controlled. Not to mention a 13-year-old boy, even Osamu Tezuka is only at this level. "So, you're going to serialize three comics in one magazine at the same time?"

"That's right! Since the magazine is currently unable to attract good authors, it's up to me!"

Li Wannian is also very helpless now. Currently, cartoonists in Hong Kong are very scarce, and they are mainly monopolized by Huang Yulang's "Yulin Army" and Shangguan Xiaobao's "Shanggguan Family".

And they are a small magazine that has just been launched. It wants money but not money, and it wants name but not name. Why are you poaching people?
You can't rely on painting cakes, right?
"Can you?" Uncle He asked with concern.

"It's a bit strenuous, so I might need two or three assistants!"

"No problem, I'll hire you!"

Hearing that Li Wannian had a need, Li Chongjun immediately made the decision.

"It's not that easy. These two comics are okay. For a comic like "The God of Death", if you don't have a certain foundation in painting, it will be difficult to help Nian Zai!"

"Huh? Is it difficult to find people who can draw?"

Li Chongjun's layman's speech was directly ignored by Uncle He.

"What do you want from your assistant?"

"Well...you must have certain painting skills, be diligent, obedient, and most importantly, not too old!"

Li Wannian's request surprised Uncle He.

However, what surprised him was not that Li Wannian's requirements were very high, but on the contrary, that his requirements were very low, almost to the point of having no requirements at all.

Aren’t these conditions necessary to find a comic assistant?
It's just that you can't be too old...

"How old do you think your assistant is?"

"About my age!"

At this time, Uncle He felt some difficulties. If he wanted to be as old as Li Wannian, he also had to have certain abilities... Suddenly, the appearance of his grandson appeared in Uncle He's mind.

"I have a candidate, and I will give you a definite answer later. In addition, I will mobilize my contacts to help you find another one!"

"Thank you very much, Uncle He!"

"You're welcome, I'm counting on you for my pension!"

"In addition, our magazine needs to be renamed. The current Yihe Magazine is too ugly!"

That’s right, Li Chongjun’s Yihe Printing Factory has a magazine office!

However, Li Chongjun's magazine is actually an empty shell, commonly known as a leather bag company.

He and Uncle He are the only two people in the company from top to bottom.

The main reason why he wanted to set up such a leather bag company was that after Li Chongjun met Uncle He, he wanted to bypass the magazine and find suitable comics to publish on his own.

It is precisely because of this that the book "Urban Beauty" became a big seller and that Li Wannian's "The God of Death" was successfully published.

"Is that a bad name?"

"Of course, our comic is aimed at students and young people. This name is too old-fashioned!"

"What should I call it?"

Li Chongjun followed the good deeds and now he had reached the point of obeying Li Wannian's advice.

"Then let's call it "Two-dimensional Shonen Weekly"!"

"Something else?"

Li Chongjun and Uncle He had no idea what Li Wannian had said.

(End of this chapter)