Hong Kong Island Comic Master

Chapter 365 Mainland Market

"Hello, Mr. Li!"

"Hello, President Ding!"

In the lobby of Li Wannian's studio, Li Wannian was seen shaking hands and greeting a smiling middle-aged man.

The visitor was wearing a baggy gray suit and black-rimmed eyes. He was polite and slightly overweight. His surname was Ding, and he was the vice president of the Guangdong Federation of Literature and Art.

"I have admired Mr. Li for a long time!"

"President Ding, are your words too exaggerated?"

"It's not an exaggeration at all. You are now famous all over the world. Compared with you, Zheng Yuanjie doesn't even dare to call you the King of Fairy Tales!"

As early as 1984, Zheng Yuanjie was dubbed the "Fairy Tale King" by the media. After that, he founded a magazine focusing on himself, called "The Fairy Tale King".

Up to now, the monthly circulation of the magazine has almost reached 100 million copies, making him a veritable fairy tale king in mainland China.

Now, President Ding compared him with Zheng Yuanjie, and he didn't know who he was praising.

"No, no, you are too flattering!"

"Nothing at all. You don't know how popular your comics are across the country!"

Whether the previous words were a compliment or not, no one knew, but what President Ding said was absolutely correct. Even Li Wannian had received a report on this.

As Li Wannian's animations became popular in mainland China, many publishing houses discovered the economic value of his comics. As a result, various Li Wannian comics suddenly appeared on the market.

Generally, they are "Hainan Publishing House", "Ningxia Publishing House", etc...

Obviously, these comics are not copyrighted!

In this regard, both Suzaku Animation and the toy factory reported to Li Wannian immediately, but Li Wannian did not pay attention.

If possible, he would of course want people to read the original comics, but unfortunately, his original comics cannot be sold, and they are too expensive for mainlanders at this time.

The emergence of pirated comics is not a bad thing to a certain extent.

Just like Microsoft, it used pirated software to complete its penetration of the mainland operating system market.

Although they don’t get a penny for reading comics now, when these readers grow up and use their feelings to produce a lot of figures, theatrical movies, authorized mobile games, etc., they will be able to Now all the money from these comic books has been earned back.

It can be said that this is an investment spanning 20 to 30 years.

Therefore, Li Wannian completely laughed it off and didn't take it seriously when the people below reported to him.

"Really? But why didn't I receive a penny?"

However, even though Li Wannian didn't take it to heart, he was still able to talk about it at this time!

"Um...ahem, well...the national conditions are different!"

Sure enough, Li Wannian choked President Ding to death with just one sentence.

There are some things that everyone understands tacitly and naturally cannot be said on the table.

"I heard that you want to see me this time. Is there something wrong?"

After the simple polite words, Li Wannian went straight to the point.

Rather than going around in circles with the other person here, Li Wannian really wanted to finish meeting him quickly and go back to continue painting.

"this……"

President Ding was obviously not used to Li Wannian's straightforward way of talking. After hesitating for a moment, he said, "That's why I'm here this time!" "Oh?"

"You must also know that there are currently no genuine comics of yours in mainland China, which leads to rampant piracy. In this case, we hope to obtain the comic authorization from your Second Dimension Magazine. Of course, if you can draw a cartoon specifically for us mainland book fans As for comics, that would be even better!”

"You want to publish my comics?"

"Instead of publishing, it would be better to serialize new comics that comply with our regulations!"

As soon as these words came out, Li Wannian narrowed his eyes. Now he finally knew what the other party was thinking. The other party didn't want to authorize his own comics, but wanted to start a comic magazine!

Speaking of this comic magazine, it is something that has never existed in mainland China since the new era. As for Zheng Yuanjie's "The Fairy Tale King", it is just a children's literature magazine, which is completely different from comics.

In fact, just as Li Wannian thought, President Ding, or the person behind him, was interested in the worldwide fame of Li Wannian's comic magazine.

Li Wannian's comics and their surroundings have made money in the United States, Neon, and Southeast Asia, reaching hundreds of millions of dollars every year.

We must know that the foreign exchange reserves of the entire mainland last year were just over 20 billion US dollars. Drawing a cartoon can earn one-twentieth of the entire country's foreign exchange. Who wouldn't be jealous?

Moreover, unlike other high-tech technologies where Omi strictly prevents deadlocks, this comic does not seem to have a learning threshold.

Therefore, as long as Li Wannian's comic magazines are introduced and studied, will there be a Li Wannian in mainland China in the future?

You must know that Hong Kong Island only has a few million people, but the population of the mainland is hundreds of times that of Hong Kong Island, so the probability of the next Li Wannian will also be a hundred times that of Hong Kong Island.

I have to say that Li Wannian also admires the other party's idea, but unfortunately, he has a cheat!

How is it possible to think of him again? Even if it did come out, there wouldn’t be that many comics for him to copy!

"You want to start a comic magazine?"

"It's not us, it's us!"

President Ding smiled and pointed at Li Wannian and then at himself.

"Can we enter the mainland and open a magazine?"

After hearing President Ding's words, Li Wannian immediately raised a core question.

"Of course not!"

Hearing President Ding's words, Li Wannian's smile suddenly froze.

Are you kidding me?

Just when Li Wannian was about to fall out, Chairman Ding continued unhurriedly: "According to the latest news we have received, the country will issue a law next year to allow Sino-foreign joint ventures. The scope of foreign investment includes drafting, editing, You can leave the rest of the actual publishing business to us, including typesetting, topic planning, publishing consulting, copyright trading and other related matters!”

"Leave it to you?"

"Yes, we have a publishing house that has been established for several years, called Lingnan Fine Arts Publishing House, which can fully undertake these businesses!"

President Ding is right. Historically, in 1995, Germany's Betas Group used the readers' club model to avoid policy restrictions and enter the mainland.

Only then did Li Wannian realize that the other party was actually being serious and was very well prepared for every aspect!

And even though Li Wannian saw through the other party's thoughts, it was difficult to refuse.

After all, entering the mainland market has always been what he wanted to do. How much money he made was secondary. The main thing was to further expand his reputation.

Who doesn’t want this big market of one billion people?

I have to say that he was really dozing off, so someone handed him a pillow.

"Okay, I will consider this!"

Seeing Li Wannian relent, Chairman Ding also breathed a sigh of relief, and then changed the topic, "I wonder, Mr. Li, do you have any comic themes suitable for mainland China?"

Li Wannian originally wanted to say something more, but suddenly his heart moved and he asked: "This, can I go to the mainland to investigate?"

(End of this chapter)