Cartoonist's Dream

Shangguo Publishing House is a company founded by Lu Lingling, no matter how you ignore it, you will be worried. As a Hongkonger, you should not encounter obstacles in entering the mainland market, right?Maybe the terms will be relaxed and allowed to pass freely?With this belief that they must win, after the final plan was finalized, the four of them started working in full swing.

Besides the booklet work, they also had magazines to revise.Although the authors recruited in the early stage failed, considering the fact that the monographs have already been published, it is impossible for the magazine to delay again and again.Therefore, the inaugural issue was decided to be "Shangguo", with "q3" occupying a large space, and "q3" as the vanguard for the production of the first issue.

"The magazine is scheduled to have a circulation of 1, 29 yuan per copy, and a sales volume of 29!" Lu Lingling declared her victory before the planned edition.Currently, these are scheduled releases.

"Considering sales and taxes, it's actually about 95 yuan, plus 8 yuan in daily expenses, and 65 yuan in manufacturing costs. In fact, the monthly profit is negative 5 yuan—" Wang Bingyu pointed out suddenly, Even if the plan is successful, the company will still make a profit and lose money. He reminded: "President, please be careful with your speech."

"It's still getting popular—" the benefactor Elisabelle sighed, and seemed to be urging Lu Lingling a little bit. [

"It doesn't matter, Anya, we can use Xiaolimu's booklet for cost recovery, I believe the magazine's

The printing house is only responsible for printing, not for publishing related procedures.Therefore, as long as the customer makes a reservation in advance and can afford the money, he can immediately accept the order and work.

"Let me see what book is printed this time." The manager of the production department got the original manuscript of the magazine from the business department, and walked back to the work area to look through it all the way, "The name of the magazine is "Shangguo Magazine", and the company is 'Shangguo Publishing House'? Couldn’t it be a company that can only use the company name for the first issue because it hasn’t applied for a trademark number?”

With questions about the trademark number and the first issue number, the department manager walked to the printing production area.At this time, the mimeographers who knew that there was work to be done cheered up and began to check the machine preparations.

"Huh? Comic magazines and booklets? Boss, are you printing for Man Tianxia again this time?" A mimeographer went over to the department manager to have a look.

"A new company, Shangguo Publishing House, doesn't know how long it can last. It's a crazy company that plans to publish a single book before the first issue is published." The manager of the production department judged based on experience.

Many entrepreneurs are eager to borrow money to start a small company, saying that they want to start a publication and start a big business, but it often happens that the publication is closed immediately after the publication.

There have been too many companies that dig holes recently, and even mimeographers feel that it is commonplace.There are many reasons for the suspension of the publication as soon as it was founded. The most important one is that the new company lacks planning, and the company has to suspend the publication due to its profit and loss.This makes many cartoonists daunted by new companies, and basically powerful cartoonists will not sign contracts with such new companies.

"However, even though it is a new company, the magazine is still very interesting. What is it called? "Three Kingdoms in Q Version." The mimeographer checked whether there was any error in the just completed trial printing plate, and said after flipping through a few pages.

Then he couldn't help but read down word by word, seeing the way he flipped through the book, outsiders thought he was working hard.

"It's funny, it's so funny! Look here【#是这样，我们想要3 wastes to serve as soldiers. #Haha，Taoyuan Prison is so big, it will definitely not be us 3 pulls.#But... the whole Taoyuan Prison is only There are only 3 of you left] I’m laughing to death, I’m laughing to death~ Hahaha, turn to the next page.” A mimeographer next to him saw it with him, and the mimeographer’s smile was obviously relatively low.

After a while, the manga part of q3 was turned to the end, and then there were other "garbage" manga.

"Why is it gone, what a pity..."

"It's just the first one that can attract attention, and the latter ones are really hard to watch." The department manager commented.Apparently he had browsed through the entire magazine earlier,

"By the way, boss, is there a channel to order the first issue of this company's magazine? I want to buy ten copies first." The mimeographer who was in charge of printing another part asked.What he held in his hand was the booklet "Fullmetal Alchemist".

"It seems that the salary is too much, right? This kind of company will die at some point, and you can only waste your money if you buy so many books."

The department manager knows what the employees want to do, so they just collect the first issue.He used to do this kind of thing a lot, but after the collapse of several new companies in his collection, he no longer had any interest in collecting first issues.You can get one or two copies of these things just by talking to the publishing house casually. If you take them home and store them, they are worthless and take up space.

Japan's "Tokyo University News" used a prize of 100 million yen to solicit the first issue of a certain agency 80 years ago. At that time, the printing volume reached 10. Still can't find it.

"Look at the author of this comic, they have signed a contract with them for 10 years! And they also threatened to sell 500 million copies. I think they must have a future. With this comic, they can at least make a sensation. The circulation of this first issue is only Only 1 copies, even if the company closes down, their first issue will become valuable!" Mimeographers have their own exquisiteness.

"'Ali' here also signed a 10-year contract, not a comic contract, but a writer's contract!" The staff on the other side also found out.

The inaugural issue is a meeting ceremony dedicated by the editor to the readers, because when meeting readers for the first time, they often add some content such as company introduction, journal purpose, style, manuscript submission requirements, editor’s words, author’s brief introduction, etc.There are about two or three pages of text plus pictures.Lu Lingling showed a bit of a bad taste, and intentionally divided the booklet "Mr. Conviction" and q3's "Mr. Ali" into two people to introduce. [

"Speaking so much, a company has only two authors who can get on the stage, and they can be ruined by randomly digging up one of them. Anyway, I don't think so. Have you finished checking the trial print? Hurry up and print if there is no problem. !” The production manager shouted.

The reason why he is not optimistic about Shangguo Publishing House is not only because Shangguo Publishing House is a new company, but also because the authors in the publishing house are all new faces. "New cartoonist" also means broken updates and unfinished endings. In short, no matter how wonderful the previous drawing is, it will be different from the old cartoonist later.

The department manager seems to have seen the strangeness of this new comic company.