Marvel’s Qimu disaster

On Wednesday, Saiki and Jacob met at a café near Queens.

After knowing the news, Potts decisively took the day’s leave and insisted on personally accompanying Qi Mu to sign the contract.

The reason is because Qi Mu is too young to understand the content of the contract, and he is easy to be deceived.

Although the manga editor is her friend, businessmen always put profits first.

Even if it is friendship, they can throw it aside at any time, and Potts does not want to hurt Saiki because of himself.

In fact, Qi Mu was not worried that the other party would have any bad intentions, but seeing that Potts’ attitude was so firm, Qi Mu could only bring her with him.

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Five minutes before the appointed time, Jacob was already sitting in the café waiting, and just as he looked around, a pink-haired boy walked in through the doorway, and behind him was Potts, whom Jacob had always admired.

“I am the editor-in-chief of Pacific Comics magazine, Jacob Doyle.”

Jacob stood up and looked up at the very young cartoonist, who was thin and like a short man bullied at school.

However, to his surprise, the momentum exuded by Qi Mu’s body, confident and easygoing, made Jacob can’t help but have an illusion, thinking that standing in front of him at this time was a high-ranking person with a successful career.

Listening to Jacob’s heart, Qi Mu laughed secretly, how could he have such momentum in him, in fact, he was just an ordinary walk.

It’s just that while walking, Saiki uses telepathy to transmit some hallucinations to Jacob’s brain, which may bring a lot of help to the signing later.

“Hello, I’m Saiki, author of One Punch Man.”

With a smile on his face, Saiki and Jacob shook hands.

“It’s hard to imagine that the author of the masterpiece who drew the one-punch man is really a child… Sorry, I’m not doubting you, it’s just that I didn’t expect you to be so young, I didn’t expect you at all. ”

Even after seeing it with his own eyes, Jacob felt that this was too exaggerated.

Immediately afterwards, Jacob turned his gaze to Potts: “Long time no see, Miss Potts, I didn’t expect you to give me such a surprise, thank you so much.” ”

Potts maintained proper social etiquette and replied with a smile: “Actually, I didn’t do anything either.” ”

The three sat down, Jacob took out the original manuscript of One-Punch Man from the folder, gently placed it on the table, and then said in a calm tone: “Since Miss Potts is here, then I will go directly to the theme, to be honest, I like this work very much, in my eyes, its quality is also quite good, but I found a small problem, that is, the setting of this work should subvert the traditional superhero theme, right?” ”

“Yes.” Saiki nodded.

“That’s right, although the content of this work is very interesting, but I am not sure that fans will accept its setting, and if our magazine publishes One-Punch Man, it will take a big risk.”

Saying that, Jacob showed a look of embarrassment on his face, and his tone seemed to be a little more cautious: “Then I will directly tell you our remuneration here, if this comic is launched in a serial way, it needs to be updated every week, basically a draft of $25, if you release a single book in the future, I can give you 7% royalties, of course, in addition to the electronic copyright, other copyrights are reserved by yourself, what do you think?” ”

Jacob plays this trick very cleverly, and in general, newcomers like Qi Mu will be treated very low.

A drawing can have $20 is already considered the limit, and the royalty is not to mention, at most only 3% to 5%, as for the 10% royalty, only those famous cartoonists can get it, newcomers are simply impossible.

The reason why Qi Mu can get such treatment is because Jacob sees the potential of the “One Punch Man” draft, and even more so the potential of Qi Mu as a person.

Regardless of the plot, Saiki’s amazing drawing skills did shock him, not at all weaker than the level of any known manga artist, and besides, Saiki was only about ten years old, which was enough for Jacob to spend the company’s resources to woo him.

It’s easy to get a good work, but it’s very difficult to get a talented cartoonist.

Jacob believes that as long as Pacific Comics Magazine has Saiki joining, it will definitely be able to reach the most brilliant moment of the magazine again.

Hearing Jacob’s words, Potsliu frowned, shook his head and replied: “If only for this reason, I disagree, Mr. Jacob, every industry has risks, and you and I can clearly see the potential of this comic, it is definitely better than the superhero comics on the market, so the royalty must be increased to 10%, each drawing is purchased for $40, and we also need 50% of the electronic royalty.” ”

Jacob was directly stunned by Potts’ analysis and couldn’t say anything for a while.

Before this, Potts had already made sufficient preparations, she had investigated the market for comic book publications, and deeply/penetrated the relevant information, Potts had full confidence in this negotiation, and knew where the other party’s bottom line was.

Although Potts has no professional knowledge of comics, it is Potts’ specialty in negotiation, and even if ten Jacobs are added together, it is impossible to match her.

Looking at the aura of Potts, Qi Mu felt that he had found the right person.