Marvel’s Qimu disaster

With Potts’ help, the contract signing process became extremely smooth.

Jacob eventually agreed to Saiki a $40 per page and a 10 percent royalty for a single book, meaning that for every $5 copy sold, Kiki would receive 50 cents.

This is the highest share that Potts has won for Saiki, and it is definitely several times better than other rookie manga artists!

However, Jacob is conditional, and he hopes to use it in exchange for Saiki’s promise that as long as Saiki has the same conditions, Saiki must give preference to Pacific Comics Magazine in the future.

Apparently, Jacob wanted to use this promise to tie Saiki to death at Pacific Comics Magazine.

He believed in his vision and in Saiki’s strength.

As long as the story passes, Qi Mu’s unique painting alone can already attract a large number of fans, which Jacob is convinced of.

Qi Mu readily agreed to Jacob’s conditions, after all, it was beneficial to both parties, and Qi Mu had no reason to refuse.

But before he was ready to sign the contract, Qi Mu suddenly added a condition.

That is, the two parties must sign a confidentiality contract, and Pacific Comics Magazine needs to keep Qi Mu’s identity and age information strictly confidential, and must not leak out, let alone use his age for publicity and a series of other activities.

He draws comics and only wants to make money, not to get the attention of others.

Saiki didn’t want to wake up the next day and see his photo on the front page of the newspaper, which would disturb his normal life.

After hearing this condition, Jacob first hesitated, then gritted his teeth and agreed.

Although this will lose a good hype topic, in the long run, perhaps it will produce better results.

“The original manuscript will be in the magazine in a few weeks, and our magazine is a weekly magazine that is published every Thursday, so you have to deliver it every week by Wednesday at the latest, so that we have enough time to print, if there is anything special, notify me in time, and I will help you arrange it.”

After putting away the contract and the manuscript, Jacob explained to Saiki the special precautions after serialization.

Because Zhou is a headache for most cartoonists, they must think about the next plot and characters two days before the magazine is released, and draw it into the original draft.

You know, comics are rich in a lot of work, just a manuscript, it has to go through a variety of complex steps such as conception, storyboarding, line drawing, coloring and so on.

So the rest time for professional cartoonists is probably the afternoon of the delivery, they can go out to celebrate, and then sleep to start the next week’s devil time.

Of course, a comic is usually done by a group, and that group is the studio.

The author is mainly responsible for the plot and main characters, as well as the drawing and arrangement of the scene, and the assistant is to assist in the painting, stroke, blackening and other work of the secondary characters and scenes, and their help is very important for professional cartoonists.

“Do you need me to arrange a studio for you?”

Jacob, who is the editor-in-chief of the manga, also knows this problem, so he wants to arrange several manga assistants for Saiki to assist him in his work.

However, Qi Mu’s situation is special, and if the studio is arranged outside, it is easy to expose his true identity.

In Jacob’s opinion, it is best to set aside a room in Saiki’s home for use as a studio, so that his chances of revealing his identity will be much reduced.

“I have a studio at home, and I don’t need a comic assistant, they’ll get in my way.”

Qi Mu didn’t want to let a few strangers walk around his home, if he didn’t pay attention and exposed the existence of superpowers, it would be troublesome.

When Jacob heard this, a helpless expression appeared on his face and said: “Don’t joke, kid, this is not a joke, you will ruin a classic comic by doing this, our magazine is a weekly magazine instead of a monthly, even if you have this speed, you can’t guarantee the quality of the original manuscript, this matter, I can’t agree.” ”

This time, Potts also began to persuade: “Yes, Qi Mu, such a large workload, your body will not be able to withstand it, and now you have to go to school, time is completely insufficient.” ”

“Drawing comics doesn’t waste too much of my time and energy, because I have already thought about all the plots and shots of the original manuscript, and besides, what can their level do for me?”

This is not Qi Mu’s arrogance, those manga assistants will indeed only become a burden to him, and it is not an easy thing to imitate Qi Mu’s drawing style.

Frankly speaking, no one has the ability to be his assistant, unless it is a cartoonist with top art skills, but will these cartoonists be willing to become a comic assistant of a new person?

“Well, that’s really a minor issue.”

Jacob suddenly had nothing to say, Qi Mu was right, there really was no one who could be his assistant.

Qi Mu pushed his glasses and said lightly: “Please rest assured, if the quality decreases, or you can’t hand over the original manuscript, you have the right to reduce my royalties, which can be written into the contract.” ”

“Okay, I agree.”