Chapter 47: New opponent?
‘Longteng Company has launched a massive invasion of original comics, and the future of the comics industry is guided by writers?’
‘The great transformation of original comics: it started with the phoenix and flourished by the dragon’
Looking at the two newspapers in his hand, Wang Zhe, editor-in-chief of Longteng Comics, felt relieved. After a long time of negotiation, the company's senior management finally agreed to his plan.
In the future, Longteng Company will vigorously develop the original comics industry. The development model is that novelists provide content and scripts, and then launch serialization in the form of comics. This form is a bit different from novel adaptations. No novels were published before serialization, so readers will like it more.
Chinese novelists are much better than cartoonists. The number of novels published every year is hundreds of times that of comics, and their quality is also very high, and there are rich copyright channels such as movies and games. Even the rise of comics is to explore the value of novels. It can be said that the most popular cartoonists have less influence than that of a medium-sized novelist.
However, novelists have a unique position in Longteng Company, and their role is far more than that of cartoonists. This has led to novelists generally looking down on cartoonists and unwilling to launch comics before the novel is published.
In order to win the consent of the company and the novelist, Wang Zhe struggled to speak out. He promised to distinguish the serialized comics authors and put the novelist on it, while the cartoonist was the adapter second.
Although comic artists will definitely complain, Wang Zhe thinks this is great. He wants to attract attention with novelists. With them, there will be readers. Moreover, there are no restrictions on the original work of comics, and the sales of comic magazines will inevitably increase rapidly.
This is a huge achievement for Wang Zhe.
“How is the media and readers’ reaction?”
Wang Zhe asked the previous editor, and the editor looked excited: "Unexpectedly good, editor-in-chief!"
"The media are reporting on it extensively, and readers are looking forward to it. The online news has exceeded 10,000, and the editors can't help it."
"There is another happy event worth reporting." He smiled and said, "That Teacher He Xi will also launch a new comic next week, and it is a girl comic! But such eye-catching news has been obscured by our news, and all the media have looked at us."
This phenomenon is worth celebrating. Longteng Company's approach is a change in the comics industry. To put it bluntly, the media does not believe that a genius can change the comics world! If you want to change the comics world, a group of popular original comics must appear, and Longteng Company is obviously moving in this direction.
The prosperity of original comics in the future will be led by Longteng Company, and the Phoenix has no power to resist it.
"Teacher He Xi..." Wang Zhe laughed. He remembered the burning of "Pokemon" and shook his head: "That guy can't make waves, he is only worthy of being our stepping stone."
Wang Zhe was originally worried about He Xi's influence, but "Pokemon" proved that he was not as powerful as Wang Zhe imagined. He Xi must have become lucky. Even if the girl comics he drew were not killed, they would not be as popular as "Detective Conan".
"I heard you found He Xi's clue?"
Wang Zhe asked curiously. Although he gave up trying to win over He Xi, the investigation continued.
"Yes, Phoenix Company hides it very secretly, but we found the clue." The editor nodded immediately: "He Xi should not be a group. He is a boy, living with his mother, about sixteen years old, and the specific information can be found in the past two days."
"Sixteen!"
Wang Zhe was shocked now, why did He Xi be so young?
But it is no wonder that such young geniuses often appear the fastest and fall the fastest.
"Forget it, you don't need to investigate."
Wang Zhe thought about it and knew that this was enough. There was no need to win over He Xi at this point. He was only sixteen years old. If the information was dug out, it would be a waste of advertising for Phoenix Company and He Xi.
"No need to investigate? OK."
The editor nodded. He was about to say goodbye and leave, but the knock on the door suddenly rang.
"Please come in."
Wang Zhe said to the outside, and the two women walked in immediately. One of them was a pretty adult woman. Behind her was a childish girl. The girl was beautiful and refined, but her expression was a little arrogant.
"Editor Li, is there anything wrong?"
Wang Zhe stood up to welcome the adult woman, Li Hui, the head of the girl department of Longteng Comics.
"Editor Wang, this is Miss Qin Ya. She thinks that no cartoonist in the Girls Department can draw the picture she wants, so come and ask you here."
Li Hui smiled and introduced the girl around her. Qin Ya. When she heard this name, Wang Zhe's eyes changed suddenly.
"So it's Miss Qin Ya! Lucky to meet!"
Qin Ya, now a genius novelist in China, is known as the "romance princess". She has a net worth over 100 million in two years since her debut. Qin Ya just turned 18 this year and published her first novel two years ago. She told the media at the age of only 16.
"Very good, I finally don't have to go to school..."
She then abandoned her studies and became a professional novelist, attracting the pursuit of countless young people with her extremely high talent and ostentatious personality. She is a new star that Longteng Company strives to create. This original comic was not invited, so why did Qin Ya appear here?
Wang Zhe looked at Li Hui tentatively, but Li Hui did not answer, and Qin Ya started talking first.
"Please find your best cartoonist, I want to launch original comics." The girl said proudly: "I want to become the hottest girl cartoonist!"
Girl cartoonist? Wang Zhe almost fell to the ground when he heard this word. He wiped his sweat: "Miss Qin Ya, you are just the original work, not a cartoonist."
“What’s the difference?”
Qin Ya glanced at him: "Don't the cartoonists under your command adapt our books? Cartoonists are all brainless idiots, and I am also good at drawing. If you ask me to guide them on how to draw, this means that I am a cartoonist, and they are just assistants!"
Wang Zhe was stunned for a moment. He and Li Qin looked at each other. This, this matter... seems to be impossible.
And isn’t the girl comic the subject of He Xi’s next comic? Wang Zhe was thinking about it. If the romance princess publishes the original girl comic, then He Xi wouldn’t be beaten to death by her?
This really can have...
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On the other hand, Meng Huo also heard the news from Alice's mouth.
"Longteng Company launches original comics."
During the work break, he said while drinking water: "Isn't that very interesting?"
"interesting?"
Alice almost went crazy, she didn't find this interesting.
"Okay, don't worry." Meng Huo glanced at her and smiled, "Actually, I guessed that Longteng Company would do this. If they didn't do anything, it would be boring."
Chapter completed!