Chapter 50: Don't Blink Your Eyes
October 17.
"cheers!"
In the single apartment, three women toasted with drinks, and the ground was filled with snacks.
"I said to Editor Liu, "Weekly Girl" sales exceeded "Girls Comics" for the first time, and you just invited me to have a drink." A woman smiled and said, "Is this too stingy?"
"It's good if I treat you to eat." The second woman, Liu Xuan, editor of the Weekly Girls Editorial Office, grabbed the potato chips and chewed it: "The victory of Weekly Girls is because of He Xi and Teacher Hua Meng, why are you joining in the fun?"
"Aren't I curious?"
The woman looked at the last person with a smile, Hua Meng, who served as the comic assistant of "Inuyasha": "Teacher Hua Meng, you are holding your thighs now. I was sweating before "Inuyasha" came out, but I didn't expect it to become popular!"
At this time, "Weekly Girls" had been on sale for a day, and the sales volume had been completed. The results were much better than people expected. Its sales in Ninghai and surrounding areas exceeded "Girls Comics", which attracted a lot of surprise.
"Girl Comics" was previously a sales winner, and two magazines were released at the same time this week. "Weekly Girl" not only filled the gap, but also gradually widened the distance.
He Xi created a miracle again. His hot market made countless media shocked the eye. Online readers used the sentence "I would rather believe in pigs and dogs than media" to describe their anger at being deceived. Now this sentence can be seen in various forums.
The young cartoonists who knew that Hua Meng was the assistant of "Inuyasha" also came to congratulate Hua Meng. They almost broke Hua Meng's house in two days, which made the latter feel helpless.
"Actually, I really didn't help much. These are the achievements of Teacher He Xi."
Hua Meng always answers this way. He Xi is basically responsible for the pictures and characters in "Inuyasha", while she only deals with relatively cumbersome small matters such as shadows, lines, outlets, etc., and there is no reason to be congratulated.
"Teacher Hua Meng should not be modest, but Teacher He Xi is indeed awesome. He has won the fast report in the past few months in "Detective Conan" serialized by "Weekly Boy". Xiao Zheng and all readers have the first place in the survey. Nearly a hundred letters are sent to the editorial department every day!"
Liu Xuan took a sip of the drink and sighed: "He has become the pillar of the company. I think "Weekly Girl" may also become his exclusive stage."
"You must be successful, especially Teacher Hua Meng!" Liu Xuan pointed to Hua Meng and said, "The editorial department has great expectations for you. When you are an assistant, you must study hard and ask Teacher He Xi for advice."
"I know."
Hua Meng nodded. She and Mr. Tomato were both cartoonists carefully selected by the editorial department. Putting it beside He Xi is actually a further study. The editorial department hopes that they can draw better comics in the future.
On October 18, Hua Meng went to Meng Huo's house to work. The previous two days was the Ninghai No. 1 Midterm Examination, and the work of "Inuyasha" has been pushed to this day.
As soon as she entered the door, Hua Meng heard the voices coming from the study. She was about to go in and take a look, but Li Qin pulled her to sit down.
"You drink water first, they are discussing the matter." Li Qin handed a glass of water to Hua Meng and smiled and said, "When they have finished discussing, you can go in."
"Okay, Sister Qin." Hua Meng picked up the water and took a sip, and asked curiously: "What are they talking about?"
"It seems that the price of the royalty is increasing, and your company is really..." Li Qin smiled: "Each picture is 200, and I didn't expect it to increase."
"Risk the price."
Hua Meng was not surprised. Meng Huo made great contributions to Phoenix Company, and it was normal to increase the royalties.
Not long after, Alice walked out, holding a stack of documents in her hand.
"Teacher Hua Meng has arrived? Sorry, I've been delayed for a while, now you can go in." Alice apologized. Hua Meng picked up her bag and walked towards the study. Hearing Li Qin's voice behind her: "Alice, how much is the price increase this time?"
"Well, each picture has 600 Chinese coins, and the royalty is still 10%.
"Bang!" Teacher Hua Meng hit the door post and covered her forehead.
Each picture is 600!? The royalty is 10%!? No matter which standard is said, it will shock a lot of people. The best cartoonists in Phoenix Company are only 300 per picture, and the royalty is not more than 8%. Longteng Company cartoonists have a lot of royalties, and there are quite a few cartoonists who have 800 per picture. However, due to copyright issues, the royalty of those cartoonists is only 3% at most!
Teacher He Xi is now the most valuable person in the comics industry. How much money can you make at such a high price? Hua Meng walked into the study in a daze.
"Teacher Hua Meng, you're ready to work."
Meng Huo was sorting out his painting tools and looked up at Hua Meng's face: "What's wrong with you?"
"No... nothing." Hua Meng patted her face and forced herself not to think too much. She smiled: "Congratulations, Teacher He Xi, the market sales of "Inuyasha" are very good, and the quick report survey is also the first."
"Does "Weekly Girl" sell more than "Girl Comics"?"
Meng Huo was only interested in this result.
"It's more than that." Hua Meng nodded: "Yesterday's new serialization of "Girl Comics" increased its sales by 30,000 copies, but "Weekly Girl" increased its sales by 300,000 copies."
She was very envious. The sales of "Weekly Girl" benefited from "Inuyasha". However, the effect of "Inuyasha" was revealed so quickly, of course, because He Xi's readers have already reached a scale.
"Teacher He Xi, your influence can be compared with that of first-line novelists!"
Hua Meng couldn't help but praise, but Meng Huo laughed: "I can't compare to their influence. It's great to be compared with those second-rate novelists."
The novels in this world have much greater influence than comics, and Meng Huo's debut time is very short.
But Hua Meng didn't believe his words: "Teacher, don't be humble. The writer launched by "Girl Comics" this time is a little god. Her market performance is not as good as you!"
She uses sales comparison to measure influence, which is the wrong way.
"That's normal."
Meng Huo replied, then shook his head and said, "The comics and novels are different. You guys... just think of novelists so terrible."
He admitted that Longteng Company's approach is very effective, but comics and novels are different things. Each episode of the comic is only twenty pages, and the content of these pages must be reasonably arranged. Those novelists know nothing about this, so how can they draw comics well?
Even if the cartoonists who cooperate with them know that they have divided the work and are led by novelists, it is easy to cooperate poorly and problems will arise at any time.
Besides, what is the reason why those novel adapted comics are best-selling? The original work is of course the original work - without the support of the original work, it sounds terrible for novelists to enter the comics industry, but how many readers are interested in comics without the original work?
A novelist becomes a cartoonist? How can it be that simple to transform? It turns into a big joke if you accidentally become a joke. Especially for Meng Huo, when he competes with a novelist to draw comics, he is crushing all the way...
If you come to such a person, he will step on the other without blinking his eyes.
(The survey results have come out, and the update time will be adjusted to: 1 update 10 o'clock, 2 update 18 o'clock, if there are 3 updates, 2 updates, 23 o'clock in the evening!)
Chapter completed!