Chapter 7: The Popularity of Comics

In the third year of study at Wenyuan College, Zhou Ming, who had learned everything he needed to learn and found that there was nothing worth learning on his own, began to expand his interests and hobbies. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

For example, writing novels, drawing comics, creating some pop music, anyway, sometimes inspiration comes, and you can make any strange work.

Semi-vernacular short stories, I have written two books, martial arts type, it may be that the description of the fight is too fancy, but the four roommates in the dormitory all said that they couldn't understand it and couldn't substitute it.

Modern pop music, after Zhou Ming made a guitar-style instrument, he played a few songs of Zhou Lunjie, perhaps because the way of playing is too unique, the weird style and tune, the lyrics are too straightforward, and they can't be integrated with the music cells in people's minds in this era.

Unexpectedly, the comics, which combined words and pictures, were unanimously welcomed by the roommates.

On this day, in a study room in the academy, Zhou Ming was immersed in creation.

Bang!

The door was violently pushed open, and roommates Lu Wencai, Tang Junming, and Sima Zhi walked over.

"Boss, has the eighth volume of "The Legend of the Three Kingdoms 108 Stars" been completed? and the fifth chapter of "Journey to the West", did Sun Wukong kill the white bone spirit or release the white bone spirit?"

"Yes, boss, can you draw faster, it only takes three days to produce a volume, are you making the brothers wait for them to die in a hurry?"

"Hey, boss, you're painting the fifth chapter of "Journey to the West" to subdue demons...... Hurry up and give it to me, Sister Yishu likes to read the story in Journey to the West the most, I want to show it to her!"

The fat man Sima Zhi couldn't wait.

Lu Wencai pushed him away: "Go away, go away, I've already told the boss, the boss said give it to me first, and I'll give it to you when I'm done!"

Sima Zhi, who was stumbling after being pushed, shouted aggrievedly: "Lu Wencai, don't think I don't know, you secretly gave the boss's cartoons to Wang Yurong in the piano art class to read and didn't say anything, and said that these cartoons were drawn by you, you are shameless!"

He said to Zhou Ming: "Boss, don't lend the comics to Lu Wencai, this guy has the opposite sex and no brothers!"

"Sima Zhi, shut up for me!"

Lu Wencai, who was exposed, was anxious, and wanted to step forward to cover Sima Zhi's mouth, but he ran away, so he could only stare at him and tell him not to go back to the dormitory.

"Brother Wencai, you're done, look at the boss's eyes, the boss is angry. Tang Junming, who was holding his hands and watching the excitement, raised his chin and reminded him.

Lu Wencai turned his head to look, and when he saw the smile that seemed to be smiling instead of smiling, with a kind face, but actually a devil's smile, he panicked, and walked over tremblingly and said: "Boss, you listen to my explanation, I really didn't say that I drew the comic, how can I have that ability, I ...... I'm ......"

"Okay, don't explain, you're just obsessed with lust, and you've forgotten how many pounds and taels you have, it's understandable, it's understandable. Zhou Ming nodded and said with a smile.

"Boss!"

Lu Wencai cried and mourned, his mouth opened, and he didn't know what to say.

"The comics will still be lent to you, but, as a punishment, wash my clothes for three months, and also, Ash's clothes will also be washed, don't always bully him in the future, his father, it's a county guard anyway. "Sima Zhi's father, who was originally just a small county magistrate, recently seems to have caught the line of the queen of heaven, was promoted, and was actually promoted to the county guard.

Lu Wencai was like being amnestied, and kept nodding and saying, "Yes, boss!"

Sima Zhi, who had been washing clothes for a few people in the dormitory in the past, heard that he didn't need to wash his clothes anymore, and that his clothes were also unprecedentedly washed by someone to help him, so he immediately held his head high, and then thought of his father's recent promotion, he felt that his status had also risen a lot.

Holding a homemade pencil, Zhou Ming buried himself in carving a few more strokes, until the latest scene of the fifth chapter of "Journey to the West" was completed, and then he put away his pen and stood up, nodding with satisfaction.

The comic stories he is creating now, whether it is "Journey to the West" or "The Legend of the 108 Stars of the Three Kingdoms", are not related to "Journey to the West", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin" in the [Four Famous Novels] in his mind, at most they only borrow some names and scenes, and apply some classic stories.

For example, "Journey to the West", there is no so-called "Havoc in the Heavenly Palace", "Take the Western Scriptures", "Buddhism and Taoism Fight" settings, the story is simple and clear, similar to the setting of the footbasin king's blood, that is, a martial arts monkey, a greedy pig, a chattering monk, an honest man picker, all the way west to find the "Dragon Ball", all the way to the demon and the story of the demon.

As for "The Legend of the 108 Stars of the Three Kingdoms", it is Zhou Ming who combines "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin" to set up three countries, in order to compete for 108 earthly stars, a set of stories including grievances and grievances in the rivers and lakes, hegemony of the Three Kingdoms, and love between children and daughters......

However, this comic, because the system architecture is too large and there are too many characters, the more you go to the back, the more uncontrollable the trend is, so Zhou Ming had to slow down his creation, free up part of his brain, and open a better "Journey to the West".

After some scramble, several heads crowded together, and when they finished watching the latest update, Zhou Ming asked them: "Let me ask you, if this comic engraving is engraved and published, how many people do you think it will be read?"

"There must be a lot! But anyone who can read and write will love the stories in this book!" Lu Wencai immediately cut to the top.

"Boss, don't there be more than a dozen bookstores in the state capital, take your comics and carve them, and print tens of thousands of copies at a time!

Tang Junming's eyes lit up and said.

In this era, the movable type printing technology has developed to a very developed level, and the engraving printing technology of some bookstores has achieved a pair of printing plates, which can be printed 10,000 times in a row.

"Boss, leave this matter to me, the largest bookstores in the state capital are my Yao family in Qingzhou, I can gather those best engraving craftsmen and publish your comics as quickly as possible. Yao Qingxiao said at this time.

Zhou Ming glanced at him, nodded and said, "Brother Qingxiao, this matter will trouble you, as for the income from comic books, half of one person, you can't let your Yao family suffer too much." ”

Zhou Ming has a little understanding of the publishing market in this world, generally the author and the bookstore, each accounting for half, but this income is limited to the first two to three editions of the work, and when a large number of pirated works appear on the market, the author's follow-up income is basically not available......

Piracy cannot be extinguished in the modern network society, let alone expect this ancient world, which had no concept of intellectual property rights at all, to protect the rights and interests of genuine copyrights.

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A month later.

The teachers of Wenyuan Academy discovered that a kind of book called "comics" began to sweep the entire academy.

At first, it was only a small number of classes, and it was spread and discussed on a small scale, but one day, after the sudden mass appearance of such comic books, like a volcanic eruption, the hot magma covered the entire academy.

Each class is at least one copy per person, at first just secretly looking in the dormitory, and then some students can't help but hide in some corners of the class to watch, and in the end, in each class, you can find that the poor students who are fixed in the back rows will lower their heads as soon as they arrive in class, concentrate on themselves, and look at something in their hands.

The first comic book was confiscated by the Teach.

Then the second, the third...... There are seizures every day to the back.

Some teachers were horrified to find that even some students with excellent grades began to read these "comic books", and after a period of time, their academic performance dropped significantly.

"Confiscate! We must all of these 'comic books' that endanger the academic style of my Wenyuan Academy!"

At the academy teaching meeting, Wang Gang, the head of the academy, said angrily, because yesterday he found at home that his daughter had several such comic books in her boudoir...... Comics, this tumor of Wenyuan Academy, must be removed!

The large-scale search and seizure operation began, and the comic books that were collected in various dormitories and classrooms were piled up in the square of the academy, and there were as many as five or six thousand copies of them, and the thousand students of the academy had more than five copies per person on average.

Looking at the raging fire, there were a few teachers who participated in the seizure operation, and it was a pity that these comic books, while they confiscated them, they also glanced at them with interest, but they didn't expect to be deeply attracted after only turning a few pages...... The simple and beautiful painting style, vivid characters, and wonderful stories all exude some kind of magic, which caught their attention.

I didn't expect it all to be burned.

"Hey, aren't there still hundreds of 'comic books' in the library, haven't they been burned, so it's better to ......?"

One day, by the unfinished story in his heart, to Rao's heart itching, thinking about a teacher day and night, finally couldn't help it, in the name of finding the library, after getting the key to the library, as soon as he opened the door of the library, he saw a corner of the library, there were several colleagues, each holding a comic book in their hands, looking at it selflessly.

Several colleagues were startled by him, and were just about to put away the book, but saw that he also pulled out a volume of "Journey to the West and Conquering Demons" from the bookshelf......

Soon after, the comic book in the academy was revived.