"Hong Kong Man Juvenile Weekly" is 500 pages thick and priced at 20 Hong Kong dollars. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Moreover, it is planned that there will be no price increase for the next few decades.

Therefore, the magazine will only have more than 30 pages in color, and the rest of the content will be in black and white. Because, the printing cost of color pages is several times more expensive than that of black and white pages.

In addition, there will be 20 pages of advertisements in each magazine, and a portion of the advertising revenue will be subsidized. This is similar to Japan's "Weekly Shonen Jump", which has rarely raised prices for decades, and has maintained a thickness of more than 400 pages, and the price is only 240 yen. This kind of conscience price, in addition to the fact that the publication of a single book of popular comics can bring additional income. In addition, there are advertisers who pay to subsidize the readers of comic magazines.

The goal of "Hong Kong Man Shonen Weekly" is, of course, to be the "Weekly Shonen Jump" of the Hong Kong comic industry, and the thickness and price of each issue of the magazine are similar to "Weekly Shonen Jump".

Of course, with the size of the incense comic market, it is unlikely that it will sell millions of copies per issue like Japanese manga magazines.

However, setting a target of 100,000 yuan per issue should be a goal that can be achieved through hard work. As long as there are 100,000 copies sold, the sales revenue of each phase can reach 2 million Hong Kong dollars.

Even if the printing cost of each issue is budgeted at 1 million yuan, the distribution channel is 400,000 yuan. That is to say, there is still 600,000 yuan per issue to pay for the manuscript fee.

500 pages of content, 600,000 yuan!

Theoretically, the magazine "Hong Kong Man Shonen Weekly" can offer professional cartoonists a sky-high fee of HK$1,200 per page of comics. The serialization fee of this magazine is not inferior to that of Japanese professional manga artists.

Of course, the real income of Japanese professional manga artists is not the manuscript fee obtained from serialized in magazines. But after the work became popular, the royalty share obtained from the publication of a single book, as well as the copyright adaptation of animation and games, etc., were the main profits.

However, it is impossible for the magazine "Juvenile Hong Kong Weekly" to adopt a high price of HK$1,200 per page now. After all, it was built on the fact that the magazine had a circulation of more than 100,000 copies.

At present, the price of the magazine is 100 yuan per page. The price of this manuscript fee is not low.

After all, Hong Kong's service and manufacturing industries generally have a monthly salary of more than 1,000 Hong Kong dollars, and a professional cartoonist can get a manuscript fee of 6,000 Hong Kong dollars if he does not propose a single book, assuming that he publishes 15 pages of content in each issue and 4 issues per month. This kind of income alone is already considered to be above the middle level in Hong Kong at present.

What's more, each issue of "Children's Hong Kong Weekly" has 500 pages of content, which can accommodate 25 long-form serialized comics, and in addition, it can also publish at least more than ten short comics.

Half of the cartoonists are serialized, and half of the cartoonists are in the preparation stage of preparing the work, which means that the magazine itself can accommodate no less than 50 long-form serialized cartoonists.

These professional cartoonists are people with names and surnames who use their pen names, and in addition, some cartoonists use assistants. With a team of assistants, it is expected that there will be several hundred cartoonists who can make a living around the magazine.

If amateur cartoonists are taken into account, the number of cartoonists will increase more than tenfold.

Then, it means that if the operation of "Hong Kong Man Youth Weekly" is successful, it will drive thousands of cartoonists to compete for the survival of the fittest around this ecosystem.

Successful cartoonists can publish a single book, or even adapt animation, games, film and television.

Of course, the vast majority of untalented cartoonists are not guaranteed to pay off their efforts.

It can only be said that the operation mechanism of "Hong Kong Man Youth Weekly" is more fair, and the system guarantees that it provides opportunities for talented cartoonists. As for whether it will be popular and whether it will be successful, it is up to readers and the market to decide.

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On July 1, 1981, the inaugural issue of "Hong Kong Man Juvenile Weekly" was published and distributed efficiently. On that day, all major bookstores in Hong Kong were full of readers who bought "Hong Kong Man Youth Weekly".

On the first day of the first phase of the market, more than 10,000 copies were issued.

Even Lin Qi couldn't help but feel surprised: "The first day sold 10,000 copies, and the sales were too good, right?"

"Of course it's true!" Zhang Dahai said in front of Lin Qi, "The comics are so easy to sell! That Huang Yulang in Hong Kong, you know, right? His company runs a newspaper and runs one by one, but his comics make money so much that his hands cramp, not only he himself earns tens of millions of yuan a year, but he has several apprentices under him, all of whom earn millions a year. ”

The publication of the comic magazine really made Zhang Dahai happy. After all, he can't sell all kinds of high-tech products like Xinchuang Electronics, and can only do the publishing industry in his old business. And the foundation of the publishing industry is to produce bestsellers.

A best-selling magazine is worth more than a best-selling book.

After all, a bestseller is only a book that can become popular, and a hot-selling magazine is a continuous source of energy to incubate bestsellers.

"What kind of apprentice? Obviously a capitalist, in order to tie up employees, he wants to take in apprentices. In this way, if you jump ship, you will have a bad reputation for betraying your teacher and deceiving your ancestors. Lin Qi said disdainfully, "If they are all hand-in-hand disciples, then I have nothing to say." Most of them are art investors, and they already have the talent of comic creation, but unfortunately they can't make money without apprenticeship, so they have to apprentice!"

In fact,Lin Qi is most dissatisfied with the apprenticeship system,This feudal Jianghu approach,It also greatly restricts the normal development of the Hong Kong comic industry。

Not only the comic industry, but also the entire Chinese cultural circle is permeated with this feudal remnant thinking. This makes the cultural circle of China not to tap talents with talent and ability, but to promote people with distant relatives and loyalty.

In this way, the formation of circles and mountains that exclude dissidents, if you want to get ahead, the first thing is to worship the dock, squeeze into one circle after another, and mix into the characters in the circle, so that there will be a big boss to carry you. Moreover, people in the circle are unreasonable, they will always only help their relatives and not help them, and they will never be meritocracy, but only bring their friends in their circle to get rich.

"Now the Holy Flame Publishing House no longer engages in the mentoring system. Zhang Dahai said with a smile, "Of course, Shangguan Xiaobao's original apprentice is still an apprentice. The cartoonists who submitted later were only signed with us!"

Lin Qi nodded and said: "Our company should be operated formally, managed by the system, and don't engage in the kind of feudal patriarchal rule of man!"

It is necessary to use systems to manage, not to use people to govern.

Of course, this is restricting others, but it does not restrict Lin Qi himself. He himself is a very feudal patriarch, because he knows that he is always right!

Others don't understand, just because they don't have enough knowledge or vision to keep up with him. Therefore, he sometimes takes the general orders of the troops, and he must carry them out if he understands them, and he must carry them out if he does not understand them.

If you execute more, you will find that Lin Qi has always been right.

It can't be said that Lin Qi doesn't make mistakes at all, but as long as the overall situation is correct, or in other words, he always retains the ability to correct his mistakes and does not lose all the games, then no matter how many small mistakes he makes, it will not hurt the overall situation.