Hong Kong Flame Publishing House was originally a company founded by Shangguan Xiaobao and a few friends, but with the passage of time and differences of interests, the former friends have long turned against each other. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

At present, the Holy Flame Publishing House was acquired by the New Venture Publishing Company, and all the other shareholders cashed out their shares, and only Shangguan Xiaobao, the founding shareholder, continued to retain 10% of the equity and continued to serve as the general manager of the Holy Flame Publishing House. The parent company guarantees that New Venture Publishing House will not interfere in comic publishing, and all its comic business will be operated by Shenghuo Publishing House.

The new venture publishing company gave Shenghuo Publishing House sufficient independent management rights, and did not interfere in other aspects of management except for dispatching financial personnel.

Therefore, in Shangguan Xiaobao's view, having an additional controlling shareholder is not necessarily a bad thing.

The parent company, New Venture Publishing House, not only provided financial and channel support, but also granted the copyright of the comic adaptation of "Breaking the Sky" to Shenghuo Publishing House.

You must know that the total sales of "Breaking the Sky" in Hong Kong have exceeded 2 million copies, with an average sales of nearly 30,000 per episode. With such a best-selling novel copyright, I don't know how many comic companies and film and television companies are greedy and want to buy the adaptation copyright.

However, the new venture publishing company has not authorized the adaptation copyright, and now it has licensed the comic copyright to the Holy Flame Publishing House, which can be said to be more effective than injecting millions of funds.

The most important thing for a comic company is not money, but whether its comics sell well.

In fact, the Holy Flame Publishing House currently only has one best-selling work, "Bruce Lee", and the rest are money-losing goods, so the competition in the comic book market is not as competitive as Huang Yulang's Yulang Publishing House.

"Boss Lin, look...... This is "Breaking the Sky" painted by Ma Rongcheng and Niu Lao, you see if it meets your requirements!" Shangguan Xiaobao handed the manuscript to Lin Qi to look at.

As for Ma Rongcheng and Niu Lao, they didn't dare to breathe, they only dared to look at the table with their heads down, and beads of sweat the size of beans appeared on their foreheads.

The current Ma Rongcheng and Niu Guy are not bigwigs in the comics industry. Ma Rongcheng's masterpieces "Chinese Heroes" and "Fengyun" have not yet been released, and Niu Lao has not become famous with the comics "Crazy Boy".

Although these two people have a certain level, they have not grown up, and only Lin Qi dares to directly let the two of them be the main writers of the comic "Breaking the Sky".

Due to the beginning of the comic "Breaking the Sky", Lin Qi is providing a future online version of the comic.

Later, "Breaking the Sky" not only became a popular novel, but also became a phenomenal work. Moreover, the adapted comic is also a masterpiece that sold 2.3 million copies in a single episode and hundreds of millions of hits on the online version.

The level is not the top in the future, but due to the simple and mature art style, it is directly a lot higher than the manga fashion value of the 80s.

The style of painting in the comic industry has been evolving, except that because of the advancement of technology, the creation has gradually developed from paper and pen to creation on computers. Advances in technology have brought about a new style.

Of course, the future of comic creation will be based on computer creation, mainly lower cost and higher efficiency. Cartoonists who create with traditional paper and pen and ink will soon be able to imitate this style of painting as long as they have specific comics as a reference.

is like a Hong Kong comic, at the beginning, the painting style of "Bruce Lee" gradually began to become realistic, and the fights became more and more impactful. However, "Dragon Tiger Gate" imitated its painting style and quickly innovated. When it came to "Chinese Heroes", it made further breakthroughs and progress on the basis of its painting style.

Because the Hong Kong market is so big, a certain style of painting is popular, and everyone imitates each other, so the later Hong Kong comic styles are seriously homogeneous.

The works of different comic companies and cartoonists all have distinct "Hong Kong comics" characteristics. As long as it is said to be a Hong Kong comic, everyone can imagine what kind of painting style it is.

Lin Qi's "Breaking the Sky" has more concise lines, and has some of the style of the Japanese manga industry later. However, due to the Chinese comic industry, it is inevitable that it has some of its own industry characteristics, for example, the later Chinese black and white comics cannot be sold, they are all colored and drawn into color comics.

Due to the different markets, especially after the gradual rise of China's webtoons, the Chinese comic industry has more and more of its own characteristics. Moreover, the market is not as monotonous as Hong Kong manga, but similar to the Japanese manga industry, where a variety of manga with different styles and characteristics are popular.

The first dozens of pages of the comic "Breaking the Sky" provided by Lin Qi are very different from the mature styles of Ma Rongcheng and Niu Lao.

However, both of them are young and have solid art skills. After more than two weeks of adaptation, they jointly created dozens of pages, increasing the manuscript of the comic "Breaking the Sky" to 100 pages, and the style of painting is basically in line with the sample provided by Lin Qi.

"Yes!" Lin Qi nodded and said, "As long as the style of painting is maintained and does not collapse, serialization with such quality has met my requirements! Don't have too much pressure on grades, in my opinion, 3,000 copies per issue can continue to be serialized!"

3000 copies can be serialized?

Shangguan Xiaobao couldn't help but be stunned, his heart fell, the two boys of Niu and Ma were lucky, as long as Boss Lin was satisfied, he could be serialized without making money.

The creation cost of Hong Kong's comic industry is not low, and the publishing cost is even more expensive because it is a color page. It is precisely for this reason that selling 1,000 copies of the novel can protect the capital, but Hong Kong comics must sell at least 5,000 copies!

Fortunately, the current comic industry in Hong Kong is a golden serial, not to mention selling 5,000 copies per issue, even if it sells 50,000 copies, there is more than one. In the future, sales will hit 100,000 or 200,000 copies.

The golden age of Hong Kong comics is even confident - even the market of Hong Kong is a city, and it has become the third largest comic genre in the world.

Of course,This self-confidence was quickly broken,To the beginning of the 90s,Hong Kong comics actually gradually went downhill,By the 21st century,Gradually Hong Kong comics masters,Tens of thousands of copies are sold per issue。

Moreover, they are all some old things that have been serialized for many years such as "Divine Soldier Xuanqi", "Legend of the Son of Heaven", "Dragon Tiger Gate", "Fengyun", etc., and most of them are newly made, and most of them are violent deaths!

Most of the second- and third-tier works want to sell 3,000 copies, which is already a difficult dream to achieve......

Of course, in the future, the prices of Hong Kong publications will no longer be small profits and quick turnover, but will be sold as luxury goods, and the prices will be ridiculously expensive.

The price of the 34-page comic gradually increased to nearly thirty yuan, and one dollar per piece of paper. Even, in order to cut corners, some comics made black and white pages from color pages.

Both the price has increased and the quality has been reduced, and it is strange that Hong Kong comics will not be pills in the future.

"Thank you, Boss Lin, we will not disappoint your expectations and will definitely ensure the quality!" Ma Rongcheng and Niu Lao are very smart and know that the original work of "Breaking the Sky" is Lin Qi.

And Lin Qi's current worth, he doesn't care whether a serialized comic is a profit or a loss, but pursues quality, comics can only be drawn as a work of conscience that adds popularity and reputation to the original novel, but not a bad work!