Chapter 44: The comic that rejected the manuscript seven times
At this time, in a comic book publishing house far away in the 11th district, a young girl with her work was anxiously waiting for the editor who had made an appointment with her, she thought that the other party would come soon, so that she would not continue to be so anxious, and wanted to edit and wait to come again, so as to give her some time to prepare mentally.
In fact, this is not the first time she has submitted to a comic publishing house, including this time, it is the seventh comic publishing house she found, from the Mandao Club of the three major comic publishing houses, to the second-level publishing house, and now to the third-rate publishing house, she has been rejected six times in a row, if it still fails this time, then seven times.
If you see her such a record, you will definitely think that she is another rookie painter who is a halfway monk, and she went to a major publishing house to be rejected, and she came to a third-rate comic publishing house to try her luck.
In fact, she is the top student of the first comic college of New Entertainment University in the 11th district of the Great Asia Federation, yes, during the school, she won the comic newcomer cup held in the school in the third year, the first prize!
At that time, she was noticed by major publishing houses, and was known in the industry as the newcomer king of the academy, as long as she reached the internship period of her senior year, her works were serialized.
However...... This is the seventh publishing house she's found!
For the first time, I had a hobby I liked, and I had a career that I could fight for for a lifetime.
I also got the opportunity to enter the academy to study manga, and I got excellent grades in the academy.
The two joys overlapped each other.
This double joy brings more and more joy.
It should have been a dreamy happy time.
But why is this happening?
Whether it's the style of painting, or the painting work, in the academy, she is unique and ahead of everyone, before the fourth year, everyone thought that she would be serialized in the three major comic clubs, a blockbuster, but it turned out to be a failure, and was surpassed by friends around her.
Now, the first semester of the senior year begins, the internship period has arrived, and the senior year has only one last course, which is: learning how to serialize comics.
Only if their comics are successfully published in a certain magazine, serialized more than 20 words, can they be considered to have completed the graduation assessment, and now halfway through September, many comics students have prepared their own works and submitted them to the comic publishing house they have been waiting for.
Some of them succeeded in serializing, others were rejected and re-drew new works, and no one felt that being rejected once was a failure, and this year's semester has just begun, and they are confident that they will draw a manga that is popular with manga fans.
But Akiko Miyazaki is special, she is the representative of the academy, she has won the first prize of the academy rookie cup, and she pioneered a style of painting called [beauty], which can be applied to all kinds of women-oriented comics.
The proportions of the characters are slender and graceful, and the face is clear, contrary to the rounded character style of previous comics, this style of painting is obviously more eye-catching.
And her story creation ability is also first-class, and the first prize of the Newcomer Cup is the best proof of this.
Such a newcomer in everyone's perception of her, but in the senior year ushered in her life trough, in the summer of hard preparation for two months, ready to start school after the start of the year to submit to the Mandao Club's dynamic girl weekly, but the result was rejected.
At that time, the review editor who received her was still the deputy editor-in-chief of Vitality Girl Weekly, which shows the expectations of Mandao Club, when she was full of confidence to take out the comics she was going to use to shock the comic industry, the middle-aged woman who was nearly forty years old saw the content of her comics, and her face was incredulous, and with disappointment and disdain, it deeply pierced her heart in anticipation.
Akiko Miyazaki thought that she could get the serialization of the Vitality Girl Weekly in one fell swoop, and the manga attracted a group of fans, and then, like the magical beautiful girl, it triggered a trend to follow.
At the beginning, she had this kind of expectation for the results of her work, and she was on the same level as the magical beautiful girl of Mie Takahashi's predecessors, and she could trigger the collective follow-up of the rest of the manga artists.
It's a pity that the results are often unsatisfactory, and even very different from what was imagined, her comics were not favored by the editor, but the editor frowned and threw her sketch off the table, and sneered coldly, "The above notice said that there is a potential newcomer to submit, I just came to review it personally, and said that what kind of student newcomer Wang, I see that the school is not as good as those wild roads, just like that, the comics, which publishing house you get will not pass the review." ”
With that, the deputy editor got up and wanted to leave, no matter how Miyazaki Akiko explained the merits of her work, she just ignored it, and she had to endure the grievances, hold back the tears that were about to well-up in her eyes, and politely bow and apologize to the high-ranking deputy editor-in-chief.
When she returned home, she was rejected by the deputy editor-in-chief of the Vitality Girl Weekly, and she was ridiculed and told her sister Miyazaki Ako about her grievances, and was comforted by her sister, and the next day she cleaned up her mood and went to the second magazine, which is also a publishing house second only to the three major ones.
This time the situation is better than before.,The editor takes care of her self-esteem.,Didn't say anything ugly.,Instead, comfort her.,The comics serialized in the magazine.,And the works used in the school for competitions are different.,The magazine is for the public readers.,Let people who see this comic like it as much as possible.,Your comic.,Who will like it?,Reading it may cause people to be disgusted.。
The kind editor also comforted her step by step: "Your painting style is very good, and your painting skills are also the highest level I have ever seen, as long as you are willing to draw normal stories, our magazine will definitely serialize your comics." ”
On that occasion, Miyazaki politely smiled and declined the editor's request, and she began to look for a third publisher.
Then, after being rejected, she politely said goodbye and continued to look for the next one, and when she was rejected again, the smile on her face had become unnatural, but she still held on to hope, and for the fifth or sixth time, her smile had gradually stiffened, and she didn't even want to keep a polite smile anymore.
It's the seventh time now.,If it's still the same result this time.,It means that my comics are really not classics that can cause trends.,I'm still overestimating myself!
Thinking like this, Akiko Miyazaki pushed the door of the meeting room open, and an editor sat down in front of her as if he was busy, and asked very quickly, "You are here to submit the manuscript, and you have brought the work." ”
Akiko Miyazaki introduced herself by managing the ground line, "I'm a manga student at Tai Ya Shin Entertainment University, Akiko Miyazaki, and this is my work. ”
As soon as she finished speaking, she didn't expect the other party to get up, "It's actually the legendary newcomer king, the painting skills are very good, but the story is disgusting to home, sorry, we don't accept your works in magazines, go to another house." ”
Even when she wanted to say that you should take a look at my work first, she was interrupted by the other party waving her hand.
Seeing the background of the editor's departure, she finally couldn't help crying in the meeting room of the publishing house, crying very sad and desperate.