Chapter 35 The Annual Meeting of the Comics Society

Recently, the industry is preparing for the annual meeting of the Cartoonists Association for the new year, and because the upper echelons of the federation are interested in reclaiming the autonomy of the associations this year, even the director of the Entertainment and Culture Administration has been replaced, showing the determination of the federation to take back the management of the association.

Therefore, the annual meeting originally scheduled for the 15th was decided to be held in advance, and last year's meeting was hosted by the British Collection Society, and this year it was the turn of the Mandao Club of the Energetic Girl Weekly to lead the meeting.

The main topic of this year is to officially regulate the quality of content in the comic industry, gradually raise the threshold for new serialization, and comic artists or editors with bad records will be recorded in the association's blacklist.

Individuals or clubs included in the comic blacklist will be given a warning by the association, and if they commit another offense after the warning, they will be expelled from the association.

Further friendly exchanges with the animation production industry, deepen the friendship between the two sides, and explore the possibility of cooperation between the two industries.

Recently, there have been rumors of merging the comic and animation associations, arguing that the two industries have a lot in common, and most of the customer groups of the two sides overlap, and the two should consider more win-win results for both sides to expand the market structure.

At present, the largest market in the entertainment industry is undoubtedly the film and television industry, whether it is TV dramas or TV entertainment programs, its audience is far larger than animation or comics.

Even the film industry is stronger than them, and if they don't want to be forced by these industries all the time, cooperation is their best choice.

Just like now the actors in TV dramas have begun to participate in TV entertainment programs, the film industry has also come together with TV entertainment programs and found a win-win path.

On the contrary, animation can only occupy a very small part of the time period in TV programs, and there is no place to intersect with entertainment programs, and the development of animation on TV is limited by the time period arrangement, and there is only a limited audience, which limits the development of animation.

Animation producers want to increase investment in the development of the animation industry, but the animation produced needs to compete with TV dramas, various news and entertainment programs for high-quality time slots of TV stations, and the reason for the lack of animation scripts is always at a disadvantage, and there is no good way for the time being.

And this time at the meeting of the Comic Association, someone from the Animation Association side also came to the meeting.

This time, they are going to find several powerful comic companies to cooperate, try to adapt several popular comics into animation scripts, and jointly produce new animations.

Both sides are interested in choosing partners with each other to try to open up a new market on the proposal of manga adaptation, and the animation produced will not be broadcast on TV, because this is the first time that the two industries have tested the waters of manga adaptation, and they are worried that they will not be able to recoup their investment in TV stations, so they are ready to test the water on the Internet first.

The conference is also the first of its kind to create a new video network dedicated to the animation of comic adaptations.

This is also a new idea that Mandao Club came up with when he saw the webtoon of Blue Star Entertainment, and the previous entry for the Magical Girl Comics Cup tournament was transferred to the pikapika comic network serialization, which really made the management of Mandao Club pay attention.

This novel comic operation model has attracted their attention, and professionals have reviewed the development prospects of this website, and it has been found that Pikapika Comics Network, a subsidiary of Blue Star Entertainment, has not joined the Comics Association at all.

As for the reception advertisement posted on the Pikapika manga website, the Manga Association has recorded this in the content of this meeting.

Outside of the mainstream comic publishing business, someone opened a new game and didn't play with them, which made some members of the association unhappy.

In this meeting, the Mandao Club proposed that the pikapika comic network is not protected by the association's regulations and is not recognized by the association because it is not an internal member of the comic association, and all the publishers in the association will be cautious in cooperating with the cartoonists who cooperate with this website, and the cartoonists who are currently serialized are not allowed to contribute to the website.

This decision can be described as a heavy blow to pikapika manga, and it completely restricts the possibility of manga artists from the comic association to submit, because the forced completion of the work and the cancellation of the publication of a single book are unacceptable to manga artists.

And if a rookie manga artist is serialized in pikapika and is included in the watch list of the comic association, is it possible to serialize it in a physical manga publishing house?

In addition, there is a major proposal.

The first Animation Awards of the Federation of Asia were established, and a variety of awards were set up to improve the visibility of the animation industry, develop the animation market, and set a new benchmark for the industry.

The Anime Awards will be co-organized by the Animation Association and the Manga Association, aiming to make this a well-known entertainment event in the Federation, and also use this award to discover more potential talents and works, and expand the global visibility of outstanding award-winning works.

At the end of several topics of the annual meeting, the industry insiders and cartoonists who came to participate in the meeting hall have always walked out of the conference hall and came to the hotel dining hall prepared by the association.

In the cafeteria,Acquaintances come together in twos and threes,Talking about all kinds of things,The topic that cartoonists talk about more is probably whose work may be selected for animation adaptation.,Although it will also talk about the manuscript fee of pikapika comics.,But the cartoonists who can participate in the annual meeting,The identity is not ordinary.,I can't look at that manuscript fee at all.。

Most of them think that there will be no way out for webtoons, and now comics have been monopolized by traditional comic publishers, cartoonists need to rely on publishing houses, and they will not give up the possibility of physical publishing of single books for that little manuscript fee, after all, a large part of the real source of income for cartoonists depends on the royalty income of single books.

Webtoons are different from magazine serializations, and fans can see the whole book directly on the Internet after the completion of the book, and they don't need to buy a single book at all, so the income of a single book of webtoons is almost cut off.

Most people from publishers will consider the impact of webtoons on physical paper comics, and they admit that webtoons have created a new direction, providing more choices for comic fans and a new way to save money on comics.

But this is undoubtedly not good for them, if comic fans are really used to the kind of kind of manga that picks a certain manga to subscribe to, instead of spending money on the manga they don't read, after this way, the traditional magazine serialization will fall into a very disadvantageous state.

In order to cut off this possibility, the Manga Society had to curb the development of webtoons, and as long as they were cut off at the root of manga, pikapika manga could not develop.

Comic fans are a very cute group, they are willing to pay for their favorite works, even if they come with a lot of other works he doesn't like, there are no excellent works to contribute, naturally no comic fans will go to see webtoons.

It's just that Xia Ziyu was a wrong choice by them, so he ran to pikapika comics, which is an excellent comic talent.

The most discussed topic is the strong attitude of the federation towards several major entertainment associations this time, and the newly appointed director of the Entertainment and Culture Administration is expected to take strong measures to force them to hand over some of their powers.