Chapter Seventy-Five: Hibiscus Society Manga Award and Godot (Part II)

No matter what kind of cartoonist they are, they are powerful or not, talented or untalented, they are all looking forward to getting a chance to become an instant hit. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

After getting the opportunity, whether they can be liked and sought after by readers, and whether they can really become popular, is the problem of the cartoonists themselves, but if they don't even have such an opportunity, it is the problem of the publishing house.

Comic assistants want to get the opportunity to become real cartoonists, and after becoming cartoonists, they hope that their short serials can get the opportunity to be published, and after they are published, they hope that their short stories can be popular, and then this short serials can have the opportunity to appear in ME or Seamariel to become a long-form work, and the cartoonist has also begun to reach the peak of his life......

It's a beautiful idea, and there are actually not many cartoonists who can go through this process, but you can't even give people the opportunity to make ideas, right?

At present, Hibiscus does not have the link of publishing short stories in this process, and it is only up to the editorial department and the editor-in-chief to decide which work can be serialized...... But for cartoonists, it is common to question the editor's vision, and can the editor's opinion represent the reader's opinion? The editor feels that the work has no future, but what if the reader likes it?

After all, comics rely on the popularity of the reader, and for young and vigorous cartoonists who think highly of themselves, the editor's judgment and opinions are not very good.

Not every cartoonist trusts the publisher so much, not every cartoonist is so patient, and some people can easily lose confidence and patience in the publisher, and when their patience reaches a certain limit, they will definitely leave the publisher and join another family.

It's impossible for Hibiscus to sign a very restrictive exclusive contract with every manga artist, because there is no need for that, and if you want to get a better contract, you must at least have a long serialized work.

But the publishing house does need to maintain the number of basic manga artists, on the one hand, serial manga artists need a lot of assistants to assist, on the other hand, many talented manga artists are coming out of that bottom-most state, what if there is a Akira Toriyama in this bunch of people?

Therefore, in every sense, Hibiscus Society needs a platform for short story serialization.

Regardless of whether the cartoonist trusts the editor's opinion or not, it is still good for their work to be directly facing the reader.

Now that this short story magazine is being planned, Miyahara is trying to publish it sooner.

This problem is actually reflected by the editors, and Miyahara Jing didn't think about such a thing before, but he didn't expect it to be so urgent.

It's just that the Hibiscus Society is really understaffed now, and it is specially recruiting editors for such a short story magazine? A new third editorial office? It may be done in the future, but it doesn't need to be so much trouble now.

Yes, this matter is not difficult, the main problem is that the Hibiscus Society is understaffed, and now the Hibiscus Society has become a big dog with the increase in magazine circulation, although it cannot be said that it has become a big dog, but it can also be patted on the chest and say that it is not bad for money.

Moreover, such a short story magazine itself is not the type that pursues sales, and the purpose of profit is not as strong as the other two magazines, and the Hibiscus Society has relatively low requirements for it, so it can reduce the cost of distribution.

The decision on this matter is to be done by a short serialized magazine, but even if it is done at present, it can only be published irregularly, and it may be changed to a quarterly magazine in the future.

So although preparations have just begun, Miyahara has tentatively decided that the name of the magazine for this series of short films will be Godot.

The overall preparation will be entrusted to a temporary editorial team consisting of less busy editors from ME and Simiel's editorial offices.

Miyahara Shizune is only responsible for co-ordination, that is, playing tricks, and then making the final decision, and the specific things are handed over to the editor-in-chief of Daisuke Akizuki.

This short story serial magazine,Time is tight and the task is heavy.,In fact, it should have been handed over to the experienced Kubo Yoshishi to be in charge.,But helpless.,There's a lot of things on the side of the weekly magazine junior editorial department.,Kubo is also responsible for the management of certain things.,There's also a matter of negotiation.,It's really impossible to get out.,So I can only pull Akizuki Daisuke out.。

Therefore, Miyahara Jing also pays attention to the work of this temporary editorial team from time to time, it's not that he doesn't trust Daisuke Akizuki, it's just that he is a little uneasy.

"How are our cartoonists doing now?"

Miyahara asked Daisuke Akizuki beside him.

Although it is Godot's temporary editorial team, it is actually located in the editorial office of Simiel, and there is no way, and the office space here is the most abundant in the entire Hibiscus Society.

Even the later ME editorial department is not as good as this, although in terms of scale and number of office staff, the ME editorial department has long surpassed the side of the Simariel editorial department, but this matter has to pay attention to the first come, first served, whoever occupies the territory first, is who's own.

Watching several editors reviewing manuscripts one by one in a small spaced area, Miyahara was very confused, and at this time he was already thinking about when to make a big deal and change the hardware of the Hibiscus Society.

Although Tokyo's real estate bubble has collapsed a long time ago, it is the capital of a country and the capital of a small country with many people. No matter how low the construction cost is, it is not something that the current Hibiscus Society can afford.

"The response from the cartoonists was very positive, and since there were no restrictions on the internal call for submissions this time, many cartoonists were very proactive, and some of them submitted more than one manga ......."

"And there are not a few such cartoonists, and in terms of quantity, they have received more than 100 manuscripts so far." Daisuke Akizuki said.

"The quantity is a bit too much......" The number of manuscripts made Miyahara Jing frown a little, a large number is a good thing, but this number often means shoddy.

Since it was the first time that the company had solicited papers, the cartoonists at the Hibiscus Club were really enthusiastic, and the main thing was that there was no limit to the number of pages of their works this time, so many cartoonists didn't have to create new stories at all, and just threw in what they had previously drawn.

As a result, the number of manuscripts is too large.

And the quality is really worrying.

When Miyahara Shizune was talking to Daisuke Akizuki, from time to time, you could see that these editors who were in the process of preliminary review picked up an original manuscript and read it for less than two pages, and then just threw it aside......

Many manuscripts have the urge to pull their own hair, and from this point of view, the cartoonist is actually the main cause of the baldness of the comic editor...... (To be continued.) )