In 1994, the Chinese comic scene was surging, and the big things continued, and the cartoonist Keng Tsai made his official debut in the "Painting King" magazine with "Full-time Hunter" and "Next Stop Superstar", and in just over a month, he conquered many domestic comic fans, and his extraordinary comic talent was affirmed by industry insiders. After publishing his interview in the 15th issue of "The King of Picture Books", he became famous all over the world, and was regarded by fans as Osamu Tezuka in China, and is currently the standard-bearer of the Chinese comic industry.

After that, cartoonist Yan Kai's "Snow Coconut" also met domestic fans in the 17th issue of "The King of Painting", with its fresh and graceful realistic painting style, young and real love, ordinary life with a very strong sense of substitution, funny, smooth plot development and tense foreshadowing with a sci-fi background, plus a few pictures with a slightly marginal nature make domestic fans addicted.

Although the popularity of "Snow Coconut" cannot be compared with "Full-time Hunter" and "Next Stop Superstar", the number of letters sent to the editorial department every month has increased significantly, so that Zheng Nan has to take a few more sacks to hold the letters when they finish reading the letters. The popularity of "Snow Coconut" has attracted the attention of many comic fans, and he has vaguely surpassed Chen Xiang to become a local cartoonist second only to Pit Tsai in "The King of Painting".

In addition to the birth of two new stars in the comic world, this year's first comic contest in New China held by "Painting King" magazine - "Painting King" ultra-short story contest also kicked off from the 15th issue of "Painting King". It can be said to be an unprecedented talent selection competition in the history of Chinese comics, and it has unearthed many potential young cartoonists in the Chinese comic industry. Take the four comics published in the 15th issue as an example, Hu Qianrong, the author of "New Year's Gift", Zhao Jia, the author of "The King of Painting Seminar", and Jiang Ling (Free Bird), the author of "Red Bean Yuan", all became well-known female cartoonists in the Chinese comic world in the future, and in the 16th issue of "The King of Painting", Yao Feila, the author of "Happy Christmas Eve", and Zheng Xusheng, the author of "Teacher-Student Love", also became influential cartoonists in the Chinese comic world later, especially Yao Feila, in the era before Xiang Junfei's rebirth, He is one of the most influential figures in the Chinese comic industry, his works are invited to participate in the Asian Comics Summit every year, and he was also invited to participate in the Asian Comics Forum held in Japan in 2001 and was praised by the comic master Masami Cheda, and his representative work "Dream Man" has created many records such as the longest serialized comic book in Chinese mainland, the longest length, the first adapted animation, and CCTV's first youth animation. He founded SUMMER Studio, which has won many awards in the comic world.

Then there is Yan Kai, Chen Xiang, and Zheng Xusheng who were summoned to Beijing by Wang Yongsheng to establish China's first new comic studio, and were called the Three Musketeers in Beijing by insiders. At that time, when the news spread among insiders, many painters who would become professional cartoonists as their goal were envious of the three of them, and wished that they would also be summoned to Beijing, even if they worked hard.

These young authors of about 20 years old who were cultivated by "The King of Paintings" are full of stars and infinite hopes, attracting the attention of comic fans across the country: they are young, full of vigor and enterprising, full of infinite love for comics, and with a passion to contribute to the prosperity of Chinese comics, they devote themselves to the vigorous industry of comics.

For the development speed of the current "Painting King", Wang Yongsheng is very satisfied, when he initially gave the "Painting King" production development goal, he planned to transform "Painting King" into a national comic publication within five years, and this is less than a year, domestic comics have occupied half of the country in "Painting King", it is especially worth mentioning that the sales of "Painting King" are still climbing step by step, at present, take the latest 23 issues as an example, sales have exceeded 800,000 copies. At present, in the domestic market, the sales of all-Japanese comic publications such as "New Comics", "Cartoon City" and "New Painting King" are less than 400,000 copies, which shows the market appeal of "Painting King".

Of course, what makes Wang Yongsheng happiest is that this group of local cartoonists trained by "Painting King" has grown far faster than he initially expected. Although "Painting King" has successively increased the publication space of domestic comics, some readers have written to protest, but more readers understand and support the decision of "Painting King", thinking that although the average water of domestic comics is not as good as that of Japanese comics, we must have a tolerant mentality at that time and support domestic comics, only in this way will our comics level continue to improve. The increase in sales proves that readers are not talking big words and clichés, but supporting "The King of Painting" and the growth of Chinese comics with practical actions.

Seeing that the anniversary of "The King of Paintings" is approaching, Wang Yongsheng and all the staff of "The King of Paintings" have begun to prepare for the 24th issue of "The King of Paintings", striving to make this issue of the magazine perfect. Take the cover as an example, the 24th issue has been specially designed, "Full-time Hunter" Xiaojie, Qiya, and Kurapika; Shen Weizhen, Murong and Xi in "The Next Stop Queen"; Snow Coconut and Zou Yuan in "Snow Coconut"; More than a dozen popular characters from local comics such as Xiaoshan, Sharen, and Huang Dou in "Xiaoshan Diary" are all featured on the cover, which is very delicate and beautiful.

As for the content of this issue of "Picture King", in addition to continuing to publish wonderful and interesting comics as in the past, there are also messages from several heavyweights, such as "Wishing the first anniversary of the founding of the Picture Book King" written by Tadao Kimura, the president of the Japan Manga Academy, although it is not long, but it can be seen that Mr. Kimura expects and wishes for China's first comic magazine.

As the editor-in-chief, Wang Yongsheng naturally had to express himself on the anniversary of "The King of Paintings", so he wrote a "anniversary speech" with a stroke of his pen.

August 20th is the anniversary of the founding of "Painting King", this year's road is really moving forward in exploration, there are both hardships and joys, and the greatest joy is the homophony issued by the majority of readers and us, the encouragement, understanding, criticism, suggestions and various forms of support of the painting friends, is the great spiritual theory that inspires us to run a good publication. Here we want to say: Thank you!

In a year, we have done too little and too unsatisfactory, and the only consolation is that we have achieved a breakthrough in Chinese mainland's new comic strips.

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In the past year, we have been able to make a little progress, it should be said that thanks to the enthusiastic participation of the majority of readers, we not only often hear frank criticism and suggestions, but also a steady stream of manuscripts from all sides, and thousands of people participated in our collection of painting king image and ultra-short comic contest activities, which makes us feel more excited, especially gratifying to say that in this small land, new comic seedlings are springing up like mushrooms after a rain, and a new team of creators has emerged. She was like a fleet approaching from afar, the leading masts rising out of the sea one after another, and although the main body of the fleet was still hidden in the invisible place on the other side of the horizon, its enormous strength seemed to give people some kind of sense. In this team, there is no shortage of veterans in comic book presentation, but in terms of the vast majority of them, they are teenagers and young adults who are new to comics, and they have not received much professional training, but the starting point is not low. Mr. Tadao Kimura, a well-known manga educator and dean of the Japan Manga Academy, said after watching our "Super Short Story Competition" that Chinese children are now better than Japanese children.

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"The King of Paintings" is one year old, but it is still a baby who has just begun to toddle, and the breakthrough of zero only shows that we are a little more than zero, and the future is ambitious, and the future may be more difficult. In the process of its growth, it still needs the majority of readers and authors to continue to provide nutrients and support its growth. As for us, we will continue to run the original journal, learn from the strengths of all families, and follow our own path. We will redouble our efforts to provide our readers with as many excellent manga works as possible. Our draft is still eclectic and blooming. Let's join hands and take it to the next level in the second year!

However, Wang Yongsheng, who wrote the above anniversary message, did not notice that he was shrouded in a haze in the vigorous Chinese comic world.