Chapter 53: The Mysterious Pit Boy

As for the "Next Superstar" serialized on "Star Girl", its beautiful and gorgeous painting style, fascinating plot has attracted the attention of many girl comic book lovers, as a bimonthly magazine, "Next War Superstar" is only serialized in "Star Girl" for two issues, but just by virtue of the content of these two issues, this work has become the ace of the original comic magazine that has been published for three years in Star Girl, and even many readers called to the Dongli Marketing Department, asking "Star Girl" to change from a bimonthly to a monthly magazine, Don't let them wait so hard.

Whether it is "Full-Time Hunter" or "Next Stop Superstar", they have achieved remarkable results, and as the author of the two comics, Pit Tsai has naturally become the most high-profile comic upstart in the Hong Kong and Taiwan comics scene.

Hong Kong and Taiwan media reporters with an extremely keen sense of touch will naturally not be unaware of the rapid rise of the mysterious cartoonist Kengzi in the Hong Kong and Taiwan comics scene, and have contacted Dongli, hoping to get an exclusive interview with Kengzi.

According to common sense, a cartoonist like Pit Tsai, who has just debuted, will never refuse such a good thing as a reporter's interview. This is like those entertainment stars who have just debuted, and they can't wait to have paparazzi follow them every day, help them make news, and win exposure. However, unexpectedly, Dong Li politely refused in the face of reporters' requests for interviews, claiming that Pit Tsai is now focusing all his energy on comic creation, and when the time is right, they will personally introduce Pit Tsai to the media.

Although I can't figure out why Dongli wants to give up such an opportunity to advertise for free for its cartoonists, how could these uncrowned kings with kraft candy attributes and perseverance spokespersons give up the interview with Dongli because of such unconvincing official explanations.

Many reporters began to work underground, and through private relationships, they set up inside information with Dongli employees, hoping to obtain information about the pit. However, to the disappointment of these reporters, only a few high-level executives in Dongli knew about the personal information of Pengzai, and as ordinary employees, they only knew that Pit Tsai was a cartoonist from the mainland.

Although the reporter did not obtain key information, just by virtue of the fact that Pit Tsai is a mainland cartoonist, they are enough to figure out that Pit Tsai is not unknown, his two works "Full-time Hunter" and "Next Stop Superstar" are not only sought after by Hong Kong and Taiwan comic fans, but also have long won the love of mainland comic fans, and is recognized as the first person in the mainland comic world.

However, to the surprise of these reporters, it turned out that Pit Tsai belonged to the character of Shenlong during the period of serialization in the mainland, and except for the interview published in the 15th issue of "The King of Paintings", he did not have any personal information, and it was impossible to find a real photo of him.

There was really no way, so the reporters had to make a brief introduction to the two news points that the pit boy was a mainland cartoonist and that he was unwilling to be interviewed by the media based on the information they had gathered.

For those who are paying attention to "Full-Time Hunter" and "Next Stop Superstar", under the love house and Wu, they are also very concerned about the author's every move. After seeing the information of the pit boy reported by the media, he naturally paid special attention to it, but he didn't want none of these media to give the detailed information of the pit boy, giving people the feeling of holding the pipa and half covering his face. Human beings are born with the instinct to explore the unknown, not to mention that the things they explore are still the content they are interested in, so readers are not only not satisfied with those rough reports, but are more and more interested in the mysterious cartoonist of the pit, and very much want to know the age, appearance, home address, phone number and other private information of the pit.

Although Xiang Junfei, who stayed in Chongqing, had obtained his two works from the phone and started serializing and being widely acclaimed, he didn't realize that he had also become the focus of discussion among Hong Kong and Taiwan fans, and he was still living a dull life.

When he got home that day, he was still some time away from dinner, and he flipped through today's newspaper and saw a news that the state would support the comic book industry.

In order to create China's own image of children's animation, promote the highly unified ideological, artistic, and readable animation books, and provide more spiritual food for China's children, the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee and the Press and Publication Administration decided to formulate and implement the China Children's Animation Publishing Project, referred to as the "5155" Project, at the end of 1995. The main content is: strive to mobilize and concentrate the creation, editing, publishing, and sales forces of the whole country within two or three years, establish five animation publishing bases, focus on publishing 15 sets of large-scale series of children's animation books, and establish five children's animation (comic) publications. In this way, we will promote the prosperity of the entire children's publishing industry, meet the reading needs of Chinese children, and strive to raise the creation and publication of Chinese children's animated books to a new level by the end of this century, so that excellent children's animated books with Chinese characteristics will not only occupy the Chinese market, but also go to the world.

As a descendant, Xiang Junfei naturally knew that the "5155" project declared bankruptcy after 13 years of tossing, and all the original 5 original animation magazines ended in discontinuation. However, now that "The King of Painting" has come to an end, it will take over the responsibility of developing the original comic market in the mainland for a long time in the future, and it will be through the 5155 project to establish five original comic magazines. Although Xiang Junfei himself does not have a good impression of them, it cannot be denied that the rise and fall of these five magazines will determine the future direction of Chinese mainland comics.

Although Xiang Junfei is now going to Hong Kong and Taiwan to develop, he is not willing to see mainland comics continue to follow the old path. It's 95 years now, and it won't be long before the Internet era comes, when an ordinary comic fan can read thousands of Japanese comics for free on an anime website, since they can read so many Japanese comics for free, so why should they spend money to see domestic comics that are far less exciting than Japanese comics.

Thinking of this, Xiang Junfei also feels that time is getting more and more urgent, and he is currently assisting Chen Jia to create a funny campus comic with sex change as a gimmick, and he also hopes to contribute to the development of mainland comics. Xiang Junfei understands that the reason why mainland cartoons have been stagnant for a long time is not only because of policies, but also because mainland cartoonists themselves do not pay attention to scripts. In terms of policy, Xiang Junfei is powerless, but the latter point is not that it cannot be changed. Now Chen Jia and Wu Lili's painting skills are just qualified in Xiang Junfei's opinion, if a mediocre painting skills and a domestic comic with a wonderful plot can become popular in the mainland, then it is also an indirect reminder to domestic cartoonists to spend more time on script creation. Xiang Junfei hopes that the success of the sharing club can bring enough inspiration to other mainland cartoonists.