Chapter 39: Setbacks (2)

Originally, Dong Li thought that Huang Yulang would happily sign it after reading the two comics, but he didn't expect the other party to refuse, and asked puzzledly: "Mr. Huang, can you tell me if there is anything uncomfortable with these two comics?" ”

Huang Yulang took out several comics launched by the Jade Dynasty Company from the desk to Dong Li, and pointed to these comics and explained: "Now Mr. Dong, what you are holding in your hand is the A4 version of "Dragon and Tiger Gate" published by our company this year, and you should have also discovered that our A4 version of the comics are in color from beginning to end. And the two comics you gave me before, Mr. Dong, were all black and white sketches,Of course,This is not the main reason why I refused to sign these two comics,More importantly,These two comics have a strong trace of Japanese comics in the style of painting,It's far from the style of Hong Kong comics,I'm afraid it's hard to make readers want to buy。 ”

After saying such a large number of reasons for refusal, Huang Yulang did not forget to say some words of encouragement, "But it can be seen that this author's painting skills are very solid, although our Jade Dynasty Company can't cooperate with him this time, but as long as he is willing to create comics in the form of Hong Kong comics, I believe there will be opportunities for cooperation in the future." ”

Others have said this kind of thing, Dong Li naturally knows that the road of the Jade Dynasty is impassable, but this is only the first comic publishing house he visited, and at this moment he still believes that after finding a few more, there will definitely be comic publishing houses in Hong Kong who are interested in "Full-Time Hunter" and "Next Stop Superstar......

"I see, but no matter what, I still want to thank Grandpa Wang and that Uncle Dong, my business really bothered the two of you." Although on the phone, Xiang Junfei tried his best to suppress his emotions, unlike letting his frustrated mood be detected by Wang Yongsheng, but when he hung up the phone, from Xiang Junfei's blank expression, he could find out how disappointed he was at this time.

Originally, he dialed Wang Yongsheng's phone with anticrative expectations today, wanting to ask the other party which comic publishing house in Hong Kong signed his two comics, and in his guess it was either the Jade Dynasty or the world, but he never expected that his two works were not only rejected by the two largest comic publishing houses in Hong Kong, but even those small publishing houses did not want his works, which Xiang Junfei never expected.

Full-color comics、Hong Kong comic style,These publishers actually rejected my comics for these two reasons,It's ridiculous,You must know that the essence of comics is the plot.,As long as it's a comic with a good plot.,Even if the painting style is slightly inferior,There will still be readers rushing to read.,And the comics with a good painting style and a bad plot.,It's only worth staying in the bookstore to eat ashes.。 Xiang Junfei angrily questioned the reasons for the Hong Kong comic publishing house to refuse to import two of his works.

In his opinion, although his "Full-Time Hunter" and "Next Stop Superstar" dare not say that they have perfectly inherited the original works of Yoshihiro Tomiyasu and Yoshiki Nakamura, but at least there are more than 90% of the original works, even in Japan, where there are many excellent works, these two works are fully qualified to become the ace manga of "Shonen JUMP" and "Flowers and Dreams". However, because he didn't color his works and adopted a Hong Kong-style muscular painting style, he missed the Hong Kong comic market, and Xiang Junfei couldn't accept this result anyway.

Xiang Junfei just doesn't understand, why Hong Kong people are so obsessed with color comics and rough lines, you must know that it has always been, and you must know that the creative atmosphere of a hundred flowers can promote the development of comics in a country/region to the greatest extent. Although Hong Kong is said to be the region with the most developed comics in Asia except Japan, its monotonous painting style and overly similar plot themes have been criticized by many comic fans. So much so that when it comes to Hong Kong Man, a muscular man with good martial arts will slowly rise from the minds of many people.

The reason why Japanese comics can stand at the top of the global comic world is closely related to their blooming comic creation style, just like a comic fan who wants to see comics with kung fu fighting themes, he can find "Hokuto God Fist" and "Kung Fu Whirlwind" from Japanese comics; If you want to watch the shonen adventure genre, you can find "One Piece" and "Naruto"; If you want to watch sports themes, you can watch "Football Player" and "Slam Dunk"; If you want to see the theme of crossing, you can find "Daughter of the Nile" and "The Sky is the Red River Bank"; If you want to see the theme of campus youth, you can see "Boys Over Flowers" and "Mischievous Kiss...... It can be said that Japanese manga can satisfy manga readers who have preferences for different genres to the greatest extent.

And Hong Kong comics have only been there to describe fights、Comics with love content have a market there,The limitations are too strong,Except for male comic fans,Few female comic fans will be interested in Hong Kong comics,Resulting in Hong Kong comics' own limited competitiveness,Unable to obtain further development space。

But complaining is complaining, and it is impossible for him to tell these words to the heads of those publishing houses in Hong Kong in Chongqing, perhaps as Huang Yulang said, at this time he gave up the two comics of "Full-time Hunter" and "Next Stop Superstar", and went to draw what "Iron Fist Invincible Sun Yat-sen" will be recognized by the Hong Kong comic world, but Xiang Junfei can't do it, not that he is too contemptuous of Hong Kong comics and disdains creation, but he is unwilling to give up "Full-time Hunter" and "Next Stop Superstar" halfway, and fall into the notoriety of a eunuch. In the mainland, there are still so many readers looking forward to those two works, and he himself swore in an interview with "The King of Paintings" that he would never give up his works. Xiang Junfei really can't do such a thing.

This plan to enter Hong Kong encountered Waterloo, which can be said to catch Xiang Junfei off guard, walking home from the phone booth, it would have only taken about ten minutes, but this time Xiang Junfei walked for half an hour, along the way, his mind was full of thinking about what he should do in the future. Although Wang Yongsheng also told him on the phone that Dong Li is still looking for his in-laws in Hong Kong for the two comics, so that Xiang Junfei should not be disappointed, hope still exists, but at this point, he has to be mentally prepared to fail.

"It's really not good, and I can only temporarily give up the Hong Kong market and continue to wander in the mainland, and there should be a chance to sell the traditional version in Taiwan in the future!" In Xiang Junfei's memory, Yan Kai's "Snow Coconut" also entered the Taiwanese comic market, but that was after 2000!