Chapter 35: The Jade Dynasty, Huang Yulang
"Money is not a problem, the problem is how to take the first step......," Kong Lan said, her brows furrowed slightly: "To enter this industry, the entry point must be the most basic comic industry." ”
Meng Zhe opened his mouth, but stopped talking.
In fact, he has also considered this problem, and Meng Zhe has not moved to start his own business and work hard in the animation industry.
Meng Zhe admired Huang Yulang, the godfather of Hong Kong comics - Huang Yulang began to contribute to the comic editions of newspapers and magazines at the age of 9, and at the age of 11, his "debut" was finally published, and at the age of 14, he borrowed 1,000 yuan from his father and published a comic publication called "Joke World".
However, "Joke World" only ran out of 5 issues before it was discontinued due to poor sales.
But Huang Yulang did not have a strong barrier, and a year later he started his second business and founded the "Entertainment Comics Newspaper", but three months later this publication was also discontinued.
More than a year later, Huang Yulang took the remuneration earned from more than a year of hard work and started "Novelty Comics". This time, Huang Yulang finally succeeded, and soon after the publication of this newspaper, it was said that the circulation exceeded 12,000 copies!
Hong Kong's population base is there, and the time is very far away, in 1967, the circulation of 12,000 copies is very strong!
If it can be managed well, it is not impossible that the circulation of these 12,000 copies will become 120,000 points or more.
However, due to the shortage of comic talents in Hong Kong at that time, there was also a shortage of comic manuscripts, Huang Yulang had no sense of cultivating newcomers, and the chain reaction of the "May Storm" in France in 67 led to the decline of Hong Kong's consumption power, Huang Yulang's third venture failed again.
(The May storm is, you go to spend your own time, I don't know if it will be harmonious...... After all, the Celestial Empire has not exported revolutions for many years. )
It stands to reason that after experiencing such three entrepreneurial failures, Huang Yulang should honestly be an ordinary cartoonist, and then honestly draw comics for the publishing house or something.
But in the years that followed, Huang Yulang has been defeated and defeated again and again, always trying to fight for his own world......
In 1979, Wong Yuk Lang finally accumulated enough funds to set up 'Yu Lang International Limited', an ambitious recruitment to look at the entire Hong Kong comic market.
In 1986, "Yulang International Co., Ltd." was officially listed, and the market value immediately increased by 20 times after listing!
Since then, there has been no one in Hong Kong to belittle the comic industry.
Under the pressure of Yulang International, which unified almost all the top Hong Kong cartoonists, at that time, the market share in Hong Kong was basically negligible, and only Hong Kong comics were dominant.
It's a pity that in the 87 Hong Kong stock market crash, Yulang International faced a takeover crisis, and in order to keep his country, Huang Yulang made false financial accounts, and was found to be imprisoned.
With Huang Yulang's imprisonment, Yulang International fell apart, and Yue Man took the opportunity to make a comeback and successfully occupy the market......
If Meng Zhe remembers correctly, 93 Huang Yulang should have just been released from prison, and in order to reorganize the old rivers and mountains, he has probably established the 'Jade Dynasty' - Jade Dynasty Culture Publishing Group Co., Ltd.
Only then, although there are still setbacks, Huang Yulang regained the supreme throne by adapting Jin Yong's martial arts novel series of comics, as well as comics such as "The Son of Heaven" and "Divine Soldier Xuanqi"!
Huang Yulang, a poor boy who was originally penniless, eventually became a pivotal cultural tycoon in Hong Kong.
In the mainstream Hong Kong comics led by Huang Yulang, we can see a very strong patriotic heart, and some Hong Kong people in later generations are far stronger and more extreme patriotic than the mainland, which is not unrelated to these Hong Kong comics.
Meng Zhe can say responsibly that Huang Yulang is a well-deserved national hero in the comics industry.
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However, Meng Zhe is also very clear about himself: unlike Huang Yulang, Meng Zhe does not have such big intentions, he just wants to draw big-selling cartoons with private goods of Chinese culture, gain a well-known reputation in the world, and then stay with his future wife.
It's just that Meng Zhe also understands that his sister Kong Lan is different from him, she has the ambition to annex the world......
But in the domestic comic industry, Meng Zhe feels that it is still a big quagmire now, and whoever jumps in with a well-dressed person will probably be covered in mud, and then he will be extremely embarrassed to climb out, right?
"Brother Xiao Zhe, do you know Huang Yulang?" Seeing that Meng Zhe didn't speak, Kong Lan continued, and she even mentioned Huang Yulang's name.
"Huang Yulang?" Meng Zhe said in his heart, Sister Lan, you are very special, have you guessed what you are thinking in your heart? Of course, Meng Zhe would not say this: "He is one of the top Hong Kong comic artists in Hong Kong." ”
Top Hong Kong cartoonists, as well as Shangguan Xiaobao who painted "Bruce Lee", Ma Rongcheng who painted "Chinese Heroes" and others.
"Sister, I took the time to carefully study Huang Yulang's experience a few days ago, and then found that our current entrepreneurial environment seems to be a little better than he was at the beginning." Kong Lan said with a smile, and after a pause, Kong Lan continued: "Originally, I planned to go to Yueben first and spend three to five months studying the specific process of their comic industry. But after getting the report just now, I didn't have the time, so I had to ask my classmates over there to help me collect information, and I came back to prepare for the start of the comic magazine......"
Yes, it seems that persuasion is useless, this sister is determined to get involved in the animation industry?
"Sister Lan, if you come back to start a business, how will your studies be?" Meng Zhe tried his best to listen to the mandate of heaven's last euphemistic persuasion.
"I took a leave of absence, knowing that Cambridge, like all British universities, has no credit system and must be taught in a step-by-step manner to graduate, I would never choose it." Kong Lan replied casually, Meng Zhe's question was not a problem in his eyes at all.
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Cambridge?!
Sister Lan, you ...... fiercely Your brother and I, because I am obsessed with drawing comics, didn't even get admitted to an ordinary university in China.
"Okay, Sister Lan, have you thought about it, after you started an anime magazine, where did you get the manuscript? Without a lot of manuscripts, anime magazines can't do it! Since he can't be persuaded anymore, then Meng Zhe can only stand on Kong Lan's side and express his professional opinion.
"Regarding the manuscript, I have reached an agreement with Huang Yulang's Jade Dynasty and his friends who painted "Old Master", they are willing to provide part of the manuscript, and the rest of the manuscript ...... I need you, Brother Xiao Zhe, and other domestic cartoonists who don't know where they are now, to make up for it."
Regarding Meng Zhe's question, Kong Lan also came, and when she spoke, she reached out again and touched her bag, and then took out a magazine.
On the cover of the magazine, it suddenly reads - "New Comic Book Monthly", 1993, No. 16.
That's right, it's this issue of Meng Zhe's "Light Girl".
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Thanks: Schrödinger's meow and a certain phantom's tip support o(∩_∩)o~
Well, Gabriel's children's shoes are urging and urging...... All right...... I continued to pretend that Mu had seen it.
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