Chapter Twenty-Five: Undercurrents

Bai Duliang is 44 years old this year, and he is a third-rate but prolific comic book author who is known in the comic book world for his 'borrowing' and shoddy production.

Yes, Bai Duliang is a comic book author who is unemployed because he can't resist the tide of new comics and because the comic book market has collapsed.

Bai Duliang has been thinking about it all the time, why can't time stay in the eighties forever - how good the eighties are! What Hegel wrote, the bullshit philosophy book that sold millions of copies; A comic book author like himself, who is very bad at drawing, can draw 20,000 or 30,000 sets of first prints of a thing......

But now? Now, it's all over! Finished!

Comic strips, no one reads them anymore.

Those damn comics, what's so good about them?!

Today's children are holding the garbage comics of the book all day long, what use can they have when they grow up? Look at the comic books I draw, and you can grow into a pillar of the country!

"Damn it...... Damn this manga! ”

Bai Duliang scolded frantically, and he smashed the porcelain teacup on the table to the ground, and then gasped for breath.

Just yesterday, Bai Duliang spent all his efforts to draw an original comic strip that he thought integrated the essence of the new comics, and took it to the Silian Publishing House to try to find a publication, when the editor Zhao of the Silian Publishing House told him coldly while packing up his things: "Lao Bai, don't say it's your comic book, it's the comic book of those masters, and it is impossible for our club to publish it again." ”

"Lao Zhao, hurry up, hurry up!" Outside the door, someone shouted.

"It's coming!" Editor Zhao hurriedly packed his things, and after finding that Bai Duliang was standing in place and didn't leave, he said impatiently: "Lao Bai, you hurry back and find something else to do, the comic book has long been completely out of market!" Besides, what the hell is that painting you, "Dragon Ball vs. Saint Seiya", you can't figure it out...... Okay, I'm in a hurry to catch the train with the vice president, go to the Tianjiao Club in Wufeng County to talk about the publishing of "Go Boy", if you really want to continue to draw things, then hurry back and get a few copies of "Anime Boy" to study carefully, that is in line with the development of the times......"

After speaking, Editor Zhao stopped caring about Bai Duliang and went out with a big bag on his back.

Bai Duliang stood in the magazine office for a long time in despair, and then returned home in frustration.

Editor Zhao's words made Bai Duliang extremely curious about "Anime Boy", and he begged his father to tell his grandmother and finally got a copy of the third issue of "Anime Boy" trial, and he found "Go Boy" that was mentioned by Editor Zhao to be published as an agent.

It's just that after reading the current serial, Bai Duliang was frustrated to find that with his painting work, not only did he miss Meng Jiji, the author of Go Boy, not to mention 108,000 miles, but even those submitted works that were selected were not as good as ......

So in the end, Bai Duliang came to the conclusion that if he allowed a new comic magazine like "Anime Shonen" to develop, then he really wanted to think about what Editor Zhao said, and he Bai Duliang would never have the opportunity to publish a comic book again.

This Tianjiao Magazine that cut off my financial route! This Meng Jiji who cut off my financial route!

I'm going to, think of a way, whole this damn magazine, this damn Mengjiji!

You make me feel bad, and I will never make you happy!

But...... What do you do?

Bai Duliang thought about it, and felt that if he wanted to hit Tianjiao Club and Meng Jiji, it seemed that he could only write articles from the magazines they ran.

That's right! Just write an article where children are addicted to these damn cartoons, and as a result, they don't even read textbooks anymore, and their learning is corrupted, and the title of the article is called, it's called—it's called "The Schoolbag Is Crying"!

No, I'm not good at writing, so I'll have to find another young man with good writing to be a gunslinger for me......

"Lao Bai, Lao Bai, there is a guest at home!"

Just when Bai Duliang gritted his teeth, thinking about what he had to do to hit Tianjiao Society and Meng Jiji, who made him unable to publish, his wife pushed the door and hurriedly walked in.

"You useless mother-in-law-you can just greet yourself, don't bother me!" Bai Duliang yelled impatiently.

"I can't help it!" Bai Duliang's wife said a little timidly: "He said that he was the Song producer of his provincial Taiwan animation department, and people wanted to see you by name." ”

……

At the moment when Bai Duliang and Zhu Jianqiang converged, Meng Zhe was instructing Yao Feila, Chen Xiang and Jiang Ling, who had just arrived, on some of the most basic comic skills.

Under Meng Zhe's in-depth explanation, the three 'Xin Xin students' were fascinated by it, and shouted that if they knew that this was the case, when the first trial issue of "Anime Boy" came out, they should follow the address on the journal to come to listen to the class at their own expense!

Being able to give lectures to the future pillars of China's comic industry and make them show a special admiration expression greatly satisfied Meng Zhe's vanity. So, Meng Zhe spoke more energetically, he didn't know that a storm that was enough to destroy him had begun to brew quietly.

After finally finishing the lecture to Yao Feila and the three of them, Meng Zhe, who was still unsatisfied, went to his studio, planning to draw a few more sketches with passion.

It's just that when passing by Kong Lan's president's office, he was stopped by Kong Lan.

"Xiao Zhe, do you know the Tezuka Award of the book?" Kong Lan, who stopped Meng Zhe, asked like this.

"Know a little." Meng Zhe nodded and replied.

Tezuka Award Meng Zhe He really knew that this was a comic award established by Shueisha, one of the three giants of mud bomb comics, in 1972 - in mud bombardment China, this is a very authoritative comic award.

"My classmate just called and said that I hope Xiao Zhe can make a 31p short story for "Chess Soul", and then take it to participate in this Tezuka Award."

Since Meng Zhe knew about the Tezuka Award, Kong Lan didn't have to waste time explaining what the Tezuka Award was, so she said bluntly.

"Participate in the Tezuka Prize? That's right...... Okay, I'll start drawing right away. Meng Zhe lowered his head and thought for a while, and then felt that this seemed to be a good opportunity, if he could get the first place in the Tezuka Award, his worth would be much higher, wouldn't it? In this way, you can get back more money from the mud bombardment, right?

By the way, by the way, the prize for the first place in the Tezuka Award seems to be one million yuan? The conversion of Chengren currency is also more than 80,000 yuan, which is a lot of money in this era......

Very good, for the sake of this million-dollar bonus, let's fight for it!

It just so happens that tomorrow is the weekend again......

"Ah, yes! Sister Lan, have you counted the survey data of 1,000 people in the third phase? Before turning around and going to the studio, Meng Zhe suddenly remembered that he hadn't seen the survey data of the third issue of the magazine, so he asked casually.

"The ranking situation is the same as the flash data, the chess soul is the first, the Go boy is the second, and the dream eater is the third...... Other data are also not much different from the previous two periods. Kong Lan did not go to get data for Meng Zhe, but directly reported the data that Meng Zhe was most concerned about.

"Invincible, it's a ...... Lonely wow. ”

Meng Zhe shook his hair very pretended to be and said, and then he was rewarded by Kong Lan's fierce face pinching.

"Pinch you to death, let you pretend to be cool in front of my sister and me!" Kong Lan pinched it a few times before he let go of Meng Zhe's cheek and continued: "Xiao Zhe, tomorrow a publishing house wants to come and talk to us about the publication of "Go Boy", and it seems that there is also a reporter from the West Kyoto City Daily......

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Well, after waking up, I found that there was a power outage, and then the power came now......

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