Chapter 138: International Comics (Part II)

Some people like to watch handsome guys and beauties in comics; Some people like to read the plot in the comics; Some people like to look at drawings in comics; Some people like to dig into the skills that appear in comics...... The so-called: the horizontal view is the peak on the side of the ridge, and the height is different from far and near. Because of the different angles of understanding comics, thousands of people will have a thousand opinions.

The plot was originally copied directly. Although "Strings" is a manga transformed from PCGAME, it is an animated comic, and it will only get animated treatment if it is loved.

Picture quality,The degree of completion will definitely not be low.,Although Pear Wood was trained by the painter's system to add a little element of his own painting style to the comics.,But it's also a style that was carefully selected.。

…… I don't know how many drafts I lost.

Shangguo Publishing House naturally has ulterior motives for releasing new books in the New Year, this is the time of the year when everyone is the richest and most willing to spend.

All qualified companies should give employees a year-end bonus at the end of the year, and even a private boss who picks the door again should give some year-end subsidies to employees who have worked hard for a year at the end of the year. Employees who get the money are better for the New Year; Children can also receive New Year's money. Adults and children all have a fortune in their hands, and they have a happy New Year.

Take a plane or train home to buy a comic, and you can have some fun on the way; Or take it out when you are stuck in traffic, and your mood will not be so irritable......

At noon after the New Year, the popular Kawakaku Bookstore is still open, and it is temporarily run by part-time students. The manager hurried back to the store after going home for a hot freshly made lunch, and she was not at ease with handing it over to those hairy young people. Thanks to these hard-working staff, the bookstore was able to stay in business for the New Year.

Keiko carried a lunch to comfort the staff, which had already been prepared before going out. Students don't get much paid for part-time work, and eating in the shopping street is too expensive, so it doesn't matter if she volunteers to cook. However, the part-time student insisted on paying for the meal, so she also recouped some of the capital.

It will inevitably affect the customer's shopping, and the meal is eaten in the small warehouse in the inner room. It is said that it is a warehouse, which is about three or four square meters in size, and most of it is occupied by the backlog of old books that cannot be sold. Seeing Keiko take out the lunch box, the almost hungry student took it and opened the lunch box, suddenly remembered something and suddenly asked:

"By the way, store manager, is there anything else?"

Keiko didn't know what to answer because of the unprovoked question, so she had to ask Kyoshiro, a college student who worked in the store:

"-Which?"

"Oh, I'm sorry, I was talking to Meijia just now." Kyoshiro forgot to be chatting with his co-workers before he got the lunch box, and he didn't change the pronoun of the book for a while, and said embarrassedly: "Actually, it's the manga of "Magic Apprentice". Seven people asked as you left. ”

"Is it out of stock again?" Keiko seems to be a little used to it.

In order to prevent the six new comic books in the store from selling out, she has already made a plan: whenever she finds that she has less than 20 copies in stock, she will immediately call back another 50 copies.

But looking at Kyoshiro's shaking his head and shaking his head, it doesn't seem to be like this-

"Not out of stock? Then why do you ask this? Hurry up and stock it. ”

"Hmm...... Wait, wait. Seeing Keiko's tone, Kyoshiro, who was sitting in an old magazine that couldn't be sold, immediately raised his head, swallowed a mouthful of rice and said, "I heard from the wholesale market that 'The Magic Apprentice' has been banned, and other books are not for sale for the time being." ”

Keiko let out a sigh and continued to turn and walk out, walking out of the curtain after a few steps. Suddenly realizing that she had heard something unbelievable, she suddenly turned around and ran into the warehouse: "What did you just say?" ”

Kyoshiro closed the lunch box for the time being.

"The people who wholesaled when I called just now said, 'Magic Apprentice' has a tendency to be a manga, and the wholesale market is temporarily banned from selling it, and it may be defined as 18 feet from a teenager.'"

"That "Magic Apprentice" doesn't have sincerity? And you said that other books were also banned? ”

This is Meijia, who works in the store, and suddenly leaned out into the warehouse: "Yes, other new single books from the Shangguo Society have also been banned, anyway, the wholesalers just don't give wholesale." ”

"Impossible." Keiko denied: "How can 'Magic Apprentice' be sincere? Even if there is anything wrong with that comic, it shouldn't be implicated in other comics, and banning "Golden Strings" definitely doesn't make sense. ”

"It's not that other comics have also been banned, it's just that the comics have been transferred from the sale state to the review state, so the wholesale market will not be available until the review is completed." Kyoshiro said.

"It's hard to say. It's the first time that a single book serialized by a mainland magazine is selling well in China, and it's not American comics like Batman and Superman -- maybe the Comic Association deliberately set up a card for the mainland? ”

Keiko, who was listening, nodded. Indeed, Hong Kong has now returned to the mainland, and the 1/3 column of the Shangguo Publishing House also says that the cartoonists are all Chinese. Considering the interests of the country's comics, it is indeed possible to deliberately set up a card......

At least some signs can be seen from domestic magazines, and the first to appear about the boycott was the SP Agency. As soon as I received the news that Shangguo Publishing House was preparing to publish six single books, I immediately gave "The Magic Apprentice" an evaluation of "No Novelty and Old-fashioned", and with "Shangguo Magazine" as a breakthrough, the rest of the comics of Shangguo Publishing House were all slandered.

Kyoshiro, who was sitting in an old magazine and opening the lid from time to time to take a few bites of rice, looked up at Keiko. Keiko doesn't have a deep relationship with Shangguo Publishing House, but she is a person who has grown up watching that publishing house, and she seems to be a little emotional.

"Will it be banned forever?" Keiko asked.

"I don't think so." Meijia frowned and said, "It's not a real 18-Silence comic?" Eighty percent is just a temporary delay. As soon as the craze for new book releases has passed, the results of the re-approval should be out. ”

"The college student's brain is really better than mine, Obasan, can you see if there is a way to buy it again?"

"Buying from outside without approval? Store manager: Do you want to sell black goods? ”

As soon as Mika finished speaking, Keiko shook her head gently.

“…… It's not like a black thing, but I think the comic association is too fussful. Comic books are not obsolete magazines, and not necessarily anyone will buy Shonen Jump magazine in '95. But if it's a Dragon Ball manga book, people will buy it now, if not ten years from now. ”

Magazine sellers know that magazines sell one issue and lose one issue, and few customers will come to buy the second or third issue of the magazine when the fifth issue comes out. Even if there are one or two of these people once in a while, if the previous issues are still in stock, they will be turned out to satisfy him, and if they don't, I'm sorry, it's not the store's fault that the old magazines are out of stock.

Of course, as a bookstore that does not disappoint customers, it should be a warehouse in the company like Kawakaku Bookstore, where discarded magazines that cannot be sold can be piled up for four or five years. Masterpieces that are not sold elsewhere can be found in this bookstore, and customers who have visited more than a dozen stores come here to find treasures, and the Chuanjiao store will undoubtedly bring them a better shopping experience. The kind of small shops that sell magazines do not have warehouses, so they can only buy one issue and throw away one issue.

Comic books are different from comic magazines, and even if the new manga reaches the tenth or even the hundredth volume, the old manga in the first volume will still sell well.

"That being said, it will still have an impact if you miss the prime sale period, and people who buy the first volume will easily buy the second volume, and very few people who don't buy the first volume will buy the second volume." As soon as she finished speaking, Meijia sighed, "There is competition to develop, and my country's painters should improve their painting level to create more and better comics, instead of letting those old stubborn people use stumbling blocks, banning sales and other means to prevent the development of other countries." ”

Keiko nodded in agreement. Protectionism is the same as raising children who can't be spoiled, and the more you spoil them, the weaker they are. What's more, domestic manga is not a child's stage, since the establishment of the Tokyo Manga Association in 1915, this manga has become a behemoth in the manga industry.

The real children should be China, and at this time, Chinese comics are like the comics of the 10 years before World War II, and comics are purely "just props for children's entertainment". Now that mainland comics are finally showing signs of development under the leadership of Shangguo Publishing House, the empire is riding a war horse to give the child a slap in the head.

I'm afraid that this "stick" didn't intend to wake up the ignorant child, and directly wanted to knock it to death like the war of aggression against China...... The comic book association's move is obviously ill-intentioned.

Immediately afterwards, there were rumors in the comic industry that the tariff on comics was about to be raised.