"Mr. Zhang, there are many news media that have published some negative reports on our website."

Jiahui, who has just taken over as the CEO of the original Penguin Comics platform, reported to Zhang Ning, who returned to China, on the Internet.

"What's not positive?"

"These media have some special cases and point out that our Penguin Comics original platform is a primary school comic platform. This may discourage many authors who want to be original on our site. ”

"What do you mean?"

"Authors under the age of 16 are prohibited from creating on our site."

"Nope."

Zhang Ning immediately denied it.

He knew that Jiahui's purpose in doing this was to stop letting some media criticize their website as a comic platform for elementary school students. Although in fact, in recent times, it is true that quite a few elementary school students have published comic works on their websites. However, the positioning of the Penguin Original Comics platform is that all comic authors, regardless of gender, let alone age, as long as you can draw comics, you can publish them on the Penguin Original Comics platform. No matter how bad your drawing is, it's okay.

Therefore, this also attracts some authors who have just learned comics.

They already knew that their comics were not very well drawn, and it was impossible for them to be published. But it is not a matter of storing these drawings in your own home every day. The emergence of the Penguin original comic platform has given them a platform to publish. Although there is no profit from publishing on this platform, they are satisfied with being able to send it out for everyone to watch. Moreover, after they publish on this platform, they can also receive other people's comments on their comics, which is of great help to themselves.

Although restricting the age of 16 to create on the site can effectively improve the quality of the comics on the site as a whole, it is only a relative increase. Moreover, Zhang Ning also knows that the quality of original comics on the Internet, no matter what it is, is not as good as the physical comics. So, whether the quality of the comics on the site is bad or not, you don't need to think too much.

Moreover, Zhang Ning knows that in fact, the publishing house receives countless comic submissions every day. Among them, most of the comics are of poor quality, and they are not necessarily higher than those on the Internet. It's just that they have editors to review it, and they don't publish these inferior comics. However, there is no such restriction in the network.

"Although the quality of so many works is not very good, what if one of them is popular? Could it be that as soon as a work is published, you can determine whether the work is popular or not? Don't say it's you, even if it's a professional editor, they don't dare to be 100% sure. Sometimes, a comic is popular, and in addition to the quality of the comic, there are many factors. On the contrary, I think that although the original manga works on our website are very poor, if they become popular one day, it will be beneficial to our website. Therefore, our positioning is still not limited to gender, regardless of age. ”

Speaking of which, Zhang Ning picked up online literature and compared it with webtoons.

Online literature is very similar to webtoons, both are serialized on the Internet, except that one is a comic and the other is a novel.

"Jiahui, I started this original webtoon platform. In addition to the fact that online original comics are more convenient and faster than reality publishing, I also realized that reality publishing comics has many drawbacks. One of them, that is, reality publishing comics, there are too many genius comics that are buried. Jiahui, you study comics, don't you think? ”

Zhang Ning's explanation made Jiahui couldn't help but agree.

"Mr. Zhang, you summed it up too well. Yes, the reality is based on the system of publishing, and it is true that a lot of classics are buried. ”

Jiahui has studied comics for more than ten years, from home to abroad.

To be honest, he had seen too many great geniuses, but none of them had succeeded.

Sometimes it's not that they're not good, it's just that they don't have the opportunity to show themselves.

Sometimes, it's not that editors or other people don't have a vision, but that under the manga publishing system, which is based on the mechanism of publishing, there will definitely be times when the editor's vision is wrong. And once you make a mistake, or just think that this comic is average, it won't be popular. The ending is that such a comic is completely over and will never be worthless.

This is a great pity.

In addition to these, there is another factor that will also cause classic comics to be buried.

This factor, that is, there are too many authors who draw manga in Japan.

Japan is a big country of manga, but he can't afford to draw manga for everyone.

In fact, there are only a few dozen comic book authors who have become famous.

As a result, hundreds of thousands, if not tens of thousands, of manga writers in Japan quit the profession every year.

It's a place of competition and pressure, and there are absolutely people and works that are buried under thousands of works.

Jiahui is about to graduate, and she has never thought about a career to draw comics, and she also thinks about this problem.

She thinks that her manga skills are not bad, but there are too many manga writers like her in Japan.

If you continue on this path, then, it is very likely, your future will be dark.

"Yes, there was a manga in the Japanese publishing industry that was almost buried recently, and the Dream Eater of Oba was one of them."

When it comes to the big field, Jiahui is even more sympathetic.

Noriaki Oba is a new manga star in Japan recently, and his dream eater is loved by countless people.

But who knows. Before that, the Dream Eater of the big field was once cut in half by Shueisha. In the end, it was also rumored that Dachang was almost cut in half because of the comics, and he starved to death on the street. If it weren't for the arrival of a legendary Bole, or, in this world, you wouldn't have seen the work of Dream Eater, let alone known that there was such an excellent cartoonist as Oba Noriaki.

It's just that, speaking of which, Jiahui's problem ensues.

"Mr. Zhang, we have always thought about the problem you said. Including the author of Dream Eater, Noriaki Oba, among his Dream Eaters, he also wrote about the living conditions of Japanese manga authors. It's just that the reality is like this, and we can't change it. ”

"Wrong, Jiahui, you only see the difference between online original comics and physical published comics on the platform, but you don't see the real difference between online original comics and physical original comics. The reason why you just denied what you said about restricting 16-year-old comic book authors to innovate is actually because you don't want to miss the classics. Of course, you will say, how do we know if these comic works will become classics? In fact, it is impossible to conclude based on subjective experience. However, we can't conclude that it doesn't matter, we are a platform, we are an online original platform, and we can conclude that it can. ”

Zhang Ning knew what he said, and Jiahui was still very confused. However, Zhang Ning didn't mind, he said, "Jiahui, maybe you don't understand it too much now, but it doesn't matter, when a classic appears on our platform, and a work that is more classic than Dream Eater, you will know how great our original webtoon platform should be."