70. Editor's appointment (second change)
When Wu Di suddenly burst into passion and devoted himself to the creation of his "comic debut", Su Wuchen tried to convince the eldest lady not to devote herself to the creation of boring girl comics from other angles.
From the perspective of the market, the best and most popular of the entire "Painting King" series of comic magazines is undoubtedly "Painting King. Weekly Youth", its weekly circulation has reached 6 million copies, and this is only the sales of mainland China, if you add Hong Kong, Taiwan and even Japan, it is already more than 10 million copies.
And in "The King of Paintings. Almost all of the cartoonists serialized in Weekly Shonen are well-known cartoonists, such as the aforementioned "geeks" and "small soldiers" are all pillar-level cartoonists, such as Japan's Kishimoto Saishi and Oda Eiichiro, in fact, they are also friends in the same circle, and they met at the annual Sino-Japanese comic artist exchange meeting.
Because of "The King of Paintings. "Weekly Shonen" has a wide range of popularity and appeal, so many guys who are clamoring for their dream of being a cartoonist will be able to be able to play in "Painting King. Serialized in Weekly Shonen is regarded as the first step to fulfill the dream, and other comic magazines in the "Painting King" series are completely ignored by them.
But in fact, the sales volume is second only to "The King of Paintings. Weekly Teenager's "Painting King. Weekly Youth", the weekly sales of the mainland also have three million copies, and the cartoonists who can serialize on it are not worse than the former, and they can even be said to be stronger, after all, youth comics are more mature than juvenile comics, and the relationship between the two β₯ can actually be compared to Lao Baiwen and Xiao Baiwen in online novels, but Xiaobaiwen is always more profitable than Lao Baiwen......
As for "The King of Paintings. "Monthly Girl" is dwarfed by the previous two, its sales are about 800,000 copies, and it has never exceeded one million copies at its peak. It's a niche, after all, the genre of hot-blooded juvenile comics can be said to be suitable for men, women and children.
The bottom of the sales volume is naturally the "Painting King" that has not been published long ago. Meng Department", which is also a monthly magazine, and its sales volume does not exceed 100,000 per issue. If it weren't for the golden sign of "The King of Paintings", the sales would be even more bleak, after all, the people who bought it were basically dead houses, and the creatures of dead houses were rare after all.
In fact, although moe comics are becoming more and more popular, the authors who create moe comics are inferior in terms of artistry, story conception, and plot strength. Sometimes it's a complete self-congratulatory picture when you're happy, and only readers who are on the airwaves can find it interesting, while readers from the general public will find it inexplicable.
From the perspective of sales and influence, Su Wuchen persuaded the eldest lady to draw youth comics or juvenile comics, and very strictly believed that the eldest lady had the strength to become the top original writer of juvenile comics, attracting countless cartoonists with superb painting skills but poor stories to write for her. There's no need to draw shoujo manga yourself.
The eldest lady thought about Su Wuchen's construction very seriously, and then continued to go her own way. Su Wuchen really broke his heart, but fortunately, the eldest lady promised that if she suddenly became interested in playing shonen manga in the future, then she would not disappoint the readers.
In fact, if it is serialized in a monthly magazine, it is relatively easy, and it is not as hard as a weekly serial. However, Wu Di really didn't have the idea of painting the serials himself.
After drawing this short shoujo manga, she confirmed this again, and sure enough, she was more suitable for drawing single illustrations than continuous comics.
This short girl's comic called "Miss" has a total of 25 pages. It took her three full weeks, and when you think about the fact that those weekly cartoonists have to draw about 15 to 20 pages a week, even though they have assistants to help, it is still very hard and time is tight.
This short work is not so much a comic as it is 25 beautiful illustrations, and there is not a single line between the characters, only the details of the characters' movements and expressions are used to tell the reader the information contained in it, and more of them are the delicate and touching secret love.
Since it's a crush, there's no need for words, which should be the latest thing about this short comic, but I don't know if it meets the editor's appetite.
Su Wuchen is very optimistic about the eldest lady's comic debut anyway, after he flipped through it at will, he secretly said in his heart that the eldest lady is really not suitable for drawing the original manuscript, where is this comic, a single one can be used as a painting artwork, this is too weird, right?
Two months after Wu Di's submission, the school was already on summer vacation, and when she almost forgot about it, she suddenly received the "Painting King. The editor of Monthly Girl called and said that she was asking her to meet and talk about her submitted works.
Wu Di came to this rather imposing office building, which is the headquarters of all the "Painting King" series of comic magazines.
When the security guard on duty saw a beautiful girl and a strong bodyguard in a suit behind her walking into the building, he couldn't help but walk up and asked, "This young lady, what are you doing here?" β
"Hello, I have a lady named Zhang Man who came to me to discuss the submission of works." Wu Di replied politely.
The security guard glanced at the strong man bodyguard behind Wu Di again, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, this is the standard lady in the comics, right? There is no nitpicking in the ceremonial gesture......
However, this eldest lady turned out to be the author who contributed to the magazine? It looks like he's not an adult yet, right, but is the current comic book author already a genius to this kind of Cheng dΓΉ?
The security guard also said routinely: "If you want to find an edited painting, go to the front desk to register, since you have an appointment, the counter will help page." β
Wu Di walked to the front desk service staff and said gently: "Hello, I want to find the King of Paintings. Zhang Man, editor of Monthly Girl. β
"Do you have an appointment?"
"Well, there is."
"Please fill out the registration form."
Wu Di did as she said, and saw the front desk lady dial the internal phone: "Editor Zhang, yes, the author you made an appointment is here, okay, I know, I will ask someone to take her to the No. 4 reception room to wait for you." β
Putting down the phone, the front desk lady instructed the waiter who specially guided the way to show Wu Di the way.
While leading through a corridor in GuΓ², Wu Di saw that the walls of the corridor were covered with animated posters of the popular works of "The Painting King", which successfully created an atmosphere, as if to inspire the authors who walked through the corridor, suggesting that they could also create such works, and giving the authors a sense of belonging to the "Painting King" magazine. (To be continued......)