CHAPTER 236: SLAM DUNK!
Li Ze has a script at hand, and this script was once serialized on Shonen JUMP on Earth, and created a series of sales myths.
But now Li Ze does not plan to rush to serialize in big magazines.
One is that it may not be passed, and the other is that Li Ze has so many masterpieces in his heart, and he is not in a hurry to rely on a comic book to eat for a lifetime.
Take your time and be quicker!
Contacting Tianniu, Li Ze told Tianniu his next plan.
"Tomie's serialization is going to end after this issue."
Li Ze's first sentence was amazing, Tianniu even forgot to eat the egg tart that was about to be put in his mouth, and hurriedly asked, "Don't serialize Tomie?" Why? Now Tomie is on fire! To tell you the truth, in the last few issues, due to Tomie, the circulation of our Iwate Shoten has increased by almost 20,000 copies! ”
"Our boss has just decided to invest resources in promoting and promoting Fujiang. When this ** wide hit is out, "Fujiang" will definitely be a hit! ”
"Mr. Li, the opportunity to become famous in a book has appeared, and you can't drop the chain at this time! It's really a shame to give up Tomie now. ”
Since the serialization of Tomie, the increase in sales and topicality of "Iwate Shoten" is obvious.
Tomie can't compare to the popular works serialized in big magazines, but for the small Iwate Shoten, it is already very rare for a work like Tomie to have a certain level of attention.
Finally got a hit work, and Iwate Shoten naturally planned to write a big article around "Tomie".
And at this time, the original author actually said that he wanted to end Tomie? It's not easy for small shrimp to have good works, and it's not easy to give up Tomie and money!
Tianniu would persuade himself not to end the Tomie series, which Li Ze expected.
Smiling confidently, Li Ze said: "I chose to end Tomie, on the one hand, because we don't have a good plot for the time being, to continue the consistent level of the Tomie series. ”
"On the other hand, we are going to release a better work, a long-form serialized manga, I wonder if you Iwate Shoten is interested?"
Hearing Li Ze's words, Tianniu was stunned.
Long-form serialization?
Is that the purpose?
If Xiao Xiami can really put out an excellent long-form serialized manga, then it will really be a greater success than Tomie.
It's just that...... Long-form serialized comics are not as simple as talking.
As far as Tianniu knows, Xiao Xiami has no experience with long-form comics before.
So, what is the level of this feature-length comic?
So, Tianniu said hesitantly: "Long-form serialized comics are not a simple job, and they have high requirements for the strength of cartoonists and scripts. If you can't create a good long-form manga work, then you will only waste a lot of time and energy, and the profit will not be as good as drawing a short story like "Tomie". ”
"Long comics, is Xiao Shrimp really ready?"
And Li Ze just pushed the glasses frame that didn't exist on the bridge of his nose, and said coldly: "I know there will be a lot of difficulties, but I have a script, and I have confidence in my script." ”
Tianniu looked at Li Ze's confident posture, then nodded, and said: "The strength of Xiao Xiami, we believe that we Iwate naturally want the new long comics." But the stakes are high, so please come with me to the editor-in-chief and let him read the script. ”
So Tianniu took Li Ze to the office of the editor-in-chief of Iwate Shoten.
The editor-in-chief was also equally surprised, and repeatedly confirmed that Li Ze did not plan to continue the "Tomie" series.
So the editor-in-chief nodded a little disappointed and said, ""Tomie has brought a lot to us Iwate, which is indeed a pity. However, since Mr. Li is so confident in the new long-form manga, we in Iwate naturally want to support it. To be big, you have to rush with long-form comics in order to become a big star in the comic industry! ”
As the editor-in-chief spoke, he flipped through Li Ze's script.
And Li Ze watched a live broadcast of a basketball game with Tianniu in the lounge.
Just as the game was in the final seconds, the editor-in-chief walked over.
The editor-in-chief of Iwate, who has always been calm, was a little excited at this time, he held the script in his hand and said excitedly: "Youth! Blood! Real youth, romantic agitation! It's been a long time since I've seen a comic script with such tension! ”
The editor-in-chief spoke highly of Li Ze's script: "This is a script with super potential that can make both Iwate Bookstore and Xiaoxiaomi take off!" can be popular, this comic can be so popular that it burns the youthful blood of tens of millions of people! ”
"Hahaha!" The editor-in-chief happily patted Tianniu's shoulder and said, "Tianniu, this time you have made meritorious service again, with such a script, I believe that soon we will no longer feel sorry for Tomie." ”
Tianniu nodded in surprise and asked, "I haven't read the content of the script, I just know that it is a youth sports comic, what is the name of the comic?" ”
After watching Emperor Yi's lore on the screen, Li Ze stood up and said the name of the comic lightly.
"Slam Dunk."
Slam Dunk!
SLAM DUNK!
There is no need to say how popular Slam Dunk is on Earth.
As one of the three pinnacles of Japanese sports comics, Slam Dunk set a single-issue sales record for "Shonen Jump" when it was serialized in "Shonen Jump", and it has not been broken to this day.
And Li Ze also thinks that with this comic, he can let himself and Xiao Shrimp enter the core circle of the world's comic industry in one fell swoop!
Xiao Xiami's first full-length serialization, the reason why he chose "Slam Dunk", instead of the more popular Dragon Sea Thief Hokage, etc., is also the result of consideration.
Li Ze doesn't plan to eat a comic for the rest of his life, Xiao Shrimp needs to draw a steady stream of masterpieces, otherwise it will be too much of a waste of so many classic comic resources on the earth.
Compared to other long-form comics, "Slam Dunk" is not particularly long.
Remove some repetitive memories and the like, and when serializing, brother and sister work together, and the two create together, so as to maintain a high state of production.
Not counting the national competition, it is just a county competition, which can be done within a year.
If it takes a year to finish the content of the "Slam Dunk" county competition.
By that time, presumably Xiao Xiami has become the focus of the industry, and at the same time, Brother Shrimp and Xiaomi will also become more mature cartoonists.
And at that time, the small shrimp that had become popular all over the country was really a leap from the sea.
With sufficient funds, fame and popularity as the backing, Xiao Xiami can not only continue to draw the "Slam Dunk" national competition, but also draw other comics, and then create a comic empire!
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