Friday is the day when the Fantasy editorial department opens a weekly reader survey to officially rank the serialized works in the magazine.

The editors in charge of this task will select 1,000 copies from a staggering number of questionnaires and enter them into the computer, ranking the most interesting comics, and even analyzing the age groups and the ratio of men to women in detail.

Because Fantasy's manga rewards and halves both look at the popularity ranking of the reader's questionnaire, this weekly statistic will be valued by authors and editors, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it will determine the future of the work and the manga author.

Guo Pinyuan has been quite nervous since the morning, and has been waiting for the release of this statistical result.

"How about relaxing, isn't the quick report of "Chess Soul" very good, and presumably the results of this newspaper will not be bad." When Ye Chuan walked past him, he patted him on the shoulder and said.

The so-called flash report is a rough sampling count on the second day after the magazine was released, when "Chess Soul" won the first place, but that is not accurate in the end, and there are often results that differ from the results of this newspaper by several points.

After all, it's a new serial plus the double bonus of the head prize, and there is the Red Dragon Award in front, if you can't win the top three in the first word, the road ahead will be very bumpy, and it is estimated that it will not be favored by the editorial department.

"Well, I'm fine." Guo Pinyuan said.

Ye Chuan smiled and didn't speak, continued to pat him on the shoulder twice, and returned to his own position.

Not long after, Guo Pinyuan got the ranking list of the popularity of this issue.

The next day, Saturday.

It is also the place where Liang Yu and the editor agreed to meet, which means that on Thursday, Guo Pinyuan had already gone to Chen Nan to get the original manuscript, so this time it was a separate conversation between him and Liang Yu, and there was no need to spend two hours running to Chen Nan's studio.

"Congratulations, the newspaper of the first episode is the first, if the second episode can also stabilize in the top three, no, the top five, then the serialization will be very smooth." Guo Pinyuan seems to be in a good mood today, and he mainly asks for a treat.

At first, Liang Yu had no experience in such things, but now she doesn't mind at all, after all, for the industry, editors invite authors to dinner, which is also a part of connecting feelings and exchanges.

"To be honest, I was worried at first, but I was relieved when the results came out. But don't be complacent, you still need to continue to work hard, after all, there is still a long way to go. ”

"Hmm." Liang Yu replied.

"Then let me take a look at the storyboard from this issue." When Liang Yu put the storyboard content that could be serialized in three words in front of Guo Pinyuan, Guo Pinyuan was also taken aback: "Have you painted so much?" ”

"Well, after all, (storyboard) has already drawn five words, and now I am completely familiar with it, although it is still a lot worse than Chen Nan, but it is indeed much more handy than at the beginning, and the story that comes to mind can be drawn naturally."

"Hmm," Guo Pinyuan grabbed Liang Yu's storyboard and looked at it, whether it was the focus or the application of the size of the frame, it began to look similar: "Indeed, this storyboard has finally begun to have a professional style." ”

Guo Pinyuan said half jokingly and half sincerely.

"Editor Guo, you're joking." Liang Yu is very modest, after all, the storyboard is not comparable to the formal comics at all, every time Chen Nan paints, he even has to redraw the draft according to Liang Yu's storyboard, and then officially outline the line and blacken, now I heard her say that the matter of pasting the online store and background can be handed over to the assistant to be responsible, but the work time is still dozens of times that of Liang Yu.

As long as Liang Yu has the goods in her head, it usually takes less than two hours to finish drawing a storyboard, and most of the time is usually spent on conceiving the direction of the plot, but even if Chen Nan has an assistant to help her, if she wants to draw 16 pages of comics serialized every week, she also needs to work more than 12 hours a day for 4 to 5 days, and if you divide it, you will find that she is actually working all week.

To be honest, Liang Yu occasionally has thoughts such as "Is it really good for me and Chen Nan to get the same manuscript fee", after all, the time and energy invested by the two people in comics are not proportional at all.

While Guo Pinyuan was reading the manuscript, Liang Yu said the idea in his heart.

"Hahahaha, so you're worried about this." Guo Pinyuan laughed out loud after hearing this.

"What's wrong?"

"Well, it's true that if the original work and the artist's work are serialized in a magazine, it's true that the artist looks harder, but," Guo Pinyuan scratched his head and said: "Generally speaking, the painter doesn't care about this, do you know why?" ”

Liang Yu shook his head.

"Well, in fact, I shouldn't tell you this, but since you ask......" Guo Pinyuan put down the storyboard in his hand, took a sip of coffee and said: "According to the contract signed before, the original work and the artist's comic remuneration published in the magazine, as well as the copyright of the derived animation, radio drama and even live-action movie, are equally divided between the original work and the artist, if it is a by-product derived unilaterally, it will only be paid to one of them, such as the related novel you will publish in the future, or the peripheral derived from the character image designed by Chen Nan, but." These are actually small heads, or things that don't need to be taken care of at all. ”

"Huh?"

When Guo Pinyuan said this, his face became serious, "If the 10th chapter of the comic is over, then any animation, radio drama, novel, and picture book are all nonsense, even if the annuity you sign a contract with is just a normal salary, and if the contracted author can't come up with a work that can be serialized and popular within a year, the cooperative relationship with the magazine will be terminated." In other words, the original author and the artist are actually working together to challenge to make a comic popular, and if they do, then you will find that the benefits you get don't need to care about some fragmentary differences. ”

"Is that so?"

"That's right, and there is one point, which is more beneficial for comic book artists," Guo Pinyuan refocused on Liang Yu's storyboard; "Although the name of the original author will be written on the artist when the comic is released or a single book is printed, many times readers will only recognize the name of the artist and ignore the original work itself, which is a common thing in the industry, which means that the artist will be more popular than the original author - sometimes the popularity of the author is also important."

"I see." Liang Yu listened to this and finally understood the law.

"Hahahaha, but those are all things that have happened after becoming famous, so for now, let's focus on serialization and do my best to draw this work."

"Hmm."