In retrospect, Guo Pinyuan received this submission three days ago, and he used the method of sending submissions.

As one of the most influential magazine publishers in Southeast Asia of the Earth Federation, Shiratorisha's weekly shonen manga fantasy magazine is its popular brand, with a circulation of up to 5 million per week, and this is only the sales in Southeast Asia. There are countless well-known manga artists who have signed contracts with them, and because they have a wide range of popularity and appeal, there are many aspirants who contribute to Shonen Fantasy.

The number of submissions is huge, but the number that can be published in a magazine is extremely limited, so the editor's job is to find real gold in the sea of works.

Of course, not everyone can do well at the beginning, so a responsible editor will also select those authors who cannot be published in the magazine for the time being, but have great potential, and give one-on-one guidance, urging him to draw qualified works and publish them in the magazine.

In Guo Pinyuan's view, this contributor with the pen name Liangyu is like this.

When he first read the manuscript, Guo Pinyuan wanted to directly throw this graffiti thing into the wastebasket (because of the large amount of submissions, the editorial department generally does not reject the manuscript), and couldn't help muttering, when will this kind of primary school student's work be able to submit?

The characters collapsed badly, there are problems with proportions and perspective, the storyboard is blind, the outlets are useless, there is almost no background, this kind of novice is a novice at a glance, there is really no need to waste time, but in line with the attitude of being responsible for every contributor, Guo Pinyuan still took a hard look at it, in his opinion, even if it is bad, it is also created by the author with heart, after all, after drawing these dozens of manuscript papers, there is a special run to the post office to mail, and it is worth the editor's time to read it.

But looking at it, Guo Pinyuan couldn't sit still.

"It's ......"

Contrary to the crude painting style, it is the interesting and deep content of this story.

For a short comic like this, you need to tell a complete story in dozens of pages of comics, and the layout is particularly important. While most of the illustrator's stories usually follow the standard pattern of cause and effect, the resulting short stories are often not interesting because they have too much to explain, which drags down the whole story.

But like this comic with the pen name Liangyu, the entry point is very ingenious, the comic abandons the cause, and starts directly from the hot chase scene, and unfolds a series of thrilling action scenes (but because the picture is too bad, it was quickly turned over by Guo Pinyuan), as the righteous side is forced into a desperate situation, the author uses a key prop ring as a quote, leading to a memory, and begins to supplement the reason for this chase to the reader. The result is unexpected, the identities of these two people turned out to be opposite, it turned out that the so-called good person was the murderer who really killed other people's wives and children, he usurped the identity of the other party and impersonated him, while the protagonist of the catastrophe was disfigured and framed as a criminal instead.

The protagonist has been hiberning incognito for so many years just to take revenge, but he never thought that this was actually a trap for him. He held a gun and faced the enemy who had killed his wife and children and impersonated himself for so many years at large, but there were also countless police officers around him who pointed guns at him. Once shot, there is no doubt about his outcome, he will be a criminal for the rest of his life and will die here as a criminal, but if he gives up here, then all the years of forbearance will be in vain.

- He pulled the trigger anyway.

The last scene of the story is the image of him falling on his back with his eyes open, the bullet piercing his eyebrow bone, he looking diagonally at the sky, and on the very center of the spread, he and his wife and daughter walking away hand in hand, and the story finally ends in a vertical black frame.

After reading it, to be honest, Guo Pinyuan gasped, not that the story itself is excellent, but the sense of picture presented by this author, the tension that creates the atmosphere and rhythm makes people feel immersive. Guo Pinyuan tried to make up in his head, if this short picture wasn't so bad......

It must be a bloody story.

"Occasionally, there are, comic book authors like this." It was Guo Pinyuan's immediate boss Ye Chuan who spoke, and the editorial department was divided into several groups, and he was the editorial team leader of Guo Pinyuan's group, and after seeing Guo Pinyuan's reaction just now, he took the original manuscript and went through it.

"Mr. Ye Chuan?"

"It's someone who is good at writing stories, but not good at drawing."

"But if the manga is not drawn well, the story is useless no matter how interesting it is." Guo Pinyuan said regretfully, although he liked the plot of this story very much, but such a picture made it absolutely impossible to publish.

"That's right, but isn't there an original unit, the comic is not good, you can ask a good painter to write, as long as it is interesting to publish, it will be popular, because there are more people in this world who draw well but can't write a good story. Authors like this need to be cultivated well, so let's make a phone call to get in touch first. ”

It can be said that it is because of the above dialogue that today's meeting has come about.

But Guo Pinyuan never thought that the person who drew that kind of bloody suspense style story turned out to be a 15-year-old junior high school girl, but the inexplicable painting skills were reasonably explained.

He pondered it for a while and decided to announce the results straight to the point: "I'm sorry, classmate Liang Yu, your submission failed this time. ”

"Didn't you pass, I know, I'll try to keep submitting." Liang Yu, who said this, stood up from his position, looking like the conversation had ended and was about to leave.

"Wait," Guo Pinyuan shouted anxiously, the other party was a middle school student at the end, considering the other party's psychological capacity, was he too straightforward, since he chose to interview, it stands to reason that the editor should have commented on the shortcomings of the work, but Guo Pinyuan was afraid that saying too much would hit the enthusiasm of others and scare the little girl away: "When did Liang Yu start drawing comics?" ”

"Two months ago, but if I came into contact with comics earlier, I just didn't read a lot of genres before, and I have only recently made up for some evil."

"It's only been two months?" Guo Pinyuan glanced down at the comics, it was understandable that it was only so long, after all, the other party was still so young. After thinking about it, he looked at the girl's innocent face: "Liang Yu, to be honest, your painting skills are unqualified if you want to be published in a magazine, which is also the biggest reason why your submission is not selected, you need to spend more time and more energy to hone it, but you are still young, as long as you have the enthusiasm and willingness to spend time on this, you will definitely improve." ”

"Yes."

"I came to you today, in fact, the story I wrote for you, to be honest, the story is very attractive, if there is no drag of the painting style, I am afraid it has reached the level where it can be published."

"I'll work hard." Liang Yu said seriously.

"I know, but practice is one thing, in my opinion, sharpening story creation is also a practice that cannot be ignored, and it is a talent that you have yourself, Liang Yu, do you want to try to submit to the script competition?"

"Script contest?"

"It's something similar to a movie shooting storyboard, like this-" Guo Pinyuan opened Liang Yu's comic manuscript and flipped out the first one in front of her: "P1-1, the dark alley of the street in the middle of the night, P1-2, the close-up of the two protagonists desperately panting and running, P1-3 is out of the ordinary, and the two are chasing one after the other. This is followed by a little bit of parameters set by the protagonist, as well as a description of the environment. ”

"Just write the comics out of words?" Liang Yu said in surprise

"That's right," Guo Pinyuan stretched out a finger, "the script contest is to solicit those good ideas and good stories, so that those who like comics but can't draw can also participate in the creation of comics." ”

"But I want to be a cartoonist." Liang Yu said.

"Script writers are also manga artists, and in fact, many popular manga are created by script writers and artists. And I don't mean that you should only write stories all the time, since you want to draw, then try to improve your drawing skills, but after all, this is a long-term process, and it can't be achieved overnight. ”

The girl was silent, and Guo Pinyuan was also inexplicably nervous for the first time, because this feeling was like persuasion.

Half a day-

"I see, I'll write the script as the editor says."

"Great, by the way, if you write it, send it to me by E-mail, you don't have to run over or send emails, do you know how to use a computer?"

Liang Yu nodded.

"Then this is my email address, and my phone number, you can contact me if you have any questions."

"When is the Script Contest?"

"Fantasy's script contest is held twice a year, in January in the first half of the year and in July in the second half of the year, so don't worry, please write a few more stories and send them to me before that."

"Understood."

Seeing the girl leave, Guo Pinyuan couldn't figure out why he said so much to a 15-year-old girl, was it because that story moved him? But Guo Pinyuan still has some doubts that someone helped to complete that story, and there are many people who can only create one story, and then they can no longer write a good story.

But inexplicably, Guo Pinyuan has such an incredible feeling that that girl will be a rising star in the future.

"I'm thinking too much." With a self-deprecating smile, Guo Pinyuan scratched his head and returned to the editing room.