Chapter 28 The First Issue of Rurouni Kenshin!
Two weeks have gone by, and during these two weeks, there has been a lot of turmoil in the comics scene in Los Angeles.
Dong Yun, a top cartoonist under the Fengyu Comics Club, did not choose to renew the contract with Fengyu after the contract expired. Instead, he chose to join the Cuttlefish Comics Club, which is the same three journals in Los Angeles, to start a new serialization.
According to the fact that Manying spent a full five pages in the last issue and other journals of the Cuttlefish Comics Society to promote its new work The Hidden Girl, it can be said that the Hidden Girl has not been officially serialized, and its name is already well known in the comics industry and the reader circle. Has a lot of fame.
On the contrary, another new work published in the same journal as the Hidden Girl, the Rurouni Kenshin Remembrance has almost no publicity resources.
Originally, most people in the editorial department of the Cuttlefish Comics proposed to give the Rurouni Kenshin Remembrance at least the same level of publicity resources as the new works of its quasi-first-line cartoonists.
However, Song Jiayu said at the meeting that his author Shui Xin's qualifications were too low to be worthy of Cuttlefish's use of resources to promote it, and the matter was settled.
But in the comics circles in the whole of Los Angeles, to be precise in Ming City, Shuixin's name has been brought up during this time.
The outsiders don't know the inside story, and they, the comic practitioners, don't know yet?
This rookie cartoonist named The Garden of Words and Leaves was only serialized on a journal of the level of Moying before, and his second work actually won the votes of many editors at the serialization meeting of the Moyu Comics. Dong Yun's new work, The Secret Girl, is a serialization opportunity obtained by squeezing it out.
It made the entire Ming City comics industry stunned, I couldn't believe it.
To say that Cuttlefish Comics took so much effort to dig up Dong Yun, it is definitely not to suppress her, but give her a slap in the face!
So what's up with this?
Dong Yun's new work lost to the newcomer's work? It was only by cutting a piece of work that the cuttlefish gave Dong Yun a chance to serialize.
Is this joking?
And according to insider information, the new cartoonist named Shui Xin has a high-quality new work, and he was qualified for serialization by beating the secret girl in a meeting with his strength.
Therefore, the new issue of Manying is released today. Many people in the comics industry active in Los Angeles not only want to see the quality of Dong Yun's new work, but also have a very high interest in the work of Rurouni Kenshin Remembrance. .
As a professional comic commentator, Xiao Shan naturally also has a great interest in this issue of Man Ying.
After years of evolution, the literary circles of the Long Kingdom have formed such a business model with geographical boundaries.
Literary works, novels, comics, etc. of each province are generally only spread in each province, and cannot be spread outside the local province at all. This is a self-protection policy of local forces, but it is also because of this that these local publishing houses and magazines. , the business scope of the manga agency cannot be expanded.
There are pros and cons.
As for Xinman.com, which Xiaoshan belongs to, because of the particularity of the network, this kind of geographical spread in the real world cannot naturally radiate to the network, so Xinman.com has also won the favor of fans from all over the Dragon Kingdom.
Manga fans from various provinces will exchange the excellent manga works of their respective provinces on this website.
After a long time, the demand has naturally led to the birth of professional comic commentators like Xiaoshan.
Basically, Xinman.com has one or two people in charge like Xiaoshan in each province, who are responsible for digging out the excellent comics in the local province, and act as commentators to post on Xinman.com!
This is his hobby and his job.
The unified publishing time of the journals on Manying is every Friday.
It is the time for students to have their weekends off.
Perhaps because Dong Yun's new work was published in this issue of Manying, the sales of Manying are extremely hot in today's bookstores.
Xiaoshan searched several bookstores before he found a bookstore that had not sold out the journal Manying.
At the same time, after school in the afternoon, many students from primary and secondary schools also rushed to the bookstore. After all, the biggest audience for comic journals is them!
Qin Qianyu is no exception. She also bought this issue of Manying today. She has always liked to buy Tianyin comics under Fengyu Comics. After all, most of Tianyin's serialized works are girl comics. .
However, firstly, Dong Yun's new work, a well-known cartoonist of Tianyin Comics, was serialized on Manying. Second, Qin Qianyu discovered that there was a small promotion on the last page of the last issue of Moying.
"The original Ink Shadow serialized cartoonist, the author of The Garden of Words, Shui Xin's new work Rurouni Kenshin Memories will be serialized in the next issue of Man Ying, so stay tuned!"
After the end of the Garden of Words, Shuixin's popularity gradually declined, and now, two weeks later, basically few people mention this work and its author.
Even her younger sister and cousins, who are loyal fans of the Garden of Words, hardly mention Shuixin after the Garden of Words ended.
This is the reality of the comics world, without a classic, good, long-term serialization, your readers will forget you in just a few days.
If it wasn't confirmed that Chu Yu was Shui Xin, Qin Qianyu would probably be the same, although the two had not had much contact since he asked Chu Yu for an autograph abruptly that day.
But Chu Yu wandered around in front of Qin Qianyu all day, and it was difficult for Qin Qianyu to ignore his existence.
After realizing that Chu Yuxin had serialized a new book, as a fan of the Garden of Words, she finally couldn't bear her curiosity and bought a book of this issue.
Only Chu Yu went straight home after school.
For him, the serialization of the Rurouni Kenshin. Reminiscence is only compared to the Garden of Words, but his manuscript fee has increased from 220 yuan per page to 600 yuan per page.
He has only changed from a cartoonist with a weekly salary of more than 4,000 to a cartoonist with a weekly salary of more than 10,000.
Thinking like this, Chu Yu suddenly became a little restless.
"I seem to be a rich man?"
Compared to Chu Yu, who used to spend 800 yuan a month before, after the serialization of Rurouni Kenshin, his monthly income soared to nearly 50,000 Dragon National Coins.
Not to mention in second-tier cities like Los Angeles, even in first-tier cities like Modu or even Imperial Capital, he is a properly high-income group.
For a while, Chu Yu was a little confused.
This money is too unrealistic, and it seems completely different from the hard money taught in school!
However, his confusion disappeared when he went upstairs and saw Su Yan standing in front of his house with a large bag of vegetables.
"Are you really addicted to coming here to eat and eat?" Chu Yu said coldly.
"What is rubbing? Didn't I buy all the ingredients?" Su Yan said with a smile when he heard the words.
Since the three of them drank together two weeks ago, the relationship between the three seems to have changed a little.
Apart from the cooperative relationship in their respective identities, it seems that the relationship between them is moving towards friends.
At least when Chu Yu met Zhao Qinyin at school during this period of time, the two would stop and talk.
There is a lot less unfamiliarity between them, and a lot less vigilance.
And since Su Yu came to discuss some comic matters with Chu Yu last week, after Chu Yu cooked a table of meals to entertain her, she ran to Chu Yu every three days. Originally, Chu Yu was lazy to order takeout to solve the meal. The problem is, she is good. Every time she comes here, she buys a bunch of dishes she wants to eat. The name is to add some nutrition to the cartoonists under the banner, so that there are problems with takeaway food. In fact, she wants Chu Yu to cook. Food for her.
Ugh.
Chu Yu was a little speechless, rolled her eyes at her, took out the key and opened the door.
The time is already December, the weather temperature has plummeted, and the white mist will escape between the breath and the breath.
After looking at the ingredients that Su Yan bought, Chu Yu said.
"I'm too lazy to do any tricks, just cook it into a hot pot and stew it in one pot."
"Yes yes yes! Listen to Chef Chu!" After Su Yan finished speaking, he ran to the stove, turned on the electricity and sat watching TV.
Seeing this, it was Chu Yu who made the move again.
Shaking his head, Chu Yu was too lazy to talk nonsense. He washed rice, vegetables, cut meat, and boiled water by himself.
When it was almost time for dinner, there was a knock on the door.
Su Yan ran over and opened the door.
It was Zhao Qinyin.
"Here?" Chu Yu nodded.
"Okay, let's eat together!"
Today is the day when the first episode of Rurouni Kenshin Memories was released, and it was also the first day when Chu Yu and Zhao Qinyin agreed to continue to work as assistants for the follow-up comics of Rurouni Kenshin Memories.
Originally, Chu Yu wanted to invite Zhao Qinyin out to dinner, but he didn't have to worry about Su Yu having bought the vegetables!
Zhao Qinyin was hesitant at first, but couldn't help the two to persuade each other.
The stove, the hot pot, the three people in a circle, the boiling water mist.
For a time, Chu Yu felt that his home was a lot more lively. Since his parents were gone, he rarely felt this kind of feeling.
Su Yan's face continued to smile, and Zhao Qinyin unconsciously had a slight smile on the corner of his mouth. Although Chu Yu was still stern, his eyes softened a lot.
Unlike Chu Yu's author, assistant, and editor, the three people's relaxed eating situation is different.
Song Jiayu and Dong Yun had dinner together in a western restaurant.
"How is it?" Dong Yun looked at Song Jiayu.
"The popularity vote results are in."
"The magic realm is number one, with more than 35,000 votes."
"Secret Girl is second, with more than 31,000 votes."
"Tianshu is third, and the number of votes is just over 30,000."
"It's not bad. The results of the first episode of Hidden Girl have caught up with the original two giants of Manying. Now with you, these three works are the three giants of Manying! The momentum continues, and the summit is just around the corner!" Song Jiayu looked like Seems to be in a good mood.
"What about the Rurouni Kenshin Remembrance?" Dong Yun asked.
"That work?" Song Jiayu smiled.
"It seems that the work is a little unacceptable!"
"The number of votes in 12 hours was just over 4,000 votes, ranking 11th among the 20 works serialized by Manying. It seems that my guess is correct. Although his work is of high quality, RB The setting of the protagonist is still a huge influence! And I also used my strength to give the publicity resources originally given to this work to the hidden girl." Song Jiayu sneered.
"Even if this work is of high quality, the fragrance of wine is also afraid of deep alleys. A work does not mean that it will be popular if it is published on a good platform. The quality is very important, and so is the publicity. Otherwise, there will not be so many movies every year. The work is cut in half."
"Maybe the results of this issue are the peak of this work, and the popularity will become lower and lower in the future, and finally be cut in half?" Song Jiayu said.
"The situation is not yet determined, don't rush to a conclusion." Dong Yun put on light makeup today, but her beautiful makeup couldn't hide the solemn expression on her face.
"You said before that this work is mainly because the third episode is too amazing, especially the last scene of the third episode. Because of the length of the new series, the Rurouni Kenshin and the Hidden Girl both serialized the content of two episodes in the first issue."
"In this case, until the voting results of Manying's serial work come out next week, the results of this work cannot be judged.