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Chapter 211 You Are Worse Than Salted Fish! (seeking subscription)

For the vast majority of grassroots cartoonists, the opportunity for long-form serialization is rare, and without certain strength and characteristics, no publishing house will ask you to serialize long-length novels.

In most cases, cartoonists will choose to create some short comics and submit them to different publishing houses according to the characteristics of the comics.The production of short comics is fast, the review is fast, and the money comes in quickly. If it becomes popular, the future will be great.

"Currently, the largest comic magazines and publishers in the industry, as far as I know, are Foot River, Sunday, JUMP, and Dengeki. The circulation of each issue of these four giants is in the tens of millions. To submit articles to these four giants, Once adopted, it means a huge royalties."

"At the same time, being adopted by these four giants is the best affirmation of our cartoonists' ability, and it is very helpful to enhance the reputation of our little Xiami."

"Our goal should be the four giants of comics!"

Zhou Mi's eyes hesitated at this time, and he raised his hand hesitantly: "But... the boss."

Li Ze smiled slightly: "I know what you want to say, but as a human being, you should always have a little dream."

"Do you think that if you don't have a dream, you will become a salted fish?"

"wrong!"

"No dreams! You are not even as good as salted fish!"

Hearing Li Ze's words, Zhou Xia, who was crooked and lacking energy, suddenly lit up, sat up neatly, and listened carefully to Li Ze's speech.

"but……"

Li Ze changed the subject, "As small shrimps in the industry, we still need to have a B number in our hearts. The four giants, that's a matter of the future. In order to eat beef instead of drinking northwest wind next month, we need to put our The manuscripts are handed over to small publishing houses with lower requirements."

Li Ze explained his thoughts: Not only did he not look for the Big Four and some other big publishing houses for the time being, but he even directly ignored some medium-sized publishing houses, and precisely positioned various finely divided small comic publishing houses.

"Find your own position accurately, and strive to pass manuscripts quickly. Don't think that a small publishing house is not well-known, but you can make a lot of money with a dull voice. Sometimes, the economic benefits of a small publishing house are not worse than that of a large company!"

Everyone agrees with what Li Ze said.

I once dreamed of walking the world with a sword, but later found that I not only have no sword, but also no horse.

Although they once had great ambitions and wanted to conquer Jiaochuan, Sunday, JUMP and Electric Shock, but after consecutive failures, reality has taught Xiami brothers and sisters to be human.

The current Xiami brothers and sisters just want to choose any publishing house, as long as they submit the manuscript and pay the manuscript fee.

Therefore, when Li Ze proposed to abandon large and medium-sized publishing houses and focus on small magazines, everyone even took the initiative to applaud.

The subtext is probably: fortunately, the boss has a bit of B number in his heart.

After deciding to use short comics to attack small comic magazines, you need to determine the subject matter and content of the comics.

Li Ze said: "I know that comics are more inspirational. Generally speaking, cartoonists decide the subject matter they want to draw according to their own situation and interests."

"But now, since we are already a professional comic studio, we need to discuss issues in a commercial way."

Li Ze casually flipped through a few drafts of the Xiami brothers and sisters. These were basically waste products that had been rejected by various publishing houses before, and the attributes were naturally appalling.

"The Overbearing School Grass Falls in Love with Me": Drawing skill 11, character 2, plot 8, personality 5.
"President, don't chase me! ": Drawing skill 13, character 9, plot 2, personality 7.
"The decisive battle of Yanliu Island is surging!" ": Drawing skill 15, character 17, plot 3, personality 9.
After flipping through it casually, and looking at the appalling attributes, Li Ze said against his will: "The painting is still very good."

"But today, unfortunately, we are here to find out the problem and solve it. So, I have to make some comments, which are not only from the boss, but also from an ordinary manga reader."

Li Ze pushed the non-existent glasses frame on the bridge of his nose, and raised his voice by three points.

"Cough cough!"

Everyone knew that the topic was coming, and they all pretended to be good students who listened carefully to the class.

"Brother Shrimp, do you know why such a good manuscript of yours is rejected by so many large, medium and small publishing houses?"

Brother Xia glanced at Li Ze helplessly, and said in a decadent and hoarse voice: "Even the top editors are just repeating the same thing every day, following the same routine as yesterday, and living in the cage of work. Editor It’s blind, running blindly, thinking that you have mastered the rules of the industry, but in the midst of blooming and fading, let the really good works slip away.”

Li Ze understood Brother Xia's meaning, he was not good at the draft, it was all because of the blindness of the reviewing editor!
Brother Xia has no B number.

Well, it's okay, it's the artists' unruliness and self-confidence, and it's good to have this kind of self-confidence.

But Li Ze still told the truth and pointed out Brother Xia's shortcomings.

"Brother Shrimp, after reading your comics, I think you are really talented. It doesn't just refer to drawing skills, but also refers to the sentences and thoughts conveyed in your comics."

Li Ze first boasted about Brother Xia, so as not to hurt the employees' self-confidence too much.

Then Li Ze commented: "For example, in this part, in the part of the final battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi, the opening chapter is a super long shot that makes readers suffocate."

"At the same time, a large number of monologues reflecting the hearts of the two sides in the duel appeared like a tide, and it even described the psychology of the two sides in the duel very wonderfully."

"But there is a problem. These monologues are too cryptic and profound. For someone like me, who has rich life experience, I like these swordsmen's inner monologues very much. The truth in these lines reminds me of "Legend of Sword Wind", "Monster", "Twentieth Century Boy", "Nana" and "Great Sword".

"But we are commercial comics, and our target group is mostly teenagers. Those small comic magazines are pursuing simplicity and straightforwardness to directly arouse the emotions of readers."

"Frankly speaking...Brother Shrimp, your comics are too artistic and in-depth, not suitable for primary school students. And this kind of in-depth comics have a much lower chance of success. In order to cater to the market, sometimes we have to make esoteric comics The truth is expressed in a simplified way.”

"After all, simplifying the profound truth is also a kind of ability, hehe!"

While bragging against his conscience, Li Ze also put forward his own opinions.

After Li Ze finished speaking, Brother Xia stared blankly, frantically flipped through several of his manga manuscripts, and read them out to himself.

"Overflowing thoughts, over and over again..."

"The deep seabed is shining with the light of swordsmanship..."

"I eagerly look forward to experiencing the indulgence of a decisive battle, even if a huge defeat will follow, I will not hesitate."

"Although in the past life, I have wished someone to kill me countless times, but I never thought about killing people. Because facing a terrible opponent, I only think about how to make the other party happy."

"I am... Sasaki Kojiro. I have finally passed this life with ease."

While Brother Xia was still talking to himself, Li Ze said to Zhou Mi, who was also deep in thought: "Xiaomi, do you know what your problem is?"

Zhou Mi thought for a while, then hesitantly replied: "Is it because I am too deep, so it is difficult to understand?"

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