Chapter 25 Undercurrent Surge
Bai Duliang is 44 years old this year. He is a third-rate but prolific comic strip author who is famous for his 'reference' and crude production.
Yes, Bai Duliang is an unemployed comic book author because he can't resist the tide of new comics and the collapse of the comic strip market.
Bai Duliang has been thinking about why time can't stay in the 1980s forever these days - how good it is to be in the 1980s! That Hegel, a bullshit philosophy book can sell millions of copies; a comic book author like himself, who is a very poor painter, can draw two or thirty thousand sets of the first print of a thing...
But what about now? Now, it's all over! It's over!
No one has read the comic strip.
What's so good about those damn Japanese comics?!
Nowadays, children read Japanese garbage comics all day long. What's the use when they grow up? Only by looking at the comic strips I drew can I grow into a useful talent for the country!
"Damn...Damn Japanese comics!"
Bai Duliang scolded mania, and he smashed the porcelain teacup on the table to the ground, and then gasped.
Just yesterday, Bai Duliang spent all his efforts to draw an original comic book that he thought integrated the essence of the new Japanese comics. When he took it to Silian Publishing House to try to find publication, editor Zhao of Silian Publishing House packed up his things and told him coldly: "Lao Bai, not to mention your comic strip, that is It is impossible for our company to produce the comic strips of those masters.
"Lao Zhao, hurry up!" Outside the door, someone shouted.
"I'm coming!" Editor Zhao hurriedly packed his things and found that Bai Duliang stood still and said impatiently, "Lao Bai, go back and find something else to do. There has been no market for comic strips for a long time! Besides, what the hell did you draw? "Dragon Ball vs. Saints", thanks to what you can think of... Well, I'm in a hurry to catch the train with the vice president to go to Tianjiao Club in Wufeng County to talk about the publication of "Go Boy". If you really want to continue to draw, then go back and make a few copies of "Anime Youth" to study carefully. Research, that is what is in line with the development of the times..."
After saying that, Editor Zhao no longer cared about Bai Duliang and went out with a big bag on his back.
Bai Duliang stood in the magazine for a long time before returning home in frustration.
Editor Zhao's words made Bai Duliang very curious about "Anime Boy". He begged his father to sue his grandmother to finally get the third trial issue of "Anime Boy". He found "Go Boy" that was mentioned by editor Zhao to be published by the agent.
However, after reading the current serialization, Bai Duliang was depressed to find that with his painting work, not only Meng Jiji, the author of the Go teenager, was not only ten thousand miles away, but also those submitted works that were selected for registration were not as good as...
So in the end, Bai Duliang came to the conclusion that if a new comic magazine like "Anime Boy" continues to develop, then he will never have a chance to publish comic strips as editor Zhao said.
This Tianjiao magazine that cut off my wealth! This Meng Jiji, who cut off my way of money!
I want to find a way to make this damn magazine, this damn Meng Jiji!
You make me feel bad, and I will never make you feel better!
But...what on earth should I do?
Bai Duliang thought about it and felt that if he wanted to hit Tianjiao Society and Meng Jiji, it seemed that he could only post articles from their magazines.
That's right! Just write an article that the children are addicted to these damn comics. As a result, they don't even read the textbooks. When they learn the article that is corrupted, the title of the article is called - just called "The Schoolbag is Crying"!
No, my writing is not good. I have to find another young man with good writing to be a gunman for me...
"Lao Bai, Lao Bai, there are guests at home!"
Just as Bai Duliang gritted his teeth and thought about what to do to hit Tianjiao Society and Meng Jiji, who made him unable to publish, his wife pushed the door and hurried in.
"You useless mother-in-law - just say hello by yourself, don't bother me!" Bai Duliang roared impatiently.
"I can't say hello!" Bai Duliang's wife said cowardly, "He said that he was a Song producer of the animation department of Taiwan in his province, and he wanted to see you by name."
......
At the moment when Bai Duliang and Zhu Jianqiang merged, Meng Zhe was guiding Yao Feila, Chen Xiang and Jiang Ling, who had just arrived, some of the most basic comic skills.
Under Meng Zhe's in-depth and simple explanation, the three 'Xin students' were intoxicated and shouted that they had known this. When the first trial issue of "Anime Boy" was published, they should follow the address on the journal and listen to the class at their own expense!
It can give lectures to the pillars of China's future comic industry and make them show special expressions of worship, which greatly satisfied Meng Zhe's vanity. Therefore, Meng Zhe spoke more vigorously. He did not know at all that a storm that was enough to destroy him had begun to brew quietly.
After finishing the lecture for Yao Feila and the three of them, Meng Zhe, who was still not satisfied, went to his studio and planned to draw a few more paintings by ** Peng Fei.
However, when he passed by Kong Lan's president's office, he was stopped by Kong Lan.
"Xiao Zhe, do you know the Japanese Tezuka Award?" Kong Lan, who stopped Meng Zhe, asked like this.
"I know a little." Meng Zhe nodded and replied.
Meng Zhe of Tezuka Award really knows that this is a comic award established in 1972 by Shueisha, one of the three giants of Nihong Comics - in Nihong in China, this is a very authoritative comic award.
"My classmate just called and said that he hoped that Xiao Zhe could make a 31P short story for Chess Soul, and then take it to participate in this Tezuka Award."
Since Meng Zhe knows the Tezuka Award, Kong Lan doesn't have to waste time explaining what the Tezuka Award is, so she said bluntly.
"Participate in the Tezuka Award? This is... OK, I'll start painting right away. Meng Zhe lowered his head and thought for a moment, and then felt that this seemed to be a good opportunity. If he could win the first place in the Tezuka Award, his value would be much higher, wouldn't he? In this way, you can come back from the mud to cheat some manuscript money, right?
By the way, the prize for the first place in the Tezuka Award seems to be one million yuan? The conversion of Chengrenmin coins is also more than 80,000 yuan, which is a lot of money in this era...
Very good, let's fight for this million yuan bonus!
It happens to be the weekend again tomorrow...
"Ah, that's right! Sister Lan, has the survey data of thousands of people in the third phase been counted? Before returning to the studio, Meng Zhe suddenly remembered that he had not seen the survey data of the third issue of the magazine, so he asked casually.
"The ranking situation is the same as the speed report data. Chess Soul First, Go Boy Second, Dream Eater Third... Other data are also not much different from the previous two issues." Kong Lan did not take the data for Meng Zhe, but directly reported the data that Meng Zhe was most concerned about.
"Invincible, it's kind of... lonely."
Meng Zhe shook his hair and said, and then got Kong Lan's fierce face 'reward'.
"Pinch you to death and let you pretend to be cool in front of my sister!" After Kong Lan pinched it a few times, he let go of Meng Zhe's cheek and continued to say, "Xiao Zhe, tomorrow a publishing house wants to talk to us about the publication of Go Boy, and there seems to be a reporter from the Western Kyoto Daily..."
---split line---
Well, after getting up, I tragically found that there was a power outage, and then now the power came...
Thank you: incomprehensible black cat (black cat sheriff baa...), Lucifer-Satan, book friend 95104253, Yuexiang-Ningci (in fact, what I want to see is Hinata...), ngstone, Mi Jing, Duke of Siberia (the name is good, I like it~)... The beating of six book friends Support~O(∩_∩)O~
Finally, the update time of the second chapter has been moved to 12 p.m. Oh, it's the weekend...%>_<%
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