My Cartoonist Guide

Chapter 391 Meetings and Web Comics

When everyone was discussing "Smelting Steel", Xu Jie also entered the magazine with a happy face.

The others looked at Xu Jie with confusion.

Xu Jie felt that everyone was abnormal, and asked in puzzlement, "What's wrong with you?"

"No. You look very happy." Jian Xiaomei asked curiously.

"Ms. Zuo's name has been handed in." Xu Jie smiled.

"Really? How about this time?"

Wang Wenhong has some impressions of Zuo Yuan. It really takes a lot of courage for him to serialize a short story like "Mountain God" on "icfuture".

"Fortunately, after modification, the new name is much better. Wait a minute, please ask the team leaders to review, and then write comments." Xu Jie saw the left and right, and the current team leader and editor-in-chief are not there, so he said curiously, "What about the team leader?"

"The meeting is upstairs," Yan Fei said.

"Huh? A meeting? What kind of meeting is this time? It's not time for the serialization meeting, is it?" Xu Jie asked.

"It's not a serial meeting, it seems to be some kind of online comic." Wang Wenhong picked up his teacup and took a sip.

"Huh? The online version? The price may be cheaper, but it's not very convenient, right?" Xu Jie asked puzzled.

Shang Haozhi once mentioned this model at the meeting, but he was not optimistic about it.

Compared with magazines, the online version does have its own advantage - cost. It is equivalent to saving the printing house and travel expenses.

But doing so also has disadvantages,

Viewed on the computer, it is not as good as a magazine in the end. Moreover, once readers accept this method, bookstores and printing houses are estimated to be in danger.

"By the way, is Teacher Zuo in trouble?" Wang Wenhong asked.

"It's really difficult to bring a daughter. However, the daughter is very sensible, and "Mountain God" also eased Teacher Zuo's crisis." Xu Jie sighed.

Both Wang Wenhong and Yan Fei felt helpless. Although they wanted to help, they couldn't take the initiative to intervene. Unless Xu Jie asked them to help, otherwise, it would be equivalent to not believing in Xu Jie's ability.

Editing, too, has dignity.

"You have a great responsibility." Wang Wenhong sighed.

Xu Jie nodded, "I know, that's why I want to help Teacher Zuo as much as possible and publish the short story again. If the results are good, maybe it can be serialized."

"You have confidence in this short story." Jian Xiaomei said.

"Okay?" Xu Jie rubbed his nose, "If I can use my strength to help Teacher Zuo, it will be the greatest compliment to me."

Being able to change the author's life should be the greatest achievement of every editor, right?

Yan Fei knew Xu Jie's feelings very well, so she could only nod slightly, "Come on."

"Well, yes." Xu Jie put the name on the file rack, quietly waiting for the team leaders to come back.

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Shang Haozhi originally wanted to discuss web comics with Bao Jiyi, but Bao Jiyi directly threw the matter to him.

"You have been in charge of this matter from the very beginning. Even if you call me, I will be useless. Besides, I don't have so much time to deal with this matter. I am optimistic about you, but I have a word to remind you, hurry up." Bao Jiyi He patted Shang Haozhi's shoulder with a relaxed expression.

It's not that he doesn't have time, but he has completely delegated power in this matter.

After all, no one can say for sure what web comics will look like in the future, and it is still in the groping stage.

In particular, how to balance the charges has caused many people headaches.

If the price is set low, the profits of cartoonists will be damaged, and if the price is too high, readers will not buy it.

Now we can only take one step at a time.

This is also the reason why Shang Haozhi called out the deputy editor-in-chief and the three team leaders separately. The plan has not yet taken shape, so there is no need to involve more people.

"This is the list of the first batch of electronic comics I gave you, a total of 50. This batch of comics is about 20 years old, and many of the paper versions are lacking. The latter form is what I asked the sales department for. Basically, there is a certain amount of data missing in the single volume of each comic. However, the original version is still in our hands, and there is no big problem in resurrecting these comics.

"At that time, these comics were very famous. Some comics are not even worse than "Killer Diary". I think you can try it."

The other four editors have all worked long hours and are very familiar with the comics on the list, which were indeed smash hits at the time.

"These comics are quite famous, but isn't the style of some comics a little old?" Zeng Yue questioned.

"So there will be classifications, old-style comics, and make it a nostalgic area. People who read these comics at that time were about the same age as us. If they can see these comics again, can they remind them of their youth What’s more, ten or twenty years have passed, and some plots have been forgotten. Launching the online version at this time is likely to arouse their interest.”

"That's true. When people get older, they will think about things when they were young." Jia Hui talked.

Among these people, he was the oldest, so he was the most touched.

"If the senior management agrees, we can start immediately and sign an electronic version of the contract with the author." Shang Haozhi took a pen and recorded the main points in his notebook.

"But... isn't it too fast? Web comics shouldn't become mainstream, right?" Li Junwen asked.

"I had the same idea as you, but after I went online, I realized that I was wrong." Shang Haozhi sighed, "There are already web comics on the Internet."

"Huh?"

The three of Zeng Yue made surprise sounds at the same time, and then they suddenly realized.

"Editor-in-chief, are you talking about the pirated version of District 11?"

Even though Huaxia in this world attaches great importance to copyright, there will still be fish that slip through the net.

In fact, this problem is not limited to China, but also in District 11. Otherwise, "Soul of Chess" would not have spread to District 11 at that time, let alone the Han Kingdom. "Soul of Chess" has never been sold in the Han country, but the readers of the Han country can take care of it.

"No. These comics are actually comics serialized on the forums. According to the information I got from diving in these forums, these cartoonists were originally fan authors, but you also know that fan authors are sometimes more eager to be recognized. In fact, they also have their own jobs, and it is impossible to be full-time, so they draw more than ten or twenty pages a month and post them on the forum for everyone to read.

"Due to the basic skills of these people and the lack of editorial guidance, the plot tends to go astray. Sometimes, in order to attract readers' attention, they may even take risks and draw the content that crosses the line. But I have to say , Such forums are gradually increasing, and they also have a certain readership. To be honest, I suspect that the decline in magazine sales has something to do with the rise of forum comics.”

"Why? You also said that there are content problems in these comics. Why would it affect the sales of our magazine?" Jia Hui was puzzled.

"It's very simple, because these comics serialized in the forum are free, and at most some forum currency will be required." Shang Haozhi explained.

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