Chapter 103 Signing a Contract

The next day, Chu Yu took a leave of absence and came to Xuangui Comics alone.

Inside the Xuangui Comics Club, Li Xi had been waiting for a long time. He was dressed in professional ol' attire as usual, and his whole person looked capable and energetic.

As soon as Chu Yu walked into Xuangui Comics, he found the office where Li Xi was located.

"Please sit down!" Li Xi said after seeing Chu Yu.

After getting up and pouring a cup of hot tea for Chu Yu, he closed the door by the way, and the whole room was in a closed environment.

"I don't need to say anything more. Just yesterday, at the serialization meeting of the Xuangui Comics, your work Natsume's Book of Friends and another work, the Secret Realm of Thousand Stars, were selected by the editor-in-chief Deng He, plus another work. There are three excellent works in the secondary journals of Buxuangui, which will be serialized in the current issue of Shuiyuan in three weeks!"

"Three weeks later?" Chu Yu's eyes narrowed.

Before coming, Chu Yu naturally knew that his work could successfully pass the serialization meeting.

But he didn't expect Xuan Gui's efficiency to be so high. It was only yesterday that he decided which works could be published on Shuiyuan, and the next day he immediately set the publication date of the works.

"This is the contract signed. You can take a look at it first. If there is no problem, I will print it out and complete the signing." Li Xi put a laptop in front of Chu Yu.

It is a long contract.

Fortunately, after the Song Jiayu incident and his dealings with the cuttlefish, Chu Yu has a much stronger awareness of the relevant laws. Although he does not say that he is proficient in the laws of the Dragon Kingdom, at least he also understands the contract cheating cases in the comic industry. Pass.

He can see the pits in ordinary contracts.

Of course, Chu Yu still had a certain degree of trust in Li Xi, Su Yan's good friend, but he had to be defensive, so this contract was taken very seriously by Chu Yu.

Finally, after changing three cups of tea in front of Li Xi, Chu Yu finally took his eyes off the electronic contract.

I breathed a sigh of relief.

In general, this contract is quite satisfactory, and there are no pitfalls.

The main key content is the following points.

First, the remuneration for comics is 2,000 Dragon National Dollars per page.

Chu Yu had no opinion on this point.

Although on the surface, the remuneration of 2,000 Dragon National Coins is only a thousand yuan more than the remuneration offered by Man Ying.

Compared with the two journals Manying and Shuiyuan, the gap between the two may be described as heaven and earth.

Each page is only a thousand dollars higher, which is really sorry for the status of the journal Shuiyuan.

But when it comes to cartoonists who can serialize cartoons in journals like Shuiyuan, who cares about the mere salary income?

It is different from the Japanese comics in the parallel planes, which are popular all over the world.

In the Dragon Kingdom plane, although it is still the Japanese island that has carried forward the theme of comics, the potential strength of the Dragon Kingdom mainland area to come from behind cannot be ignored either.

At least, in the current Longguo comics industry, the entire animation market is extremely regulated, with a strong sense of copyright, and the number of fans it has cultivated is even more numerous.

In parallel time and space, hundreds of millions of works sold in a single book can be described as the ceiling of the comics industry, and most of them are concentrated in the Japanese region of that world.

However, in the Dragon Kingdom plane, with a population base of more than one billion, the difficulty of breaking through 100 million in a single comic book is much lower than that in parallel time and space.

And in this world, the Dragon Kingdom is definitely a unique existence in the world comic market.

In short, the whole world of comics is imitating the Dragon Kingdom.

Therefore, sales in overseas markets should not be underestimated.

This has also created a large group of staggering rich people in the Longguo comics industry.

There are many cartoonists with annual income of hundreds of millions of dollars relying on single-line royalties and animation adaptations.

It is not uncommon for the names of several old cartoonists to appear on the Dragon Country Rich List.

In such an environment, everyone would definitely not care about the mere remuneration for comics.

In the contract, many cartoonists care about the share of copyright.

Comics are serialized in journals, and the comics society helps you promote the comics. Naturally, the comics society will also get a share of the copyright revenue of your works.

In this contract, the royalty rate of Chu Yu's comics on the issue of a single edition is 8%

Chu Yu looked at Li Xi.

"Li Xi, this is about the proportion of comic royalties"

"There's no need to talk about this!" Li Xi stopped what Chu Yu wanted to say.

"The rules of the Xuangui Comics Society are that any cartoonist who serializes comics in the journal Shuiyuan for the first time will have this ratio in terms of the proportion of the remuneration for the single-line manuscript!"

"If you want to talk to Xuangui on this issue, then at least it's after your comic has achieved impressive results and serialized a new work! At that time, nine percent, ten percent, or even higher. The percentage of royalties is possible, but it all depends on your track record.”

Chu Yu heard the words and was silent for a long time.

"Understood!"

Chu Yu didn't bother about this. Thoughts were important, but they also had to look at reality.

Right now, he really has no way to negotiate conditions with Xuan Gui.

For the rest, there are animation adaptations, adaptations of other themes, and the distribution of peripheral products in the contract, which are basically normal standards in the industry.

"I have no opinion!" Chu Yu nodded.

"Okay!" Li Xi smiled.

He neatly printed out the contract and instructed Chu Yu on where and how to sign it.

five minutes later.

Li Xi put away the contract and extended his hand to Chu Yu.

Chu Yu also stood up to respond to her, and the two held their hands together.

"Welcome to join Xuangui!" Li Xi looked at Chu Yu with a smile.

After this moment, she is Chu Yu's comic editor, which means that the two have officially established a cooperative relationship, Chu Yu's physical and mental state, the progress of comic serialization, and her personal life, she must be involved to varying degrees. .

At the same time, the achievements of Chu Yu's works are also related to her personal income on Xuangui and her career promotion prospects.

If nothing else, if Chu Yu's Natsume Friends Book was serialized and was cut in half because of its poor popularity within a month or two, then Li Xi would not be able to talk about being in Xuangui from now on, even if he jumped to another comic company in the future. Some people will use this to say things.

Signing Chu Yu was also a gamble for Li Xi.

But no matter what, for Li Xi, she has always been like this all the way.

The same was true when Tang Xin was excavated back then, otherwise Tang Xin's rise would not have been so fast.

"Okay, since that's the case, from today onwards, you will be the one to contact me about comics matters in Xuangui!" Li Xi looked at Chu Yu.

"Three weeks later, Natsume's Book of Friends was officially published on Shuiyuan. According to the rules, the new work is published for the first time, and it's all two words together!"

"In addition to the manuscript of the three chapters you gave me before, in order to keep up with the serialization progress of the manga club, you must also submit the manga manuscript of the fourth chapter of this work starting from the week of the serialization of this work!"

"Every week after that, the deadline for the manuscript is Friday, and I will visit the door when it is due. I hope you don't delay your manuscript, don't be like someone else."

"Otherwise, you will realize my method of urging the draft!" Li Xi seemed to be joking.

But Chu Yu could vaguely feel that she was serious.

Coincidentally, since Li Xi talked about this matter, Chu Yu also said.

"Of course, if you're acquainted with Su Yan, you should understand that I've never delayed the draft."

"It's just that, as a native of Los Angeles, I am not familiar with the place in Modu. In order to complete the comic creation with higher quality, I need to find a few comic assistants."

"I don't know Li Xi, do you have any good suggestions for this?"

"Manga assistant?" Li Xi heard the words and thought for a few seconds.

"How many do you want?" Li Xi looked at Chu Yu.

"Two!" Chu Yu said.

Although according to common sense, one is enough, Chu Yu also has other ideas. Anyway, he is already a hand speed monster in the eyes of an ordinary cartoonist.

And because of systematic reasons, Chu Yu didn't have to spend a lot of time conceiving comic plots.

That being the case, why don't you try to see if you can serialize two works at the same time, or even more works, with enough comic assistants?

After all, there are so many excellent works in the system, and Chu Yu doesn't expect to serialize all of them in this lifetime, but he can always serialize one more.