Chapter 261 Eight Comics
Don't look at Huang Boming's background as a screenwriter. In fact, this person's management ability is very strong.
After the dissolution of New Art City, he opened his own company and set up a theater chain. Although it closed down due to the downturn of Xiangjiang's film industry, his film company has always existed.
When the movie cities in mainland China were booming, Huang Boming started making movies again and made a lot of money.
In the end, although his Family Carnival series of movies was stinky by himself, he started investing in other people's movies again, doing something like a producer, and he was still doing well.
You know, Huang Boming was already sixty or seventy years old at that time.
Sixty or seventy years old with such drive, he is really a typical Xiangjiang person—the top ten richest people in Xiangjiang. In 2015, the average age was over 70 years old, and the top three were all over 80 years old. It can be seen that Xiangjiang people are still very worth learning in terms of diligence.
Now Yin Jun has no way to make Huang Boming the manager, because Yin Jun still lacks more helpers in the story creation and continuation of the comics.
If it was three to five years later and the comic studio developed smoothly, Yin Jun would consider promoting Huang Boming to be the general manager—if Huang Boming hadn't left by then.
So far, Yin Jun has prepared a total of eight comics for Comics Weekly.
"Transformers", "Conan", "Saint Seiya", "Oolongyuan", "Chibi Maruko-chan", "Tomb Raider", "The Prince of Tennis" and "Inuyasha".
Don't think that Yin Jun arranged it at will. In fact, he made such a decision after careful consideration.
"Weekly Shonen Jump" has three requirements for cartoonists: "Friendship", "Effort" and "Victory", which is the most important reason why "Weekly Shonen Jump" can become the number one manga magazine in Japan and even in the world.
Because these three elements contain a very profound philosophy of life.
Friendship represents the most sincere emotion, it represents mutual help and mutual benefit, life and death together, this kind of feeling is liked by everyone, it is not like love, because people are different, their types are different, and their development situations are also different.
Effort represents the process of hard work. In the future, many advertisements will pretend to say "the outcome is not important, but the process", which proves that people attach great importance to the hard work and various hardships on the road to success. , the ups and downs in this process, all kinds of reversals and unpredictability, will make people fascinated by watching.
Efforts are not everything, the final success is the goal.
Everyone likes success and dislikes failure, so the last element of "Weekly Shonen Jump" is success.
Only when the protagonists go through hard work and continuous struggle, will the joy of success in the end be more exciting and unforgettable for a long time.
Yin Jun very much agrees with these three elements. In the mainstream of comics, as long as these three elements are met, the possibility of success will be greatly increased.
The storyline of "Transformers" is actually related to this element, the friendship between the Autobots and humans, the hardships of defeating the evil Decepticons, and the joy of victory in the end.
Although this kind of story is repeated every episode, people never get tired of watching it.
"Transformers" represents robot warfare, and there are huge movie and peripheral rights benefits.
The second part of "Conan" represents the detective series. Many people like the story of detectives solving crimes, not to mention Conan's gimmick of transforming into a child, which can arouse interest even more.
The third part "Oolong Courtyard" represents another kind of funny, childlike, and kung fu story.
This "Oolong Courtyard" is one of the most well-known comics published by Baodao, and it is also a masterpiece of Baodao comics. However, it only began to try to be serialized in newspapers in the middle of the 1980s. It was officially published in 1982 and is now in 1979. Don't worry about copyright issues.
The fourth part of "Saint Seiya", needless to say, blood, friendship, victory, this is the standard version of "Weekly Shonen Jump".
Some people who don't know where they got the news say that the sales of "Saint Seiya" in Japan are actually average, but they are only popular in China... There is a market for such remarks, which shows that people who don't use their brains believe in rumors There are too many, and too many fools.
In 1987, Masami Kurada ranked seventh in the total tax payment of the Japanese book industry, with a tax payment of 137.51 million yen.
In 1988, Masami Cheda ranked first in the total tax payment of the Japanese book industry, with a tax payment of 313.97 million yen.
In 1989, the Japanese book industry ranked 15th in the total tax payment, Masami Cheda, with a tax payment of 90.49 million yen.
When is the serialization period of "Saint Seiya"?
Isn't it the past few years?
Looking at these statistics, should these nonsense people take back their words?
How dare you say that you are unpopular when everyone pays the first place in tax payment?
Isn't this ridiculous?
Therefore, this youth comic, which represents passion, will definitely trigger countless "Look at my Tianma Meteor Fist" incidents on the street.
The fifth part is "Chibi Maruko", a national youth comic of all genders and all ages. Men and women under the age of 16 can't escape its clutches, and they can kill it directly; women under the age of 30 can't resist it. cute.
The sixth part is "Tomb Raider", a classic adventure action game once known as the "female version of Indiana Jones". There is no comic version at all. Yin Jun made it in advance to open up a female The adventurous comic book route, the other is to pave the way for this popular game all over the world, and finally there is the expectation of a movie adaptation.
The seventh part is "The Prince of Tennis". This is about sports. The screen is filled with all kinds of handsome guys. It is the biggest killer that hits every girl's heart. The sports category it represents is also a very important one. On the other hand, more sports comics will be serialized after it.
The eighth part, which is the last part of the first period, Yin Jun gave this spot to "Inuyasha".
To be honest, the first half of "Inuyasha" is amazing, but later, there are some simple repetitions, which makes people feel a little tired.
This is not Aunt Takahashi's best work, but as a classic of ghost stories, it can be regarded as opening a faction, not to mention that the protagonist is also a classic character that has made countless girls crazy. Excellent performance.
Of the eight comics, none of them have the same style, and they also take into account all age groups. Such good intentions and the strength of the selected comics can only be achieved by Yin Jun.
For a weekly manga magazine, 8 stories are very few.
For example, "Weekly Shonen Jump" generally has about 20 stories, and the number of stories in "Weekly Shonen SUNDAY" and "Weekly Shonen Magazine" also fluctuates between 16-25.
It's not that Yin Jun is unwilling to put more comics into it.
It's just that releasing 20 ultra-classic comics in one go is a bit too exaggerated, and it is definitely a huge waste of resources.
Even in order to gain fame at the beginning, Yin Jun couldn't be so extravagant.
But a weekly comic book, after decades of hard work and dissemination of ideas by the Japanese, should have about 450-500 pages in one issue, and remove a quarter of the various advertising pages, at least about 360 pages text.
That is to say, the number of pages of a comic serialized in a weekly magazine should be about 18-20 pages.
But this does not mean that every comic book can be serialized in this way. If there is no upward trend in more than ten issues, or the comic book is collectively selected as the last three comic books by readers, it will be ordered to be serialized within three months. In the end, there are some people who are unlucky and disappear in a month. Even if you are an excellent cartoonist, the generous period is only two or three months.
So the competition here is actually very fierce.
The comics in Yin Jun's hands are all super-best-selling comics that can stand the test, so he doesn't have to think about whether readers like it or not. He is going to make 8 comics come out as soon as they come up, and one issue will be serialized It is 50 pages!
Not only the number of pages actually published exceeds that of Japanese manga weekly magazines, but the pages of advertisements are also less than theirs, which is a great advantage.
Once published, these eight comics have no other enemies that can threaten their status. The only enemy is their length.
This is nothing to worry about.
There is no need to worry about the three comics "Transformers", "Conan", and "Chibi Maruko-chan". I dare not say more. The publication length of comics for 30 years is completely acceptable, or even longer.
As long as the creators are not exhausted and everyone collectively creates these interesting stories, the serialization will naturally continue to be popular.
"Saint Seiya", "Oolongyuan", "Tomb Raider", "The Prince of Tennis" and "Inuyasha", according to the current serialization speed, can be maintained for at least one and a half years.
Then, an excellent comic weekly magazine will definitely not work without excellent new comics.
Therefore, Yin Jun will add 2-3 new comic books every year in the future, and there will be a steady stream of new excellent works added, and comic weekly will definitely continue to maintain a strong appeal.
What's more, after the manga weekly begins to create, Yin Jun will of course recruit new manga artists in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and even the mainland, and publish their works.
Maybe those "former" manga masters, after Yin Jun published their works in advance, will continue to create better works with their extraordinary talents?
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(Starting tomorrow, it should be able to speed up!)