My Cartoonist Guide

Chapter 31 Hesitation and decision

Yan Fu heard the editor-in-chief calling Li Jiming’s name, and turned his head.

Xiao Li pulled on Yan Fu’s clothes, “It is estimated that Lao Li has a headache recently.”

“Why?”

“Have you really forgotten? Didn’t “Y’s” **** the front page coloring page of “The Chasing Boy”? Of course, the color page in the volume is also good, but it is still not as good as the front page color page. He estimates that it is now I also have a headache, how to convey this to Teacher Gong.” Xiaoli explained.

ahem…

Yan Fu is also a little embarrassed.

Gongyan is also an old author. A year ago, relying on “The Chasing Boy” won the first place in the “NewWorld” several survey papers, he began to play big names, a little forgetful.

“The Boy Who Chased the Wind” tells the story of a group of teenagers who like to chase their dreams.

The progress of this comic is very fast. In only six or seven months, the team of the protagonist won the championship of the world middle school football match. At that time, the comics kept refreshing and readers enjoyed it.

But because the plot ran too fast, it was already at the end of the story, and Gong Yan realized that something was wrong.

At that time, “The Boy Who Chased the Wind” was a big seller in Yunhai City. If it ended directly, Gong Yan would lose a lot of money. Unwilling to reconcile, he thought of a loss trick-when returning to China, the protagonist’s plane crashed, and the manga naturally replaced the protagonist.

Since then, the grades of “The Chasing Boy” have plummeted, the number of readers who follow it has plummeted, and the magazine is also anxious.

In order to save the popularity of comics, the magazine thought of many ways, such as autographing books, looking for animation companies to make animations, and even contacting game companies, but they couldn’t help it. The magazine also wanted to end “The Boy Who Chased the Wind”, and then asked the editor and Gong Yan to polish a comic. At first, Gong Yan disagreed. After a stalemate for three or four months, Gong Yan showed signs of letting go.

According to common sense, even autographing books and making animations cannot raise the popularity of a comic, so the effect of color pages on the front page is minimal.

It’s just that Gong Yan used to be the signboard of “NewWorld” anyway, and the pre-rolled coloring page was suddenly replaced with a mid-rolling coloring page. No one would be happy.

“The Boy Who Chased the Wind is almost over. In fact, there is no difference if you have one more or one less front page coloring page. But even so, you have to tell him quickly. If you drag on for too long, he will think you don’t Pay attention to him and have opinions on us. Remember, don’t irritate him when you say it.” The editor-in-chief waved his hand and asked Li Jiming to deal with the matter quickly.

“Even if Mr. Gong has an opinion, isn’t it your idea?”

Li Jiming was dejected, returned to his desk, and finally couldn’t help complaining.

The editor-in-chief kept his gaze on him. After half a minute, he couldn’t hold on anymore, carrying the file bag, and immediately went to the magazine.

On the way to Gongyan’s studio, Li Jiming thought a lot, but he still didn’t figure out how to explain the situation to Gongyan until the door of the studio, but his hand knocked on the door of the room subconsciously.

Huh?

After Li Jiming came back to his senses, he had already heard the footsteps coming from the door.

Before he could say anything, the door was opened and a young man appeared in front of him.

“Editor Li? Just now the teacher was still saying that he finally got a pack of good tea and wanted to ask you to drink it. It was a coincidence that you came before two or three hours.” The young man saw Li Jiming and hurriedly Let Li Jiming into the house.

“Haha, this is… the heart is sharp.” Li Jiming laughed dryly, “By the way, is Teacher Gong busy now?”

“Fortunately, I am drawing the coloring page. Don’t I have to hand in the coloring page in two weeks? The teacher is very concerned about coloring this time, saying that he must not let Li editor down this time.”

Haha…

Li Jiming sighed, knowing today, why bother.

If it weren’t for changing the protagonist by death, “The Chasing Boy” is now estimated to be the top three in “NewWorld”.

Although it has not fallen out of the top ten, the sales volume of single-line books is less than 50,000 copies, which is not much different from ordinary comics.

“Yeah, Lao Li, are you here?” In the hall, a bald middle-aged man who was coloring with a marker pen immediately put down the pen and stood up from his seat when he saw Li Jiming come in. Isn’t it time to receive the manuscript?”

“Oh, I just just take a look.”

“You still worry about the quality of my coloring?” The bald middle-aged man laughed and said.

“Mr Gong, I certainly believe in the quality of your color pages, but your progress… is really too slow.” Li Jiming said perfunctorily.

Gongyan’s level of coloring is more than the best. After all, he is not a professional art student, and he is an older generation of cartoonists. Both his style and skills are very different from those of young people. What’s more, after he became famous, his coloring level has always been below the standard due to his lack of care, which also caused Li Jiming to be quite a headache.

Now the ranking of the questionnaire and the number of leaflets have been kept at a very low level, Miyayan finally realized his problem, but no matter how hard he tried, the level can only return to the average level.

The same is true for the color page this time. It can only be said that the color page is qualified, not too good.

“How’s that? Don’t you worry?” Gong Yan’s expression appeared triumphant.

“Hmm…” Li Jiming nodded, “By the way, Teacher Gong, do you have time now? I want to say a few words to you.”

“Coincidentally, I also want to buy you two cups of tea. This pot of tea was brought back from abroad by one of my students. You must have never had it.”

Li Jiming feels a little helpless, even if he has good tea, he is not in the mood to drink it now.

Gongyan’s reception room is very simple, with a red solid wood sofa and coffee table, and a purple sand tea set.

Gongyan cherishes this tea set very much, and would never put it out for practical use, but today, this tea set was placed on the coffee table before Li Jiming went in.

Is anyone coming today?

Li Jiming was puzzled, but Mr. Gong didn’t communicate much. At least, in the past year, he hadn’t seen anyone come.

Gong Yan turned pale when he saw the tea set on the tabletop, “That…this morning, people from my hometown came over, and I invited them to drink two cups of tea. By the way, Lao Li, didn’t you just have something to say? ”

“Ah? That’s it…” Li Jiming’s throat was a little dry, thinking about it again and again, he still bowed to Gong Yan first Sorry, Mr. Gong, the editor-in-chief has changed your front page coloring page. To the color page in the volume…”

“Huh? Why?” Gong Yan’s hand holding the tea set trembled, and his eyes opened round.

“It’s nothing…The editor-in-chief said that next month I will give you the coloring page again, which counts as a compensation.” Li Jiming explained quickly.

“Next month? Who knows if there will be “The Boy Who Chased the Wind” next month!” Gong Yan was in a state of desperation.

“Eh? Is “The Boy Chasing the Wind” coming to an end?” Li Jiming had some differences, he hadn’t heard Gong Yan mention it.

“Huh?” Gong Yan suddenly noticed that he had said something that shouldn’t be said, and he waved his hand quickly, but his movements seemed stiff. “Didn’t the editor-in-chief always want me to draw a new comic? I’m thinking about this recently. By the way, Who did the editor-in-chief give the front page coloring page?”

“Oh, a newcomer. The performance of “NewWorld” has been declining recently. The editor-in-chief is wondering if there is a chance to stop the decline.”

“Only a newcomer? Can “NewWorld” really stop the decline?” Gong Yan sneered.

“That’s not clear. By the way, if you really draw a new comic, which genre are you going to develop?” Li Jiming asked.

“I’m not sure yet, will I discuss it with you then?” Gong Yan’s face returned to normal, but his tone was blunt.

“That’s OK, we’ll talk about it later.”

Choosing the most important things, Li Jiming was not in the mood to drink tea, so he hurriedly left the studio on the grounds of not disturbing Gong Yan’s painting.

Gongyan had a gloomy face, put away the tea set, and after thinking about it again and again, he took out a business card from a book, with a line written in the middle, “President of “Weekly Dreamer”, Luo Zhi”.

After a moment of contemplation, Gong Yan finally made up his mind and dialed the other party’s phone.