If you want to develop the comic industry in Hong Kong, you must have a well-known series of comics, otherwise it will always be a small fight.
The reason why Kang Jianfei bought the 82 Painting Club is that the "Bruce Lee" series of comics have been sold in Hong Kong for more than ten years, and some other comics from the Painting Club are also well-known.
As for the comic shop that acquired Shangguan Xiaobao's younger brother Shangguan Xiaowei, it was intended to diversify comics from a single kung fu comic, because Shangguan Xiaowei is one of the few thriller cartoonists in Hong Kong and is also a very famous thriller cartoonist.
For Kang Jianfei, who has a lot of money in his hands, it is very easy to enter the comics industry. He did not come forward in person. He bought Shangguan Xiaowei's comics club for only 300,000 yuan, and also the various copyrights of the comics club and several comic talents.
The two comic clubs will move into the administrative building No. 3 of Tseung Kwan O Film and Television City in the next few days. The name of the comic club after the group has not been decided yet, and everything is still under discussion and preparation.
Kang Jianfei not only wants to make cartoons, his further goal is to make cartoons.
Compared with the once prosperous Hong Kong comics in the 1970s, Hong Kong's animation industry did not start late, and animation shots appeared in the movies in 1948.
From the 1940s to the 1970s, Hong Kong animations only designed trademarks and animation shots for movies and TV series. The cartoons displayed on TV rely entirely on imports.
It was not until 1976 that TVB and Hong Kong Radio established an animation team to produce some cartoon titles and endings for the TV series and shoot some animation short films.
After entering the 1980s, more and more advertisers adopted the animation situation to advertise, and Hong Kong's animation industry developed, and in 1982, the first animated film "The Old Master".
Even so, there are very few animation talents in Hong Kong, and most of them work in TVB animation teams, and the rest are dedicated to animation advertising.
As for the cartoons played by Feng Huáng Station now, sorry, most of them are imported from Japan and Taiwan, and some are purchased from the United States.
Administrative Building No. 3, Tseung Kwan O Film and Television City.
Shangguan Xiaowei directed his apprentice to set up the office and turned around and said to Kang Jianfei: If Mr. Kang wants to find animation talents, don’t just stare at Hong Kong.
Should I go to Japan to invite me?Kang Jianfei asked.
Shangguan Xiaowei smiled and said: How could he go to Japan to invite him? Japan's labor is too high. Now many Japanese cartoons are outsourced to mainland animation factories.
Is Japanese animation outsourcing to animation factories in mainland China?Kang Jianfei asked in surprise, this was in the 1980s, and China was not the world factory after 2000.
Seeing Kang Jianfei's face full of confusion, Shangguan Xiaowei began to tell Kang Jianfei about the situation in detail.
Chinese animation was originally very powerful. Osamu Tezuka, the father of Japanese comics, also embarked on the road of comics after watching the Chinese animation "Princess Iron Fan". In the following decades, Chinese animation has never lagged behind any country in art.
In the United States, far away on the other side of the earth, due to the excessive salary of animation personnel, it has been working with low-paying countries to produce cartoons since 1965.
The preferred partner at that time was Japan, which directly promoted the development and prosperity of the Japanese comics and animation industries.
After 20 years of development, Japan's animation industry has initially prospered, and it is also facing the problems of the American animation industry that year. Animation personnel have received overpaid salaries.
Therefore, Japanese animation companies began to cooperate with South Korea, Taiwan and mainland China to outsource the basic production links of animation.
The most powerful animation factory in mainland China is the Shanghai Art Film Studio. In recent years, the country is calling on the whole people to earn foreign exchange. American film studios happily took over Japan's outsourcing business, making US dollars and making fun of it, and are not alert to the loss of animation talents.
What is the salary of animation staff at the American Film Studio today?
The average worker earns a monthly salary of dozens of yuan, and the master with superb skills only earns more than 100 yuan. Over the years, senior animation talents have been poached by Japanese companies with high salaries (bad prices).
After briefly introducing the situation, Shangguan Xiaowei smiled and said: So, if you want to hire professional animation talents, go to the mainland, and Shanghai Film Studio will dig a lot.As long as they help them solve the visa problem in Hong Kong, a monthly salary of 1,000 yuan can make them compete for the worst.
Kang Jianfei is still very enthusiastic about digging for socialist corners. Anyway, if he doesn't dig, he will be poached by the Japanese. If he takes advantage of himself, he will be rich and not let the outsiders go.
Kang Jianfei said: Mr. Kuang, you are a professional talent in animation. Why don’t you help me go to the mainland?I will handle the matters of the Celestial Government.
Shangguan Xiaowei waved his hand and said: I don’t have much research on animation, I just draw comics.
Kang Jianfei said: Anyway, I will trouble you with the task of picking people. I will send someone else in contact.
Shangguan Xiaowei nodded and said: Okay, then I'll go to the mainland for a trip.
Shangguan Xiaobao's office has been arranged, and he pushed the door open and said to Kang Jianfei: Mr. Kang, please give our comic club a name first, and hang the sign first.
Kang Jianfei has always been too lazy to think about naming things like this. He said in a bad mood: Why not just call it a dark horse comic company, a dark horse in the comic industry.
In another space and time, DarkHrseCmics is the third largest comic company in the United States after DC and Marvel.
This company will not be established until next year, but unfortunately the name has been snatched by Kang Jianfei. I wonder if it will be renamed then.
The Shangguan brothers have no particular concerns about the company's name. For example, Shangguan Xiaowei's comics club is directly called Serena Wei Comics Publishing House. They are only interested in the company's LG design.
After establishing the name of the comic company, Shangguan Xiaobao said again: Mr. Kang, it is best for the company to run another doll newspaper (comic newspaper).
Kang Jianfei nodded and said: I will select the company's general manager candidate as soon as possible. We will discuss the specific management of the company.
Shangguan Xiaowei said: But the development direction must be determined first. I think the most important thing is to make a comic with sales exceeding "Heroes of China".
"Heroes of China" is the most popular comic in Hong Kong today. After its release in 1982, the highest sales reached 200,000 copies. Now, the sales of "Heroes of China" have remained at around 150,000 copies.
As mentioned earlier, the sales volume of the latest episode of "Heroes of China" was only more than 40,000, because Huang Yulang released a revised version of "Heroes of China" since last year in order to make money.
The content of the revised version is all repetitive, but the pictures and materials are more exquisite, and some unreasonable plots have been modified. They are sold to loyal fans for collection. Even so, they can sell more than 40,000 copies per issue.
As for the two comics "Dragon and Tiger Gate" and "Bruce Lee", the sales volume should be about 50,000 under normal circumstances.
Unfortunately, Huang Yulang has been busy listing his company recently and has been working hard to fill the comics with insufficient energy. "Bruce Lee" has been updated for five issues due to copyright issues, resulting in a significant reduction in sales of both comics.
If Kang Jianfei's dark horse comics company wants to grab the comic market, the most important thing is to defeat the sales of "Chinese Heroes".
Shangguan Xiaowei is so active in dealing with "Chinese Heroes" because its author Ma Rongcheng is his apprentice.
When Shangguan Xiaowei worked in his brother Shangguan Xiaobao's "Good News", he taught Ma Rongcheng, who also worked in "Good News", step by step. He was Ma Rongcheng's essential mentor. As for his brother Shangguan Xiaobao, he was actually just Ma Rongcheng's nominal master.
Now that Ma Rongcheng's "Heroes of China" is popular in Hong Kong, the Shangguan brothers are so angry that they regard Ma Rongcheng as a traitor to the Shangguan family.
Kang Jianfei came up with a strategy to use "Bruce Lee" to deal with "Dragon and Tiger Gate" on the front battlefield and "The Journey to the Ethereal" against "Chinese Heroes".
In addition, it is to use Shangguan Xiaowei's thriller magazine to open up the second battlefield, and then discover new comics to create life and fairy tale comics. "McDull" and other things can be made in advance.
If the comics of "The Journey of Ethereal" cannot take on this important task, then Kang Jianfei has other ways. Now Niu Lao is helping Shangguan Xiaobao, and it is not too difficult to draw the "Young and Dangerous" series with a little mention.
Of course, Kang Jianfei also has his own specialty, which is the one he uses when designing storyboards... Rapture.
Kang Jianfei took out a piece of white paper from Shangguan Xiaowei's desk and drew it with a fountain pen. Just a few strokes were enough to create a character.
In less than three minutes, Kang Jianfei handed out the newly drawn romance and said: From now on, our doll newspaper will publish romance in one page for each issue, and we will publicly call for papers. Anyone can use romance to draw their own affairs, which can cultivate a large number of loyal fans of romance.
There are six patterns of brute paintings drawn by Kang Jianfei:
The first square is a stickman with an exaggerated smile on his body, humming a song.
The character in the second frame has the same shape, but she has drawn a few eyelashes and hair, and she is obviously a woman. She said: Wang Nima, you are so interesting.
The king of the third square laughed exaggeratedly.
The fourth-square female's broken coriander smile: However, girls like people who make her laugh, but they love people who make her cry.
The fifth square king Nima curator laughs and cries: Uh...
The character in Sixth Grey is finally not a stickman body. Wang Nima seriously pressed the woman down and spanked her, while the woman cried completely with her face deformed.
This thing is called 如歌?Shangguan Xiaobao is a very conservative cartoonist. At first glance, Kang Jianfei's romance is completely unacceptable, but the more you look at it, the more you look, the more you look, the more you feel, and you can't help laughing out loud.
Shangguan Xiaowei was also amazed at Kang Jianfei's comics, and he smiled and said: I don't know what the effect of drawing thriller comics in this style.
The reason why Kang Jianfei bought the 82 Painting Club is that the "Bruce Lee" series of comics have been sold in Hong Kong for more than ten years, and some other comics from the Painting Club are also well-known.
As for the comic shop that acquired Shangguan Xiaobao's younger brother Shangguan Xiaowei, it was intended to diversify comics from a single kung fu comic, because Shangguan Xiaowei is one of the few thriller cartoonists in Hong Kong and is also a very famous thriller cartoonist.
For Kang Jianfei, who has a lot of money in his hands, it is very easy to enter the comics industry. He did not come forward in person. He bought Shangguan Xiaowei's comics club for only 300,000 yuan, and also the various copyrights of the comics club and several comic talents.
The two comic clubs will move into the administrative building No. 3 of Tseung Kwan O Film and Television City in the next few days. The name of the comic club after the group has not been decided yet, and everything is still under discussion and preparation.
Kang Jianfei not only wants to make cartoons, his further goal is to make cartoons.
Compared with the once prosperous Hong Kong comics in the 1970s, Hong Kong's animation industry did not start late, and animation shots appeared in the movies in 1948.
From the 1940s to the 1970s, Hong Kong animations only designed trademarks and animation shots for movies and TV series. The cartoons displayed on TV rely entirely on imports.
It was not until 1976 that TVB and Hong Kong Radio established an animation team to produce some cartoon titles and endings for the TV series and shoot some animation short films.
After entering the 1980s, more and more advertisers adopted the animation situation to advertise, and Hong Kong's animation industry developed, and in 1982, the first animated film "The Old Master".
Even so, there are very few animation talents in Hong Kong, and most of them work in TVB animation teams, and the rest are dedicated to animation advertising.
As for the cartoons played by Feng Huáng Station now, sorry, most of them are imported from Japan and Taiwan, and some are purchased from the United States.
Administrative Building No. 3, Tseung Kwan O Film and Television City.
Shangguan Xiaowei directed his apprentice to set up the office and turned around and said to Kang Jianfei: If Mr. Kang wants to find animation talents, don’t just stare at Hong Kong.
Should I go to Japan to invite me?Kang Jianfei asked.
Shangguan Xiaowei smiled and said: How could he go to Japan to invite him? Japan's labor is too high. Now many Japanese cartoons are outsourced to mainland animation factories.
Is Japanese animation outsourcing to animation factories in mainland China?Kang Jianfei asked in surprise, this was in the 1980s, and China was not the world factory after 2000.
Seeing Kang Jianfei's face full of confusion, Shangguan Xiaowei began to tell Kang Jianfei about the situation in detail.
Chinese animation was originally very powerful. Osamu Tezuka, the father of Japanese comics, also embarked on the road of comics after watching the Chinese animation "Princess Iron Fan". In the following decades, Chinese animation has never lagged behind any country in art.
In the United States, far away on the other side of the earth, due to the excessive salary of animation personnel, it has been working with low-paying countries to produce cartoons since 1965.
The preferred partner at that time was Japan, which directly promoted the development and prosperity of the Japanese comics and animation industries.
After 20 years of development, Japan's animation industry has initially prospered, and it is also facing the problems of the American animation industry that year. Animation personnel have received overpaid salaries.
Therefore, Japanese animation companies began to cooperate with South Korea, Taiwan and mainland China to outsource the basic production links of animation.
The most powerful animation factory in mainland China is the Shanghai Art Film Studio. In recent years, the country is calling on the whole people to earn foreign exchange. American film studios happily took over Japan's outsourcing business, making US dollars and making fun of it, and are not alert to the loss of animation talents.
What is the salary of animation staff at the American Film Studio today?
The average worker earns a monthly salary of dozens of yuan, and the master with superb skills only earns more than 100 yuan. Over the years, senior animation talents have been poached by Japanese companies with high salaries (bad prices).
After briefly introducing the situation, Shangguan Xiaowei smiled and said: So, if you want to hire professional animation talents, go to the mainland, and Shanghai Film Studio will dig a lot.As long as they help them solve the visa problem in Hong Kong, a monthly salary of 1,000 yuan can make them compete for the worst.
Kang Jianfei is still very enthusiastic about digging for socialist corners. Anyway, if he doesn't dig, he will be poached by the Japanese. If he takes advantage of himself, he will be rich and not let the outsiders go.
Kang Jianfei said: Mr. Kuang, you are a professional talent in animation. Why don’t you help me go to the mainland?I will handle the matters of the Celestial Government.
Shangguan Xiaowei waved his hand and said: I don’t have much research on animation, I just draw comics.
Kang Jianfei said: Anyway, I will trouble you with the task of picking people. I will send someone else in contact.
Shangguan Xiaowei nodded and said: Okay, then I'll go to the mainland for a trip.
Shangguan Xiaobao's office has been arranged, and he pushed the door open and said to Kang Jianfei: Mr. Kang, please give our comic club a name first, and hang the sign first.
Kang Jianfei has always been too lazy to think about naming things like this. He said in a bad mood: Why not just call it a dark horse comic company, a dark horse in the comic industry.
In another space and time, DarkHrseCmics is the third largest comic company in the United States after DC and Marvel.
This company will not be established until next year, but unfortunately the name has been snatched by Kang Jianfei. I wonder if it will be renamed then.
The Shangguan brothers have no particular concerns about the company's name. For example, Shangguan Xiaowei's comics club is directly called Serena Wei Comics Publishing House. They are only interested in the company's LG design.
After establishing the name of the comic company, Shangguan Xiaobao said again: Mr. Kang, it is best for the company to run another doll newspaper (comic newspaper).
Kang Jianfei nodded and said: I will select the company's general manager candidate as soon as possible. We will discuss the specific management of the company.
Shangguan Xiaowei said: But the development direction must be determined first. I think the most important thing is to make a comic with sales exceeding "Heroes of China".
"Heroes of China" is the most popular comic in Hong Kong today. After its release in 1982, the highest sales reached 200,000 copies. Now, the sales of "Heroes of China" have remained at around 150,000 copies.
As mentioned earlier, the sales volume of the latest episode of "Heroes of China" was only more than 40,000, because Huang Yulang released a revised version of "Heroes of China" since last year in order to make money.
The content of the revised version is all repetitive, but the pictures and materials are more exquisite, and some unreasonable plots have been modified. They are sold to loyal fans for collection. Even so, they can sell more than 40,000 copies per issue.
As for the two comics "Dragon and Tiger Gate" and "Bruce Lee", the sales volume should be about 50,000 under normal circumstances.
Unfortunately, Huang Yulang has been busy listing his company recently and has been working hard to fill the comics with insufficient energy. "Bruce Lee" has been updated for five issues due to copyright issues, resulting in a significant reduction in sales of both comics.
If Kang Jianfei's dark horse comics company wants to grab the comic market, the most important thing is to defeat the sales of "Chinese Heroes".
Shangguan Xiaowei is so active in dealing with "Chinese Heroes" because its author Ma Rongcheng is his apprentice.
When Shangguan Xiaowei worked in his brother Shangguan Xiaobao's "Good News", he taught Ma Rongcheng, who also worked in "Good News", step by step. He was Ma Rongcheng's essential mentor. As for his brother Shangguan Xiaobao, he was actually just Ma Rongcheng's nominal master.
Now that Ma Rongcheng's "Heroes of China" is popular in Hong Kong, the Shangguan brothers are so angry that they regard Ma Rongcheng as a traitor to the Shangguan family.
Kang Jianfei came up with a strategy to use "Bruce Lee" to deal with "Dragon and Tiger Gate" on the front battlefield and "The Journey to the Ethereal" against "Chinese Heroes".
In addition, it is to use Shangguan Xiaowei's thriller magazine to open up the second battlefield, and then discover new comics to create life and fairy tale comics. "McDull" and other things can be made in advance.
If the comics of "The Journey of Ethereal" cannot take on this important task, then Kang Jianfei has other ways. Now Niu Lao is helping Shangguan Xiaobao, and it is not too difficult to draw the "Young and Dangerous" series with a little mention.
Of course, Kang Jianfei also has his own specialty, which is the one he uses when designing storyboards... Rapture.
Kang Jianfei took out a piece of white paper from Shangguan Xiaowei's desk and drew it with a fountain pen. Just a few strokes were enough to create a character.
In less than three minutes, Kang Jianfei handed out the newly drawn romance and said: From now on, our doll newspaper will publish romance in one page for each issue, and we will publicly call for papers. Anyone can use romance to draw their own affairs, which can cultivate a large number of loyal fans of romance.
There are six patterns of brute paintings drawn by Kang Jianfei:
The first square is a stickman with an exaggerated smile on his body, humming a song.
The character in the second frame has the same shape, but she has drawn a few eyelashes and hair, and she is obviously a woman. She said: Wang Nima, you are so interesting.
The king of the third square laughed exaggeratedly.
The fourth-square female's broken coriander smile: However, girls like people who make her laugh, but they love people who make her cry.
The fifth square king Nima curator laughs and cries: Uh...
The character in Sixth Grey is finally not a stickman body. Wang Nima seriously pressed the woman down and spanked her, while the woman cried completely with her face deformed.
This thing is called 如歌?Shangguan Xiaobao is a very conservative cartoonist. At first glance, Kang Jianfei's romance is completely unacceptable, but the more you look at it, the more you look, the more you look, the more you feel, and you can't help laughing out loud.
Shangguan Xiaowei was also amazed at Kang Jianfei's comics, and he smiled and said: I don't know what the effect of drawing thriller comics in this style.
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