Before the release of "The King of Painting", Kang Jianfei did not deliberately promote it. His influence in the minds of comic fans is far less than that of Shangguan Xiaobao.
As a comic daily, only more than 8,000 copies were sold on the first day of the release of "The King of Painting". This data is only a fraction of Huang Yulang's "Sheng News", but the most recently published magazine sold more than 8,000 copies on the first day, which is considered very rare, and is even more popular than many doll newspapers that have been published for several years. This is mainly due to the power of comic publishers.
In addition to relying on the distribution capabilities of Tongde Book and Newspaper, "The King of Painting" relies more on the distribution channels of "Oriental Daily", so that the first issue was spread out in the streets and alleys of Hong Kong.
If there is really promotion, it is that at the end of "The Legend of the Clouds and the Rain" serialized by Oriental Daily on the first day, a line of small words left behind: Kang Jianfei's fantasy masterpiece "The Journey of Ethereal" is about to be released. Please pay attention to tomorrow's doll newspaper "The King of Painting".
This piece of news did not attract much attention on the first day, so that Huang Yulang was completely unaware of it, but the loyal readers of "The Journey of Ethereal" ran around and told him.
On the day the first issue of "The King of Painting" was released, many readers who bought "Oriental Daily" would ask: Is there any "The King of Painting" sold here?
Of the more than 8,000 copies sold in the first issue of "The King of Painting", at least 5,000 copies were bought by fans of "The Journey of Ethereal".
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St. St. St. Bing Hall Middle School, Xiying Pan, Hong Kong.
Zhou Huimin, wearing school uniform, got off the bus and fled into the crowd and walked into the school gate. Before she could even get to the classroom, she was caught up by her best friend Yaqin.
The trio who once listened to Anita Mui's "Thousands of Songs" together is now only two left. Zhou Huimin and Yaqin. Awei went to find a job after finishing her fifth year.
At this time, Zhou Huimin was about to turn 18 years old. She was no longer the slightly fat little girl 5 years ago. She was slender and outstanding, gentle and pure. The only regret was that Zhou Huimin had a huge black-framed glasses on her nose, which made her look much more rustic.
Zhou Huimin and her best friend Yaqin came to the classroom, and then sat in their seats together in a daze. There were only a small number of people in the classroom reading and reviewing their homework.
Zhou Huimin is now in the seventh year of junior high school and will take the exam in more than two months. Unfortunately, she doesn’t even have the confidence to get into college.
The math teacher was talking about the formulas that made her dizzy again. Zhou Huimin gave up helplessly after listening to it for a few minutes, and used a fountain pen to draw randomly on the homework book.
The reason why Zhou Huimin is called a talented woman in the future is because she has various talents, as an actor, can sing, and can write songs. Zhou Huimin is still a level 10 piano and writes beautiful prose. She has dozens of paintings she created were later exhibited at the Hong Kong Cultural Museum, and her painting "Xinjiang Old Man" also won the New Era Award for Visual Arts.
When a professional painter saw Zhou Huimin's paintings for the first time, he thought she was from a painting school, which shows the foundation of her paintings.
In fact, Zhou Huimin never learned to draw systematically. Her only exercises were painting homework and random graffiti when she was bored in class.
With just a few strokes, the math teacher on the podium appeared in Zhou Huimin's pen, but the drawing was thin and the head was big, and he was a grown-up ET.
"Bang!"
The math teacher's teaching stick was knocked, which scared Zhou Huimin, who was concentrating on painting, and looked up and saw that a boy's comic book in the front row had been confiscated.
Zhou Huimin quickly put away the "ET" he drew. Just as she was about to concentrate on listening, Yaqin, who was sitting behind her, suddenly handed a newspaper quietly.
Zhou Huimin spread the newspaper on her legs and secretly read the contents of the newspaper with her eyes. The extremely rough style of paintings were attracted by the exaggerated character expressions and abstract bodies, as well as the plot that made people laugh suddenly.
The laughter was too loud. The classmates in the rows in front looked back at her collectively. Zhou Huimin immediately restrained her smile and thought that nothing had happened.
"Is it ridiculous?" the math teacher asked with a stern face.
Zhou Huimin quickly stood up and lowered her head to admit her mistake: "Teacher, I'm sorry."
The math teacher was helpless with the students in the preparatory class. He sighed and asked Zhou Huimin to sit down and said, "Be serious in class. Even if you can't get into college, it will be useful to me to learn more."
Zhou Huimin didn't dare to go on a break anymore. After attending the morning class with concentration, she couldn't wait to take out the newspaper and look it.
"Is it very interesting?" Yaqin suddenly said behind Zhou Huimin.
"It's not bad, it's very funny." Zhou Huimin then ran to see the comic author, with the words "Kang Jianfei" written on it.
Yaqin came over and lay on Zhou Huimin's desk and said admiringly: "It was painted by Boss Fei himself. He is really talented. He just wrote "Lovers and Confidant" and "Fall in Love with a People Who Don't Go Home" for Ye Qianmin. He is still directing a movie, so he can actually take time to create comics."
"Boss Fei" is a love name given to him by some of Kang Jianfei's fans. Zhou Huimin's best friend Yaqin is obviously also an admirer of Kang Jianfei. When he mentions Kang Jianfei, his eyes are full of stars.
Zhou Huimin did not take on Yaqin's paintings, but continued to read the pages behind the pictorial. Unfortunately, the romance that makes people swear is gone, and instead it is an urban love comic called "Pink Girl".
It’s not that there are no girl comics in Hong Kong, but the production of this kind of comics is very small, and there has been a trend of not being able to stop the gap in the past two years. Since Ding Xiaoxiang stopped writing, there have been no good girl comics.
Zhou Huimin doesn't like watching comics about fighting and killing. The "Pink Girl" in front of her makes her eyes shine. She still can't bear to let go after watching it in one breath, but unfortunately she just saw it and there was nothing behind her.
After watching "Pink Girl" again with unsatisfactory feelings, Zhou Huimin remembered to read the comic author, but she was shocked again - Planner: Kang Jianfei, creator: Ding Xiaoxiang.
"Ding Xiaoxiang is starting to draw comics again!" Zhou Huimin shouted in surprise.
Who is Ding Xiaoxiang?
The most famous girl cartoonist in Hong Kong in the 1970s, he not only painted girl love comics, but also thriller, erotic, and suspense comics. When he was developed, he founded the Ding Lilac Book Company, and Huang Yulang was all his employees. Moreover, the pen name of Huang Yulang was helped by Ding Xiaoxiang. Huang Yulang's pseudonym was Huang Xuansheng.
Unfortunately, under the impact of Huang Yulang's comic assembly line, Ding Xiaoxiang's Ding Xiang Book Company could not keep up with the fast pace and was acquired by Huang Yulang two years ago. Ding Xiaoxiang himself also closed the pen and went to build a publishing business.
Who would have thought that Kang Jianfei actually invited Ding Xiaoxiang out of the mountain and also released a new film "Pink Girl".
In fact, Kang Jianfei didn't know Ding Xiaoxiang at all. He learned about this person from Shangguan Xiaobao. When he learned that Ding Xiaoxiang was good at modern-style comics, he made a temporary attempt to ask Ding Xiaoxiang to draw "Pink Girl".
Zhou Huimin continued to read the pictorial. "Pink Girl" is followed by several four-frame comics, as well as a short comic story, and finally the highlight "The Journey of Ethereal".
When Zhou Huimin was reading short comics, there were already many classmates around her. She was not interested in "The Journey of Piaomiao", and was about to return the newspaper to Yaqin, but was immediately snatched away by several boys. The boys shouted: "It's the comic of "The Journey of Piaomiao"!"
Seeing that he could not get the pictorial back, Yaqin was not angry, but asked Zhou Huimin: "Amin, what are your plans if you can't get into college?"
"I don't know," Zhou Huimin felt confused for a moment, and thought for a while before saying, "I want to participate in the singing competition."
Yaqin suddenly smiled and took off Zhou Huimin's glasses and joked: "You are very beautiful if you don't wear glasses. Why not go to the beauty pageant? Miss Hong Kong or Sister Dong can do it, and I guarantee that I can get a beauty pageant champion."
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Yulang International.
Huang Yulang's assistant ran into the office with "The King of Painting" and said hurriedly: "Boss, "The King of Painting" is crazy!"
"I know, I know!" Huang Yulang stood up and paced back and forth, saying to himself. He watched the first episode of "The King of Paintings" yesterday. Not to mention the finale of "The Ethereal Journey", the modern comic "Pink Girl" in the middle can attract a large number of readers.
After walking around for a while, Huang Yulang asked, "How much has the "Picture King" sold today?"
The assistant shook his head and said, "I don't know, but there are definitely 20,000 or 30,000 copies. Many newsstands are out of stock."
Huang Yulang has a comic daily and a comic weekly newspaper, of which the sales of comic daily newspapers are only about 50,000 copies. However, the sales volume of "The King of Painting" has soared from 8,000 to 20,000 to 30,000 copies, which is really an enemy that cannot be ignored.
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"Haha, this crazy face is so bad. I also want to draw a picture to contribute!"
"Really, I can't draw "Pink Girl" more every time, it's not satisfying to watch."
"The Ethereal Journey is well drawn. Although I have read novels, I still like reading comics."
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The outside world applauded "The King of Painting", but the main creators of the comics such as Shangguan Xiaobao and Ding Xiaoxiang were as tired as dead dogs. Generally, publishing comic weekly newspapers is tiring enough. Original comics daily newspapers are simply anti-human, especially after Shangguan Xiaobao painted "The Journey of Ethereal", he also had to create his own "Bruce Lee".
In order to improve efficiency, there are nearly 30 painters and apprentices from Hei Horse Comics Company. Shangguan Xiaobao was busy until the end and simply handed over the main writing task of "The Ethereal Journey" to his disciple Niu Lao, who was only responsible for giving some advice.
When the release of "The King of Painting" reached the fifth issue, Zhang Tianxi, general manager of Heima Comics, walked to the studio and slapped and shouted: "Dear colleagues, I now solemnly announce that the sales of "The King of Painting" exceeded 60,000 copies yesterday, becoming the largest sales comic daily in Hong Kong!"
"Alas!"
The employees who were busy drawing the drafts, when they heard the news, put down their brushes and cheered collectively.
Chapter completed!