If you want to develop the comics industry in Hong Kong, you must have a famous comic series to support it, otherwise it will always be a small effort. The reason why Kang Jianfei bought the Bayer Painting Society was because the "Bruce Lee" comic series was a hot seller in Hong Kong.
Over the past ten years, some of the other comics produced by the painting agency have also become somewhat famous.
As for the comics company that acquired Shangguan Xiaobao's younger brother Shangguan Xiaowei, it wanted to diversify its comics from just kung fu comics, because Shangguan Xiaowei is a rare thriller cartoonist in Hong Kong, and he is also a very famous thriller cartoonist.
For Kang Jianfei, who had a lot of money in his hand, it was very easy to enter the comics industry. He didn't even show up personally. He only spent 300,000 to buy Shangguan Xiaowei's comics agency, along with various copyrights of the comics agency and several
Comic talent.
The two comic clubs will move into the No. 3 Administration Building of Tseung Kwan O Studios in the next few days. The name of the combined comic club has not yet been decided, and everything is still being discussed and prepared.
Kang Jianfei not only wants to make comics, but his further goal is to make cartoons.
Compared with Hong Kong comics, which were once prosperous in the 1970s, Hong Kong's animation industry started not too late. Animation scenes appeared in movies in 1948. From the 1940s to the 1970s, Hong Kong animations were just trademarks.
Design and make animation shots for movies and TV series. The cartoons shown on TV are completely imported.
It was not until 1976 that TVB and Radio Television Hong Kong established an animation team to produce some animated openings and endings for TV series, and shoot some animated short films.
After entering the 1980s, more and more advertisers used animation for advertising, and Hong Kong's animation industry developed. In 1982, Hong Kong's first animated film "Old Master" was produced.
Even so, there are very few animation talents in Hong Kong. Most of them work in the TVB animation team, and the rest specialize in animation advertisements. As for the cartoons currently broadcast by Phoenix Channel, sorry, most of them are imported from Japan and Taiwan, and some are imported from Japan and Taiwan.
Purchased from USA.
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Administration Building No. 3, Tseung Kwan O Studios.
Shangguan Xiaowei directed his apprentice to arrange the office. He turned back to Kang Jianfei and said, "If Mr. Kang wants to find animation talents, don't just focus on Hong Kong."
"Are you going to Japan to invite me?" Kang Jianfei asked.
Shangguan Xiaowei said with a smile: "How could you go to Japan? The labor costs in Japan are too high. Nowadays, many animations in Japan are outsourced to animation factories in mainland China."
"Japanese animation is outsourced to animation factories in mainland China?" Kang Jianfei asked in surprise. This was in the 1980s, and China was not the world's factory after 2000.
Seeing Kang Jianfei's confused look, Shangguan Xiaowei began to tell Kang Jianfei about this situation in detail.
Chinese animation was originally very powerful. The father of Japanese comics, Osamu Tezuka, only started to engage in comics after watching the Chinese animation "Princess Iron Fan". In the following decades, Chinese comics have never lagged behind in art.
through any country.
On the other side of the world, the United States, due to the high wages of animators, began to cooperate with low-wage countries to produce cartoons in 1965. The preferred partner at that time was Japan. This directly promoted the development and prosperity of the Japanese comics and animation industry.
After 20 years of development, Japan's animation industry has begun to prosper. At the same time, it is also facing the problem of the American animation industry - animators are overpaid. As a result, Japanese animation companies began to cooperate with South Korea, Taiwan, and mainland China to
The basic animation production links are outsourced.
The most powerful animation factory in mainland China is Shanghai Art Film Studio. In recent years, the country has been calling on all people to earn foreign exchange. Mei Film Studio happily took over Japan's outsourcing business. I can't believe how happy I am to earn US dollars. For animation
The brain drain is not alarming.
How many animators are there at American Film Studio today?
Ordinary workers earn tens of yuan a month, while master craftsmen with excellent skills only earn a salary of more than 100 yuan. Over the past few years, senior animation talents have been poached by Japanese companies with high salaries (cabbage prices).
After briefly introducing the situation, Shangguan Xiaowei said with a smile: "So, if you want to hire professional animation talents, go to the mainland and find a lot of them at Shanghai Meiying Studio. As long as you help them solve the visa problem in Hong Kong, 1,000
A monthly salary of only RMB 100 allows them to compete for the top spot.”
Kang Jianfei is still very keen on poaching socialist corners. Anyway, if he doesn't dig, he will be poached by the Japanese. If he takes advantage of it, he will not lose money to outsiders.
Kang Jianfei said: "Mr. Kuang, you are a professional in animation. How about you help me go to the mainland? I will take care of the affairs of the Chinese government."
Shangguan Xiaowei waved his hand and said: "I don't have much research on animation, I just draw comics."
Kang Jianfei said: "Anyway, the task of selecting people will be troublesome to you. I will send someone else to contact you."
Shangguan Xiaowei then nodded and said: "Okay, then I will go to the mainland for a trip."
Shangguan Xiaobao's office has been decorated. He opened the door and came in and said to Kang Jianfei: "Mr. Kang, please give our comic club a name first and hang up the sign first."
Kang Jianfei was always too lazy to think about names, so he said in a wicked way: "Why don't we just call it Dark Horse Comics Company, a dark horse in the comics world."
In another time and space, Dark Horse Comics (dark_ics) is the third largest comic company in the United States after DC and Marvel. This company will not be established until next year. Unfortunately, the name is currently registered by Kang Jianfei. I don’t know when it will be established.
There will be no duplication of names.
The Shangguan brothers are not particular about the company's name. For example, Shangguan Xiaowei's comic book club is directly called Xiaowei Comic Publishing House. They are only interested in the company's logo design.
After establishing the name of the comic company, Shangguan Xiaobao said: "Mr. Kang, the company had better run a doll newspaper (comic newspaper)."
Kang Jianfei nodded and said: "I will select the candidate for the general manager of the company as soon as possible, and then we will discuss together how to run the company."
Shangguan Xiaowei said: "But the development direction still needs to be determined first. I think the most important thing is to create a comic that sells more than "Heroes of China"."
"Heroes of China" is the most popular comic book in Hong Kong today. After it was sold as a separate volume in 1982, the highest sales volume reached 200,000 copies. Today, the biweekly sales volume of "Heroes of China" has remained at around 150,000 copies.
As mentioned earlier, the sales volume of the latest issue of "Heroes of China" is more than 40,000. That is because Huang Yulang started to issue a revised version of "Heroes of China" last year in order to make money. The contents of the revised version are all repeated, except for the pictures and materials.
It is more beautiful, and some unreasonable plots have been modified. It is sold to loyal fans for collection. Even so, it can sell more than 40,000 copies per issue.
As for the two comics "Dragon and Tiger Gate" and "Bruce Lee", the sales volume under normal circumstances should be about 50,000 copies. Unfortunately, Huang Yulang has been busy with the listing of his company recently, and lacks energy to fill the comics with water. "Bruce Lee" is due to copyright infringement.
The issue was interrupted for five issues, resulting in a significant decrease in sales of both comics.
If Kang Jianfei's Dark Horse Comics wants to seize the comics market, the most important thing is to beat the sales of "Heroes of China".
The reason why Shangguan Xiaowei is so active in dealing with "Heroes of China" is because its author Ma Rongcheng is his apprentice. When Shangguan Xiaowei worked at his brother Shangguan Xiaobao's "Good News", he taught him step by step the same author who also worked in "Good News"
》Ma Rongcheng is Ma Rongcheng’s de facto mentor. As for his brother Shangguan Xiaobao, he is actually Ma Rongcheng’s nominal master.
Nowadays, Ma Rongcheng's "Heroes of China" is very popular in Hong Kong, but the Shangguan brothers are filled with hatred and regard Ma Rongcheng as a traitor to the "Shanggguan family".
The strategy Kang Jianfei came up with was to use "Bruce Lee" against "Dragon Tiger Gate" on the frontal battlefield, and "Miscellaneous Journey" against "Heroes of China". In addition, he used Shangguan Xiaowei's thriller magazine to open up a second battlefield.
Then discover new cartoonists to create life-style comics, fairy tale comics, "McDull" and so on, which can be produced in advance.
If the comics of "The Misty Journey" can't take on this important task, then Kang Jianfei has other ways. Now that Niu Lao is helping Shangguan Xiaobao, it won't be too difficult to draw the "Young and Dangerous" series with a little bit of help.
Of course, Kang Jianfei also has his own special skill, which is that he can even use it to design split shots... Baoman.
Kang Jianfei took out a piece of white paper from Shangguan Xiaowei's desk and started drawing with a pen. A few strokes were enough to create a character.
In less than three minutes, Kang Jianfei handed over the Bao Manga he had just drawn and said: "From now on, each issue of our doll newspaper will use one page to publish Bao Comics, and the call for submissions will be open to the public. Anyone can use Bao Comics to express their own affairs.
, this can cultivate a large number of die-hard fans of the doll newspaper."
There are a total of six frames in the Baoman comic drawn by Kang Jianfei:
The first frame is a stick figure with a big head with an exaggerated smile on its body, humming a song.
The character in the second frame has the same shape, but with a few eyelashes and hair. It is obviously a female. She said: "Wang Nima, you are so interesting."
In the third frame, Wang Nima laughs exaggeratedly.
The broken coriander smile of a fourth-character woman: "But, a girl likes people who make her laugh, but what she loves is people who make her cry."
The fifth grid, Wang Nima, cried and laughed like a curator: "Uh..."
The character in the sixth frame finally no longer has a stick figure body. Wang Nima solemnly held down the woman and spanked her, while the woman cried with her face completely deformed.
"This thing is called a violent comic?" Shangguan Xiaobao is a very conservative cartoonist. At first glance, Kang Jianfei's violent comics are completely unacceptable, but after a few more glances, they become more and more interesting, and I can't help but want to laugh out loud.
Shangguan Xiaowei was also amazed by Kang Jianfei's comics. He smiled and said: "I don't know what the effect is of drawing thriller comics in this style." (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote at Qidian ()
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