I just want to draw cartoons quietly

"Hi, I'm Su Yu, the editor of Cuttlefish Comics Club. This magazine has the intention of cooperating with your contribution, Yan Yezhiting. We invite you to come to the magazine for an interview at [-]:[-] tomorrow morning. The location is... "

Although Chu Yu really wanted to keep his expressionless and cool look, he finally pretended to say "this is all the expected result".

But the unbearable smile on his face betrayed him. After all, the works he had copied out in more than ten days were recognized by others, which made him really unable to keep a low profile.

After waiting for ten days, it finally arrived.

So a few seconds later, Chu Yu found that the whole class was staring at him intently.

In front of Chu Yu, the math teacher, an old man in his 50s looked at him with an unfriendly expression.

The smile on Chu Yu's face froze.

......

Ten o'clock the next morning.

Chu Yu came to the office of Cuttlefish Comics Club alone, which was located on the [-]th floor of a building in the city center.

After explaining his purpose, under the leadership of the lady at the front desk, Chu Yu walked through the noisy office area and entered an office.

The office area is not large, only about ten square meters, with an office chair and a desk.

All kinds of materials and drawings were placed messily on the table, and a woman with black-rimmed eyes lowered her head to carefully look at the drawings in front of her.

Her reading speed was very slow at first, and then it became faster and faster, but in the end she roughly read the work.

"No, the level difference is too much!"

The woman shook her head.

"Hello!" Chu Yu interrupted her at the right time.

Because Chu Yu saw that she was ready to reach out to the next work.

This is too focused, I have been in for 2 minutes, haven't you noticed me yet?

"Wow!" Su Zhi was a little taken aback.

Raising his head, a fair and delicate face faced Chu Yu, with doubts in his eyes.

"you are?"

"Let me introduce myself first." Chu Yu doesn't dislike people who are serious about this kind of work.

"The real name is Chu Yu, the pseudonym is... Shui Xin."

"I received a text message from you yesterday..."

"You are, Teacher Shui Xin?" Su Yu opened his eyes wide, seeing Chu Yu from head to toe, and from foot to head.

"You are a male?"

A look of embarrassment appeared on Chu Yu's face.

"Um, do I look like a woman?"

"Ah! I'm sorry, that's not what I meant. It's just that I always thought Teacher Shuixin who drew the Garden of Words and Leaves was a girl. After all, it's this type of manga, and the pen name is also..." Su Yu Also busy waving.

The pseudonym is also very feminine, right?

Chu Yu knew what Su Bing wanted to say.

To be honest, it is reasonable for the other party to have this kind of thinking. After all, in Longguo, most male cartoonists are inclined to reasoning, suspense, and fighting kingly comics, similar to youth comics such as the Garden of Words. There are many female cartoonists.

As for the pen name "Shui Xin", it is a homonym for "casual".

After all, Chu Yu is a person who struggles with choosing a pseudonym. He chose this name casually after struggling for a long time.

"Oh, by the way, it's the first time we meet. I'm the editor of Cuttlefish Comic Club, Su Ji." Only then did Su Ji realize that it had been a long time since he had introduced himself to Chu Yu.

"Please sit down!" Su Zhi straightened his face and pointed to the chair next to him.

After Chu Yu sat down.

"I don't want to talk nonsense, let's get to the point immediately." Su Zhi looked at Chu Yu and said.

"Mr. Chu Yu..., this comic agency received your submission for your work The Garden of Words Eight days ago, and I am the reviewer for this work."

Su Zhe looked at Chu Yu, organizing words in his mind.

"To be honest, after reading this work, I personally think that this work is fully qualified to be serialized in the comic magazine "Manying" of our Cuttlefish Comics Club in terms of story, structure, and style of painting. !"

"Yeah!" Chu Yu nodded repeatedly on the surface, but complained in his heart.

Didn't you mean to get into the topic? Why are you talking about all this?

Didn't you ask me to sign the contract? Take out the contract!

"but......"

Su Yu suddenly changed his tone.

Chu Yu suffocated slightly.

Things have changed?

"After I raised this opinion to the editor-in-chief at the serial meeting three days ago...it was rejected."

"Reject?" Chu Yu frowned slightly.

"Why, the editor-in-chief thinks the Garden of Words and Leafs is not good?"

"It's not that I don't think it's not possible." Su Zhi said.

"It's too short!"

No?

too short?

For a moment, Chu Yu had an unnatural expression.

"There are many periodicals under this comic agency, but the most famous one is the comic periodical "Manying"."

"Manying, together with "Tianyin Comics" under Fengyu Comics, and "Fire Dragon Comics" under Longya Comics, are also known as the three major comic journals in Los Angeles."

"Its sales channels are all over the province's large, medium and small cities, and the sales volume of each issue is more than 30."

"The comics serialized on it are at least works with more than [-] chapters."

"But Mr. Shui Xin, your Garden of Words and Leaves will end with only seven chapters."

"so......."

"So your manga club thinks that the Garden of Words and Leaves is not of high commercial value as a short story, and that's why they didn't agree to serialize it?" Chu Yu's frown gradually eased, and he sighed softly.

Sure enough, things didn't go so smoothly!

Chu Yu is not an unreasonable person. Although he thinks that the manga of Yan Ye Zhiting is very good, he has nothing to say about other manga studios defrauding his own work out of commercial considerations. What about the boss of the comic book club?

After he figured it out, he could take it easy.

It's just a pity that this work...

"Then Miss Su, did you let me come here today just to inform me face to face that my work was eliminated?"

"You can just send a text message for this kind of thing, so I don't have to skip class to come to this meeting!" Chu Yu shook his head and said.

"Skipping class?" Su Bao was stunned for a moment, she could tell that Chu Yu was a student at her age, but she didn't expect him to skip class.

But Chu Yu just complained casually, and didn't mean to blame Su Yu, after all, the other party had won the opportunity for him, even though he didn't succeed!

"In that case, let's call it a day!" Chu Yu didn't drag his feet, and got up to leave.

"Wait a moment......."

"I'm not finished yet!"

From behind, Su Yu's voice came out.

Chu Yu turned around and looked at Su Zhe.

"Teacher Shui Xin, you are too impatient!"

Su Yu looked helpless.

"Although the editor-in-chief disagrees with Ye Zhiting's serialization on Manying..."

"However, I still think this work is excellent. After discussing with the editor-in-chief, he agreed to serialize this work in another periodical "Moying" under our comic agency."

"Today, I asked Teacher Shui Xin to come to discuss this matter with the teacher."

"The teacher's contribution to the Garden of Words and Leaves is for serialization on Manying, but if the teacher is willing, our comic club is willing to serialize the work of the teacher on Moying..."

"I just don't know what you think, Teacher Shui Xin!"

Opposite Chu Yu, Su Bao had a very serious expression.

Ink shadow?

Chu Yu thought about it.

This is another comic journal under the Moyu Comics Club, which specializes in publishing some short comics, but the quality of the works published on it is basically average. Compared with the signature Manying under the Moyu Animation Club, Moying is undoubtedly much less influential. The sales volume of each journal is tens of thousands.

But do I have a choice?

Chu Yu smiled wryly.

Now he has a treasure mountain but no key to the treasure mountain.

Each work in the manga system is in an unlocked state of sleep, waiting for him to unlock the world points obtained through the spread and popularity of the Garden of Words and Leafs.

Although the sales volume of Mo Ying is mediocre, it is much better to serialize the Garden of Words Leaf than Chu Yu uploading his works for free on the Internet to gain popularity!

So Chu Yu returned to his seat in only three seconds.

He looked at Su Yu with a smile on his face.

"I think we can discuss the specific cooperation details!"

Chapter 3 serialization decision

Su Zhe looked at Chu Yu, a little dazed!

This young man is too bachelor, he got up and left immediately when he felt that there was no chance of cooperation, without delaying at all.

But when the cooperation opportunity reappeared, the person who seemed a little indifferent before immediately smiled, and his attitude seemed to be completely opposite from before.

Su Zhi smiled, but felt that Chu Yu people liked her.

After all, in the workplace, people who come into contact with you can’t tell whether they have true feelings for you or fake intentions. People like Chu Yu are so undisguised, no, they should be people who don’t want to hide their thoughts at all. On the contrary, Su Yu feels that getting along with him is much easier. .

The next thing is much simpler. Since both of them intend to publish the work of Word Leaf Zhiting in Moying, a short comic periodical under the Cuttlefish Magazine, the main discussion is the price and copyright of the comics!

Although the number of words in this work is very low, the seven chapters are barely enough to make a single book.

Although Su Yi thinks that the chances of this work becoming so popular that it will be published in a single volume are not high, it is better to write these things into the contract first, so as to avoid disputes in the future.

After nearly half an hour of discussion.

In the end, the two of them negotiated and the result was that Squid Manga Club published it on Moying at a price of 220 yuan per page. If the work of Yan Ye Zhi Ting is published in a separate volume in the future, the royalties will be divided into [-]%!

That is to say, for the 160th page of Chapter [-], the Garden of Words and Leaves, Chu Yu finally received about [-] manuscript remuneration!

According to Chu Yu's understanding, this is considered a normal price for new comics, even a little higher. It seems that Su Yu didn't want to bully Chu Yu as a newcomer, and lowered the price because he didn't understand the market.

And there is an additional condition in the contract, that is, in the next year, if Chu Yu has a new comic, he can only choose to deliver it to the Cuttlefish Comics Club, even if Chu Yu’s new serialization is not passed at the Cuttle Fish Comics Club’s serialization meeting. Under such circumstances, the work cannot be submitted to other comic journals!

As compensation, the cuttlefish comic society will give Chu Yu a certain financial subsidy to a certain extent!

However, the subsidy is far inferior to the urban subsistence allowances, and it is worse than nothing!

Chu Yu looked at the additional conditions and was silent for a long time.

"This is an industry rule. Don't say that the influence of the three major comic agencies in the city is only in one province, or even the large-scale comic agency with sales channels all over the country like the Seventh Major in Shanghai. The newcomers want to serialize on it. , must accept similar additional conditions, which are not unique to our agency." Su Wei explained to Chu Yu that he was afraid that Chu Yu would think too much.

After all, it is impossible for any comic agency to cultivate a potential newcomer in its own journal, and then let them change jobs at will, waiting for a price. The first step is to accept it.

Accept it, and only after gaining fame can you be qualified to negotiate terms with capital.

Chu Yu understands this truth, he just thought that this is the first contract he signed in his life, and after signing this contract, he is a person who has half a foot in society.

While obtaining income according to the contract agreement, it will also be bound by the above agreement.

For a while, there was some fear and fear, but more excitement!