I walk the career line in dog blood

Following the route set at the beginning, An Yinong went to more than [-] bookstores in a row, but only half of the bookstores sold the "Painting Friends" comic magazine, and all of them were placed in the corners. Unable to sell, a layer of dust accumulated.

He took out another "questionnaire fee" and asked the clerk about the sales of various comic magazines. Sure enough, "Painting Friends" was at the bottom for several months, but Zhong's "Xia Dao" became famous, because several of them were quite famous. cartoonists, they bring their own fans.

After that, he went to the biggest bookstore here——Sanyou Bookstore.

Sanyou Bookstore is a bookstore that the original owner remembers that he often goes to, and the comics there are very complete.The single volumes and magazines that can be placed in this bookstore are all selling well, and those comics that have no such person will not appear here at all.Therefore, it is most appropriate to come here to understand the trend of comics recently.

It would be great if there were computers in this era, so he doesn't have to visit one by one to learn about the sales of comic magazines

"Sir..." He subconsciously shouted his 'exclusive Baidu Encyclopedia', but remembered that the world had changed, and that person would stay in the past forever.

He was stunned for a while, traveling through so many days, he thought he could adapt quickly, but he didn't.

"You need to find something to do for yourself."

Sanyou Bookstore occupies a building with three floors. The first floor sells all kinds of stationery, and the second and third floors sell books.

"Hello, where is the shelf for comics?" An Yinong asked the clerk, too lazy to look through his memory.

"On the second floor, turn left after you go up and you will see it." The clerk said.

He went to the second floor, and sure enough, he found a shelf dedicated to selling comics, and many students looked like squatting there to read.

Most of them will not buy, but choose to leave after reading.After all, it is a fast-moving consumer product, and the price is not cheap, so students don't have much money.

An Yinong squeezed in, and found that one side of the shelf was a comic magazine, and the other side was a booklet.

Most of the comic magazines are comics that are being serialized, and there can be seven or eight different works in a magazine.The single volumes are mostly comics that have already been serialized and received a good response.

He took a rough look at the comic booklets on the shelf. The lower layers were all child-oriented comics for children, while the upper layers were full of tough martial arts and underworld comics, with a few funny comics mixed in.

Boy Xiang's comics are basically martial arts and underworld themes, with a realistic style of painting, and there is no shadow paper, effect paper, etc. that are commonly used in later generations, and are purely hand-painted stroke by stroke.

"The fighting action is so beautiful." The boy who was reading the manga was fascinated by it.

"Are there no girls' comics at this time?" An Yinong searched around on the shelf, but found no female-themed comics, "No wonder all the people reading here are boys."

"Is it because of the superficial background? The comics from the island country next door have not entered the Hong Kong market?" If it were the real world, the streets are full of comics from the island country next door.

In fact, this is an advantage, especially for comics industry operators.Because the comics from the island country next door did not come in, there was a large gap in the market here waiting to be tapped.

The best seller now is the Zhong family's "Xia Dao" comic magazine, because martial arts and underworld comics are hot topics.

But what about the detective class?What about horror and spooky?What about emotion?What about alien adventures?Among other things, what about female-oriented themes?

There are so many subjects to draw.

"Let's take a look at the comics that have sold well recently."

Not far from Sancai Bookstore, a man in a black Tang suit was drinking coffee in a coffee shop next to the bookstore.The secretary and he reported the latest situation of the adopted son.

"Oh." There was a sneer on the corner of the man's mouth, "So he was played around?" Using himself to cheat emotionally, so as to protect his sweetheart... Mmm... Very good, an operation that normal people can't think of.

"Shame the faces of the people in the Walled City."

"Is the person involved in this matter the only son of He Laosan?" the man asked again.

The secretary nodded: "Yes, the He family seems to have known about it."

The man pondered for a moment: "Doesn't he want to study abroad? Tell him that I have fulfilled his wish, the plane tonight. Also, help me choose a gift for He's family. I want a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy to like it. "

"Yes, sir."

The man took out a note from his wallet and put it on the table: "Now I'm going to buy something, don't follow me."

"But the boss..." The secretary nodded and took a step back, but the two bodyguards hesitated.

"The law and order in Hong Kong City is not so bad." The man walked out of the coffee shop and walked towards the bookstore.

At this time, An Yinong had already gone through all the recent cartoons. He didn't find any that particularly attracted him, and of course it wasn't particularly ugly.

"The subject matter is still a bit single, and there is no such thing as the blooming of a hundred flowers in later generations."

After thinking about it, he took a single volume of all the comics on the shelf, and put the adult comics on the bottom and the children's comics on the top, so that he could block his eyes when stacked.

He picked up the stack of books, as heavy as a fat boy weighing fifty pounds.

"Wow, so many? Do you want to buy all of them?" The person rubbing the book showed envious eyes, "You're really rich."

Do you have money?But he just felt heavy.

An Yinong went downstairs carefully, then gently piled the books on the checkout counter, and shook his hands: "Miss, checkout."

"Checkout." Almost at the same time, a yellow-covered "Communication Skills" also appeared on the table.

An Yinong raised his head and saw a handsome man who looked familiar. He was wearing a black Tang suit again today, but the material was frosted.

This person seems to have a classical and noble temperament, but there is a scar on his eyebrow, so besides the classic and noble, there is a little more indescribable rebelliousness.

An Yinong blinked, trying to bring his gaze back: as soon as he touched this person, his heart beat out of control, and he couldn't figure out what this loss of control meant.

The other party also looked down at him: "We meet again."

"Hello." An Yinong's voice sounded weak at first, but the man's deep voice made it look more childish. He coughed and lowered his voice, "Are you here to buy books?"

"Well, you buy comics?" the man asked.

"Yeah, it's very popular among us boys (accent) to read comics recently."

The man froze for a moment, his eyes shifted from An Yinong's face to the thick stack of comics, his eyebrows with slender scars were slightly raised, and a smile appeared on his face.

An Yinong: "..." Although there was no evidence to prove it, he felt that this person was laughing at his childishness.

"You first."

"You first."

They spoke at the same time again, An Yinong smiled: "I have a lot of books, you should pay first."

"First come, first served." The man picked up his book.

Since they didn't want it, An Yinong asked the clerk to check out.He bought a bit too much, and it took a few minutes to finish the calculation.

"Guest, the total is 87 yuan and [-] cents. Do you need our store to provide door-to-door delivery service?"

An Yinong shook his head, paid the money and took the book away.

The man watched his back until the clerk reminded him that it was time to pay.He opened the wallet, took out a note, and looked outside: "Boy?"

When he got home, the family didn't say anything about him buying so many comic books, but He Chengjue remembered the comic magazine and said that the property transfer contract had been delivered, and An Yinong could just sign it.In addition, the agent has also been found, and I will take him to the publishing house to have a look in two days.

"If it was Dad, how would you solve the problem of sales?" An Yinong asked.

"A few cartoonists have been poached." He Chengjue disapproved, "Then just find two more."

An Yinong: ...

He was too naive to ask the scumbag for help.

When he went to school again the next day, Zhang Ming from the class next door was gone, and his personal belongings were also removed.His admirers asked, but the teacher just said, "Walking with his aunt."

"Could it be going abroad?" Someone showed an envious expression. Going abroad these days is a thing equivalent to crossing classes.

"No. It seems to have moved. Maybe I went to another middle school?"

The students guessed for a while, but there was no result, so they left the matter behind.

Without Zhang Yu Zhang Ming, An Yinong's campus life is very comfortable. His only pain is reading, but his reading is slowly improving, or his endurance is also slowly improving.

As for Wen Long, he never appeared again after that, An Yinong thought that this person had completely left his life.

At this time, the publishing house of "Painting Friends" magazine was under the name of An Yinong, and He Chengjue said that he would take him to the magazine office to see the situation in a few days.

Because many people in the class also like to read comics, An Yinong asked other students about the situation of "Painting Friends" magazine.

"You mean "Huayou" magazine? The comics in it are not good-looking. They are ugly and expensive." A classmate who likes to read comics said.

"That's right, since Zhen Weilong went to "Xia Dao" magazine, "Painting Friends" can't be read."

"A lot of newsstands don't have it. It's too troublesome if you want to buy it but can't."

An Yinong summarized several problems of this magazine:

The price is high, although it is relatively thick, but the cost performance is average.The two best-looking comics have been transferred to other magazines, and there are currently no newcomers to take over.Also, it is only fixed in a few bookstores, so it is inconvenient to buy.

After writing it down, he asked these students: "If you can specify a theme of comics to appear on the market, what kind of theme do you want?"

His original intention was to investigate what type of comics they were interested in, whether it was bloody adventures or reasoning and analysis.As a result, out of ten boys, seven chose lust manga.

"..." What does he expect from boys of this age?

"If there are comics with girls as the main characters, would you read them?" An Yinong asked them, and more than half of the people said definitely 'no', they said they don't like to watch romance.

"Those loves come and go, hey, just thinking about it makes goose bumps."

"There are also heroines who work hard in their careers."

However, no one is interested, even the girls are not interested, they said they do not read manga.

Fiction is divided equally between male and female perspectives because there are as many male readers as female readers.But comics are basically dominated by male readers, and female readers have not yet been cultivated.

An Yinong thinks about it, he'd better stop playing dead, whether it's him or the magazine publishing house under his name, it's better to use "martial arts comics" to clear the way first, and then consider other themes when there is a reader base.

A few days later, He Chengjue drove to pick up An Yinong, and they were going to the "Pictorial" magazine office.

An Yinong looked at his watch: "Uncle Cai, please go home."

"What's the matter?" He Chengjue was puzzled at first, until An Yinong, who was wearing a school uniform, changed into a suit.

The suits are also tailor-made, but the style is not so suitable for Asian teenagers. The body shape of Asians is different from that of Europeans and Americans.Fortunately, An Yinong's appearance and mature temperament can make up for this inappropriateness.

He Chengjue in the car suddenly became nervous. He straightened his tie: "Hey boy, is dad handsome today?"

"Why? Have a date?"

"No, it's your first day at the magazine office. Dad wants to give you a job. Are you handsome?"

An Yinong was helpless: "Handsome, very handsome, even more handsome with a tummy."

"What? Am I fat again? Looks like I'm going to the gym."

An Yinong turned to the side of the secretary with a calm expression and a very professional look. It is said that this is the secretary personally selected by Grandpa He, and he has a strong working ability.An Yinong guessed that she knew where she was going and what she was going to do today, and she had already collected the information.

"Miss Julie, what's the current situation of "Painting Friends" magazine?" He asked directly.

The secretary showed no surprise or any other expression at all, she naturally took out a stack of materials: ""Painting Friends" magazine..."

Sure enough, the secretary had gone through the situation of the entire "Painting Friends" magazine, including the previous president, employees, operations and the resume of the newly hired agent.

What the secretary learned was more specific and detailed than what An Yinong knew. An Yinong took notes while listening, and would ask questions when he encountered something he didn't understand.

"Painting Friends" used to be brilliant, but because the He family didn't pay much attention to comics, it was beaten a bit hard recently.Of course, the basic framework is there, and the employees are all experienced people, so the situation is not bad.

As for the newly hired agent, he was the editor-in-chief of a fashion magazine before, so he is capable.

While talking, the car stopped in front of a four-story modern-style building, where the publisher of "Painting Friends" magazine is located.

The car door opened, and He Chengjue and An Yinong walked out.

"Dad." An Yinong stopped He Chengjue, "I can do it myself."

He Chengjue was not a fool, he was just surprised that his son behaved like this. "Okay." After speaking, he took a step back naturally, and looked at An Yinong with a smile.