My Cartoonist Guide

"Golden Paintbrush..."

Yuan Zhe sat at his desk, frowning.

According to the regulations, the "Golden Paintbrush" will be divided into two main stages.

The first stage is the competition stage. Works signed before June 30 are eligible to participate.

The second stage is the selection stage.

There are also two small stages in the selection stage. First, the top ten works are selected according to the voting competition of the works; then, the editor-in-chief, the CEO, the heads of each company and the selected star cartoonists form a jury to select the gold Paint brush award and silver paint brush award.

There is a rule in the selection rules that allows vacancies in the awards.

This means that not only the Golden Paintbrush Award may not be produced, but even the Silver Paintbrush Award may not be produced.

Feng Shuo...or the current Duoman.com, used 10 million gimmicks to draw a "big pie", but no one knows whether this "big pie" actually has 10 million.

In fact, in private, Tong Yu also clearly told Yuan Zhe that the only criterion for judging whether a work has won the "Golden Paintbrush" award is not the quality of the comics, but whether the comics have commercial value.

To be more blunt, it is to see if any company is willing to pay for these comics.

Therefore, readers’ votes are only to screen out comics of acceptable quality. Whether these works will be awarded in the future is up to the organizing committee.

The reason why I joined the company's director is to exclude works that are "popular but not popular".

For commercial companies, they would rather work "popularity rather than praise", of course, if it can achieve fame and fortune, it would be great.

Therefore, the reader's vote in the early stage is extremely important.

Monthly membership, 3 tickets per person per month, for each 10 yuan rewarded work, automatically vote for the work, at the same time, it is stipulated that the author is forbidden to swipe the votes, once found, the qualification to participate will be cancelled.

In fact, the website does not strictly prohibit ticket swiping, but it can only be swiped by rewarding works.

This is a rule drawn up a long time ago.

Yuan Zhe also understands that the magazine is not a charity, it must be profitable.

He is now scared that there will be no "Golden Paintbrush" comics in these works.

How easy is it to get a 5 million prize?

Having said that, the quality of the top-ranked participating comics is not bad.

Of course, it can’t be compared with "game", but there are a few works that have indeed reached the level of second-line signature comics. If they are packaged at that time, they may not fail to catch fire.

This is how the work is, half by hype and half by quality.

However, this selection is not too friendly to the author, that is, before the work is signed, the author has no other benefits other than rewards.

This is also one of the main reasons that affect the quality of comics-the author must fill his stomach before he can create.

Therefore, Yuan Zhe gave the editorial department the task of judging whether the entries meet the contract conditions based on the content of the three to five episodes.

If it meets, the contract must be mailed in the first time to avoid the outflow of excellent works, or the author's lack of funds, resulting in tj.

Of course, the contract fee will be very low, about four to five thousand.

If it is in other industries, you may think that this money is a lot, but for cartoonists, this money is not enough.

However, fortunately, there is a monthly subscription. If the work is really good, not to mention that you can make a lot of money, at least it is much better than those serials that cannot be printed.

Due to the shortened contract period for works, the editorial department has become very busy.

Qian Sheng handed a form to Yuan Zhe, "This is our second batch of lists, a total of 15 copies."

"15 books? Less than last month..." Yuan Zhe took the list and read it roughly.

"No way, cartoonists who can create alone have already started serializing. Many participating authors use their spare time to create. In order to complete the number of pages, these people imitate Teacher Fu and draw only the name to attract readers. Fu The teacher can do this because he has a certain reputation in the forum and has been recognized by the editor of "icfuture", and Mr. Tong just started.

"Generally speaking, just looking at the manuscripts like drafts, there is no way to judge their painters. Although the comic stories are interesting, some people still think that the comics with good pictures are worth investing in.

"There are still some comics that are relatively complete, which should have been created by college students. In this part, the story is quite exciting, but the painting skills do need to be sharpened. The characters' bodies are out of proportion and their movements are stiff..."

Before Qian Sheng finished speaking, he sighed.

"These people are the blood of the comics circle. I think we need to be different from traditional magazines, especially "icfuture"." Yuan Zhe knocked on the table twice.

Newcomers want to become a cartoonist, not overnight, it takes a lot of time to temper.

Of course, there are cartoonists who have become famous, but those people can actually be classified as "geniuses". However, many people are not geniuses.

"How is the difference?"

"It is possible for a group of people, not ten or twenty people, to make a living in the industry of cartoonists. If we can do this, then Duomawang will be more attractive than magazines."

"Feng Shuo...will the people above agree?" Qian Sheng asked.

Yuan Zhe shook his finger, "When Mr. Tong invited me, we had already negotiated. Unless Duman.com suffers a large loss, I can make all the projects by myself."

"Then you mean..."

"I'm wondering if I can set up a special student channel or newcomer channel... By the way, authors can be graded. This will also allow authors to form a sense of competition. Anyone who has played games knows that upgrading can be addictive." Yuan Zhe explained.

Qian Sheng nodded.

The difficulty of this piece is mainly in the technical department, and the demand for funds is not large.

"When will the app of the website be ready?" Yuan Zhe asked.

"Um... in April or May at the earliest? After it's finished, there will be an internal test, so ~www.NovelMTL.com~ the exact time is not easy to say."

"I'm thinking about one thing..."

"Ok?"

"Let Teacher Wang's work be first published on the app. Since we have Teacher Wang'helping out', we must make good use of this advantage."

"Then I will follow the progress of Teacher Wang's new work?"

"This is the best." Yuan Zhe nodded, "please."

"This is what I should do." Qian Sheng smiled.

"Also...post the first batch of signed lists to Weibo and Manga.com, as well as the top 20 list and income of monthly subscription authors."

"Huh?" Qian Sheng didn't react for the first time.

"Let those ordinary cartoonists see, we also have an advantage compared with traditional magazines." Yuan Zhe said earnestly.

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