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Chapter 36 The Requirements Are Too Low

With her own actions, An Yi told the two editors why she was qualified to say what she had previously asked for was almost crazy...

Ding Hebei looked at An Yi at this time, as if she was looking at a monster. If other teachers saw An Yi, who could complete a perfect original manuscript without modification in less than two hours after picking up a brush, and she had done all the background, outlets, blackening, etc., she would definitely be watching a monster like Ding Hebei!

For example, some new cartoonists without assistants, it may take more than ten hours to draw a manuscript and modify it to perfection! Drawing comics is not just a random graffiti!

Think about it, readers may not even want to read a page of content for a minute. This strong contrast is indeed sad.

Not only cartoonists, but also online writers with ideals and pursuits often only write a few hundred words per hour and write a chapter of two thousand words, which takes three or four hours, but readers only need less than five minutes to finish reading. Sometimes they read it for free, but after reading it, they still have to criticize the author to show their sense of superiority.

It is recommended that readers who like to swear the author will write it in person and feel the hard work of being an author.

The author and the reader should be considerate of each other.

Therefore, drawing comics and writing novels is not an easy task... The former takes much more time and energy than the latter.

It is precisely because of this hardship that ordinary people can't imagine that the two editors Ji Hongfei and Ding Hebei feel that An Yi was talking nonsense before.

However, after An Yi directly proved herself with her actions, Ji Hongfei finally compromised and said, "The final decision of the comics is still popularity. If Teacher Yi'an's creative method can draw popular and commercially valuable comics, then I will give you such privileges! But if the new serialized performance is not good and the speed cannot keep up, then I hope Teacher Yi'an will respect us too."

"I also agree with the editor-in-chief's proposal, but I would like to add that the average ranking of the reader questionnaire in the first ten chapters can determine whether Teacher Yi'an can retain such privileges. Editor-in-chief, what ranking do you think Teacher Yi'an can retain such privileges?" Ding Hebei said.

Although Ding Hebei saw how fast and high quality An Yi's paintings were far beyond her imagination, it was certainly impossible to see whether An Yi could draw a new series with commercial value based on just one page of the original painting. Moreover, she still felt that An Yi's behavior of leaving the editor alone was just a mess!

Commercial comics originally have routines and skills. A pure new cartoonist, who relies entirely on talent, may be able to draw well-received short comics, but if you don’t learn some routines and skills in a long series of comics, it will definitely not work!

However, Editor-in-Chief Ji Hongfei's words are correct. Since An Yi wants to make a fuss, let her make a fuss, and it's better to hit a wall.

Ding Hebei hopes that after hitting a wall, An Yi will obediently draw a storyboard before drawing the original manuscript, and then discuss it with her to create popular works together.

So Ding Hebei directly proposed to use the ranking of the reader questionnaire of the first ten chapters in the new serialized series to decide everything!

Originally, in "The Kingdom of Martial Arts", the rule was: after the new serialization was released, the ten chapters were used as the benchmark, and the readers' opinions of each issue during the period were combined, and then the fate of the work was determined.

The data of each issue will be reflected truthfully in the front and back positions of comic layout, but the first one will often retain works that are given to pillars or have special moments of significance (such as the first episode debut and anniversary), and the new series will be treated relaxed for about one to two months.

But it is obvious that Ding Hebei was reluctant to leave me with two months of relaxation for one or two months.

If the popularity index continues to rank at the end, no matter how the quality of the work is, it will be cut in half and give way to new serializations, which will result in many short-term serialized works with only 10 to 20 issues.

Works that do not belong to the above two categories also have the guidelines for color pages in the volume to express the support of the editorial department. This move will generally put the works in a slightly higher position than actual popularity.

Generally, only mid- and downstream works can actively express their willingness to end to the editorial department, and may also add conditions, such as the serialization of the current works that exceeds or matches the current works within a limited time. Ending under these conditions is full of risks, and the worst result of failure to fulfill may be to always leave the ranks of "The Kingdom of War".

Why has Teacher Ke Yongqun's "Shadow" been painted for ten years and continues? It is precisely because even himself cannot end such a work that has become the iconic "The Kingdom of War"...

The editorial department of Wuzhi Kingdom aims to maintain the number of serialized works at 20. The works ranked last two will be considered in half, while the works of more than ten can be classified as middle and lower.

However, starting from the previous five years, works that were cut in half will be transferred to the magazine's supplementary "Wuzhi Village", which will be serialized for several episodes to ease the problem of unfinished work. In addition, many authors have been frustrated because they tried martial arts comics rashly but were dissatisfied, and then they could only leave the highest stage of "Wuzhi Country" and transfer to other comic magazines under the China Culture Media Group.

Therefore, it can be said that the twenty comics on "The Kingdom of Martial Arts" are all works by senior martial arts cartoonists who have worked hard for many years. They each have their own readers. Many pure new cartoonists are lucky enough to pass the serialization meeting and start the new serialization, but they can't escape the fate of being cut in half!

Ji Hongfei couldn't help but feel a little funny when he heard Ding Hebei's suppressed dissatisfaction. Before coming, the editor Ding was really full of affection for Teacher Yi An and was full of enthusiasm to discuss the new serial with Teacher Yi An, but now he was really angry.

But thinking about it is true. If Ji Hongfei had not been a generous person, then an ordinary editor would have been so angry that she would have been pissed off by An Yi - after all, she was just a newcomer who had not yet proved herself in the field of serialized comics, but she was so arrogant!

"Then let's go to the top ten, the top ten in the official publication of "The Kingdom of Martial Arts"! This goal has a very high requirement for new cartoonists. However, the storyboard for the first three chapters... well, it's the original manuscript. I hope Teacher Yi An can draw it as soon as possible. No matter what, it's still a situation at the serialization meeting." Ji Hongfei said.

Ji Hongfei is actually quite happy now, because after he compromisedly agreed to temporarily give An Yi, it means that An Yi will become a signed cartoonist for "The Kingdom of War"!

"The top ten? The requirements are too low. If there are no top five, I will not draw martial arts comics." An Yi said solemnly.

Ding Hebei originally thought that the editor-in-chief's requirements for An Yi seemed to be too high. After all, he was a novice who had never serialized comics... As a result, when she heard An Yi say this again, she almost knelt down for An Yi!

What does the top five mean? Do you really understand the comic novelist An Yi?

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