Global Tycoon: You Call This A Small Achievement?

At almost no cost, Oriental Newspaper Company easily acquired a comic book company and changed its name to "Kowloon Comics".

It is worth mentioning that this comic book club is actually Shangguan Xiaobao’s Holy Fire Publishing House.

The current comic industry in Xiangjiang is indeed in dire straits. A large number of comic magazines and periodicals have ceased publication. Many artists and writers are unemployed and cannot find jobs.

As soon as Oriental News Company extended an olive branch, Shangguan Xiaobao's Shenghuo Publishing House was interested.

For no other reason, even "Bruce Lee", the flagship product of "Good News", was asked to suspend publication for rectification, and the entire comic book club's income simply dropped off a cliff!

At the beginning, no one thought that this kind of storm would be so violent and last for so long. Shangguan Xiaobao even optimistically found a bank and mortgaged his house to pay his employees' wages.

But as the situation gradually worsened, he also fell into a state of distress and had to reluctantly lay off employees.

At this time, Huang Sheng approached Shangguan Xiaobao and proposed to acquire Shenghuo Publishing House and the copyright of "Bruce Lee", and promised to give him a small share of the equity. He almost agreed, like a drowning man grabbing a life-saving straw. Finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Old Huang, are all comics in Xiangjiang serialized in newspapers?" He Zhou looked at the "Good News" in his hand that published "Bruce Lee" and frowned slightly.

Huang Sheng was a little confused, "Yes, isn't that the case?"

He Zhou's frown deepened. It seemed that in his impression, as early as the 1940s and 1950s, there seemed to be a comic publication called "Manga World".

If he remembered correctly, this publication seemed to be developing well and became a huge comics platform, with many artists and writers submitting articles to this publication.

As soon as he thought of this, He Zhou immediately expressed his doubts one by one.

Huang Sheng thought for a moment and said: "It is true that there were comics in the form of magazines, but that was a long time ago々々."

"Then why has it changed so much now?" He Zhou asked.

In his opinion, this is undoubtedly a reversal of history. If there is no problem here, he doesn't believe it.

Huang Sheng didn't think that much and told the truth, "The main reason is that the comics of the past are not the same as the comics of today. In the past, a single painter could basically complete all the processes of a comic;

With the development of the times, the concept of comics has also undergone tremendous changes. It is no longer a simple creation, but a huge project that requires the full cooperation of a complete team and careful division of labor to create a high-quality product. "

After Huang Sheng explained this, He Zhou actually came back to his senses. In short, it used to be a straggler and a small workshop. Now with the development of the times, the comics industry is also developing in the direction of industrialization.

This is similar to the short video UP masters, TikTok masters, and big Vs of later generations. Even if they became popular by luck in the early stage, in the later stage, they gradually needed a professional team to be responsible for the entire process from planning to production to promotion.

The so-called protagonists who walk on the stage and appear on the screen are actually more of just business cards created by an excellent team. They have no ideas themselves and are more like puppets.

It cannot be said that there is no autonomy at all, but if even the accounts belong to the company behind them instead of themselves, where does the autonomy come from?

"But what does this have to do with the development of comics in the form of newspaper serialization? Even if small and medium-sized comics companies can't afford it, haven't large comics companies tried to restore the magazine form of publishing?"

Huang Sheng said without hesitation, "With the previous strength of Yulang Books and Shenghuo Publishing House, we do have the strength to do it, but it is not necessary."

After his reminder, He Zhou immediately realized that the ideas of both parties were fundamentally inconsistent.

In his mind, Kowloon Comics is to be a comics platform that invites contributions from the entire society and is also willing to accept submissions from outside. However, the comics club in Xiangjiang has no idea of ​​​​being a platform at all, but wants to create an internal closed loop. , eating up the dividends of the entire industry.

This may not be just a problem of Xiangjiang comics. For example, the film and television industry in Xiangjiang is similar. A company, from brokerage business to film and television production, to TV stations and movie theaters, is basically closed to the outside world.

"Sooner or later, this kind of development will cause big problems." Now he knew why Xiangjiang's movies, TV series, comics, animations, etc. were all hit one after another, and in the end they couldn't even make a splash.

Xiangjiang itself is a small place, and the market is extremely involution. Even the king of volume born out of this environment has no power to fight back when faced with international predators.

The Hong Kong Volume King has a market capitalization of billions of Hong Kong dollars and an annual revenue ranging from hundreds of millions to hundreds of millions. With such a small amount of capital, he still wants to take care of brokerage business, film and television production and broadcasting, etc., and has a market capitalization of tens of billions of dollars in Europe and the United States. How to compete with giants in several important fields?

That is to say, the era of globalization has not yet fully arrived, otherwise all industries in Xiangjiang will be crushed into powder!

Even the world's top companies are laying out industrial chains for global division of labor and cooperation. You, a loach in a small pond, only want to involute and close the loop?

There is no way out in a closed loop, only openness can have a future!

If Xiangjiang wants to develop, it must build itself into a huge platform, gathering the power of Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, the mainland and South Asia, so that it can be qualified to compete undefeated with European and American capital giants.

Otherwise, in the small pool of Xiangjiang, no matter how hard you roll, it will be of no avail. Even if you monopolize the entire industry, it will not bring about the slightest change. Xiangjiang will eventually perish.

He Zhou subconsciously made a fist, smashed it on the table, and shouted in a deep voice: ". "Kowloon Comics" must be published in the form of a (Nuo Li Hao) weekly. "Kowloon Comics" must be published in Hong Kong, even across the Taiwan Strait, the three places, and even frozen Nanya and the world’s open comics platform, enclosure is a dead end!”

"If you have any difficulties, just tell me directly!"

Huang Sheng was shocked, and his face was a little awe-inspiring. The boss's emphasis on comics was somewhat beyond his words. After thinking about it carefully, he took a deep breath and said: "There are two aspects.

One is funding, the other is talent!”

He Zhou said directly, "I will give you two million Hong Kong dollars in advance. If it is not enough, I will add more later.

No matter what method you use, you have to dig out the comic talents in Xiangjiang for me. If all the comic talents in Xiangjiang are poached, go to poach the comic talents from the Swindle Island. If that doesn't work, you can also bring in the comic talents from the island country... .Past

In my opinion, the comics industry in the island country is now developing vigorously and is worth learning from...