I’m Walking the Career Line In Dog Blood

Following the route set at the beginning, An Yinong went to more than 20 bookstores. As a result, only half of the bookstores sold "Painting Friends" comic magazines, and they were all placed in the far corners The location of the place, could not be sold for several consecutive issues, and accumulated a layer of dust.

He took out another 'questionnaire survey fee' to ask the clerk about the sales of various comic magazines. Sure enough, "Painting Friends" was at the bottom for a few months, but the Zhong family's "Xia Dao" became famous. Because there are several well-known cartoonists among them, they bring their own fans.

After that, he went to the largest bookstore here - Sanyou Bookstore.

Sanyou Bookstore is a bookstore that the original owner often visited in his memory, and the comics there are very complete. The single-volume books and magazines that can be placed in this bookstore are all sold well, and those comics that have no such person will not appear here at all. Therefore, to understand the recent trend of comics, it is the most appropriate to come here.

If only there were computers in this era, he didn't need to visit one by one to find out the sales of comic magazines

"Sir..." He subconsciously called out his 'exclusive Baidu Encyclopedia', but remembered that the world had changed, and that person will always remain in the past.

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

"Got to find something for myself."

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

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

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

He went to the second floor and found a shelf dedicated to selling comics, and many people who looked like students were squatting there to read.

Most of them will not buy it, but choose to read it and leave. After all, it is a fast-moving consumer goods, and the price is not cheap, and students do not have much money.

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

Manga magazines are mostly serialized comics, and a magazine can have seven or eight different works. The single-run books are mostly comics that have been serialized and have a good response.

He took a look at the comics on the shelf. The lower layer is full of childish comics for children to read, and the upper layer is full of martial arts comics and underworld comics with tough paintings, and a few more. Funny comics.

Juvenile Xiang's comics are basically martial arts and underworld themes, with realistic style, and there is no shadow paper, effect paper, etc. commonly used in later generations.

"The action of fighting is so beautiful." The boy watching the comics was intoxicated.

"Isn't there any shoujo manga at this time?" An Yinong looked around on the shelf, but found no female-themed manga, "No wonder all the boys are watching here."

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

In fact, this is an advantage, especially for manga industry operators. Because the comics of the next island country did not come in, there are large blanks in the market here waiting to be tapped.

The best-selling magazine now is Zhongjia's "Xia Dao" comic magazine, because martial arts and underworld comics are hot topics.

But what about detectives? Horror weird? What about emotion? What about otherworldly adventures? If nothing else, what about female-oriented themes?

There are so many subjects to draw.

"Let's take a look at the comics that have been selling recently."

Not far from Sancai Bookstore, a man in a black Tang suit was drinking coffee at the cafe next to the bookstore. The secretary reports to him on the recent situation of the adopted son.

"Huh." The man sneered at the corner of his mouth, "So he was played around?" He used himself to cheat emotionally, so as to protect his sweetheart... um... It's great, normal people don't think out operation.

“To lose all the face of the city people.”

"The person who was involved in this matter was He Laosan's only son?" the man asked again.

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

The man pondered for a moment: "Don't he want to study abroad? Tell him that I have fulfilled his wish, and the flight tonight. In addition, help me pick out a gift to send to where, it will cost ten Five- or six-year-old boys like it."

"Yes, sir."

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

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

"The law and order in the port city is not so bad." The man walked out of the cafe and walked towards the bookstore.

At this time, An Yinong had already flipped through all the recent comics. He didn't find anything that appealed to him, and of course it wasn't particularly ugly.

"The subject matter is still a little single, and there is no blooming of a hundred flowers in the future."

After thinking about it, he took a single copy of all the comics on the shelf. The comics for adults were placed on the bottom, and the comics for children were placed on top, so that they could block his eyes.

He picked up the stack of books, heavy like a 50-pound fat boy.

"Wow, so many? Do you want to buy it?" The person who rubbed the book looked envious, "It's really rich."

Are you rich? But he just felt heavy.

An Yinong went downstairs carefully, and then gently stacked the books on the checkout counter, shaking her hand: "Miss, checkout."

"Checkout." Almost at the same time, a yellow book cover of "Communication Skills" also appeared on the table.

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

An Yinong blinked, trying to pull his sight back: As soon as he met this person, his heartbeat went out of control, and he couldn't figure out what this out of control meant.

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

"Hello." An Yinong's voice sounded weak from the beginning, but this man's deep voice made it even more childish. He coughed and lowered his voice, "Come to buy a book?"

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

"Yeah, we boys (accent) groups are very popular recently to read comics."

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

An Yinong: "..." Although there is no evidence to prove it, he feels that this person is 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." The man picked up his book.

Since no one wanted it, An Yinong asked the clerk to check out. He bought a little too much, and it took a few minutes to finish.

"Guest, the total is 87 yuan and 50 cents. Do you need our store to provide door-to-door service?"

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

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

When he got home, he didn't say anything about the comic book he bought, but He Chengjue remembered about the comic magazine and said that the property transfer contract had been sent, and An Yinong could sign it. . Another agent has also been found and will take him to the publishing house in two days.

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

"A few cartoonists were poached." He Chengjue disagreed, "Then just find two more."

Annon:…

It's too naive to ask the scumbag for help.

He went to school the next day, Zhang Ming from the next class was no longer there, and his personal belongings were also removed. His admirers asked, but the teacher just said, "Let's go with his aunt."

"Isn't it going to go abroad?" Someone showed an envious expression. Going abroad these days is equivalent to a cross-class thing.

"No. It seems to have moved, maybe to another middle school?"

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

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

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

At this time, the magazine publisher of "Painting Friends" had arrived under the name of An Yinong. He Chengjue said that he would take him to the magazine office to check 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.

"Did you say "Drawing Friends" magazine? The comics in it are not good-looking. They are ugly and expensive." said a classmate who likes to read comics.

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

"Many newsstands don't have them, and I can't buy them if I want to. It's too troublesome."

Annon summed up the magazine's questions:

The price is higher, although it is thicker, but the price is average. The two best-looking comics have been transferred to other magazines, and there are currently no newcomers to take over. And, it is only fixed in a few bookstores, which is inconvenient to buy.

After writing it down, he asked these classmates: "If you can designate a comic with a certain theme to appear on the market, what kind of theme do you want?"

He intended to investigate what type of comics they were interested in, whether it was a **** adventure or a reasoning analysis. As a result, seven of the ten boys chose **** comics.

“…” What does he expect from boys of this age?

"If there are cartoons with girls as protagonists, would you read them?" An Yinong asked them, and more than half of them said 'no', they said they didn't like to read love love love.

"Those who love come and go, hey, I get goosebumps just thinking about it."

"There are also female protagonists who work hard."

However, no one is interested, even the girls are not interested, they say they don't read comics.

The world of fiction is divided equally between male and female perspectives because there are as many male readers as there are female readers. However, the comics are basically dominated by male readers, and female readers have not yet been cultivated.

An Yinong thinks about it, he should not die, whether it is him or the magazine publisher under his name, it is best to use 'Martial Arts Comics' to open the way first, and then have a reader base. Consider other topics.

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

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

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

The suits are also made to measure, 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 inappropriate.

He Chengjue in the car suddenly became nervous, he adjusted his tie: "Good boy, is Dad handsome today?"

"What? Have a date?"

"No, the first day you go to the magazine, Dad wants to give you a show. Isn't he handsome?"

An Yinong was helpless: "Handsome, very handsome, even more handsome when you close your stomach."

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

An Yinong turned to the side with a calm expression and looked very professional secretary. It is said that this is the great secret handpicked by Grandpa He, and his work ability is very strong. 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 is the current situation of "Painting Friend" magazine?" He asked directly.

The secretary didn't show any surprise or any other expression at all, she naturally took out a stack of documents: "Painting Friends" magazine..."

Sure enough, the secretary has already learned about 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 listened and memorized, and even asked questions when he did not know much.

"Drawing Friends" used to be brilliant, but because the He family doesn't pay attention to comics, it has been beaten a bit hard recently. Of course, the basic framework is there, and the employees are all those who have previous experience, so the situation is not bad.

As for the newly hired agent, she used to be the editor-in-chief of a fashion magazine, so she has the ability.

During the conversation, the car stopped in front of a four-story modern-style building, where the "Painting Friends" magazine publishing house is located.

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

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

He Chengjue is not a fool, he is just surprised that his son has such a performance. "Okay." He naturally took a step back and looked at An Yinong with a smile.