Rebirth of the God of Comics

"Hi, Mr. Smith, I'm Chen Ze." Chen Ze said, he looked at the man in front of him, with white hair and a pair of glasses, he looked like a scholar at a glance.

Chen Ze remembered the background of Mr. Smith. He was originally a professor at the University of Washington in the United States, and later he went into business and joined the Lando Bookstore Group.

His current image fits very well with his background.

Thinking of this, Chen Ze smiled again. Before he came in, he thought that beautiful woman was Mr. Smith, but it turned out to be his secretary.

But his secretary is so beautiful, and the two of them have been locked in the same room to work for a long time, wouldn't something happen?

Although no matter what happened, it had nothing to do with Chen Ze, but he always thought "maliciously" in his heart. After all, Americans seem to often have problems in this regard.

"Hello, Mr. Chen Ze and Miss Lin Lan, please sit down." Smith's words brought Chen Ze back to reality from his "malicious" guess.

He looked at Smith's smiling face, nodded with the same smile, and sat down. Although Chen Ze didn't know English very well, he could still understand the simple please sit down.

But then, Chen Ze was completely in a fog.

"Mr. Chen Ze, Ms. Lin Lan, on behalf of our Lando Group, I would like to welcome you to the United States as guests. I hope that during this time in the United States, you can appreciate the rich humanities and beautiful scenery of our United States."

Smith spoke with a pure New York-style accent, although his speaking speed wasn't too fast, but Chen Ze still didn't understand at all. Hearing what Smith said, he could only smile and nod.

Fortunately, Lin Lan was by his side, as someone who had studied in the United States for many years. She heard what Smith said, but there was no obstacle.

"Thank you Mr. Smith and the Lando Group for the invitation this time. New York is a good place. I believe that Chen Ze and I will have a good time during this period." Lin Lan said. Pronunciation is also quite standard.

"Hey Lin Lan, what are you talking about?" Chen Ze tugged Lin Lan's sleeve and asked in a low voice.

"Mr. Smith said that we are welcome to accept their Lando Group's invitation to come to the United States as a guest." Lin Lan translated Smith's words to Chen Ze.

"Our Lando Group has been committed to the exchange of Eastern and Western cultures,

To this end, a large number of cultural books and periodicals have been translated and published. And in recent years. Your Chinese comics industry is developing rapidly. This time, we will cooperate with your new animation magazine and Mr. Chen Ze and Ms. Lin Lan. We hope to promote Chinese comics in the United States and become another important link for our cultural exchanges between the East and the West. way. "

Smith knew that Chen Ze didn't seem to understand English. After waiting for Lin Lan to finish translating for Chen Ze, he smiled again and said.

After hearing his words, Lin Lan immediately translated them to Chen Ze.

"Mr. Smith, we are also looking forward to this cooperation. As you said, if our Chinese comics can be promoted in the United States, it will really make an important contribution to our cultural exchanges between the East and the West. .” Chen Ze also smiled.

After he finished speaking, Lin Lan translated the words to Smith.

Smith nodded after hearing this: "That's right, I am indeed very optimistic about this cooperation, and I also think it may be one of the main businesses of our Lando Group in the next few decades."

After decades of development, Lando Group has reached the limit in traditional publishing business. Now, with the development of the Internet, the traditional publishing industry has been severely impacted, and many traditional publishing houses have even fallen into bankruptcy.

The Lando Group, relying on its profound background, survived the impact tenaciously. But in fact, the vitality has also been quite damaged. Both the turnover and the market population are constantly shrinking.

In order to maintain the development of the entire Lando Group, it is necessary to expand new businesses and new business methods. At this time, as an executive of the Lando Group, Smith cast his eyes on the oriental comics industry.

In the past, Oriental comics were not popular in the United States. Therefore, most people think that Oriental comics are meaningless to their own market. But Smith doesn't see it that way. Being unpopular doesn't necessarily mean there's no market.

It is an untapped treasure for all Western publishing houses. Whoever can master him may grasp the foundation of gaining a foothold in the new era.

Therefore, Smith contacted Lin Lan and invited them to the United States.

"Our magazine is also very interested in this cooperation. If we can really reach a cooperation this time, I think it will be a win-win situation for both of us." Chen Ze smiled.

Chinese and Eastern comics are an untapped treasure land for the West. The western market is not like this for Huaxia's comics.

If you can really promote your comics throughout the West and the world. Not to mention how much influence it will bring to oneself. Just in terms of making money, I'm afraid it will bring about an extremely terrifying improvement.

It is precisely because of so many considerations that Chen Ze and Lin Lan also attach great importance to this cooperation.

"It's good that both of us can reach a consensus on this point." After listening to Lin Lan's words, Smith nodded slightly, "However, there are still some obstacles to our cooperation."

"Obstruction, what obstacle?" Lin Lan asked immediately after hearing this and translated it to Chen Ze. Chen Ze also looked at Smith with a puzzled expression.

"Some people in our group think that cooperation with you is meaningless. They don't agree with our group devoting too much resources to this cooperation." Smith shrugged helplessly and made a standard Western expression.

After hearing this, Chen Ze and Lin Lan nodded. They already knew about this cooperation before they came, and it must not be so simple. After all, the response of China's comics in the West and the United States in the past was not very good.

Therefore, the cooperation between myself and the Lando Group this time will definitely not be smooth sailing. Some people will definitely have doubts or even object to the cooperation with me, which is normal.

Just as Chen Ze thought, not all the executives of the Lando Group support the cooperation with Chen Ze, Lin Lan, and the introduction and promotion of Huaxia comics. is against.

They didn't think that Huaxia's cartoons could be popularized in the United States, especially Chen Ze was a cartoonist in his twenties, and the executives of his comics Lando Group were even more distrustful.

This time, he was able to send invitations to Chen Ze and Lin Lan because Smith insisted on his own opinion and even threatened to resign for this reason.

"But it doesn't matter. I have reached an agreement with them. As long as you can complete one thing, Mr. Chen Ze, our group will agree to this cooperation, and will devote a lot of resources to the development of your comics. Promotion is coming," Smith said.

"Things? What's the matter?" Chen Ze was stunned. After listening to Lin Lan's translation, he didn't expect Smith to say these words.

In cooperation with them, there is actually one more thing to accomplish. But in order to achieve cooperation with the Lando Group, no matter what it is, I will do my best to complete it.

"That is, our group will give you a small bookstore as an experiment. In one day, no matter what means you use, if that bookstore can sell 500 copies of your comics, then our group will agree to cooperate with you this time. Otherwise..." Smith said.

"Five hundred copies!" Chen Ze thought for a while, this is actually quite difficult. If it is in Huaxia, relying on its own popularity, it is very easy for a bookstore to sell 500 copies a day. There is no need to do anything at all, as long as it shows its own signboard.

But now he is in the United States, a country where he has almost no reputation. Here, it is really difficult to sell 500 copies of comics in one day.

However, no matter what difficulties he faces, Chen Ze will never run away: "Okay Mr. Smith, I promise this time!" (To be continued. If you like this work, welcome to the starting point() Vote for recommendations, monthly tickets, your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users please go to read.)

PS: the second update