Chapter 145: The First World Society Comics Awards
PS: It's been more than half a month, and my health is not recovering. My head hurts when I was typing, and I sweated coldly. Today I went to the hospital for two bottles of drip, so it was updated a little late. I hope everyone will forgive me so that you won't worry!
The World Club Comics Award is a comic award designed by the World Club for newcomers and its comic artists. It is divided into excellent works from bottom to top, and is selected and selected. It aims to gain fame for the World Club and not for profit. As long as it is initially recognized by the public, it can be published in the "Splendent" comic magazine, allowing readers to vote to decide the ranking. In this way, they can accumulate a certain amount of fame for each work, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
However, if you want to become a masterpiece, you must pass the level of the judges of the world society. Often, most works end in failure due to quality reasons, and few can become masterpieces. Moreover, not every comics appreciation will be selected and selected works, which mainly depends on the quality.
Not only that, the works selected for the World Hall Comics Appreciation can only be short stories, and a single issue of the drawings will promote the highlights of this work, so that they will attract the attention of comic fans.
Zhao Chen has seen the names of those cartoonists and wants to find the future famous cartoonists. Unfortunately, the World Xiashe Comics Awards have just been founded and have not much fame. Therefore, there are not many newcomers and cartoonists participating. What makes Zhao Chen laugh and cry the most is that there are works such as Aoyama Takahara. The most important thing is that they are ruthlessly swept by the judges, and they can't even enter "Splendent".
At this time, Aoyama Takahara had just entered university and is now studying comic creation under Abe Toshi's senior at the University Manga Research Association. However, because Abe Toshi was so proud that he was the assistant, he was not even as strong as an assistant because he was just creating. He was a novice among the newcomers. The quality of the works he invested in to the World Club can be imagined. The judges who had watched it ruthlessly kept it, which was really sad.
However, despite this, in order to win over Gangchang of Qingshan in the future, Zhao Chen had to call him to encourage him so as not to hurt his self-confidence too much. After all, only Zhao Chen knew it in his heart. Due to his arrival, many people will be influenced by themselves, and the influence of cartoonists entering the World Club is undoubtedly the greatest.
In addition to Takamasa Aoyama, Zhao Chen found a few familiar names. These people are also famous cartoonists in the future, but their achievements are relatively ordinary. However, most of these future cartoonists have also been criticized, which shows that the Tianxiashe comics are strictly appreciated, and if you want to pass the preliminary, you must improve the quality.
Because there are too few new comics who contributed, after the work was selected, there were only more than ten books, which can be said to be quite small. Especially compared with the Tezuka Award of the same nature.
The thickness of ten short stories is not even as high as "Youth SORA", which is even more pale than the professional comic magazines of the Tezuka Award, and the thickness difference is twice as high.
Fortunately, this is the first WorldShe comics appreciation after all. It is very good to have more than ten works recognized by many judges. In addition to the rising reputation of WorldShe, the most important thing is the high bonus and the opportunity to be serialized in "Youth SORA".
Zhao Chen has read these preliminarily recognized comic works and found that the painters are basically above the standard, and there are also various plots and themes, which can attract some readers.
After initial recognition, these short works were published in the comic magazine "Splendent" and were distributed to various parts of the island countries using the ever-large sales channels of the World Club.
This "splendent" comic magazine is not for profit. It mainly builds the reputation of the world club and attracts many new comics. The price is not high, and it is only a little over 100 yen, so that more readers will choose to buy it.
"Hey, what is this comic magazine? I haven't seen it before, so why did it be placed here?"
In the early morning, in a roadside bookstore, a comic fan was looking for his "prey" in the comics area. He held two comic magazines in his hand, namely "JUMP" and "JUMP". Next to "JUMP", there was an unknown comic magazine that he had never seen before.
The reason why this comic fan attracted is mainly the relationship between the cover and the price of this comic magazine. Needless to say, the cover was specially created by the World Club to launch this comic appreciation. However, this comic magazine is obviously not much thinner than "Young SORA", but the price is only half of the former.
It is precisely for these two factors that this comic fan picked up this comic magazine called "splendent" out of curiosity.
"No wonder it's so cheap. It turns out to be a work from the World Xiashe Comics!"
The cartoonist turned on a few pages and then suddenly realized, but then he widened his eyes, as if he had seen something that surprised him.
"The name of Zhao Chen actually contains works by Zhao Chen!"
This comic fan suddenly became excited. Although he was not a comic fan of Zhao Chen, he thought Zhao Chen's comics were rare fine products. When he saw Zhao Chen's new work appeared, he became excited. In his opinion, this seemed to mean that a good comic could be used to pass the time. As for Masami Cheda, who was behind Zhao Chen's name, was miserably ignored by this comic fan. This is the difference in fame.
"What, what's wrong with Zhao Chen?" Perhaps because of the excitement, the comic fan muttered to himself, but was heard by a comic fan next to him who happened to be Zhao Chen, and asked quickly, with a little confused expression.
"Zhao Chen has released a new comic. You see, it's this "Wind Demon Kojiro"!"
"Look, it's really a work by Zhao Chen!"
The comic fan of Zhao Chen was also excited when he saw Zhao Chen's name above. Then, under the guidance of the comic fan, he also picked up a book "Splendent" and couldn't wait to open it and read it.
"It turned out to be a battle comic!" After reading the comic type of "The Wind Demon Kojiro", the comic fan became even more excited and then read it with relish.
Perhaps the actions and expressions of these two comic fans betrayed them, resulting in other comic fans looking for "splendent" to read, but as long as they see the name on the author column of "Fengmo Kojiro", they will choose to watch it carefully.
Perhaps it is Zhao Chen's fame in the island country this year. Even if he is not a fan of his comics, he knows that every comic book written by Zhao Chen is a rare fine product, even if it is a work that works with others, without exception.
"It's pretty good. The painter is a bit ordinary, but it's more suitable for this comic!"
After watching the short story created by "The Strange Demon Kojiro" with the essence, most comic fans who have read it have this idea.
Speaking of which, when holding competitions to collect comic works, there may be a small amount of space, but their highlights are often portrayed to attract comic fans to vote.
It is because of this relationship that fans who have read "Splendent" often pay for the business after they understand the significance of this magazine. In addition to taking it home to continue watching, they just plan to support those cartoonists, among which the majority of those who support Zhao Chen are. In addition to "The Wind Demon Kojiro" is indeed good, Zhao Chen's fame is also the focus.
Of course, the winning works of the World Xiashe Comics Awards are not all decided by readers' votes, otherwise the more famous cartoonists will win easier. Reader voting can only be considered as giving many judges a choice, and the final decision still depends on these judges.
When conducting the selection, Zhao Chen, as the chairman, had his works, and others complained behind their backs, so he had to hand over the decision to other judges.
"Although there are my works in it, this is the first World Club Comics Appreciation. It should be fair and just. It should not disappoint the hearts of other cartoonists! This time I will not make the selection, and you will make the decision!"
When selecting the work, Zhao Chen said to the judges below that he naturally would not care about this award. Anyway, no matter whether "The Wind Demon Kojiro" will be selected, he will still be serialized in the weekly magazine of "Young SORA" when the next serialization meeting is held. Even if it is selected, it will not make much sense to this work. At most, it will only add some fame.
When many judges heard Zhao Chen say this, they breathed a sigh of relief. With Zhao Chen's words, they might have a bit of a skewer, but they can finally operate normally.
Chapter completed!