What I should have thought of long ago is how can a child who can't even go to school and struggle with survival problems every day know what a comic is and what a comic is.

Even if I see my photos while picking up rags, I probably won’t take a look at them again, right?

"I'm a comic book..."

Mingxiu still knows the comics, although he hasn't seen them.

He opened his mouth slightly, and finally showed a surprised expression that made Fujii Fangyuan feel a little vain.

However, thinking about Mingxiu's life experience, it is not a glorious thing to gain superiority from such a poor child.

"Mingxiu, cartoonist is a very respected profession. You can slowly understand the specific historical development after you have developed. I have never seen you paint, but it doesn't matter. It's not too early to learn comics at the age of 12, but it's not too late."

Although Fang Yuan wanted to help the Hegu family, he certainly didn't want to throw out the money like some artists or capitalists who used charity as tools.

It is better to teach people how to fish than to teach people how to fish, and it is not on a whim.

Dragon Ball's influence is getting bigger and bigger, and the market is also expanding. This is the time to harvest heavily.

Leng Shui Mako mentioned her purpose on the phone just now. Fang Yuan was very moved by the single book - this not only represents income, but also a proof of status.

To cartoonists, it is not as convincing as specific data.

Nowadays, the single-line comic book of the island country has exceeded one million sales, and it can be said that there are very few in decades. The highest record is a "Dranatuc Age" that combines passion, battle and love. There are 28 volumes in total, with a total sales of 32.21 million copies, and the average sales of the book reached about 1.1504 million.

This is still the data that has been reprinted and printed several times.

If Dragon Ball single-line book starts to be released, even if there is no content increase or decrease, according to the current popularity that is much more exaggerated than in the previous life, the average volume exceeds one million is just the most conservative estimate.

Of course, Fang Yuan will not only meet the most conservative sales volume. When he was considering the single-line book, he actually had an idea, which was to release a killer weapon - add the additional content of the previous episode to the single-line book, and was preparing to ask "Weekly Comic Dream" to increase his serial number.

Generally speaking, in order to save trouble, many cartoonists in the island country now make exquisite illustrations and some additional "family portraits" posters on the single book as a benefit for those who purchase single book. The content in the single book is from comic magazines, and there is almost no change - at most, the place where the paintings are broken is slightly changed, and the mistakes such as being criticized are obviously a desert but a bunch of green trees are also changed, etc.

However, some cartoonists have drawn additional sub-subtitle transitional plots in order to increase the sales of their own single-line books, or some other sub-lines.

Such behavior has been discussed with the editorial department, magazines, and publishing houses, and there have been many successful examples. Of course, there are also incidents that have been criticized for adding money to the point of thinking about money and wanting to be crazy about a three-page action of farming.

This time, Fang Yuan is planning to add some of the contents that were deleted before to a single-line book. After all, he was worried that the pace of Dragon Ball would be too slow and could not become popular. Now?

This problem no longer exists!

So who can make money just right?

Of course, he couldn't just mess around. He just added a little branch to enrich the characters, so that the slightly hasty places would become more natural. At most, there were only a few pages, and used them as a selling point when selling a single book.

Another thing is that the purpose of adding a serial page to the editorial department is even simpler - no matter how many Dragon Ball is deleted, there are still dozens of volumes, and it takes ten years to draw it all the time.

Fang Yuan didn't plan to copy a comic for ten years. His goal was very clear - first copy a few master-level works, and then try to draw his own personal works based on the culture of China.

The first step is to accumulate wealth, reputation, and connections, and most importantly, your own painting skills - and the shameless golden finger level.

The second step is to draw a real, own comic, and it must be popular!

Unlike a certain salted fish author, Fang Yuan is very ideal. "Breaking updates" are not a problem at all.

However, considering the feelings of ordinary people and in order to avoid being criticized for "only focusing on quantity and quality", he plans to increase the number of 40 pages of serialized pages to 60 pages.

In this way, the serialization speed has increased a lot, which has greatly improved the subsequent works and the subsequent single-line versions of Dragon Ball.

To achieve this, it is not impossible to rely solely on Fujii Kazuya to paint by himself, but it is not necessary.

Although there are golden fingers, it is almost equivalent to plagiarism, but it still takes a lot of time and energy to complete a drawing by yourself, especially coloring, strokes, landscapes, etc.

For ordinary cartoonists who have not yet started, sometimes after drawing a storyboard, then drawing a draft, and then adding background, color, stroke and other processes by themselves. In a day, they may not be able to complete 2 successful originals.

Fujii Kazuya, who had golden fingers, skipped composition and other things, but the latter still couldn't jump over for the exquisiteness of the comics, which caused him to draw speed to not be able to increase. In summary, it is okay to maintain the current update volume, but it is impossible to make a comeback or even "open more".

How did cartoonists solve this problem?

The most common thing is to ask for an assistant or take an apprentice.

Some drawings, such as the most typical comics of One Piece, except for the characters that may be drawn by the author, the waves, trees, black and white behind them are actually completed by assistants.

Cartoonists usually have a background book, which is arranged in 12345... with trees, stones, walls, etc., and then mark them somewhere on the draft, such as "Scenery Trees 34, Color 21", etc., and then throw them to the assistant. The rest of the work is to monotonically find the graphics and process them.

In this way, you can not only get rid of yourself and get rid of boring repetitive work, but you don’t have to be so tired, but you can also spend more time conceiving the plot and composition of the comics - after all, whether the plot and picture are good or not is the fundamental thing.

However, there are so many benefits for assistants, but why do most quasi-comic artists do not have assistants?

Of course, it's because there's no money.

Unless it is a more famous cartoonist who accepts apprentices (free labor), general assistants are settled daily according to the needs of cartoonists' comics, while generally one assistant is 10,000 to 15,000 yuan a day. Depending on the strength of the hired cartoonists, few assistants get extra strength bonuses. If you are so awesome, you can make a debut directly, why do you have to draw flowers and plants?

At the beginning of the serialization of "Slamdunk", Yuhiko Inoue had to work as an assistant for the great cartoonist Hojo Shi of the time to make money while drawing his own paintings.

Even after SD became popular, he still couldn't afford to hire an assistant for a considerable period of time. He did everything himself. He needed to draw more than ten hours a day until his economic situation improved, and he hired four assistants at one time (this is also why the scene in SD suddenly became more refined in the middle of the seventh chapter).
Chapter completed!