Era: Beginning from the Modu Translation Studio

Chapter 29
Pan Ye, the editor-in-chief of the art editorial department, immediately greeted Jiang Shan when he saw Jiang Shan: "Good morning, Comrade Xiao Jiang, why are you here?"

Jiang Shan raised the document bag in his hand and smiled like a sun: "Editor Pan, I'm here to submit the manuscript."

"Huh?" Pan Ye thought he heard it wrong: "Submit the manuscript? What kind of manuscript should you submit?"

Jiang Shan was stunned: "The drawing of the villain's book, three dozen bones."

"Hey!"

Pan Ye immediately stood up and took the file bag.

At this time, Qin Tian, ​​the leader of the sketching team, also remembered the master line drawing master of "87 Immortal Scrolls", and asked in surprise, "How long has it been? Have you finished all the drawings?"

Jiang Shan nodded calmly: "There are 72 pictures in total, all of them are finished."

72 sketches in half a month, at this time, Jiang Shan has no idea that his speed will drive the entire illustrator industry to a crazy volume.

While speaking, Editor-in-Chief Pan had already opened the file bag, and began reviewing manuscripts page by page.

Every time one is read, it will be handed over to Team Leader Qin, who will check the copy and review it again.

There is no doubt that every draft of Jiangshan fully complies with the requirements of comic strips in terms of composition and artistry.

"Great," Editor-in-Chief Pan was surprised, but more excited: "Comrade Xiao Jiang, let's go, follow me to the accounting office to collect the manuscript fee."

Jiang Shan clenched his fist secretly, not hiding his joy: "Then I will trouble you."

After receiving the payment withdrawal form signed by the two editors, accompanied by Editor-in-Chief Pan, he marched all the way into the accounting office.

"Comrade Xiao Jiang,"

On the way, Editor-in-Chief Pan couldn't help but ask Jiang Shan for a manuscript: "Our editorial department has heavy tasks and a small number of people. The public's demand for comic books has greatly exceeded our expectations."

This is definitely the truth, Jiang Shan knows it well, he knows that in the next four or five years, the circulation of comic books will be even crazier.

In the words of the editors of the publishing house at that time, this is not printing books, it is printing money.

During this period, there were only three major publishers of comic books: People's Fine Arts Publishing House in Yanjing, People's Art Publishing House in Shanghai, and Liao/Ning Fine Arts Publishing House.

The popularity rate of comic books has reached a terrifying level, and the distribution base of each book is more than 10 copies.

Like "Railway Guerrilla" and "Journey to the West", the starting point is 100 million sets.

Various publishing houses have issued 17 editions of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" with different painting styles, and the editions have exceeded 300 million sets.

"Three Heroes and Five Righteousness" is even better, with a front page of 750 million sets.

These are just the first-page releases, and there are even more reprints.

An unknown illustrator like Jiang Shan can only settle his remuneration based on the number of sheets.

The more famous painters can also get the remuneration for the number of prints and reprints. Although the remuneration for the number of prints is very small, it cannot stand up to the large number.

How happy are the living standards of the old artists at this time!
"Comrade Xiao Jiang, Comrade Xiao Jiang,"

Editor-in-Chief Pan's voice brought Jiang Shan Piaoyuan's thoughts back.

Jiang Shan quickly smiled and said, "Go ahead, I'm listening."

Editor-in-Chief Pan said directly: "Our editorial department has a heavy publishing task right now. It would be great if you could receive a few more books."

"Yes," Jiang Shan wished for this, but it wasn't what he was thinking about: "Editor Pan, can you do me a favor?"

"Don't worry about the manuscript fee, you will see me later."

Jiang Shan smiled gratefully: "This matter is entirely up to you, but that's not what I'm talking about."

"Oh?" Pan Ye asked suspiciously, "Is there anything else I can help with?"

"That's it," Jiang Shan said with an embarrassed smile, "Don't you know that I have a habit of copying, and now I really want to learn from other outstanding comrades painters. Do you have any drawings that they don't use?"

Even if this matter makes Jiang Shan lick his face, he is still happy.

"Sketch?"

Editor-in-Chief Pan nodded immediately: "What am I supposed to do? I'll ask Editor Qin to take you to the warehouse after receiving the manuscript fee. The drawings from the past few years are all there. You'd better take them away to save money." We packed it up."

"Got it."

Jiang Shan's eyebrows and eyes fluttered immediately, and he was almost pinched by Editor-in-chief Pan's shoulders and back.

Looking at Jiang Shan, who had a row of white teeth laughing out, Editor-in-Chief Pan's mood also improved: "Don't be too happy, don't think that the ground is too gray."

"I don't mind it," Jiang Shan really put his hands on Pan Ye's shoulders: "Just tell me if there is anything else, I'll just clean it up for you."

The reason why Jiangshan chose the temporary job of illustrator was for the generous remuneration, and more importantly, for the original drawings of those painters.

Around the 80s, many famous domestic painting masters in the future, like Jiang Shan, painted comic books at home.

Zhao Yannian's "The True Story of Ah Q" was sold for 178.25 million yuan, and He Youzhi's "Xiao Erhei Married" comic book manuscript was sold for 207 million yuan.

Guan Shanyue's original draft of "Shrimp Balls Passed by Mountains, Long Rivers and Far Ways" was sold at Lanting Auction House in 2012 for 3920 million yuan.

The original manuscript of the comic strip "Zhaoshutun and Nanluona" created by the great painter Cheng Shifa was sold at auction for as high as 1100 million yuan.

The comic book "The Red Ribbon of the Earth" created by Shen Yaoyi, director of the Comic Book Art Committee of the National Artists Association, has a total of 926 manuscripts, which have been sold at auction for 1540 million yuan.

The irony is that many people don't know that many of these comic book manuscripts that were auctioned for millions or tens of millions in later generations were sold by publishers as waste paper back then.

On the one hand, previous authors had little awareness of protecting manuscripts; on the other hand, publishers rarely returned manuscripts on their own initiative.

A large number of originals are piled up in offices or warehouses, and when there is not enough space to store them, they will be cleaned up as waste paper.

In 2003, a magazine agency cleared out 33 boxes of waste materials due to moving. At that time, an overseas collector bought them all in a package for 1000 yuan.

Soon these original illustrations were resold intact for 350 million yuan.

This actually includes the manuscripts of Hao Guanzhong, Li Keran, Bing Xin, etc., the manuscript of Mo Yan's "Fly's Front Teeth", and the manuscript of Yao Yunyin's "Li Zicheng".

What is even more incredible is that there are couplets written by Xu Shichang, the president of the Beiyang government, letters from Pu Jie and Pu Yi, portraits painted by Xu Bei/Hong, albums of Dong Qichang, and Guo/Mo/Ruo, Wang Meng manuscripts of works.

I don't know how the publishing house at that time expressed its tragic mood when it knew about the funeral.

In the previous life, Jiang Shan didn't know how many ancestral graves smoked, so he bought himself a life time travel.

After spending so much effort to come to 1978, what kind of entity is there?What monkey ticket to buy?
It should be directly collected waste!

When he walked out of the accounting room, Jiang Shan had an extra 216 yuan in his pocket besides the 70 yuan manuscript fee for "Three Dozens of Bone Demons".

Editor-in-Chief Pan continued to make appointments with Jiang Shan to work on two comic books: "Seven Captures of Menghuo" and "The Great Battle of the Red Cliff".

These two comic books are 35 pages and 70 sketches. Just now, Jiang Shan's manuscript fee has mentioned the price of 6 yuan per sheet.

According to the benefits of the artist signed by the publishing house, Jiang Shan can withdraw one yuan in advance for each drawing as living expenses.

Jiangshan is very satisfied with this.

He knew in his heart that this was just the beginning. In two years, with the frenzied distribution of comic books, the remuneration for each copy would increase to 10 to 20 yuan.

But Jiang Shan will definitely not be in this business by then, at this moment, he silently cheers for his second brother in his heart,
(End of this chapter)