The King of Crossover Entertainment.

Chapter 175 0175, Each family’s actions

Reference is common in the comics world.

Take DC and Marvel on Earth for example. As the leaders in American comics, the two companies almost monopolize the entire American comics market. Their comics have created countless popular superhero images. Among the countless superheroes, DC and Marvel also borrow from each other, and the number is quite large. Some can even be regarded as plagiarism, such as Superman and the Sentry, the Flash and Quicksilver, Deadpool and Deathstroke, etc.

However, reference and plagiarism cannot be confused.

Borrowing means borrowing methods and cognitive models, while plagiarism means copying the original and copying the content, stealing the fruits of other people's labor, which is called "take-it-ism" in the words of Lu Xun.

After seeing the good success of the comic "Tianxia" on Penguin Comics, the other two comic websites, Qvod Comics and Let's Come Comics, immediately put their own follow-up works on the agenda.

This is a helpless move, but also a necessary move.

The previous popularity of "Feng Yun I" has already allowed Penguin Comics to reap a wave of their market share. Now the follow-up work "Tianxia" is also selling well. If they don't respond, they will be kicked out.

At this time, Kuaibo Comics Network, Aurora Studio.

The editor-in-chief had a gloomy face and said to everyone in the studio, "What's going on? It's been almost a month and the first issue hasn't been finished yet!"

The chief writer said bitterly, "Editor-in-chief, you know that we mainly draw in a cartoon style. It takes a certain amount of time to imitate the full-color, realistic, and aesthetic style of "Storm I". In addition, Chao Yunmu Yu has superb painting skills and pays great attention to details. Even the smallest flowers and grass are drawn very delicately, so the difficulty is increased exponentially."

The editor-in-chief raised his eyebrows and said, "Difficult? If it's difficult, then you won't draw? Silver Charm Studio under Penguin Comics can do it, so why can't you?"

The chief editor opened his mouth but didn't know what to say. Explaining to a layman was a difficult task in itself, and the other party was his immediate superior. He could only say in his heart: That's because Yinmei Studio had drawn realistic and aesthetic style comics before, so it would be easier to imitate the style of "Feng Yun I".

The editor-in-chief didn't care about that and said, "The boss has issued a strict order. The new comics must be on the shelves by the end of the month."

The editor-in-chief sighed helplessly and said, "We will try our best."

The editor-in-chief snorted coldly and said, "It's not about trying your best, it's about having to."

This scene is also happening on the comics website.

In fact, no comics studio wants to be a follower. Who doesn’t want to lead the trend?

However, the current comics market is still very immature, the audience is too small, the investment is large, and the risk is high. Sometimes a comic that has been prepared for a year or two will flop silently after its release without making any splash, and all the efforts are wasted.

In this environment, only a very small number of comic studios that do it for the love of it will insist on creating original works, while those larger comic studios will mostly stick to a popular theme because the market is optimistic about it and capital is willing to invest money.

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Handan, Jiangcheng and Yangcheng are collectively known as the three comics capitals of China. Among them, Jiangcheng has won the title of China's comics hometown for three consecutive times.

Here, we have to mention the Comic Dream Factory located in Jiangcheng, a domestic physical comic magazine giant with the largest comic creation team in the country.

At this moment, comics dream factory magazine.

A middle-aged man wearing glasses was staring at the computer monitor intently.

His name is Wei Jinrong, and he is the owner of the Comic DreamWorks.

[“Swords and spears roam the world, and passionate men show their true colors.” - "Tianxia"

"How can a golden unicorn stay in a pond? Once it encounters wind and clouds, it turns into a dragon. The dragon's roar in the sky shakes the world, and when wind and clouds meet, it swims in shallow water." - "Storm and Cloud I"

Hanging on the computer monitor is the Penguin Comics website, which is scrolling the cover pictures and slogans of "Tianxia" and "Feng Yun I" in a loop.

Wei Jinrong frowned, then adjusted his glasses that had slipped down his nose, as if he was thinking about something.

After a long time.

Wei Jinrong snorted twice and murmured, "Old Jiang, Old Jiang, you are worthy of it!"

The "Lao Jiang" he mentioned, whose full name is Jiang Ting, is the owner of Penguin Comics Network.

The comics industry is still developing and the circle is not big. Wei Jinrong is working offline and Jiang Ting is working online. The two are both competitors and friends.

In fact, the studio under Penguin Comics has been accused of plagiarism more than once or twice, but because the "degree" was well grasped and did not cross the line between reference and plagiarism, it was only discussed and not sued.

The Comic DreamWorks has always insisted on creating original works and disdains to follow the trend. However...

After the intervention of capital, everything became out of our control.

Because the only purpose of capital is "profit".

At the beginning of the year, a fairy-like comics magazine came out of nowhere and quickly became popular thanks to the novel "Feng Yun I". Overnight, it captured 20% of the market share of physical comics magazines. Half a year later, it reached an astonishing 40%.

And these market shares were snatched away from DreamWorks Comics.

The capitalists behind the comic dream factory do not want to see a monopoly between two companies.

They have only one request, to take back the market share.

But it is easy to conquer a country, difficult to keep it, and even more difficult to seize it.

Wei Jinrong looked at the financial statements of DreamWorks Comics for the first half of the year and sighed, "Do people really have to become what they hate just for the sake of reality?"

Suddenly, there was a knock on the office door.

He quickly gathered himself together and shouted, "Come in."

"Boss Wei..." The man who came was the editor-in-chief of the comic dream factory. "The script has been finalized. Should we hand it over to the Golden Whale team or the Flying Feather team?"

Wei Jinrong hesitated for a moment and said, "Let me take it first."

The editor-in-chief put the script on the desk and said, "Boss Wei, I'll be out first."

Wei Jinrong nodded and responded, "Yeah."

He took a glance and saw the title of the script was "Divine Weapon". Then, he sighed softly and picked up the script to read.

The story is about the arrival of the magical Blood Demon Sword, which has caused constant fighting among the martial arts heroes. Dugu Wentian, who works as a handyman in the Dongfang family, enters the martial arts world to save his beloved Miss Dongfang who has been abducted. He is inadvertently involved in the dispute over the magical Blood Demon Sword, and his fate is changed as a result...

After reading it, Wei Jinrong's eyes flickered.

The story is simple but very interesting.

From this we can see that if we don’t push the screenwriter team, we will never know how much potential they have!

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In the near future, there will be a trend of Fengyun comics following the trend.

Yunfeng, on the other hand, had no idea that Xianqi Company was currently directing the finishing work of the first episode of the audio comic "Feng Yun I".

In the afternoon, I received the audio of the suona and erhu versions of "Sunrise on Emei Mountain" from Chen Cheng.

"Boss, this song goes really well with Bu Jingyun and Nie Feng."

"After adding it, it makes me more passionate."

"Not only does it go well with Bu Jingyun and Nie Feng, the erhu version also goes well with Wuming."

"It's the same song, but one version is passionate and the other is sad. It's amazing."

"Don't you even look at who the boss is!"

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Yunfeng just smiled at their praise and said, "Okay, go do what you need to do. I won't be in the company for a while. Just do the sequel of the audio comic "Feng Yun I" like this."

Everyone said in unison: "Boss, don't worry."

(End of this chapter)