Pang Yidian moved quickly. In just two days, he talked about Mingde Publishing House. In the end, he spent 1.8 million yuan and changed it to Kowloon Publishing House, which belongs to Kowloon Press.

After learning about it, Pang Yidian felt that Lin Xingzhi's friend was really good, so he promoted him to the president of the publishing house. His name was Zhang Guan, who was in his forties and was an old publisher.

After sorting out the publishing house, Pang Yidian arranged the publication of the book "The No. 1 in the World" and began to warm up in Xiangjiang.

After finishing the publishing house's affairs, Pang Yidian also began to investigate the current situation in the comics industry.

The comics industry is really sad now. The newspapers and magazines have been suspended on a large scale, and most of the main writers of comics have been unemployed.

After understanding the situation in detail, Pang Yidian immediately went to Lei Yunrong to discuss and report.

"Lei Sheng, these are some of the comic markets I have investigated. You can take a look at it."

Lei Yunrong looked at the not-so-small document in front of him and smiled bitterly. The literati was so rigorous and serious, and said:

"Old Pang, I won't read this anymore. Please tell me in detail."

"There were two main comics published in the comic market before, one was Yulang Books formed by Huang Yulang and Ren, and the other was the Holy Fire Publishing House established by Shangguan Xiaobao."

"But now, the comic newspaper "Jinbao" under Yulang Books has been seized, and the "Good News" of Shenghuo Publishing House is also rectifying and suspending publication."

"Lao Pang, wait, are the comics in Xiangjiang now serialized in the form of newspapers?"

"yes!"

“Not the kind that is published in the form of a weekly magazine?”

"No, in the 1950s, a group of comic artists such as Li Fanfu and Li Yuhan collaborated to create the bimonthly "Comic World" (not the current comic world), but later they retired as an older person

The publication was discontinued after that.”

"Later, Xiangjiang Comics absorbed the industrial production process of European and American comics in the production process, with typical assembly line production characteristics, meticulous division of labor, and was coordinated by the editor-in-chief and team-working production."

"So a comic often needs to be completed by a team. If it is published in a weekly form like a book, there are not so many talents in Xiangjiang to serialize multiple comics at the same time. Therefore, they are now distributed in the form of newspapers and serialized two at the same time.

To three, there is even only one comic."

"So most of the current comic talents are concentrated under Yulang Books and Shenghuo Publishing House?"

"That's right, these two teams are also called the Imperial Guards. Huang Yulang has Qi Wenjie, Zhang Wanyou, Mao Mingwei, and Shangguan Xiaobao has Shangguan Xiaolong, Shangguan Xiaowei, and Shangguan Xiaoqiang. These people are in the Xiangjiang comics industry.

They are all famous."

Lei Yunrong had never heard of these people, but when he saw so many Shangguans, he couldn't help but laugh:

"Does these people from the Holy Fire Publishing House belong to the Shangguan family?"

"No, but they do belong to the same family. Their original surname is Kuang and their brothers. Shangguan is their pseudonym."

"Oh, so I thought it was the ancient hidden family in Xiangjiang."

"There are no ancient hidden families in Xiangjiang's prosperity for a few years."

Lei Yunrong saw that Pang Yi Palace had not gotten his meme, and smiled and skipped the topic and asked:

"Then if we want to set up our own comic company, do we have to poach people from these two teams?"

"Yes, there is no need to dig it out anyway. They just have a hard time now and they can buy them."

"Huang Yulang and Shangguan Xiaobao are both bosses. Are they willing to be employees again?"

"This is indeed a problem. Now they may have to bend down because they are in a low point. After the environment improves, they may have to leave again."

"Do you have any good ideas?"

"How about we poach their men, it's safer."

"There is nothing more safe. For example, the Shangguan family is all brothers, and Huang Yulang's subordinates are also related to him, so they still have to leave if they want to leave."

"Lei Sheng, do you have any good ideas?"

"In fact, our pattern needs to be opened up a little bit. Our goal is to become the largest comic company in Xiangjiang and provide the best treatment for its comic artists."

"At that time, even if these people leave, we can attract more talents to join. So it's time to acquire it. Let them build up our shelves first. The market is not good now, but we have to pay attention to it.

Slowly cultivate our own cartoonists.”

"It's still Lei Sheng's opinion, I'm narrow-minded."

"Old Pang is you're too modest, you just didn't turn around all of a sudden."

"But Lei Sheng, if you want to acquire the Holy Fire Publishing House, Shangguan Xiaobao is more pure. Huang Yulang said that he is a businessman and likes to do small things. His Yulang books are secretly behind their backs when they are cooperating with others.

It's made, the character is too bad."

"Okay, no problem, you can do this, but a few of his subordinates can be dug up. Whether they can stay or not depends on our ability."

"Okay Lei Sheng."

Lei Yunrong seemed to have thought of something and said:

"Lao Pang, if we set up a comic company to publish comics in the future, let's change it. Let's learn a book and publish a weekly magazine."

"Lei Sheng, if you publish a weekly magazine, you need too many comics. A weekly magazine usually carries more than ten comics, so it is difficult for us to find so many main writers."

"We'll dig without so many. Now there should be many comics on the market, besides Huang Yulang and Shangguan Xiaobao. If the content is not too pornographic and violent, you can buy it and put it in the weekly magazine to serialize it."

"If it is not enough, promote Huang Yulang and Shangguan Xiaobao's team members as chief editors, so that they can win people's hearts."

"But they may not think of too many creativity at once."

Lei Yunrong thought it was true. Xiangjiang is not like a book, with so many professional talents, otherwise there would not be only a few people who became famous in the end.

However, when I think of Lei Yunrong's online adaptation of later generations, I think of the idea. Although Xiangjiang is not as good as a comic book, martial arts novels are the only ones.

At this moment, Xiangjiang is very strong in the cultural field. Not only does it export Chinese culture, but it can't beat Hong Kong comics even in the field of the strongest comics.

"In this way, we can buy the copyrights of those martial arts novels. We can first serialize these martial arts novels adapted comics. Isn't the world's number one finished? Is it because I still have a hot topic in publishing comics."

The most well-known comics in Xiangjiang that Lei Yunrong knew were Fengyun and the Young and Dangerous. I have never heard of these comics adapted from martial arts novels, and he didn't know whether such adapted comics would be popular.

But Lei Yunrong thinks that even if it is not a popular one, the sales should not be bad. After all, martial arts novels like Jin Gu Liang Wen are indeed very well-known.

"Miaoa Lei Sheng, this not only solves the problem of insufficient number of comics, but also can cultivate a large number of painters for us. When they grow up, we don't have to worry even if someone wants to leave."

Lei Yunrong also laughed. This benefit was something he didn't expect. He originally wanted to spend a lot of money to collect comic manuscripts, which would definitely attract more talents to join the comic industry. In Xiangjiang, a society that looks at money, as long as

If the money is in place, the results will usually come out.

"Yes, after the market gets better, we can also hold similar activities in comic contests to increase the bonuses, so that we can attract more talents."

"Okay Lei Sheng, but at the moment, I think we are still building a bimonthly magazine. If we publish a weekly magazine, I am afraid that they may not be able to adapt for the moment. When the company becomes formal, these people should be mature and they will publish a weekly magazine at that time."

"Okay, you can do it. My requirement is to build a comic company, and the only goal is to be the first in Hong Kong. At that time, you will even go out of Hong Kong and occupy Southeast Asia. If you can attack the Yipai market,

I won't be stingy with my wallet."

Hearing Lei Yunrong's ambitions, Pang Yidian smiled and said:

"Lei Sheng, it's a bit difficult to enter the YiBan market, but it should be possible to occupy Southeast Asia. After all, this area is a traditional Chinese cultural circle."

"Lao Pang, people should have dreams, otherwise what is the difference between them and salted fish? And what if it is realized?"

"Lei Sheng, I will do my best!"

"Lao Pang, I'd rather spend more time on comics. Don't look down on this market. Look at one book. The comics industry is now worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and it will be much higher in the future."

Hearing Lei Yunrong's serious look, Pang Yidian also said solemnly:

"Don't worry, Lei Sheng, I will definitely do my best."

"But don't be impatient. You can take it slowly. The comics we publish must definitely eliminate unhealthy things. If we want to start a business, we can be responsible companies."

"Okay Lei Sheng, I will focus on the content."

After talking about these things, Pang Yidian left.

In a few days, Pang Yidian first spent 800,000 yuan to acquire the Holy Fire Publishing House. Now is their most difficult time. After promising to make "Bruce Lee" re-serialized, Shangguan Xiaobao immediately surrendered.

Afterwards, Pang Yidian acquired the copyrights of several comics again and dug them up with the main writer. This time, he did not acquire them with the company. The reason for acquiring Shangguan Xiaobao's Holy Fire Publishing House was because he was the boss and added.

It also has a complete distribution channel.

Finally, Pang Yidian dug up Qi Wenjie, Zhang Wanyou and others from Yulang Books, and formed his own team of comic painters with those who had been before.

At the same time, Kowloon Comics Company was officially established, and Pang Yidian personally served as the general manager and the deputy general manager of Shangguan Xiaobaoren. The published and distributed bimonthly magazine was named "Kowloon Comics".

Later, Pang Yidian personally came forward to buy some well-known martial arts novels and comics from these martial arts people. In addition to requesting that they should not adapt randomly, they also agreed. After all, this is also an income, right?

Lei Yunrong did not interfere in these things. As he is now, he is still busy with these small facts, which is too much worse, although he attaches great importance to the comics industry.

Lei Yunrong also knew that the team of Kowloon Comics was a bit like a hodgepodge at this moment. They all had their own thoughts and it was difficult to form combat power at the beginning. However, take it slowly. Lei Yunrong believed that the ability of Pang Yi Palace could handle it well.

What Lei Yunrong values ​​is that he wants to add flags in the comics industry and slowly build his own entertainment ecosystem.
Chapter completed!