Chapter 225: The Disgrace of the Cartoonist
Although Matsushita Aohiko's request for Primary School Pavilion was strange, it was still possible to arrange for "Football Knight" to be launched as soon as possible. Perhaps for them, "Football Knight" may become the leader of "Young SUNDAY sports comics and have the potential to become a popular comic.
In just one week, when this issue of "Young SUNDAY" was released, comic fans found that there was an additional football comic "Football Knight"!
"Football Knight" was not outstanding at the beginning, but this comic is a work that came from the 21st century after all, and its character design is quite good, which can attract the attention of comic fans.
Since the first issue was serialized by color pages, when the readers' impressions of "Young SUNDAY" were sorted out, "Football Knight" surpassed "Doraemon" and "Full Star Boy" and became the first reader's impression.
Of course, it was just a matter of relying on color pages to occupy one issue. After all, "Young SUNDAY" is still the pillars of "Doraemon" and "Full Star Boy".
Zhao Chen did not plan as soon as possible, but watched the popularity of "Football Knight" slowly increase, and finally decided to attack. However, he did not take action directly, but secretly used rumors to fuel the fire.
Zhao Chen did not use his "Daily News". After all, "Daily News" is too large and is owned by Zhao Chen himself, so it is not suitable to fuel the fire.
I can only secretly use a lot of money to buy a tabloid reporter. For tabloids, any report that can attract attention is desirable. Regardless of whether the source of the report is true or false, any news about Zhao Chen is undoubtedly eye-catching, let alone news that steals manuscripts!
With Zhao Chen's encouragement, the tabloid published such a message the next day.
"The original author of "Football Knight" is suspected to be Zhao Chen!"
This news was published on the homepage of this tabloid. In the report, Aohiko Matsushita was originally an assistant to the great cartoonist Zhao Chen. She retired from work some time ago on the grounds of being sick, but she soon launched the comic "Football Knight" and believed that the characters in this comic had Zhao Chen's style!
Of course, the tabloid reporter who was bribed by Zhao Chen only suspected that Aohiko Matsushita had stolen Zhao Chen's new drawings and did not fully confirm it, mainly because he did not get Zhao Chen's confirmation and authorization.
Zhao Chen is a real celebrity in the island country. Whether it is his comics, animations, movies and even music, he has earned him great fame. Moreover, he has fans of all ages in the island country, mainly teenagers.
So in this report, the sales of the tabloid newspaper rose sharply, which made the tabloid boss extremely happy.
However, with the surge in the number of readers and the serialization of other tabloids, this report gradually became more and more intense under the control of those who are interested, and began to spread throughout the island country.
However, neither of the parties involved did speak, so this report was only at the stage of doubt. However, most readers believe that the character style of "Football Knight" does contain traces of Zhao Chen, and they believe that as a rookie cartoonist, Aohiko Matsushita could not create such a good character style, even if he was Zhao Chen's assistant!
However, due to the rush to report, the sales of "Young SUNDAY" which was originally slowly declining began to grow, mainly because of the reports. "Football Knight" has become more famous, resulting in many Zhao Chen's comic fans buying a copy of "Young SUNDAY" for research! Some comic fans fell in love with this comic after research, which made "Young SUNDAY" gradually grow.
The senior executives of the Primary School Library were not happy about the growth of "Youth SUNDAY". Instead, they felt that it was not good because with the continuous reports, the reputation of the Primary School Library tended to deteriorate. For publishing giants like Primary School Library, although the sales of "Youth SUNDAY" is important, reputation is the most important.
Some Zhao Chen's comic fans believe that the Primary School Pavilion has allowed "Football Knight" to be serialized, which is already a cover-up nature, and naturally I became dissatisfied with the Primary School Pavilion.
The senior executives of the Primary School Pavilion naturally attach great importance to this matter, but Aohiko Matsushita has become their signed cartoonist after all, and "Football Knight" has become quite popular, and Aohiko Matsushita is not very famous.
No matter how the senior executives of the primary school library suggest, Matsushita Aohiko has made up his mind to veto it. Perhaps in the view of Matsushita Aohiko, Zhao Chen definitely has no evidence in his hands. As for the witness, Takahashita Aohiko, he is unable to count because Takahashita is Zhao Chen's subordinate. Matsushita Aohiko believes that although this kind of public opinion will make his reputation worse, it will not be able to mess with him, and will greatly increase the attention of "Football Knight".
Faced with Matsushita Aohiko's firm veto, the senior executives of the Primary School Pavilion were relieved, but they were still a little worried. After all, this report was not groundless, and more importantly, Zhao Chen did not speak at all.
Tianxia Society, Today, Tianxia Society has long used its own office building to build its own office building. The office building is located in the urban area of every wealth and land, and can be said to be of considerable value.
The land of this office building was actually bought by Zhao Chen last year. Since the island country's economy has been significantly affected by the United States in recent years, it has been possible to buy this land at a relatively cheap price.
Of course, the most important thing is that the status of the World Society and the high taxes paid by Zhao Chen last year have forced the local government to give certain preferential treatment, so that this office building has been established.
These days, there are always a large number of reporters gathered at the gate of Tianxia Society. They wanted to enter and interview Zhao Chen, but they were all stopped by the security guards.
Due to the strict defense of this office building, no matter what method the reporters used in the past few days, they were unable to sneak into the world society smoothly, but were caught by security guards one by one.
However, it is precisely because of this reason that more reporters are attracted to it. They know in their hearts that if they get first-hand information, then the matter of promotion to a cadre, salary increase, and bonus payment will be far away. So each reporter is racking his brains to get first-hand funds.
Unfortunately, what these reporters didn't know was that Zhao Chen was not in the world club at all, but stayed in his apartment to work. Regarding the matter of becoming hotter outside, he believed that as long as he remained silent for a while, the matter would become more intense. Only when it was the most intense would he come out to speak.
Perhaps because Zhao Chen remained silent, or perhaps because of the public relations of the Primary School Pavilion, some media newspapers changed their camps and believed that Aohiko Matsushita was a genius cartoonist, and "Football Knight" was originally his work.
So under such circumstances, the remarks of the two factions began to become more intense, which made the impact of this matter more and more profound. Just as the media of the two factions were in a war of words, Zhao Chen's "Daily News" finally released a corresponding report, and it was a front page headline!
As soon as the report was released, the already fierce public opinion was once again added to the fire.
This report pointed out that the original author of "Football Knight" was actually Zhao Chen, who planned to collaborate with Yoichi Takahashi. Aohiko Matsushita was originally an assistant to "Dragon Ball". Because of his greed, he quit his assistant job and not long afterwards. Instead, he let "Football Knight" be serialized on "Youth SUNDAY" in the elementary school hall.
In addition to explaining it, the article also secretly instructed the Primary School Library to know that it was illegal, but even though Matsushita Aohiko serialized "Football Knight", it invisibly smeared the image of the Primary School Library.
As soon as this report was released, it caused an uproar. Many media standing in the primary school hall immediately changed their camps and reported correspondingly, and many false things appeared. Anyway, for the media, the more intense the news reported, the better, even if it was just speculation.
The Primary School Pavilion will naturally not be passive. At the same time, the Primary School Pavilion is the second largest publisher in the island country. Although it does not have large newspapers and magazines like "Daily News", there are several small and medium-sized newspapers and magazines under its jurisdiction. If they join forces with those good newspapers and media, they will stabilize the situation all at once. They believe that "Football Knight" is a work of Aohiko Matsushita, and "Daily News" is completely slander.
Chapter completed!