Chapter 300 The Man of the Year Award
After obtaining Manchester United shares of Richard Wilkins, Zhao Chen returned to the island country that day. As for Richard Wilkins, he continued to divide his troops into two groups, sending his two sons to Xiangjiang for inspection, and on the other hand, he helped Zhao Chen acquire the remaining shares of Manchester United.
On this day, an editor-in-chief entered Zhao Chen's office and respectfully placed a stack of document bags made of original manuscripts in front of Zhao Chen.
Recently, Tianxia Society has established another comic award, called Fengyun Men's Award. The entries are limited to young man comics. As long as they reach the level of excellent work, they may be attracted by the editorial department, so they can be serialized in the main magazines of Tianxia Society according to the comic type.
The original manuscripts in these briefcases are all entries for this time, but only a small part, and most of the rest have been eliminated by the editor-in-chief. They will be sent to Zhao Chen after screening, and then Zhao Chen will continue to screen them. Of course, if Zhao Chen likes a certain work, it will be a pity that it will be promoted as an excellent work.
"You go down!" Zhao Chen nodded, then picked up the uppermost document bag, pulled out the original manuscript and started watching.
The competition is basically newcomers or some assistants, and of course, there are occasionally some unsuccessful ‘old people’ among them. After all, where the attractiveness of the world society is, as long as it can become a masterpiece, there is a possibility that the salted fish will turn over.
Perhaps it is because of his ability to remember everything, or Zhao Chen has rich experience, but Zhao Chen can watch it very quickly, and he can often get one in one minute.
Those who come to participate in the competition are short stories, and the length is about the same as the number of original manuscripts in a single issue, at most dozens of pages.
However, because the number of entries is still too large after screening, even if Zhao Chen reads it quickly, it will take some time.
"Hey, this is Aoyama Takamasaki. I don't know what level he has reached now?"
After taking out another manuscript, Zhao Chen couldn't help but smile at the familiar name on the manuscript. He had known Aoyama Takahashi for four years, which also allowed him to start his comic journey two years in advance. During this period, Aoyama Takahashi occasionally sent manuscripts, but because Zhao Chen's strict relationship with him, none of these works were selected.
Perhaps it was because Tatsumasa Aoyama learned Western painting. He made great progress in just four years. He was no longer worse than that of ordinary cartoonists in terms of painting skills and painting style. The only difference was his experience.
The entries submitted by Takamasa Aoyama this time are called "Agreement" (wait for me). This work was selected as the 19th World Primary School Pavilion Newcomer Comic Award in history.
Of course, winning an award is one thing, quality is another. Since it is Aoyama Takamasa's first work, the painter of this comic is quite immature, and there are some mistakes in the plot, mainly due to insufficient experience. But in general, the overall quality of this "Agreement" also has the strength to barely serialize in publications other than "Youth Sora".
However, Zhao Chen does not value these things. If it is an ordinary work, he does not need to explore it so carefully. His main motivation is to see what level Aoyama Takahara has reached. If the level is sufficient, he doesn't mind cooperating with it.
So when reading this short story, Zhao Chen was particularly careful and was afraid of missing a little bit. He mainly looked at the painting skills and style. To the painter said that Aoyama Takahara had already started, but he was able to control most comics. As for the style of painting, it was mainly elegant and beautiful, supplemented by the facts.
In short, Takahara Aoyama has a future airing in terms of painting skills and painting style. Although the plot often goes wrong due to experience, Zhao Chen doesn't care about this. If he cooperates, Takahara Aoyama doesn't need to think about the plot at all, he just needs to rely on the outline to continue drawing.
"It seems we are going to visit!" Zhao Chen looked at the time when the watch was on his wrist, and then put down the original manuscript and began to continue watching other contestants' entries.
Among these novice contestants, there are a few of them who are future cartoonists, but they are not very famous, so Zhao Chen only paid a little attention to this.
In these four years, according to Zhao Chen's "abduction" ability, Tianxiashe has almost won most of the well-known cartoonists and even masters who can debut in the 1980s. As for the rest of the skipped-through little fish, they were blown away by several other comic giants. If you really want to compare your strength, Tianxiashe has already had the ability to crush other comic giants.
After checking all the screened entries, Zhao Chen casually pressed the seal for some of the works that he saw. With this seal, it means that these works were successfully selected, including Takamasa Aoyama's "Agreement"!
Nowadays, Tomoka Aoyama has just graduated. Zhao Chen naturally hopes to win him as soon as possible, not be afraid of ten thousand or even if it is, and avoid being caught by other comic giants. It is only with this idea that Zhao Chen wants to visit him in person.
After four years of understanding, although I only used the phone to exchange knowledge about comics, I still knew the address of Aoyama Takahara.
The black Mercedes-Benz sedan was parked smoothly at the entrance of a gas station, and Zhao Chen turned to get out of the car.
Aoyama's family specializes in auto repair stations and gas stations. It's considered that the family is relatively wealthy, so it's no wonder Aoyama's family will learn more expensive Western paintings.
Because before him, Zhao Chen had been on the phone with Gangchang Aoyama on the phone, so when Zhao Chen got off the bus, he saw Gangchang Aoyama and his family standing at the door waiting.
"Master Zhao Chen, it's been a long time since we saw you!" These are the words of Aoyama Takahara and his two brothers.
"No, it's really Mr. Zhao Chen!" The sigh was indeed Gangchang's parents. Although they heard Gangchang's brothers mention Zhao Chen at first, they thought they were just bragging at first, and they thought they had just seen Zhao Chen from afar and did not know Zhao Chen, but they did not expect that Zhao Chen would come to visit him in person this time.
"Mr. Zhao Chen, hurry up, please come in!" Aoyama Takahara's father knew the general knowledge and naturally knew what Zhao Chen's arrival meant. With Zhao Chen's influence and fame, it would be easy for others to recognize him when he saw it, and it would be troublesome.
Zhao Chen nodded, politely said, and then walked into their home with Aoyama Takahara's family.
When he came to the living room, what surprised him was that there was a middle-aged man in the living room.
The middle-aged man is about forty years old, with a pair of beards and is holding some original manuscripts in his hand, looking at it with relish, and his expression is quite elegant.
Perhaps because of the sound of footsteps, the middle-aged man subconsciously looked up and was stunned when he saw it. He didn't expect to meet Zhao Chen here.
"How come he is here? It's not just for the child of the Aoyama family! Oh no, I have almost no hope compared to him."
The middle-aged man's name is Makou Guan Er, and he is an editor who specializes in the discovery of new people in the elementary school museum. The reason why he came here was mainly because he had read the previous drawings of Aoyama Takahara. As for where those drawings came from, they were commercial spies who asked him to ask for help. Even if the Tianxia Society is united and strong, those staff may not necessarily feel that sense of belonging, and it is more common to sell some news for money. Just like the Tianxia Society often gets news from other informants, the same behavior.
Chapter completed!