Hong Kong Comic Master

The earliest new comic magazine in mainland China was "Painting Book King", a semi-monthly comic magazine founded by Mr. Wang after his retirement in 1993.

This comic magazine not only serialized the latest comics from Japan, but also had new comics drawn by mainlanders, such as "Jiang Ziya", "New Story Painting", "Peach Meeting" and other comics.

Although these mainland comics still have obvious traces of comic strips and the style is slightly old, they are an important symbol of the start of China's new comic business.

The first issue of the magazine was printed with 20,000 copies, which were quickly sold out. Reprints were urgently made, and sales still could not meet demand.

The highest sales volume even reached 550,000 copies. In less than a year, the total circulation reached more than 4 million copies.

Unfortunately, it was stopped after only 24 issues.

The reason was that the comics in the magazine contained bad ideas and were urgently stopped.

It is said that the comic was "City Hunter".

Well, those who understand will understand...

Learning from the past, Li Wannian's choice of subject matter for this new magazine is naturally the top priority.

No supernatural themes, no bloody themes, no marginal themes, etc...

After all these choices, there are really not many themes left for Li Wannian to choose.

So, Li Wannian chose...

"Quick! Pass the ball!"

"Defense, pay attention to defense!"

"Three points, beautiful!"

In front of Li Wannian, a unique basketball game is taking place, but these people are all high school students.

At this time, Li Wannian is in Foshan Sports School.

This is a sports school that has just been established for less than two years. It was established on the basis of the amateur sports school in the city center.

It is located on the banks of the Fenjiang River and is connected to the beautiful Xiuli Lake in Zhongshan Park. It is a secondary sports school that cultivates outstanding athletes and sports professionals.

Li Wannian came here to investigate the student life of mainland sports schools at this time.

There is no doubt that the comic that Li Wannian chose in the end is "Slam Dunk"!

The reason why Li Wannian passed "Slam Dunk" was that basketball had a poor mass base in Hong Kong Island, and it was difficult to make reality fit the comics by holding competitions like football.

But now that he can come to the mainland to draw comics, Li Wannian has found another way, which is to localize "Slam Dunk" in the mainland, and put the basketball story that originally took place in the Japanese campus in the mainland sports school, which seems to make sense.

After all, the essence of readers' love for "Slam Dunk" is still the fierce competition, the fighting spirit of never giving up and the passionate story!

"Mr. Li, how do you feel?"

Chairman Ding accompanied Li Wannian, and said with his unchanging smile at this time.

Li Wannian glanced at the smiling Chairman Ding on the side, and was also very surprised. The other party's energy is greater than he imagined. He actually arranged his own schedule in such a short time.

"Very good. Although the conditions are not very good, the basic skills are very solid. It can be seen that everyone is training very hard!"

According to Li Wannian's inspection in the past two days, although limited by funding, teaching staff and other reasons, the conditions of sports schools today are very poor in all aspects.

But it must be said that the students of this era are really very hardworking. Although everyone is not well fed, the positive temperament on everyone's face can infect Li Wannian.

"Alas, the main reason is that the government is really in trouble at present and can't create a better environment for children!" President Ding couldn't help but sigh.

Hearing this, Li Wannian's heart moved, and suddenly said: "How about this, when we go back and start our magazine, the income I get can be used to set up a foundation to help children all over the country develop their basketball careers!"

Li Wannian's words made President Ding look at him more.

Such a state of mind is really too high. After all, such a noble person is really rare, and the key is that he is still so young!

In fact, it is not that Li Wannian has a high level of consciousness. It is really that in the next ten years, the money he can earn in the mainland will only be tens of millions a year at most. The key is that he cannot take it out in these years and can only keep it in the mainland.

So, Li Wannian might as well take out this money to build a good reputation for himself so that he can make more money in the future.

In short, with Li Wannian's words, President Ding has more room for operation!

On the other hand, after inspecting the sports schools in the mainland for three consecutive days, Li Wannian finally made up his mind.

After returning to Hong Kong Island, he began to conceive how to draw "Slam Dunk".

There are still a few months before next year, enough time for Li Wannian to prepare first.

In Li Wannian's writing, the story of "Slam Dunk" took place in Foshan in the 1990s.

The protagonist Yingmu is a student in the track and field class who has just been promoted to Foshan Sports School. Because he is two meters tall and only 16 years old, he is noticed by teachers of other subjects and wants to be pulled into their classes.

Originally, Yingmu did not particularly like sports. For him, it was just a job to make a living, not a hobby.

However, after being rejected for the 50th time when he confessed to a girl, he fell in love with a girl named Mu Qingzi, but the other party liked basketball, so he decided to play basketball.

So Yingmu joined the school's basketball team and met many teammates and friends.

Mu Tiezhu, Qingzi's brother, the captain of the team, is 203cm tall and plays center;

Liu Chuanfeng, the person whom Haruko secretly loves, Yingmu's lifelong enemy, is 196cm tall and plays as a small forward;

Gong Cheng, who was also rejected by women and has a secret crush, is 178cm tall and plays as a point guard;

Shan Jingshou, a genius who has lost his way and found his way back, is 188cm tall and plays as a shooting guard.

The "Foshan Five Tigers" are all together, and their legendary basketball journey begins.

It can be seen that Li Wannian has increased the height of these five people. After all, this is the mainland, not Japan. Even if they are a group of 16 to 18-year-old student players, they can't survive in the sports schools in the mainland with the height in the original work!

After determining the background of the comics, the entire comic story is too simple for Li Wannian. The characters can be put into the original work.

After that, Li Wannian made some modifications to each character image, and soon drew the original manuscript of the first episode.

Next, as long as the law is implemented next year and the other party reviews the comics and finds no obvious problems, the comics can be serialized smoothly in the mainland.

In addition, comics can also be serialized in Hong Kong and Japan simultaneously, and the background does not need to be changed. After all, during this period, whether it is Hong Kong, Japan, or other places, there is still a curiosity about the mysterious mainland.