The cartoonist Wakabayashi had a dream and dreamed of painting exchanges in China. On the SNS, users set up their own awards and offered prizes to their favorite artists. The award-winning experience of the artist selected by the user will also increase, and everyone is happy. .
If Lin Mengli is greatly moved, I think this is a groundbreaking measure. But when I woke up and wrote it down, I just thought that this dream was really inexplicable. .
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I also want to be a wealthy person who can give prizes to favorite writers at will. .
NHK’s morning drama “Half, Blue.” “The protagonist is a cartoonist. There is a line in the play, saying: “The cartoonist who survived to the fifth year after his debut, only 10%.”
The cartoonist Hoshizaki Shinji said that the 10th year after the debut is more difficult than the fifth year. After ten years of debut, the person who used to be a girl cartoonist is no longer a girl. Those who used to be teenager cartoonists will lose their hearts. Unconsciously, there has been little material left over from the age of youth. .
In order to cross this level, Hoshizaki himself gave up the comics for the 11th year of his debut, and increased his stock by looking at the different worlds. In the world that I have never seen before, there are also many interesting people and things, which makes her feel very fresh. .
Xing Qi said that she was able to do this, and she would also like to thank her editor for her willingness to continue working for her after this creative space. .
In addition to this editor, when Xingsaki debuted in the sixth year, the editor of LALA once said to her: “You just need to draw something that you find interesting, what you like.” For Hoshizaki, it is like a bright light that always illuminates her way. Perhaps, to go through a long road, you must have your own lamp. .
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On June 26th, the Cabinet Office of Intellectual Property Promotion of the Cabinet Office of Japan held the second seminar on “Internet piracy countermeasures”. Publishing, networking and other people from all walks of life. Critics Sansaki Shangren signed up for the meeting and shared the report on Twitter. .
On behalf of the cartoonist, Mita Kiyoshi at the meeting pointed out that the comics are about to enter the stage of international competition, and the Japanese competitor will be China. With the sporting distance, the rules of football and golf are invented by the British, but now the country representing golf has become the United States, but the United Kingdom still controls football. How Japanese comics survive in the next generation of international competition that China is sweeping the world is the key. .
Conference member, jurist Chang Changshou asked Santian. Before asking questions, he first thanked Mita as a professor at the University of Tokyo, and thanked his work “Long Sakura” for helping the University of Tokyo to increase the number of candidates, which attracted a laughter from the participants. .
宍戸 Professor asks questions, if the writer exercises his or her rights, is there any obstacle? Mita replied that cartoonists do not have the ability to manage their own rights, and this can only be entrusted to the publisher. What the cartoonist can do is the initiation of propaganda. Recently, there have also appeared writers’ offices, which may help the cartoonists take action. .
The Director of the Japan Local Women’s Group Liaison Association, Mr. Naga, asked why the cartoonist had been ignoring piracy before until recently. Mita replied that because the cartoonists can make money before, no matter what copyright, as long as the comics can be sold well, the physical book can bring enough benefits. So they have little interest in the rights to copyright they own. .
However, with the depression of the publishing industry, more and more writers have begun to pay attention to their rights in recent years. In particular, with the development of the e-book market, the cartoonist’s interest in rights has been further improved. How should I use my rights? How to improve your income? The cartoonist began to have a business vision. .
Sanda believes that this trend is very conducive to the development of the creative industry in the future. In the future, while relying on the wisdom of others, cartoonists will exercise their own rights and apply them to their own creative activities.
Participants shared their strategies and results in dealing with online piracy, but they all received a lot of questions from other participants. The president of the talks, Nobuyuki, also admitted that although they have taken various measures, they are not enough. .
Director of the Intellectual Property Strategy Bureau of the Cabinet Office, Sumiyuki Sumi, raised his own question at the end of the meeting. He also believes that if you don’t make a reading service that is easy to read and use across the publishing industry, you may actually lose to piracy. .
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The call for online reading across publishers has been around for a long time, but why didn’t it happen? On June 22nd, Kawagawa Group President Kawasaki, who also mentioned this topic in the live broadcast. .
Kawakami said that it is ideal for users to see all the comics in one service. But it’s actually not that easy. .
If you make such a cross-publishing platform, then the biggest benefit is the platform operator. Therefore, no matter which publishing house, you definitely want to run this platform yourself. How to adjust the conflicts of interest of various publishers is very difficult. At the same time, Kawakami does not want overseas platforms to steal this role, so he believes that a result should be discussed within Japan. .
On the other hand, Kawakami does not think that as long as there is a good use of genuine websites, it can solve the problem fundamentally. He said that even if there is a good website, it will not win a free pirated website. If the pirated website gives young people the inherent concept of “not saving money for comics”, it will harm the next 10 years and 20 years. .
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On June 24th, the author of “First God Boxing”, Morikawa, and the “Tomorrow’s Master” painter Chiba Tatsumi held two talks. Morikawa claimed after the event that because Chiba’s words were too interesting, he was fascinated and caused no dialogue. .
Chiba’s “legendary generation” cartoonists are often influenced by handcuffs. However, there are few traces of handcuffs in Chiba’s works. This is because his mother is strict in discipline. He has never read comics since he was a child, and he only learned how to draw comics when he took his manuscript to the publishing house. For this reason, Chiba can shine in the generation of cartoons and become the enemy of other cartoonists. .
In turn, Chiba himself often sighs that other cartoonists of his peers are deeply influenced by comics, and their accomplishments and talents are inferior. .
As for Chiba who has never seen comics since childhood, why did he choose to draw comics? He is now talking about serialized autobiographical comics “ひねもすのたり日记”. .
When Chiba went to the publishing house, the Japanese publishing industry was in a downturn, and it was urgent to have a manuscript that could be pressed even slightly lower. It has been 35 years since Morikawa’s debut, and the publishing industry has experienced many lows. Now, people are saying that the Japanese publishing industry is in a downturn. Morikawa said that the times are always repeating the cycle of the past, and good days will definitely come again. Just like what Chiba has experienced, perhaps the trough is now a good time. .
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