During Those Years When I Was A Marvel Superhero Chapter 12: Company and Recruitment

An independent villa near Flushing in Queens, which was specially leased by Li Jie to serve as the Marvel Company headquarters. Liwen.com's rent here is about 160,000 US dollars a year.

Because the villa is large, it has a beautiful garden. There are also a lot of rooms in the villa, which is enough to meet the needs of the initial stage of the business after a good division.

Why not rent an office building in Manhattan or Queens, Li Jie still has his own considerations.

First, office buildings in Manhattan are too expensive to rent. And the office conditions in Queens are slightly better, and prices have also taken off these years.

And the key is not to sign a long contract, the rent price will increase every year, and now I am looking at a capital of 10 million US dollars.

But it really takes very fast to spend, so the main purpose is to save.

And the first task of the new company is not to directly expand what movies and TV or big moves, but rather start with comics.

After all, it is the first time to do something similar. Li Jie has no experience in this area, and Peter does not have to count on it. Harry is because Osborn Group is already on the right track, and he only needs to maintain the general direction. So, in fact, there is little experience with the company's drafting.

So although Li Jie asked a professional manager to take charge of the company's future operations, he still didn't want to take too many steps at a time.

And the creation of comics also takes into account the inspiration of painters and screenwriters. Li Jie does not feel that he can suffocate anything good in a space-constrained office building.

There is an open park near the location of Queens, and the scenery around the villa is not bad. You can see the bay in 15 minutes walking north.

In addition, because it is a quiet community, this environment is more conducive to the creative creation of painters. So Li Jie directly signed a two-year long-term lease under this property.

Metropolitan Middle School has been on holiday, and in December has officially entered the most important holiday in the United States, the countdown to Christmas.

The United States is preparing for this most important holiday, and Li Jie ’s company also chose to start hiring at this time.

According to his vision, he finally recruited painters and some necessary personnel around Christmas, so that he could launch the first issue in January next year.

With the support of Harry Osborn, the legal procedures of the new company go very fast, and various professional administrative talents are also easy to recruit.

The only thing that needs to be considered is the artist and screenwriter. After all, this is the most important person in this company. You ca n’t draw good comics and you ca n’t write good stories.

It is still difficult to make this comic a best seller, even if it is so popular with Spider-Man and Night Crawler.

And today is the day when the Li Jie works as examiner and boss review the artist. In front of him, he has appointed a few good painters, his skills are very good, and his brain and story are also good.

Unlike Riman and Gangman, these comics are mostly screenwriters. Sometimes the artist will refer to the editor-in-chief ’s opinion, but more often the story is in their own minds.

If this causes a publishing house to lose an important artist, it will seriously affect the business of the entire publishing house.

And in order to maximize profits, publishers often allow artists to continue to write down stories without restrictions. Many Riman's painters have already squeezed out all their talents in the later period of painting. It is too difficult for a manga to draw five or six hundred words or even thousands of drawings based on the idea of ​​one person.

However, because each Japanese cartoonist has a different understanding of stories and characters, it is easy for many artists to form their own unique style, and because of this unique style, they have many fans around the world.

And American comics are more focused on assembly line work, the artist ’s ideas are only a part, and more are the opinions of the screenwriter and the company editor.

It is often the case that dozens of painters in different studios and screenwriters meet together to discuss the plot, and then fill each other's deficiencies.

Because American comics often create one or more long-term popular characters, all the stories revolve around this popular character.

The copyright of this character or story belongs to the company itself. All the artist does is draw him. Of course, sometimes the artist will innovate some popular characters to fill in.

But all the copyright belongs to the company. Maybe some painters may get a special division for a certain role, but most of the painters are only workers in this industry.

The advantage of this is that all the comics under the company have a unified style, and there is no need to worry about the shock of the company ’s industry due to the departure of a certain artist.

But the disadvantage is that sometimes in order to maintain the consistency of the company's style, some creative ideas that are very bright are forced to be modified.

However, Li Jie decided to follow the standard industrialization of American comics, because the main purpose of this company is to create the heroic comics that have appeared in reality.

It is not necessary for the painters to create a separate role, only the painter and the screenwriter have to communicate well, and then they can give some opinions to the ambiguous and amended stories, and finally the painter draws out.

This is the production model that best fits this company. After identifying the previous painters, Li Jie ushered in a relatively familiar person.

It was Ivy that he saw that day, that is Gwen ’s classmate. She was invited by Li Jie to apply for her job. One of her ideal careers in life was to be a special foodie for food magazines.

This way she can eat all over the United States and have income, and the other is to become a professional cartoonist.

Both careers are ideal for her. And she currently has a considerable number of fans on the Internet to follow her comics.

"So this is your collection?" Having seen Li Jie's face with a dying expression on his face, I really didn't expect Ivy to come up with this collection to apply.

Although painting is a personal freedom, Li Jie really doesn't want to see it in this work.

Applicants are required to provide artists with previous paintings. Of course, comics that have plots are of course the best. So Ivy especially brought her proud works.

It's a coincidence that her proud work Li Jie also happened to be seen, it is the Night Walker and Spider-Man series.

What is this unfolding! I started a comic company and wanted to promote my positive image. Why did I run into such a ghost! Li Jie's heart is talking crazy.

"Yes, this is my personal favorite." Aiwei raised his eyebrows. "Maybe BL Xiang does not meet the current mainstream market theme, but as a painter, I can accept the plot creation provided by the company."

"I think that since I am an applicant for painting, the most important thing is my painting skills." Ivey said that he was very confident.

Yeah, compared with the rough lines of Meiman's painting skills, Aiwei's painting skills are very detailed. It's not like the soft texture of Riman, nor is it so stiff.

It should be said that it has a considerable advantage, it will not draw everyone as muscular. But this collection is really too detailed.

Li Jie decided to close the painting collection so as not to lose his spirit. "Your painting skills are the best among the painters I have seen."

This is the truth, so although Li Jie was very upset about what Ivy painted, he did n’t let a potential painter get eliminated because of this kind of thing.

“But in the future, the company ’s main business direction and paintings will also be class heroes, but the customer base will be 14 to 25 years old, so you cannot bring your personal interests into your work.”

Li Jie knocked on the table and reminded Ivy.

"Reassure boss, I will only paint related works on private websites, and I will not bring emotions to my work." Aiwei smiled and promised two tiger teeth.

"And I know who the company will run in the future, some related fan works can also drive the sales of the company's own works."

But her promise makes Li Jie want to vomit blood ~ IndoMTL.com ~ Do you want to use legal procedures to stop her? But she was right, a certain degree of doujin can really drive the company's main product sales.

At this moment Li Jie is really tangled. Li Jie eased his inner responsible emotion and asked. "Did you plot the plots in your collections?"

I have to say that running away from this kind of thing, many of the plots and ideas in it are very refreshing.

"Partial, but not all." Ivey explained. "In fact, a considerable part of the plot and the bridge are created by Gwen."

"Gwen is particularly talented in this area. She is the smartest girl I have ever seen. I think she can be hired as a part-time editor."

Poof, when Li Jie was drinking water, he couldn't hold back when he heard this sentence, and a sip of water sprayed to the ground.

The writer of this story is Gwen? God, the girlfriend you are looking for is really too strong, and I can only wish you happiness in the future. Li Jie thought this way, with a solemn expression on his face. (To be continued.)