1983 Past Life Manga King

Chapter 10

I can feel the glance of Park Sang-sik glancing at the ramen with chopsticks.

But as I read the notebook, I felt something familiar. Because it feels like you’ve seen it somewhere.

The content is a little different from what I remember, but the overall part is definitely similar.

“Is this hyung’s original story?”

“Did you call me your brother now?”

uh? What, you mean the same age with that face?

You look at least in your mid-20s?

“Hey, you still treat me like an older brother. feel good It’s only natural, though, because I’m three years older.”

Is 3 years old 24 years old?

It’s a bit younger than I expected.

Anyway, I’m glad you’re right.

He is a neighborhood hyung, and if he had been close since childhood, he might have been able to live by just calling his name.

Of course, even if it’s not cheap.

But now that’s the way it is.

I asked Park Sang-sik.

“Where did this content come from?”

It’s a look that doesn’t make sense to me.

“What are you talking about? are you copying This is my pure creation.”

“What is the title?”

“··················Well, it’s a title, so I haven’t made it up yet.”

Saying so, he rolls his eyes for a moment, then opens his mouth.

“My, my name is Gomtang?”

At that moment I stopped.

Because I knew this title well.

And it fits with the story I was thinking of.

“You said your brother made a gomtangi series?”

“Gombang series?”

He tilted his head and asked cautiously.

“Is this the Gomtang series? I don’t remember making such a thing? This is the first time I even wrote a title called Gomtang.”

“Ah······.”

Come to think of it, I remembered that the Gomtangi series came out in the mid-80s.

It’s a story about an honest character who never gives up even though it’s a little lacking, and the seemingly reckless things happen one by one. Personally, I think it’s quite interesting. And it was said to have been very popular at the time.

So I did not know the name of the story writer, but I knew the name of the cartoonist.

Hyeongseok Kang.

At one time, the story of how he made a lot of money to buy a building after gaining immense popularity through the Gomtangi series came to light through a comic book book.

After that, a stubborn series came out, but it wasn’t as popular as the gomtang series, so it was just a forgotten writer.

Anyway, it was this person who wrote such a gomtang story.

At that moment, the person looks completely different.

Even the scruffy look looks pretty cool.

However, Park Sang-sik still looks worried about whether he cares about my words.

“It’s a purely creative work that I made with a lot of thought, but did I even borrow someone else’s work without knowing it?”

Oh, oh my.

He seems to have taken into account what I said.

He seems to have shocked his mental state by saying something stupid.

You must have already been offended by the Star Wars spoilers.

I hurriedly waved my hand and corrected it.

“Ah, sorry, I must have misunderstood. When I think about it, it’s completely different.”

“Is that so?”

“Huh.”

He sighs as if he’s happy with my answer. How vain would it be if the story he had been struggling to write had already been published.

Park Sang-sik carefully asked me again.

“Yeah, how do you see it? Is the story interesting?”

But I said, cut it like a radish with a knife at once.

“Not funny.”

Perhaps because of the straightforward answer, the expectant face quickly turns into disappointment.

To be honest, I’m not having any fun right now.

I also enjoyed reading the original. However, this is an unstable story created by the initial settings. It must have been the beginning of the Gomtangi series that came out after several revisions in this state.

As a result, I am sorry in this state, but it was not at the level to say that it was fun.

Still, I want to give you a hint about the future.

“Still, I think it would be fun to make some adjustments.”

“You think it will be fun if you just edit it? Really?”

“So, if you make a lot of adjustments.”

“Okay. If it’s just a minor correction, you can do it anyway. But where should I fix it?”

“That’s what the original author should think about. What do you know?”

He responded with a cold voice, like a sting, but somehow he was smirking.

“okay. that’s what i have to worry about But, as the original author, is it good to hear something?”

Seeing that, I looked at him with a puzzled expression for a moment, then opened my mouth.

“Don’t be pathetic like that, write a story that will sell. If the story proceeds flat like this, it will not be popular.”(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

“After all, the story needs a twist, right? Or make the protagonist go through hardship.”

“Because you know how to think about it.”

It’s just a story that came out of my head anyway, so it’ll be completed in some way. Oh, I’m not going to disappear because of the butterfly effect or something like that, right?

But that thought was soon abandoned.

It wasn’t intentional, but I don’t need to worry about such a thing.

“Oh yeah. ok Anyway, thanks for your comments.”

Anyway, Park Sang-sik is still in a good mood. I wonder if it’s such a good thing that I gave an opinion, but well, I’m not a part-timer.

“···········?”

However, I felt something sandwiched between the story notes, and when I swipe through it, a picture caught my eye.

The main character in the photo is not a familiar face yet, but it is definitely an older sister.

Seeing this, Park Sang-sik is startled and takes his notebook back.

“Ah, this, this…”

Watching him struggle as if he was trying to make an excuse, I immediately realized why this person was being so kind to me.

He likes his older sister, so he seems to be doing this well to me, the younger brother.

Of course, it is not known what kind of relationship she has with her older sister, but if you look at the atmosphere, it is clear that she is just a crush.

ttt, poor man.

In the meantime, Park Sang-sik is still watching me.

I felt like I was going to give out some exhaustive excuses, so I made a slight impression.

Then, Park Sang-sik becomes even more embarrassed.

After I finished eating the ramen, I went straight to the front of the bookshelf and asked.

“Can I read more books?”

He was taken aback by that, and responded quickly with a happy expression on his face.

“Uh huh. then. Read whatever you want to see. If you want to take it with you, you can read it. What I borrowed today is until tomorrow. Take it and read it.”

“Thanks.”

“Thank you.”

Park Sang-sik secretly sighs as if he’s lucky.

He looked at him and narrowed his eyes.

The story writer of that famous Gomtang series lived downstairs, and he likes his older sister.

I feel something strange.

Of course, I read the Gomtangi series after it was almost forgotten in the world, so I don’t really realize its popularity. It’s just a fact that I only read in books or on the internet. But even so, it feels strange to be personally acquainted with the original author of a comic book that dominated an era.

Of course, looking at that scruffy expression makes me wonder if I’ve misunderstood something.

Anyway, as long as you know such a person, you can’t just skip it.

The curiosity of the comic book fan was activated.

“How much did you get for the story?”

When he fumbles through the book and asks a question, he is startled.

“Huh? what?”

“The manuscript fee I received for writing the story. Can’t you tell me that?”

“Ah, that. of course not I got 100,000 won per 100 pages. Of course, that’s what I got the most from.”

100 pages, not 1 page.

In the case of comic strips, I know that the story writer receives about 30% of the manuscript fee.

In the early and mid-90s, comic strips by popular authors were about 50,000 won per page, and story writers received about 15,000 won from there. If you calculate it that way, if you count 100 pages, it is about 1.5 million won.

Even when considering the price, it seems that the story writers of the script-based comics were treated poorly compared to the serialized comics. Of course, you should also consider that it is not a popular cartoon.

Anyway, I’ve done a total of 4 works so far, and if the most money I received was 100,000 won, the total would be less than 400,000 won.

Anyway, compared to 2018, it is roughly ten times as much, so it can be said that it is about 1 million won per volume.

However, there are many problems with the content.

“In two years, I entered four works.”

$400,000 in 2 years?

Only then can they afford the cost of living.

Only then, as a story writer, it is understandable to live such a difficult life.

So I asked some more questions.

Then, Park Sang-sik asks with a curious expression.

“Why are you so interested today?”

“If you don’t want to say it, you don’t have to.”

I don’t even want to force myself to know that I don’t like it. Curious is curious, and annoying is annoying.

It was Park Sang-sik who was rather surprised by such a reaction.

“No, why would I do that? what a great story I will tell you everything.”

Saying that, he tells me about miscellaneous things that I didn’t even ask.

“As you know, the cost of living is insufficient. Do you have any other choice but to make up for it with labor? It is impossible in the first place to write while running the company.”

“Why? Can’t I use it after work?”

“What time do you have for going to work in the morning and leaving work late at night? Besides, I was busy all night long, so my work life alone was overwhelming.”

It seems that the company life I went to before writing the story was really miserable.

Although there were basic working hours, the two-hour overtime a day was semi-compulsory, and it seemed that additional overtime and overnight work were often done.

But in this day and age, that seems to be very common. Seeing that my sister’s company life is not that different.

Anyway, I think it’s really great to see that he is still burning his passion for comics while living such a poor life after quitting the company.

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end the scoundrel (3)

“Still, I once wanted to become a manga artist, but I don’t have any talent, so now this is the best thing. I’ve heard that story writing is better than drawing.”

“Five. Have you ever dreamed of becoming a cartoonist?”

“Of course. I was also a student of a manga artist for two years.”

“2 years? How long have you been?”

“then. After graduating from middle school, I moved to Seoul and worked really hard under Kim Kyung-bae.”

Park Sang-sik says with a face wet with emotion.

It seems that memories are being corrected.

“Then what’s your salary?”

“What is your salary? All I had to do was get some rice and some pocket money. Fortunately, talented juniors became draftsmen and received huge salaries. Because I wasn’t talented enough to go any further as a background man.”

“What? What kind of passion pay is it that there is no salary?”

“Passion……, what?”

Oh, it went too far.

“Ah, do you want to eat it for free?”

At that, Park Sang-sik smiled bitterly.

“Well, it’s common there. Still, there are people who want to come in, so I keep doing it.”

He had a talent for storytelling even when he was in the studio, so it seems that the cartoonist teacher wrote the story several times, but he swallowed even that without paying a penny.

It’s absurd in my common sense, and it’s pathetic for this stupid man who suffered such a thing, but it’s unreasonable to put my common sense from 2018 into 1983.

Of course, I knew through the book that there were many such studios in those days. Still, listening to it in person and reading it from a book are completely different.

Anyway, even after leaving the studio like that, Park Sang-sik has been writing the story without giving up on his regrets, and he seems to have sold the story to other cartoonists about four times in the meantime.

“Mr. Hyungseok Kang bought my story. At first, he gave me 50,000 won, but the response was good, so he raised it little by little. So in the end, I got 10,000 won.”

After all, he was connected with the cartoonist Kang Hyung-seok.

Later on, I’ll hand over the bearded series to this person.

By the way, the last thing I got was only 10,000 won.

Terrible.

Still, seeing how proud he is, I can’t say anything bad in front of him.

“I am really worried about this story, but I am worried that something is not going well.”

Also, it looks like I’m dying because I said useless things.

I sighed lightly and threw out a word.

“It’s a hit, no, it’s going to explode.”

“What? Do you really think you feel that way?”

“okay. So, never give up and refine the story.”

It’s actually a terrific piece of work.