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Friday, 21 August 2015

Have I Ever Thought About Black Tower Books In China?

 
 A discussion through email had me thinking...but not for long!

I was asked why, if I am such a huge Chinese Manhua fan, I had not tried to interest any Chinese publishers in my books or projects?

Well, the problem is that it has been difficult to get responses from Chinese manhua publishers.  Firstly, you need to navigate their internet pages and I do not speak or read fluent Chinese! And if you use an automatic translator it can make certain words completely ridiculous when it comes to meaning.

Babel fish translated "contact the publisher" as "be kind and offer up a plate to your master"!  How it worked that I have no idea.


 Chinese publishers might also have concerns about anything of a political nature that might be in a book, which I can understand.

However, Black Tower has, since the 1980s, featuring Chinese characters from Singapore, Hong Kong and the Peoples Republic of China -The Phoenix Team being the designated Chinese national super team!

The team has, on occasion, questioned their military superiors or the task they are given.  However this is NOT declaring their government evil or wrong -just doing what normal people do: asking questions, having doubts but always striving to do the right thing.


 Black Tower does not seek to make political statements or declare one political system better or worse than another.  Comics/Manhua are about entertaining and being fun with a good story

When you look at comic publishing a lot of publishers -larger independents as well as bigger companies- have comics and graphic novels printed in China.  It makes sense -they have very good printing, economical and if a problem -technical or otherwise- crops up they go all out to solve it.  Sadly, a lot of UK printers have thrown guaranteed quality and service away -it is only the money that interests them.

Comics or Manhua are adaptable. Just like the Chinese themselves.

 I wrote a number of times since 1999 that there were two countries that, if they woke up to the potential, could move into the UK for a foothold and move out towards Europe, where there is a better appreciation of Chinese creators, and then branch out further.

Those countries were India (as detailed in a couple of long CBO postings) and China.


 India, for reasons I do not understand, possibly total lack of wanting to leave it's already existing market, despite having all the benefits pointed out to it just would not contemplate a print in India-publish in the UK comic or comic line.

 China could, since there is absolutely no competition in the UK, move in and set up a UK publishing house -put comics together in the UK, have them printed in China then shipped to the UK.

So, yes, I have thought about this before but, as I wrote, I have never had the opportunity to discuss such a thing with a genuine Chinese publisher.

Black Tower books published in China by a publisher there?  I should be so lucky, though Return Of The Gods and Cross Earths Caper might work!


 Yes, I have thought about it but it is one of those "if only" things.

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 黑塔书籍在中国


通过电子邮件讨论了我想......但时间不长

 有人问我为什么,如果我是这样一个庞大的中国球迷满华我没有试过任何感兴趣的中国出版商我的书或项目

 
那么,问题是,它已经很难从中国的满华出版商的回应。首先,你需要浏览他们的互联网页,我不说话或阅读流利的中国人!如果你使用一个自动翻译它可以使某些词完全荒谬的,当涉及到的含义

宝贝鱼翻译直接联系发布人”为善待,并提供一盘你的主人它是如何工作,我不知道


 中国出版商可能有关于可能是一本书,我可以理解一个政治性质的事情担忧。

然而,黑塔了,自1980年代以来中国特色的文字来自新加坡,香港和中国-The凤凰队人民共和国指定的中国国家超级团队!


 
该团队有时他们质疑的军方上司任务给他们然而,这并不是宣称他们的政府邪恶的或者错误的 - 仅仅正常人做的事:问问题疑惑,但一直在努力做正确的事


 黑塔不求发表政治声明声明一个政治制度比另一种更好或更差漫画/满华是关于娱乐性和很有趣好故事


当你在看漫画出版了大量的出版商-larger无党派人士以及更大companies-漫画和印刷在中国的图画小说这是有道理的 - 他们有非常良好的印刷经济,如果出了问题 - 技术或其他方式作物,他们全力以赴去解决它可悲的是,很多英国打印机抛出保证质量和服务 - 它仅仅是他们感兴趣的
 
 漫画满华 适应性强就像中国人自己
 
 我写了很多次自1999年以来,有两个国家,如果他们醒来的潜力,可以移动英国立足,迁出对欧洲那里有一个更好地了解中国的创造者,然后再分支进一步的

这些国家分别是印度和中国(几个CBO帖子详细介绍)
 
 印度,原因我不明白可能是完全没有想要离开它已经存在的市场尽管有所有优点,指出只是不会考虑打印印度出版的英国喜剧相声东北。
 
 中国可以因为有绝对在英国没有竞争在中移动和设立了英国的出版社-put漫画一起在英国有他们在中国印刷再运到英国

所以,是的我以前想过这个,但是因为我写的,我从未有过机会来讨论这样的事情一个真正的中国出版商。

黑塔的书在中国出版由发布者吗?应该如此幸运虽然返回神和地球雀跃可能工作!
 
 是的,我想过这个问题,但它那些“如果只的事情之一。
 
 

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