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Random bits from the blogs today...
Review of Van Von Hunter and Peach Fuzz here.
OnnaFest, a con-type event in Newark in early October is holding a game much like Project Runway about manga publishing. Somehow. The winner potentially has a chance to be published, apparently. Reading between the lines, it appears to be a guided pitch.
Review of Van Von Hunter and Peach Fuzz here.
OnnaFest, a con-type event in Newark in early October is holding a game much like Project Runway about manga publishing. Somehow. The winner potentially has a chance to be published, apparently. Reading between the lines, it appears to be a guided pitch.
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RSoM has consistently been a disappointment from my PoV. Good way for the artists to break into the industry. Bad products that I have to see on the shelves.
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I've been aware of the website of the PF creators (http://www.jaredandlindsay.com/) for four or five years now, back when they were doing a lot of hentai as Studio Cutepet (http://www.cutepet.org/) and before they reorganized the site to make it more kid-friendly because of PF. :) Love their coloring, hated their anatomy and style. I recommend their CD of CG tutorials to anyone just starting to learn to color. They seem to have taken down the image that I always showed to people of an example of how not to do female anatomy - it was a Shiva-inspired pic of a girl sitting in the lotus position with several arms, and the body, especially the torso and ribcage, had the heft and bulk of a male with breasts plopped on top of it like a bad boob job. And as far as I can tell, she was supposed to be female, not a genderfuck thing or anything.
But it all comes down to: I am not the audience for their work.
I think part of the problem with RSOM is that most of the artists and writers who are already pro-level have either contacted Tpop outside of the RSOM (I mean really: the prize being the chance to pitch a series? They accept unsolicited pitches! You can do that *without* entering RSOM!), or have deals with other companies.*
There's also the problem that the ability to do a short story for a competition does not equal the ability to do a long-term novel-length project. Two different skillsets. (I shall not go into this farther in public. :)
* Speaking of which, the publishing arm of YuriCon is soliciting for yuri manga right now (http://www.yuricon.org/alc.html) and will solicit for yuri short stories for their anthology in the fall in case anyone reading the comments is interested.
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Fucking awesome. I'll keep an eye out for the anthology. My hatred of "American manga" is somewhat tempered by my love for yuri.
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* And since I live in Fort Worth, when I need GenericCityReference(TM), I'm expecting that a lot of LA is going to look mysteriously like big-city North Texas with palm trees added, if
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I think Houston may have some palm trees here and there, but up here in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, there's few if any, and they're probably planted outside restaurants like Kona Ranch.
We've got a pretty cool multicultural thing going on here, even though nobody outside Texas realizes it - once you get out of the overpriced suburbs, you have large black and Hispanic areas, and there's some big Asian pockets dotted around the metroplex. My apartment's about five miles from a large Asian (I think mostly Korean and Thai) area, and my former apartment was a block away from the best Japanese grocery store in the metroplex.
The most surprising multicultural area of Texas is where I grew up - College Station, where Texas A&M is. It's because A&M is such a big school (40-50K students right now) and there's a lot of world-class research happening there, so you get all sorts of students. When I was taking karate there, one guy graduated and moved (to LA. Heh) and before he left he hosted a party attended by karate classmates and his fellow Poli Sci students - Sensei was Swiss in heritage, born in Zimbabwe and schooled in Soth Africa, while his wife was a white SOuth African. There was a black South African (who, after Sensei and his family left, told us stories about being a terrorist in South Africa in his teen years - he described running up to a tank and dropping a grenade in, then beating it hell-for-leather out of there), Chinese, Malaysian, and Indian students, Australians, and several others who'd lived in several areas around the world. Luckily I'd lived in Tanzania for two years as a kid, otherwise I'd have felt incredibly insular and American. XD
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By the way, I have been keeping a look-out for telephone lines. Yes, we do have them, though they're not all over the place. Put them in.
I think our LA will look different from other people's LA just because there's so many LAs... Shutterbox is ritzy Beverly Hills or Hollywood, right? And MBQ looks like he's going for some ultra-gritty hood-like area.
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I'm gonna hafta find some books of photography in LA to use, if it goes through. I've got one, but it tends to focus more on the street life of Venice Beach, although there's some photos of other bits of LA.
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