Looking for writers and artists!

It's time to start seriously thinking about the PandaBuddha anthology! If you haven't been hanging out here long, PB is a small group of artists and writers who have started up our own small circle/studios/whatever you want to call it, and are publishing an anthology of original comic/manga-style short stories. And as such, are soliciting for submissions. Queries with sample pages due by January 30, or, if you choose to submit a finished story instead, due by March 15th.

For details go visit the forums on the PandaBuddha* website. The specific ones you want to see are:

Submissions.
Mechanical Specs.

Are you an artist looking for a writer? A writer looking for an artist? Penciller looking for inker? We can help you! There are a couple of collaborator-wanted posts there right now.


* Named that mostly because of the logo possibilities. This is what happens when you get artists naming things.

Memeage...

( What I deserve for Christmas... )

Linkblogging

Via tammylee: HP comic strips. Funny. XD

Good news on the comment notification front...

...they've found the problem and are fixing it.

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I swear, if this ibuprophen doesn't work in the next fifteen minutes, the migraine drugs are comin' out.

The only problem with the Relpax is the sort-of vague hangover I get that translates to "ooohh... I could do this ... i don't really want to....i'll sit here and think about it a lot....." OTOH, it's either than or ICE PICK THROUGH TEMPLE so it's not really that much of a choice

It's starting...

...I just got a comment notification from November 20th. I 'spect in a day or two, once they clear out the queue, everything should be back to normal.

Mangatalk: A question...

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ETA: GAH but I've got to re-adjust my new monitor! Those looked almost white on it. The brightness and contrast is obviously way the hell off. I'll fix that and redo the pages tonight, when I get home.

Much, much better now. Not perfect, but muuuuch better. You may need to force a reload if your browser's cached the original, awful, images.

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ETA yet again: Just posted a followup-type entry, coming out of some comments down below.

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I've been musing on various things - the differences between the current crop of OEL manga and Japanese manga, backgrounds and the lack of same, detail vs. no detail, and it hit me when I cracked open Fruits Basket 12 that maybe I should just post something and see what comes of talk about it.

This is page 18 from Fruits Basket 12 (no spoilers), once normally and once with as much of the text and text balloons cleaned out as I could do (and sketchily-fixed-up pictures, just to give a rough idea). This should be the page as it looks after inking and toning and before the text balloons are drawn in (well, ok, so I expect that the mangaka draws the balloons in the pencils, and inks the balloons at the same time the rest of the panels are inked, really).

Anyway. This page has many of the same characteristics as a lot of amateur manga out there on the Web that I see - lots of empty space with tone thrown in to fill space, almost no background whatsoever, figures drawn in profile (because it's easier than 3/4 view), very little variation in line width. The question, then, is...

( WHY DOES IT WORK? )