Tokyopop Manga Online

[telophase]

As the November issue of Tokyopop's Manga Online (neé Takuhai) has gone live as of today, I shall make the official announcement:

An edited version of my two essays on visual flow in manga has been posted as Manga Online's How-To of the Month.


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And a pimp for anyone who comes by: I am also seeking submissions of original manga short stories for an anthology I and some friends will be publishing ourselves. We're willing to work with you to an extent, and if you are an artist looking for a writer or a writer looking for an artist, we can hook you up! Information can be found at the PandaBuddha website.


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[another edit] Just found this quote. Has nothing to do with manga, but I liked it anyway.

"Libraries are brothels for the mind, and librarians are the madams, greeting customers, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping books."

--Guy Browning, The Guardian, October 18, 2003

--signed, telophase, madam librarian

Comments

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Woo hoo!

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

::happy dance::

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

Oooh, look at the nice things TokyoPop says about us.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

?? Where?

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

Where they say there's insightful commentary on your journal. XD

Even if you wrote that, I'm pleased it's there, heh.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Ah, ok. I wrote that. XD Feeling pretentious all the way! But Jeremy could have edited it out - he asked for a longer bio and I gave it to him, and he whacked about half of it out, and left that bit. :D

I'll leave it up to the reader to determine which bits are insightful and which bits are mindless fannish squeeing. XD

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Fear our mad, insightful skills and our icons featuring TokyoPop licensed properties. XD

All of mine, of course, are in category 1. Except for the bits that aren't.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Icons of DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

"Dear TokyoPop: if you're thinking about what to license next..."

[telophase.livejournal.com]

*snerk*

[kate_nepveu]

Shiny!

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Eee! Congrats!

[the-z.livejournal.com]

WOO! I'm so pouncing on that.

Also, question: What's the absolute deadline for manga submissions for the anthology next year?

And will it be rated PG-13 etc? I think there was talk of an adult anthology at some point, but I don't remember if that was going to be a seperate publication or not.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I think the deadline for already-completed stories (i.e., ones that they don't want to rewrite or do any redrawing on) is March 1st, and the deadline for queries is January 1st.

This one will be PG-13. I'm all for doing an adult one in time for next year's Yaoi-Con.

[the-z.livejournal.com]

Sweet! Thanks for the quick reply. I'm just trying to sketch out a rough timeframe for my production schedule the rest of the year.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

:D Me, too. Which is why I'm not doing anything else major until Project: Blue Rose is complete. XD

[moonlit-page.livejournal.com]

congrats!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Thanks! XD

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Looking good! And thanks for the thank you.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Hee. :D I was wondering if he was going to edit the thanks out, but I'm glad he didn't.

[marith.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on successful essay!

Libraries are brothels for the mind

That's a great quote. And now I am feeling all nostalgic for Planescape, the CRPG that had a Brothel of Slating Intellectual Lusts. Talking to the prostitutes there was more fun than almost anything else in the game.

[hatchet-hands.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

I was bummed, thinking I'd missed the PandaBuddha deadline. Does this mean I could still submit something...?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Oh, no way have you missed it. XD I've only today set the officiamal deadlines as:

if you want to give us a query and work with us - Jan 1st

if you want to submit an already-done story: March 1st.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

[wildelamassu.livejournal.com]

Cool! Go you!

[maiteoida.livejournal.com]

So it's just up to January 1st to tell you that I want to do PandaBuddha? Or is it up to the 1st to have a finished story? XD;; Because if it's the former, I'm so in it ain't even funny (I swear, January is going to be dubbed "Comic Month"- I'm taking a course on comics and doing comics...it's like my dream come true!)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

January 1st - if you have a query.

March 1st - if you have a finished story.

Anyone querying and accepted will probably be given a deadline of closer to the end of March to turn it in. The March 1st for already-finished submissions is to give us time to read it, consider it, and accept or reject it. It's two different paths that don't have anything to do with each other. :D

Does that make sense?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

* And although I'm not officially telling anyone they're in the book before I see their query: I've seen your work and I'll say that I've got a very high opinion of it. XD

The query is just - "I wanna be in it; here's an idea of the story I think I'll be doing; here's some sequential work I've done for you to judge." And I've seen your sequential work before, so you wouldn't need to send any in. :D