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we went on a field trip yesterday. We stopped by Fantagraphics in Seattle, the first indy publishers to showcase such legends as Lynda Barry, Charles Burns, and Matt Groening, who all graduated from the same school as me (in case you've not heard, yes, Charles Burns and Matt Groening graduated together and were friends). They also published Love and Rockets, and the chick who did Persepolis but she'd moved in by the time she drew that one. So, as a comic book artist, I was naturally sort of stoked to go visit this place. I ask the guy giving the tour what the odds are of me making it in the publishing industry with a slight anime style. (you know me, its not an overt anime style, but it certainly has manga influences.)
He said that anime was a fad that was waning in interest, I'd probably never be successful with manga styled art and I shouldn't even bother to try.
Fabulous.
It took ten years to learn to draw like that, it'll probably take ANOTHER ten years to develop a NEW style. So the last ten years of my life have been a waste.
Thats good news.
In less depressing news its Friday the 13th, and Matt and I decided to have our Valentines Day today, so that we can celebrate by watching... Friday the 13th. SHUT UP WE'RE ROMANTIC.
Its a little strange to see that the director who dumbed down Leatherface to mindless killing machine would smarten up Jason Voorhees. Before, in all the other Friday the 13th movies, it felt like Jason was killing people for not much more reason than they were in his way. I'm not even entirely sure he realized that they're dead, just that when he puts his machete here, they stop screaming and running and have sex. But now he was setting traps and actually seemed to show some signs of a thought process. In the trailer (it didn't make it into the movie) they even showed him sharpening his machete, which is more initiative than he usually takes.
He can still teleport, though, so that was fun XD "how'd he get on the roof? WHY is he in the house? How'd he get back outside?!"
Overall I liked it. It was sort of like a combination of the first three movies, including in the beginning a scene with Jason's mother killing people, and Jason switching from the pillow case to the hockey mask. It was just too bad they made some characters totally adorable: like the Asian kid and the guy singing "Sister Christian" at the top of his lungs- and you sat there KNOWING they were gonna die, and being depressed about it because they're so likable.
I hear they're also gonna remake Nightmare on Elm Street but if it doesn't have Robert Englund, I don't care. (OMG Johnny Depp should be in it though! XD XD XD coming back to star in the remake of the film he first debuted in!)
He said that anime was a fad that was waning in interest, I'd probably never be successful with manga styled art and I shouldn't even bother to try.
Fabulous.
It took ten years to learn to draw like that, it'll probably take ANOTHER ten years to develop a NEW style. So the last ten years of my life have been a waste.
Thats good news.
In less depressing news its Friday the 13th, and Matt and I decided to have our Valentines Day today, so that we can celebrate by watching... Friday the 13th. SHUT UP WE'RE ROMANTIC.
Its a little strange to see that the director who dumbed down Leatherface to mindless killing machine would smarten up Jason Voorhees. Before, in all the other Friday the 13th movies, it felt like Jason was killing people for not much more reason than they were in his way. I'm not even entirely sure he realized that they're dead, just that when he puts his machete here, they stop screaming and running and have sex. But now he was setting traps and actually seemed to show some signs of a thought process. In the trailer (it didn't make it into the movie) they even showed him sharpening his machete, which is more initiative than he usually takes.
He can still teleport, though, so that was fun XD "how'd he get on the roof? WHY is he in the house? How'd he get back outside?!"
Overall I liked it. It was sort of like a combination of the first three movies, including in the beginning a scene with Jason's mother killing people, and Jason switching from the pillow case to the hockey mask. It was just too bad they made some characters totally adorable: like the Asian kid and the guy singing "Sister Christian" at the top of his lungs- and you sat there KNOWING they were gonna die, and being depressed about it because they're so likable.
I hear they're also gonna remake Nightmare on Elm Street but if it doesn't have Robert Englund, I don't care. (OMG Johnny Depp should be in it though! XD XD XD coming back to star in the remake of the film he first debuted in!)