Luke, I am your...MOTHER!!
I must be croaky this morning. I get a call from Seb's doctor, and I tell the doctor Seb's not in. "Oh, are you his mother?" says the doctor innocently. I respond with, "no, I'm his fiance" and expect an embarrassed apology, but the doctor says nothing of it and just keeps talking about Seb's appointment.
I mean - come on, I know I've always been a bit wheezy and nasal (thank you, asthma) but do I really sound THAT BAD? I have to admit, my ego took a bit of a punch when he said that!
Anyway - there's a few kerfuffles with the inks for volume 2 that need sorting out, and then there's the Steampunk Exhibition stuff to finish off (still a few good days work left in all that). I also am mentally working on an idea for another manga title, should I ever get the chance to do it in the next few years. I've been given a look at Seven Seas' lineup of ideas for the next year or two...we have a lot of very strong artists and writers, and the editorial team makes good decisions (regardless of what you might have heard about Nymphet). However...I've also noticed it's sort of very...shounen-heavy. What I mean by that is not so much cross-over shounen that both guys and girls read (I'm thinking Naruto, Fullmetal Alchemist, etc etc), but sort of the type that's very boyish and slightly...I don't know...a bit inaccessable to girls perhaps. I didn't tell the editor at the time, but I've been thinking about it over the past few days. I'd hate to see this company get pidgeonholed as doing 'boy's own' stuff rather than catering to a general market. It's probably just a reflection of the fact that a lot of the writers and artists are men (not that there's anything wrong with that).
I'd just like to put it down for the record I am by no means a shoujo fan - I own a bit of CLAMP, and that's it, really. I like general titles that appeal to both sexes. That's where I think a good deal of world manga should aim (I don't like the term OEL, it's kind of very westernising, whereas manga is a global phenomenon).
Oh, and I do think you can have a sexy manga aimed primarily at hormonal teenage males which still has mass appeal - look at Air Gear. I love Air Gear, and I'm about a million miles away from being the target audience!
PS: If I could inherit one of Seb's mother's powers, I want the cooking one. Every culinary disaster in this house over the past week has come from me, and in the kitchen I'm sort of like a live embodiment of Akane Tendo from Ranma 1/2. Seb's mother on the other hand, cooks like she's running a restaurant with at least one Michelin star. Ohhh...the inadequacy...
I mean - come on, I know I've always been a bit wheezy and nasal (thank you, asthma) but do I really sound THAT BAD? I have to admit, my ego took a bit of a punch when he said that!
Anyway - there's a few kerfuffles with the inks for volume 2 that need sorting out, and then there's the Steampunk Exhibition stuff to finish off (still a few good days work left in all that). I also am mentally working on an idea for another manga title, should I ever get the chance to do it in the next few years. I've been given a look at Seven Seas' lineup of ideas for the next year or two...we have a lot of very strong artists and writers, and the editorial team makes good decisions (regardless of what you might have heard about Nymphet). However...I've also noticed it's sort of very...shounen-heavy. What I mean by that is not so much cross-over shounen that both guys and girls read (I'm thinking Naruto, Fullmetal Alchemist, etc etc), but sort of the type that's very boyish and slightly...I don't know...a bit inaccessable to girls perhaps. I didn't tell the editor at the time, but I've been thinking about it over the past few days. I'd hate to see this company get pidgeonholed as doing 'boy's own' stuff rather than catering to a general market. It's probably just a reflection of the fact that a lot of the writers and artists are men (not that there's anything wrong with that).
I'd just like to put it down for the record I am by no means a shoujo fan - I own a bit of CLAMP, and that's it, really. I like general titles that appeal to both sexes. That's where I think a good deal of world manga should aim (I don't like the term OEL, it's kind of very westernising, whereas manga is a global phenomenon).
Oh, and I do think you can have a sexy manga aimed primarily at hormonal teenage males which still has mass appeal - look at Air Gear. I love Air Gear, and I'm about a million miles away from being the target audience!
PS: If I could inherit one of Seb's mother's powers, I want the cooking one. Every culinary disaster in this house over the past week has come from me, and in the kitchen I'm sort of like a live embodiment of Akane Tendo from Ranma 1/2. Seb's mother on the other hand, cooks like she's running a restaurant with at least one Michelin star. Ohhh...the inadequacy...