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Heheh, gomen gomen...there's a reason why I haven't been blogging like I should lately, but you'll get that in a little while. At the moment the newspapers make me depressed - what kind of cockamamie MP denounces all divorcees as 'gatal' (horny) with such devastating certainty? And seriously, enough with the reports of that whatsit who got acid dumped onto his face. If you're suggesting he's a Yuschenko(sp?)-style hero, forget it. If my husband took a much younger second wife -- hell, if he took a second wife at all, I'd be pissed beyond belief, definitely enough to ambush him with a glass of caustic liquid. Enough about him and his ugly mug aredi! Meluat gila!
So, lessee...how shall I begin...Well, Mum dropped me off at Armada Hotel a little before 8.30 am, and I went up to register first before grabbing a seat near the front. One later finds out that the registration lady's daughter was also Assuntarian. Because I was one of the first 80 participants (...well there were 70...), I got a free copy of Reggie Lee's book Good Evening Malaysia! Not bad and I liked the file it came with :D Someone helped me set up my portfolio on one of the tables (THANK YOU O MYSTERIOUS MICHAEL...) Was incredibly nervous at this point hoping things would go well...I had stickers for sale too, and was hoping that would go all right. So, set it up, and talked to the mother of one of the girls who'd come aaaaall the way down from Penang. Note I said the MOTHER. I think this kid's gotten her work printed in OtakuZone before (cutesy Ed Elric sitting on a big brown suitcase, anyone?), but she might as well have stuck a sign on her head saying "I am an angstbucket. Or just really shy. In any case please leave me alone." I lost my urge to do the whole befriend-the-downtrodden thing after Angry Malay, so no help here, sorry. Too busy being a nervous wreck! :D
I managed to meet the whole CEDKO gang - Cedric Gan,whose self-portrait is spot-on, WK Wong and Ridzwan Rahim. Heck, I asked Ridzwan if anymore USBMan comics were in the works! XD Ended up sitting down next to this lovely young artist called Sarah (Joan). Cute stuff, got published, not much older than I am...I think. Cue both of us hyperventilating when Lat sits down at the table in front of us. :D Reggie Lee was a bit harder to recognise. ^^;
First session was about copyrighting...informative, but one gets the feeling the dude just parroted his speech. @_@ During the teabreak that followed, I must have looked pretty out there because this guy, who looks a bit haggard, sticks out his hand and says "Hi, I'm Reggie."
Mweeble: _OMFGWTH IT'S REGGIE LEE_ ...Hi! Tsubame. *pumps his hand with considerable force*
Talking to him for a while managed to settle my nerves somewhat -- I finally realised what the hell, I hadn't much to fear now -- and trotted back inside to pimp my little portfolio a bit and go back to my seat for the second session. 'Life of a Cartoonist', if memory serves. Anyway, the main thing? Lat and Reggie Lee talking up front. :D Turns out the reason Lat looked so shugged out was because he'd been outstation and caught the flu before he came back. Poor sod. As for Lee, he stayed up the whole night doing presentation and...watching football. Typical man.
It was quite pleasant listening to the two ramble on, and then the Q and A session opened up. I took one of the last slots and asked them both about the whole manga-anime boom in Malaysia, and what they thought of it in regards to Malaysian creativity. They both have a point, I suppose, when they say there's no particular Malaysian identity to what most artists do. I can't QUITE remember what Lat said on the matter, but it's all up here (thanks celamowari!) They DID go on for a while, tho, so poor Cedric didn't get to run his syndication session. XD T-shirt design competition - short one - started after that. Various interesting thingies went up - BUT TO THE ONE GUY WHOSE DESIGN WAS COPIED STRAIGHT FROM SOMEONE'S PORTFOLIO - Shame on you. Even if it was YOURS - whassamatter, can't use your brain to think of a design in 30 minutes? (=_=+)
Armada may LOOK pretty chapalang but whaddya know, food was nice. :D Lunch was an event to remember, because when I finally stopped selling stickers and garnering business cards, there were three free places at one table, so I kapoed one, and Lat kapoed another. I think that was the best part of the break - I mean, it isn't every day you get to sit at the same table with the country's most famous cartoonist and talk about current events and movies and crap with him. He's definitely very the bulat, but I think his days of the shocking hair are waaay gone. ;) I have his signature in my sketchbook - he wished me good luck! *see me have a friendly quarrel with Max Loh over who's got the better autographs*
...Would y'all believe I met Carl's father at CEDKO? I didn't even have to ask his name at first - they're both kinda short and stubby, they both sound the same, they both do that funny THING with their hands while they talk...I couldn't help it. I had to ask,especially since the surname matched. "Excuse me, do you have a son called Carl? YA DO? Hey cool, hi, I used to be in your son's class :D :D :D'" And I saw Kaleon, who does Worlds of Wonder in The Star. Yanno, somehow I was expecting Big Burly Stormtrooper rather than Small Earnest Journalist. Musta been his accompanying picture in the papers. Poor guy related an anecdote about how when his father-in-law saw his 6-ft-tall cardboard Stormtrooper and thought OMG Kaleon's in some kind of a cult. Oo, and the vice-news editor(?) of the Star's BizWeek? He's the founder/mod of a local cartoonist's Y!Group. XD Well blow me down. Seems like all of us kooky art types merely LOOK small and unassuming.
Got a bunch of biz cards from various sources...one animation studio, two people in touch with branding, and even a publisher...! The rep for Marshall Cavendish was also an Assuntarian while Mom was still there, and she recommended I send my resume in now if I want. (Resume? What is this resume you speak of? XD)
So after that, WK Wong talked a little about publishing, and since Jeff Ooi couldn't come they made a video interview with him. Yanno wat? He's kinda old. XD I wish I could have cornered him personally about the Wiley Miller issue, but ah well. Then there was a little promotional do for this guy who acts as a middleman to get foreigners US bank accounts (for Paypal, yanno?). I pounced on Reggie Lee during the tea-break between sessions and got him to sign my sketchbook, too. Trust the pen to stop working RIGHT THEN...But yipes, can you believe the guy apologised for being so harsh about the manga-anime thing? XD Aw shucks, don't worry, I wasn't offended in the slightest. Trust me, if I was, you'd'a KNOWN...
The last session of the day was to brainstorm about a Malaysian Cartoon Day somewhere in the near future. I think we got some pretty good ideas...then we went home, and I kapo-ed a copy of Melting Pot anthology, which wasn't too bad. I think it was definitely worth going, and once I stopped being so damn kancheong I had a lot of fun talking to people and just letting it hang loose a little. If they hold another one next year around the same time, guess who's going. :D
Oh, btw, sticker sales? I sold half of 'em and broke even. Well, actually I made a profit of 20 sen, but they didn't return my tracking fee so we'll consider that quits. If anyone wants 4cm x 4cm stickers-cum-motivational aids, call me. I have those based on the colours red, yellow, orange, purple, green and the rainbow. Ridzwan bought FIVE of the blues. :D
My one regret? Silver-ant Labs came in while I was talking to Lat. AAAAAAGH!!! O_O
So, lessee...how shall I begin...Well, Mum dropped me off at Armada Hotel a little before 8.30 am, and I went up to register first before grabbing a seat near the front. One later finds out that the registration lady's daughter was also Assuntarian. Because I was one of the first 80 participants (...well there were 70...), I got a free copy of Reggie Lee's book Good Evening Malaysia! Not bad and I liked the file it came with :D Someone helped me set up my portfolio on one of the tables (THANK YOU O MYSTERIOUS MICHAEL...) Was incredibly nervous at this point hoping things would go well...I had stickers for sale too, and was hoping that would go all right. So, set it up, and talked to the mother of one of the girls who'd come aaaaall the way down from Penang. Note I said the MOTHER. I think this kid's gotten her work printed in OtakuZone before (cutesy Ed Elric sitting on a big brown suitcase, anyone?), but she might as well have stuck a sign on her head saying "I am an angstbucket. Or just really shy. In any case please leave me alone." I lost my urge to do the whole befriend-the-downtrodden thing after Angry Malay, so no help here, sorry. Too busy being a nervous wreck! :D
I managed to meet the whole CEDKO gang - Cedric Gan,whose self-portrait is spot-on, WK Wong and Ridzwan Rahim. Heck, I asked Ridzwan if anymore USBMan comics were in the works! XD Ended up sitting down next to this lovely young artist called Sarah (Joan). Cute stuff, got published, not much older than I am...I think. Cue both of us hyperventilating when Lat sits down at the table in front of us. :D Reggie Lee was a bit harder to recognise. ^^;
First session was about copyrighting...informative, but one gets the feeling the dude just parroted his speech. @_@ During the teabreak that followed, I must have looked pretty out there because this guy, who looks a bit haggard, sticks out his hand and says "Hi, I'm Reggie."
Mweeble: _OMFGWTH IT'S REGGIE LEE_ ...Hi! Tsubame. *pumps his hand with considerable force*
Talking to him for a while managed to settle my nerves somewhat -- I finally realised what the hell, I hadn't much to fear now -- and trotted back inside to pimp my little portfolio a bit and go back to my seat for the second session. 'Life of a Cartoonist', if memory serves. Anyway, the main thing? Lat and Reggie Lee talking up front. :D Turns out the reason Lat looked so shugged out was because he'd been outstation and caught the flu before he came back. Poor sod. As for Lee, he stayed up the whole night doing presentation and...watching football. Typical man.
It was quite pleasant listening to the two ramble on, and then the Q and A session opened up. I took one of the last slots and asked them both about the whole manga-anime boom in Malaysia, and what they thought of it in regards to Malaysian creativity. They both have a point, I suppose, when they say there's no particular Malaysian identity to what most artists do. I can't QUITE remember what Lat said on the matter, but it's all up here (thanks celamowari!) They DID go on for a while, tho, so poor Cedric didn't get to run his syndication session. XD T-shirt design competition - short one - started after that. Various interesting thingies went up - BUT TO THE ONE GUY WHOSE DESIGN WAS COPIED STRAIGHT FROM SOMEONE'S PORTFOLIO - Shame on you. Even if it was YOURS - whassamatter, can't use your brain to think of a design in 30 minutes? (=_=+)
Armada may LOOK pretty chapalang but whaddya know, food was nice. :D Lunch was an event to remember, because when I finally stopped selling stickers and garnering business cards, there were three free places at one table, so I kapoed one, and Lat kapoed another. I think that was the best part of the break - I mean, it isn't every day you get to sit at the same table with the country's most famous cartoonist and talk about current events and movies and crap with him. He's definitely very the bulat, but I think his days of the shocking hair are waaay gone. ;) I have his signature in my sketchbook - he wished me good luck! *see me have a friendly quarrel with Max Loh over who's got the better autographs*
...Would y'all believe I met Carl's father at CEDKO? I didn't even have to ask his name at first - they're both kinda short and stubby, they both sound the same, they both do that funny THING with their hands while they talk...I couldn't help it. I had to ask,especially since the surname matched. "Excuse me, do you have a son called Carl? YA DO? Hey cool, hi, I used to be in your son's class :D :D :D'" And I saw Kaleon, who does Worlds of Wonder in The Star. Yanno, somehow I was expecting Big Burly Stormtrooper rather than Small Earnest Journalist. Musta been his accompanying picture in the papers. Poor guy related an anecdote about how when his father-in-law saw his 6-ft-tall cardboard Stormtrooper and thought OMG Kaleon's in some kind of a cult. Oo, and the vice-news editor(?) of the Star's BizWeek? He's the founder/mod of a local cartoonist's Y!Group. XD Well blow me down. Seems like all of us kooky art types merely LOOK small and unassuming.
Got a bunch of biz cards from various sources...one animation studio, two people in touch with branding, and even a publisher...! The rep for Marshall Cavendish was also an Assuntarian while Mom was still there, and she recommended I send my resume in now if I want. (Resume? What is this resume you speak of? XD)
So after that, WK Wong talked a little about publishing, and since Jeff Ooi couldn't come they made a video interview with him. Yanno wat? He's kinda old. XD I wish I could have cornered him personally about the Wiley Miller issue, but ah well. Then there was a little promotional do for this guy who acts as a middleman to get foreigners US bank accounts (for Paypal, yanno?). I pounced on Reggie Lee during the tea-break between sessions and got him to sign my sketchbook, too. Trust the pen to stop working RIGHT THEN...But yipes, can you believe the guy apologised for being so harsh about the manga-anime thing? XD Aw shucks, don't worry, I wasn't offended in the slightest. Trust me, if I was, you'd'a KNOWN...
The last session of the day was to brainstorm about a Malaysian Cartoon Day somewhere in the near future. I think we got some pretty good ideas...then we went home, and I kapo-ed a copy of Melting Pot anthology, which wasn't too bad. I think it was definitely worth going, and once I stopped being so damn kancheong I had a lot of fun talking to people and just letting it hang loose a little. If they hold another one next year around the same time, guess who's going. :D
Oh, btw, sticker sales? I sold half of 'em and broke even. Well, actually I made a profit of 20 sen, but they didn't return my tracking fee so we'll consider that quits. If anyone wants 4cm x 4cm stickers-cum-motivational aids, call me. I have those based on the colours red, yellow, orange, purple, green and the rainbow. Ridzwan bought FIVE of the blues. :D
My one regret? Silver-ant Labs came in while I was talking to Lat. AAAAAAGH!!! O_O