Andy bought the tickets last month and I thought I was easily going to be done with volume 16 by the time the screening happened. Nothing really turns out the way their planned. I ended up working my ass off (literally, my legs are kinda numb and my back is shot) since mid-December and just finished Gantz vol 16 (and Bride of the Water God #8 and ( Read more... )

For me, Gantz has always been a problem book to work on. It's a retouch book where all of the backgrounds are filled in with toned backgrounds NOT constructed with Zip-a-tones. This posed a problem for me because I couldn't drop a tone from my vast collection of scans and be done with it.

The absolute worst part of the retouch job for me was the ( Read more... )

I've neglected the Live Journal again. D'oh!

Andy and I had a great time at Kumoricon. The people who run the show were very nice to us and it seemed they made good use of the space they had available to them.

We showed up just in time for the Dark Horse Manga panel. And if it weren't for the volunteer who had been working a 30 hour shift helping us ( Read more... )

Things here have been non-stop something-or-other and I haven't been able to spare the time to post much. As it is, I'm kinda sneaking this in.

So here's the original panel to Gantz vol 6, page 131. Kei's getting excited about something...


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Now that Gantz #1 is out, I can share how rough this book can be most of the time.

Here's how the printed page sorta looks in the Dark Horse edition:


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And so I saw this list a few days ago of "discontinued" manga.

Under "Dark Horse" was this list:
3 X 3 Eyes
Bride of the Water God
Cannon God eXaXXion
Chronowar
Chunchu
Club 9
DameDame Saito Nikki
Legend of Mother Sarah
Museum of Terror
Octopus Girl
Rebel Sword
Satsuma Gishiden
Scary Book
Seraphic Feather
Shadow Star
Translucent
Version
What’s Micheal
XS
You’ ( Read more... )

 Well, now that it's being advertized, I guess I can come right out and mention it...

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I lurk on message boards to see what people think about the titles I work on (and hope nobody comments on the lettering--people are much more likely to complain than compliment).

A few Gunsmith Cats readers have said they aren't bothering with the Omnibuses because the stories have been printed in English before. I can't fault the logic in that.

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...Since people are actually wandering over here, check out this preview of Gunsmith Cats Burst vol. 1. Translated and lettered by Team Cutie:
http://www.popcultureshock.com/gunsmith-cats-burst-vol-1-preview/41554/2/

You KNOW you want a copy...

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When I go out in public and people ask me, I say "Graphic artist". It's simpler and avoids having to go through the drill. It's almost like a drinking game...

"What do you do?"
"I'm a comic book letterer."
"A what?"
"I put the words in the balloons and I do the sound effects"
"So you write?"

Extra shots if we get into manga...
"So do you know Japanese?"

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