The Cutie Cultie Comic Show - 10 October 2009
Aside from the crappy morning, Saturday was the day for the Cutie Cultie Comic Show, a sort of comic-book-talk for us budding artists/mangaka. This is the entry for it, with a few pix for some added visual points :B
Last Saturday’s gouache class was cancelled in due part to let our class attend the talks presented by 4 speakers from the illustration industry @ The Cutie Comic Show held at the Audiovisual Hall - whereas today's class will be replaced on next Friday because it's Deepavali :D
Chris and I thought to skip the 1st two talks (coz it sounded boring…some IPCC dude and a guy heading the Mandarin Comic Society), but when we came in at 12pm, half of Ayour’s (head editor of Gempak) talk was in full swing already =w=;;;
Turned out, the IPCC dude went first, then Ayour, then KK from the MCS, and lastly C2V @ Michael Chuah, who is the creator of the character [Gengkey] for Gempak.
In brief:
>> Not sure what IPCC dude spoke about, because we didn’t attend his talk
>> Ayour talked about his life experience as a comic artist before becoming a Gempak editor (turns out, he was heavily influenced by Malay comics/stories on celebrities i.e. Salina)
>> KK was so DEAD BORING that some people actually left halfway. Can’t blame them for KK gave his talk in Mandarin, and Leo had Sio Yean translating/simplifying his words into English for the rest of us non-Mandarin-listener-speakers. He was just going on and on about how the MCS will take care of comic book artists, but he sure made an interesting point - that people like him, in the industry, can earn up to RM25000 a month just on drawing comics once you’re strong and steady and famous. Wow.
He also talked about how comic artists make their living from character copyrights, royalty fees and, ‘course, comics.
>> C2V -who incidentally turns out to be the elder brother of our very own classmate Shishin- gave his talk based on his slideshow (shown above). He stressed the difference between Japanese and US comic artists - and that we as Malaysian comic artists are the “one leg kick all” kind =w=;;; And also gave the following useful anecdotes for us budding artists:
My personal observations / notes on those slides:
(1) The first two competitions were over, and the third one is coming soon.
(2) Um. For the local scene, yea. Not sure what it takes to get Tokyopop / Dark Horse / Vertigo / Marvel to publish our small-and-not-famous-yet comics. But C2V seems adamant that we can succeed there, for he said based on his experience, if ya send in your comics/portfolio to, say, Marvel, they’ll chuck it to one side - and that the only way to get these (in)famous editors from the upper echelons of the giants to see your work, is to engage with them during international conventions, San-Diego-scaled.
(3) He didn’t mention much about James Aries, but that if we want to publish comics in small quantities (2-50), we can look up this company. He didn’t say anything about the publication cost though…
(4) Going online - now that’s a lot of route some budding comic artists have taken when No.3 fails. Malaysia’s Benny Wong took that route too with his online comic domain Comixo ever since his [Powder] magazine failed in the market.
(5) Singapore’s ToyFest’s over, but CF is coming right up (YAAAAAAY!!!! >DDDD). He talked about selling your own comics during these conventions @ as doujins.
(6) Shameless plugging, moi opinion. No one in class nor myself have heard of Pipit, but apparently that’s the place to head if we want advice on getting publications, looking for editors, to finding writers, to even getting critique on your own work. Not sure how it vies with Artician, but it doesn’t hurt to take a look…
Later on, C2V showed us what he’s done so far in his life - from attending conventions (all the way from Singapore to San Diego - yeap, his Gilamon comics’ picked up at the US too) to his Gengkey comics to getting his characters made into merchandise (LowKey vinyl figurine?!).
He’s a living proof that with passion, passion, passion, and determination (that’s what he put up on the ending notes of his slideshow), we can get anywhere we want to with our characters/comics. We just have to make that step.
From left to right: IPCC dude, KK, Ayour, and C2V.
Before wrapping up the talk, there’s the Q&A session with the four speakers of the day. Questions ranged from starting up your own company to what’s their major influence on their drawings/thinking/ideas, to even one silly-bordering-absurd one about whether people like them have life outside work (with C2V jokingly saying, “Meaning you say, we got no life larr..." *cue laughter from the crowd* and Ayour adding, “Well, you can consider that we got no life lar, but we definitely still take time out to do other things like shopping…if work all year round and no rehat, we become zombies already!”)-
-and the last one, was this smart-ass guy from dunno what major, giving specific questions to each speaker, but the 4 speakers gamely take him on and gave him (and us all) pretty solid replies. Not bad.
After the talk, we all were told to go down to get their merchandise/comics =w=;;;
I didn’t buy anything - coz RM60 for a supposedly limited-edition Gilamon comic printed on normal colour paper ain’t worth my money…I’d rather blow that money on getting KidChan’s pricey-but-nicey artbook(s).
Then Chris and I gave our emails to this dude who handles [NewWebPick] but until today, I still didn’t receive anything from the guy - we wanted to get the free subscription for the 100-pages issue, but there ain’t no link nor mail from the dude. Cis, typical Malaysian =__=
And that’s all for the time being.
I’ve unloaded from sis-in-law’s car my illegal stash of crack (read: select volumes of [Lucifer], ToriBura new comics that I’ve missed ever since been to the UK, and lots more other books) and I’ll be taking time to re-work my resume, especially since Pauline’s called me a few times now over the past few weeks asking where is it XD;;;
Until then, here’s to better days ahead,
-L
Last Saturday’s gouache class was cancelled in due part to let our class attend the talks presented by 4 speakers from the illustration industry @ The Cutie Comic Show held at the Audiovisual Hall - whereas today's class will be replaced on next Friday because it's Deepavali :D
Chris and I thought to skip the 1st two talks (coz it sounded boring…some IPCC dude and a guy heading the Mandarin Comic Society), but when we came in at 12pm, half of Ayour’s (head editor of Gempak) talk was in full swing already =w=;;;
Turned out, the IPCC dude went first, then Ayour, then KK from the MCS, and lastly C2V @ Michael Chuah, who is the creator of the character [Gengkey] for Gempak.
In brief:
>> Not sure what IPCC dude spoke about, because we didn’t attend his talk
>> Ayour talked about his life experience as a comic artist before becoming a Gempak editor (turns out, he was heavily influenced by Malay comics/stories on celebrities i.e. Salina)
>> KK was so DEAD BORING that some people actually left halfway. Can’t blame them for KK gave his talk in Mandarin, and Leo had Sio Yean translating/simplifying his words into English for the rest of us non-Mandarin-listener-speakers. He was just going on and on about how the MCS will take care of comic book artists, but he sure made an interesting point - that people like him, in the industry, can earn up to RM25000 a month just on drawing comics once you’re strong and steady and famous. Wow.
He also talked about how comic artists make their living from character copyrights, royalty fees and, ‘course, comics.
>> C2V -who incidentally turns out to be the elder brother of our very own classmate Shishin- gave his talk based on his slideshow (shown above). He stressed the difference between Japanese and US comic artists - and that we as Malaysian comic artists are the “one leg kick all” kind =w=;;; And also gave the following useful anecdotes for us budding artists:
My personal observations / notes on those slides:
(1) The first two competitions were over, and the third one is coming soon.
(2) Um. For the local scene, yea. Not sure what it takes to get Tokyopop / Dark Horse / Vertigo / Marvel to publish our small-and-not-famous-yet comics. But C2V seems adamant that we can succeed there, for he said based on his experience, if ya send in your comics/portfolio to, say, Marvel, they’ll chuck it to one side - and that the only way to get these (in)famous editors from the upper echelons of the giants to see your work, is to engage with them during international conventions, San-Diego-scaled.
(3) He didn’t mention much about James Aries, but that if we want to publish comics in small quantities (2-50), we can look up this company. He didn’t say anything about the publication cost though…
(4) Going online - now that’s a lot of route some budding comic artists have taken when No.3 fails. Malaysia’s Benny Wong took that route too with his online comic domain Comixo ever since his [Powder] magazine failed in the market.
(5) Singapore’s ToyFest’s over, but CF is coming right up (YAAAAAAY!!!! >DDDD). He talked about selling your own comics during these conventions @ as doujins.
(6) Shameless plugging, moi opinion. No one in class nor myself have heard of Pipit, but apparently that’s the place to head if we want advice on getting publications, looking for editors, to finding writers, to even getting critique on your own work. Not sure how it vies with Artician, but it doesn’t hurt to take a look…
Later on, C2V showed us what he’s done so far in his life - from attending conventions (all the way from Singapore to San Diego - yeap, his Gilamon comics’ picked up at the US too) to his Gengkey comics to getting his characters made into merchandise (LowKey vinyl figurine?!).
He’s a living proof that with passion, passion, passion, and determination (that’s what he put up on the ending notes of his slideshow), we can get anywhere we want to with our characters/comics. We just have to make that step.
From left to right: IPCC dude, KK, Ayour, and C2V.
Before wrapping up the talk, there’s the Q&A session with the four speakers of the day. Questions ranged from starting up your own company to what’s their major influence on their drawings/thinking/ideas, to even one silly-bordering-absurd one about whether people like them have life outside work (with C2V jokingly saying, “Meaning you say, we got no life larr..." *cue laughter from the crowd* and Ayour adding, “Well, you can consider that we got no life lar, but we definitely still take time out to do other things like shopping…if work all year round and no rehat, we become zombies already!”)-
-and the last one, was this smart-ass guy from dunno what major, giving specific questions to each speaker, but the 4 speakers gamely take him on and gave him (and us all) pretty solid replies. Not bad.
After the talk, we all were told to go down to get their merchandise/comics =w=;;;
I didn’t buy anything - coz RM60 for a supposedly limited-edition Gilamon comic printed on normal colour paper ain’t worth my money…I’d rather blow that money on getting KidChan’s pricey-but-nicey artbook(s).
Then Chris and I gave our emails to this dude who handles [NewWebPick] but until today, I still didn’t receive anything from the guy - we wanted to get the free subscription for the 100-pages issue, but there ain’t no link nor mail from the dude. Cis, typical Malaysian =__=
And that’s all for the time being.
I’ve unloaded from sis-in-law’s car my illegal stash of crack (read: select volumes of [Lucifer], ToriBura new comics that I’ve missed ever since been to the UK, and lots more other books) and I’ll be taking time to re-work my resume, especially since Pauline’s called me a few times now over the past few weeks asking where is it XD;;;
Until then, here’s to better days ahead,
-L