Jacon is coming, my 2nd con for the year. This year has been pretty slow for me huh?

( A review of my resolutions: )

Art by scruffyronin


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I find it funny that it's almost always none arts that come up with this debate. Even though, the person that should understand their work the most is the artist. Yet people want to keep up this useless debate long after TP's burst of OEL stuff.

I mean really, must we spend this much time on a word that hasn't been nominated to be included in our ( Read more... )

       First I must say, yesterday when I woke up to the comments I felt really good to have good friends that give me serious feed back. Thanks.
I would have posted sooner, but I regularly have a headache. Some days is worst then others and I usually take Ibuprofen but instead I took Excedrin. I used to drink energy drinks but stopped and now ( Read more... )

      Alright, I’ve designed and redesigned my site so much (with out ever doing the coding) its funny that I get any other design work done. This design was influenced by Clamp-Net.com. Black and White design has so much unexplored potential but everyone is into ‘full color’ cause its cheap now. I recall walking into a comic shop, all the ( Read more... )

Here's a little tid bit of a mangaka's pay rate:
 www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-04-04/say-hello-to-black-jack-sato-discloses-expenses-income

Now I wonder what the current pay is? Atleast now I know I'm not undercharging for my comic commissions

I'm sure some of you guys have seen 'The Gallery' on ANN.
At the start of it, it was said to help western artist get some traffic since we dont have as much oppertunity as our asian counterparts (or european. The frence and english market is pretty strong there. I'd even say canada too).

At first, it started with Graphic Designers and that was fine ( Read more... )

"Welcome to Freelance, Inc. Please invoice the project, email to the client, re-invoice, call to request payment, call again to request payment, reply to email asking if the invoice was ever sent, “yes, it was sent 2 months ago”, resend invoice. Wait for mailman. Wait for mailman again. Get paid!" by david downing

"*runs off to sit next to the door ( Read more... )

The results of the 3rd MIMC are in and while I cant read the comics, thats not what I care for as much.
e-morning.jp/micc/result3/english.html

What is interesting is what the committee stated:

"Finally, as has been the case in each of these contests, many of the current entries have focused on bishojo, giant robots, ninja and the like, leaving a very ( Read more... )

so this thing of how to expand the comic book fan base and figureing out how to produce 'cheaper' comics:
www.comicbookresources.com/

You know what? I just hate this. there is not more I can say about it.

why is 'paying the creative team less' even an option? these people had to fight hard to get to that point of acknewldgement and skill to demaind ( Read more... )