Turns out my studio is portable.....

Location, whether it was in the South, or the West, or Europe, or Asia. What I do in media, was built from nothing out of nowhere highly cultural. My empire wasn't built in a cultural utopia. It was built in a cultural wasteland, the only exception being it was produced in a Formerly Upper (now Lower) middle class suburban house, in a noisy neighborhood with rude neighbors of declining and deteriorating quality, ESPECIALLY the newer ones, which speaks volumes about my studios durability. You don't need a perfect work environment or even a fancy one to construct your life's work, but it definitely tends to help. As long as you have a server, and a place to set up your computer, you're good to go. For a while, my base of operations was Ft. Lauderdale-Miami , then it crash landed back into my parents house because I had no money or anywhere else to stay, and was still recovering from a life-altering nervous emotional breakdown at the time, which generated a LOT of controversy aimed at my parents. Now I don't know WHERE I am and where I operate. Figuratively speaking, because the Web 2.0 is everywhere and everyone. I suppose that part is different. 

Psychology Article: How to deal with siblings and neighbors who have a severe case of Tourette Syndrome Disease. THE NOISE!!! THE NOISE!!!

Do you live in a neighborhood with neighbors who act like aggressive foul taboo mouthed bullies, who constantly yell curse, swear, and angry words at you with no provocation whatsoever?

No, not Hell. You're not living in Hell. Well, okay in a sense you ARE living in hell being near these people.

But a more scientific way of putting it is to say you're living with people who have a sever case of Tourette Syndrome. And if you're sensitive to noise or disrespect and have your feelings hurt easily, prepare for hellish living conditions

All this is true. I live in Seminole County, Florida, a place where a lot of young and middle aged people in this area have this condition, which I've witnessed for years driving around in traffic, and listening to neighbors in my backyard and down the street firsthand.

It is a sever mental sickness, and is often accompanied by hurt feelings, arguments, screaming matches, and even sever violence, all conditions which are conducive to the illness.

One element feeds off the other, much like a giant psychological and emotional parasite. 

Yes, I know. Some consider me the Master of Shock, in an ironic, misguided kind of way...So I Humbly Present This List of Horror Movies I've Never Watched...

As they were too morbidly gross, slimey, and shocking for even me: The Shock Master JM.

If the Clergy itself banned these films, I probably would not complain

The Blob
The Fly

Killer Klowns From Outer Space

Child's Play

Nightmare on Elm Street

Friday the 13th

Natural Born Killers

I can sit through Alien, but the chest bursting scene is pretty borderline obscene in my book

Adventures in Neurology.....

It never was that big of a deal to me when doctors diagnosed me with Asperger's Syndrome.

Whatever Asperger's Syndrome is. However one defines it, most people are unaware I have it. More people know of me in general just know who I am. They don't know I have high functioning autism, and other neurological conditions conducive of ingenuity in the human brain.

And I like to keep it that way...

The Following Terms are NOT EXPLAINED IN DEPTH ON WIKIPEDIA, and would otherwise be considered obscure topics....

bilateral dominance (Caetextia) 

·       The Spirit of Jamaerah

·       22 Master Builder

·       Systematism

·       Clairsentience

·       Channeling

·       Medium

·       Empath

·       Hypergraphia

·       Gossamer Wings

·       The Chinese Oracle (Prophecy)

I'm a bit depressed and slow today....

Woke up around 1 p.m., and laid in bed until 4 p.m., drifting in and out of dreams about the whole world being Democrat and at one big Democratic convention. 

But wait. Why am I depressed. I have a bunch of cool celebrity friends:

Friends like Ramin Zahed, Steve Blum, Thomas Romain, famed self-publisher Yoshitoshi ABe

Some people might ask you "How can you be so depressed and sad when you got a friend list this cool". Hey, that's how it is.

I got artists block for the 70 millionth time

Well there we go. Diagnosis confirmed. I'm depressed because I don't feel LIKE making an effort to draw, even though my higher self, my conscience WANTS me to draw.

When I fail at getting myself to obey my conscience, my higher moral code to work hard and not be lazy, I get conflicted. I'd bug my famous friends for advice, but pestering and badgering famous friends? That's not cool.

-JM

I don't normally read political literature..

Other than the 2 political books I own.

On Liberty and Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

And a book reprinting the words of:

The Declaration of Independence

&

The Constitution of the United States

Business and Media Astrology

During my early adulthood, I got really into astrology, when I realized what a cool sign I had: Scorpio.

At one point I discovered Bill Gates (Microsoft), Osamu Tezuka (Anime and Manga), and Ted Turner (Broadcasting), were all Scorpios. And they all did the same things in business that I wanted to do with my life. Whatever energy helped them drive their empires, I could only assume helped give me the energy to get to where I am currently, too. 

Scorpios have a lot of Force. A lot of Energy and old fashioned masculine Fortitude. That is their specialty. 

Here are some of the Most Innovative and Interesting Books I've Read and Purchased in a While

·        How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy, Orson Scott Card
·        A Reason to Read: Linking Literacy and the Arts
·        Entrepreneur Magazine Presents: Star Your Own Business: The Only Startup Book You'll Ever Need
·        Producing Animation by Catherine Winder & Zahra Dowlatabadi
·        How to Write For Animation by Jeffrey Scott
·        The Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture by Roger J Davies / Osamu Ikeno
·        Chinese Hero: Tales of the Blood Sword by Wing Shing Ma
·        Fight Choreography: The Art of Non-Verbal Dialogue by John Kreng
·        Infinite Kung-Fu by Kagan McLeod
·        Dragon Ball: The Complete Illustrations
·        A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
·        Drawing Words & Writing Pictures by Jessica Abel & Matt Madden

I like these books because they all tackle subjects that have relatively little dogma surrounding them, but that might change, and hopefully, with lists like this one, it will change...

FearTown USA....Tune in Next Week. When we COME TO YOUR HOUSE AND KILL YOU. Do not be alarmed. Storm Advisory.

Fear of the Dark? No. Haven't been afraid of the dark in decades. I embrace it. Black is my favorite color. Someone afraid of a darkened room wouldn't feel that way.

But you know what's REALLY scary and terrifying?

Television. Feeling like it's watching you, feeling like IT KNOWS YOU'RE THERE. Feeling it can SENSE YOU. And Ultimately, feeling like the faceless corporations and  actors behind it are conspiring and OUT TO GET YOU. I think tons of Americans share this fear.

That's right, I'm afraid of my own TV. I don't like to keep it on for long, it keeps giving off this possessed, evil, sociopathic, gang stalking, power hungry, unearthly,, conspiratorial vibe, like it's this lurking creature attempting to suck out your soul and all the light in your body through your eyesockets.

TV Scare the SHIT OUT OF ME. Not literally, but then again, I don't know WHAT my TV'S telling all of YOU...now do I.

Who knew the soul of your TV could give off such a malicious, predatory vibe from the personalities on screen anyway? Worse than a bad drug trip, not that I do drugs. 

Seriously....

Documentaries, War Channels, Criminal Profiles, Horror Movie Promos, The Evening and Morning News, Cop Shows, Confrontational Shows, NBC, Viacom, MSNBC, Talk Shows, Laugh Track Sitcoms. New School Nickelodeon. Disney. It's all incredibly RACIST, BIGOTED, STEREOTYPED, IGNORANT, INTENTIONALLY SNOTTILY ANNOYING....

And above all TERRIFYING TO THE EVERYMAN NOWADAYS.

The only thing NOT scary is children's shows (mostly), Retro 90s and 80s Cartoons, Retro TV, Success Stories, some of the quieter Adult Swim Shows, and Anime. Everything else is loud and scary as hell and just waiting for the next moment to point fingers and shout at you, ugh, ugh. Vacant special rapist guest creepy ass intention stammer. 

Good Gawd Man! Software-Heavy Music and Anime Editing

I don't even PRETEND I can keep up with the technological advances of the software and computers used to edit and produce anime and music in a lot of studios. I find it all very impressive. Even Hip-hop is very engineer and studio heavy, what with samples and editing and remixing and dubbing and shading and lighting and painting.

I'm of the older generation (not age, but in process) where you pick up a piece of paper, jot some words or sketch marks on it with a pen and that's it. The Disney and Osamu Tezuka Way, which, in the right situation applies,  but when you get into the hypertechnical world of in studio editing, it gets hypertechnological. Watch any RZA Afro Samurai Documentary, or Post-2006 Production I.G. Documentary, and you'll see EXACTLY what I mean. I get lost on that stuff. I'm good with a keyboard, but terrible with Photoshop. I still USE Photoshop, but it's easy to get intimidated by that level of software and hardware usage they use in studios nowadays with computers.

A lot of it they won't teach you in animation school. It's you're LUCKY if you land a job, and if you do, you bet your ass you'll be learning through trial by fire...meaning first hand experience of working with the staff. But I've never seen so many buttons and GUI's as I have in those documentaries and Japan-based articles online that give a realist perspective of the Japanese studio process.

I'm on the fringes AND in the stone ages, as far as software goes. Just Word and Microsoft Digital Image Pro, a scanner, and photoshop. Everything I do is traditionally hand drawn with pen and ink, and I pride myself on that...

JayMan Has MANY Interests and Influences

Although I do get linked to anime and nerd culture....a lot, those are not my only passions.....

To clarify this tidbit, here is a list of some of my interests outside of anime

There is no timeline, as the time I became interested with them are interchangeable, not always consistent, not always sequential, and sometimes random

• Manga
• Music 
• Alternative Rock
• Heavy Metal
• Slacker Culture (Jay and Silent Bob. Not a movie-comic. It's a WAY OF LIFE)
• Jock Culture (athletics. I played many sports as a youth, and was on football/baseball teams for a while.
• Straight Edge Culture
• Religion (Christianity, Buddhism, Zen, Shinto, The Bible)
• God
• New Age (Horoscopes, Zodiac Signs, Paganism)
• Mysticism (Zen and Transcendental Meditation)
• Art School Culture (Cal Arts, SVA, Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale)
• Education (Teaching, Going to School, School Chums)
• Performance (I kept a joke book I wrote jokes in, Played drums and acoustic guitar
• Fine Art Culture
• Punk Rock
• Personality studies (Myers  Briggs, Zodiac, Carl Jung, Archetypes, Numerology, Introversion)
• TV Culture (I was a real couch potato in the nineties as a kid
• High Tech Culture (let's just say it's gotten really dumbed down over time)
• 90sa nd 80s culture
• The Civil Rights Movement
• Hip-hop culture
• Ethnical culure 
• International culture
• Gamer culture
• Big business and success culture (I read Forbes magazine, daily, often, Used to subscribe)
• Book Culture (I used to browse bookstores like Borders a lot)
• Hollywood Culture (Directors, Producers, Screenwriters, Animation)
• Post-Stern Radio culture 
• Travel culture
• High Society (I have some upper class friends)
• Male, Man, and Masculine Culture - Pride in being a Man.
• Fashion Culture in Anime

Pretty much all I can think of.

Let's Face It. Here's the deal about the relationship between Japan and America

Here's where most people get it WRONG.

NO, you DON'T need to be "Anti-American" just to qualify as an otaku or Japanophile.

No, you DON'T need to be a Japanophobe just to be a Patriot or American Artist.

These are not requirements of each culture.

But the way some people in this industry come across, you'd think rivalry would be requirement, as if you can't like both....Nonsense, I say.

Self-Publishing vs. Regular Publishing (Lists, Pros and Cons)

Manga-Comic Book Self-Publishing

vs.

Normal Comic-Manga Book Publishing

Players:

Self-Publishing

·        Dave Sim

·        Todd McFarlane

·        Art Manifested

·        Scud

·        Ninja Turtles

·        Mono

·        Yoshitoshi ABe

·        Yoshiyuki Imaishi

·        Raynart Tradnor

·        XY Zell

Traditional

·        Hiroaki Samura

·        Musashi Kishimoto

·        Jhonen Vasquez

·        Evan Dorkin

·        Paul Pope

·        Brian Michael Bendis

·        Frank Miller

·        Todd McFarlane

·        Manga

·        Eiichiro Oda

·        Katsuhiro Otomo

·        Marvel/Dark Horse

·        Megatokyo

Pros and Cons

Self-Publishing

Pros

·        Press Releases

·        Distribution Online

·        Online Publishing

·        Webcomics

·        Higher percentage

·        Necessary knowledge of Publishing Techniques (page size, print type, Covers, Package)

·        Everything revolves around you and your books, art, and story

·        No Editor

·        No PR Tourings and Signings

Cons

·        More Work

·        Discipline

·        No Women to Meet

·        Little to no money

·        Low Shoestring Budget

·        Confusing

·        No to low pay

·        No Editor

·        Being ignored by traditional publishing and Press

Traditional Publishing

Pros

·        Fame

·        Distribution

·        Wealth

·        Market Dominance

·        Part of a Team

·        Schedule is predictable

·        Greater Rewards

·        Real Power

Cons

·        Competition

·        Being forced at gunpoint to attend conventions (Nowadays genuinely Awful places)

·        Millions of people competing for your spot

·        Impossible to break into

·        Getting rejected hundreds of times

Ch-Ch-Cha-Changes. They are a Comin'...

And I'm starting with my drawing paper size. At one point I was drawing all my sketches and sequential art on 8.5" x 11".

I began drawing mostly just on 11" x 17" paper today. Eventually I'll buy paper with a more reliable surface texture too, which will be easier for pencilling and inking, but one thing at a time. 

I'm approaching a time in my life where I've been getting more serious about my art process and training. I got good at words. Pictures are next.

[Todays 11" x 17" page]

Top 1,001 Reasons Why Your Ass SHOULD get banned from the Adult Swim Message Boards, but probably never will

1) Adult Swim has a Hypocrite Policy to not ban harassment and stalker-hacker trolls they're contractually obligated to pay, encourage, give a pat on the back, and never FIRE.

2) The employee trolls blackmailed Adult Swim and the moderators to not speak out against Adult Swim's own viewers, who are Kind of a bunch of cowardly immature assholes who pack pistols, in case you haven't heard

3) Adult Swim fuels and feeds off of criminal and deviant viewer negativity, as they are an emotional tourist and vampire.

4) They NEED idiots like you posting there, so they can make fools out of them in favor of  promoting their poorly made shows. 

Back next week with 100 more

Nicole Muse

Nicole was my muse. When I drew Nicole's caricature, I'm pretty sure I succeeded in drawing her the way she felt and wanted to be seen. I'm the anti-muse on television. After all I did for Nicole Cook in art school at Sunrise Hall, Fort Lauderdale, I'd pretty much go represented on screen and on paper the opposite way of how Nicole was represented on screen and paper. So that particular gesture of kindness, the kindness in that favor of mine was never returned to me.

More on the Subject of Television: While We're On That Subject: How to Make TV Better, and Why It's Been Broken

Adult Swim is mostly too SouthParkian to be watchable recently. I'd rather watch El Ray or AMC, The Hub, Boomerang, History 2, online streams, my own channels, The Simpsons on FXX, or something of that nature.

Toonami is still pretty good, but not Adult Swim. I was disappointed by Black Jesus. If by disappointed, you mean I never had any expectations of it to begin with when you compare it to the first and second season of The Boondocks, or the entire run of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Or Ben 10: Alien Force. Or Game of Thrones. Or Breaking Bad. Or 24.

Yep. I am pretty passionate about TV. Not just any TV, though. Good TV. I almost feel outraged or angry if an executive somewhere in TV World is sitting back while a bad show plays and they're expecting me to tolerate that. There's 1,001 reasons why EVERY minute of TV can and should be good. There's enough good shows and documentaries and dramas and comedies out there, you  don't NEED filler. You don't need the crap. YouTube has a ton of useable Broadcast Material. I cannot wait until the Day YouTube officially becomes a part of regular, traditional TV, whether it's a Video Playlist, a Series, a Channel, or just clips from movies, pre-existing non-filler TV, and action anime like what I do. There are ways it can be made possible that traditional television won't drive the majority of its viewers to chord cutting, and it starts with  broadcasting around or broadcasting directly from the stockpile of Amazing Material of stream video that already exists online.

Show I Want To Buy All Seasons of on DVD When I get the Money: Favorite American TV Shows

• Black Dynamite
• The Boondocks
• Superjail
• Robot Chicken
• ATHF
• Moral Orel
• Metalocalypse
• The Venture Brothers
• Twin Peaks
• Regular Show
• The Men Who Built America
• King Star King
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars
• Tron: Uprising
• Motorcity
• Ben 10: Alien Force
• Game of Thrones
• Breaking Bad
• 24

These shows lack idiocy, obnoxiousness, and pretension, so naturally I gotta buy them all. 

Novel Idea(s) - "Ghost Country"

Jim Ronald has wanted to see Europe his entire life. So with the money from his newly received inheritance, he buys a plane ticket boards a plane, and goes for a flight across the ocean.

When he reaches England, his plane descends through a clouded foggy sky and touches down, he and the people who had been on his flight discover an entire airport with the other people who had flown there with him, only to find the airport deserted. He soon discovers the entire country of England to be abandoned, but no one knows how the entire country of Great Britain became deserted, so he embarks on a quest across Europe to discover what happened to the entire country of missing persons with no visible explanation in sight. 

In Uncle Grandpa Voice: "Aw Man. I Gotta Move. To Magic Land"

Man,

I gotta move. To Japan-France. Land of magical enchanted comics.

Legend has it everyone who lives there finishes work on a comic.

I'm on my way!!!

WWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

The Lazies - America - You SUCK at Animation Now!....

America....Good god. Just look at this country. Look how much being strong, rich, famous, and powerful has made us fat, ugly, and lazy on the TV.

Japan, a former wartime rival now beats us at animation and comics production, regularly. And many animation and comics professionals are too arrogant to care and see that the Japanese are beating us at our own game (animation, design, comics) most of the time. France is ahead of the United States too, but not as much as the Japanese. America needs to stay competitive. We need to copy and emulate the Japanese aesthetic and work style in order to catch up with them and be competitive again. The only thing America still leads the world in is political military elements and technology elements, as well as literature. But we are getting our asses Handed To Us at animation and comics! It's a fucking tragedy. I for one don't plan on letting it stay this way. I need to be the best cartoonist and author-designer I can be.

The Publishing Story of My Journals - A Literary Market Odyssey

The Imaginomicon-Manifesto

The Self-Publishing and Printing Story

of

The Collected Journals

of

JM Matthews

[LINK]

I struggled for a long time with these journals. Not so much with actually writing them, but with finding a commercial market for a new kind of literary genre: Memoir-JournalLiving Manual.

I was writing it, and after a year of writing, I knew those journals were good. But I couldn't see or find any form of actual tangible market or business to publish them in, other than DIY Print-on-Demand Self-Publishing. At first I published them privately, but eventually I made the books public, on Amazon, Lulu, Book Tango, and Scribd, and later embedded the Scribd books into a blog entry at blogger. But it was a struggle getting the public interested in me or my book series. It was a long and difficult struggle of a journey . With very little feedback from anyone outside of my parents and an occasional comment from Jerry Conser, and a few other people I shared my Journals with.

The manuscript is riddled with babblings and grammatical and spelling errors, mostly because it's still a first draft I never revised and wrote very quickly.

But the thing is, Iknew I had created a special book at one point, once the first or second book was binded, printed, and I purchased my own copy for the first time. I knew I could find an entire career in these manuscripts if I could just figure out how to market them and sell them the right way, as is, and not adapt them into a "story" or narrative, which is something I found a bit unnecessary, as it's still somewhat of not just a log and diary, but a commentary, lyricism, and academic work, as it deals with academic subjects such as art, literature, production methods, pop culture, and cinema. The writing style was also very advanced for the age I wrote the first 2 books at. The 16 and 17 year old range. I had 2 books completed by the age of 17. 

[LINK To MANUSCRIPTS]