Fanart / fanfiction as a form of free labor and free advertising

Some of the most gullible fans on the planet are anime fans, hence the coprious amount of unpaid labor they provide animation studios and creators

Strikes me as just a tad bit exploitative to let it happen so much on places like DeviantART.

LOOK, if you like comics, manga, anime, whatever, and you like Drawing Characters you should be out there promoting your own original work, AS your own original creative work, which will lead to your own work, not giving your favorite artist a free ride to groupiesville.

You don't need to "help" so and so with more free labor art and writing. I can assure, they get enough of their own...unlike you.

Pen and Ink Cityscape Study: BLACK CITY SKYSCRAPERS (Latest Piece)

Online Publishing Strategy...

Probably the biggest mistake I made entering the business of comics was to not have an online and digital publishing or webcomic e-publishing strategy. Like my writing and drawing style, it was spontaneous, inspired more by Jack Kerouac's writing style than Norman Rockwell (who used extensive art production strategies for building his massive paintings). I was never that organized, and as a result the online presentation of my art suffered because I never took it seriously. I never announced when I'd be publishing new work in the near future, I never wrote artists commentaries for pages or illustration pieces, and I never thought ahead in general. Part of the problem was I didn't take online publishing seriously as a professional outlet of distribution and audience attainment at the time. I viewed it as inferior and secondary to traditional publishing, just because the artists on these sites are young, naive, and inexperienced, and don't seem to completely know what they were doing at the time. In terms of online publishing of artwork, I lived in the moment until recently. Then Joey Manley died, and saw what a mess Webcomics Nation ended up as as a result of his immortal absence from online comics publishing, and I realized, I gotta get my sh*t together. Joey Manley didn't, and look what happened to his web empire. It's borderline frozen in time. God only know how long the site's inheritors will take to make the site operational in Manley's permanent absence. If they ever do get the site to be operational again. 

So in the future I'll be

Announcing future publishing dates of pages

Scheduling my work time

Scheduling my publishing time

Just making my whereabouts and work routines more public and operational so they're more reliable and hopefully I won't get sidetracked by stress, pressure from my job, or contingencies as much in the future and recently

I'm publishing on Blogger, Tumblr, Pixiv, Ink Blazers, Google+, and ComicFury now. 

But until recently, I considered them a "play hobby" to be done for fun. Not seriously organized as a serious operation. I didn't do it that way because I assumed no one else was doing it that way. But even IF no one is doing it that way, I can be one of the first if that's the case, if people aren't already approaching their webcomics work in a professional serious minded profession, even if it's essentially unpaid mostly primary school volunteer work for the most part.

If I take my act more seriously in terms of the time put in and the workload, I suspect other people might follow my methodology example the way people take after my artwork in their own fan artwork.

MEEEEERRY CHRISTMAS! MEEEEEEEEEERRY CHRISTMAS!! HO HO HO! SHREDS LIKE NO OTHA!

Holy SHIT! Santa done gave me an electric guitar and speaker for Christmas! WHOA!

All I want for Christmas is METAAAAALLLL!!!!!!!

Nice to meet you....

Some Day Somebody Else beside me
will not call me Joseph Matthew Alberts.....or Jay Matthew Alberts

They will call me by my stage name they will call me JM Matthews.

Good morning how are you, I'm Doctor Worm, I'm interested in things.

I'm not a real doctor but I am a real worm I am an actual worm. I live like a worm, and

I like to play the drums.

Animation Frame - Style Illustration - Image Board (Done With Digital Compositing)

This drawing or "Image Board" was inspired by the Animation Production Style Thomas Romain Utilized on Oban Star-Racers. A constant inspiration to me this side of Invader Zim.

I was aiming for a sleeker, cleaner line quality in my vision for the most part.

I wanted it to look like a pen and ink cell from an animated or anime motion picture, since that's the sort of projects I've been working on as of late...

Comics Drawing Comprehension

A lot of instructors don't say this, if you want to draw and write comics, you have to read comics. As many comics by other people as possible.

Just like if you want to write a novel you have to read other authors' novels. It's the same principle.

If you want to draw comics you need to read comics and study how their made. Study how other artists make them.

LinkedIn email from Silicon Valley

Hi Joseph M., 

Are you in the job market?

My name is [name withheld] and I am a technical recruiter based in Silicon Valley. I place engineers at full-time jobs with technology companies in the Bay Area. I work with established companies like Symantec and Salesforce, and also recruit for several well funded and successful start-up clients. Typical salaries are from $115k to $200k, and most packages include bonus and stock awards which take total comp to $130k-$280k. Relocation is also provided if needed.

I have been working as a recruiter in the Bay Area since 1997, and this is about as hot a market as I have ever seen!

My current openings include:

1) Full Stack Java Software Engineer - Senior and Principal level 
2) UI Engineering 
3) Automation QA Engineer 
4) Build/Release Opening
5) iOS and Android Mobile Development
6) Build/Release Engineer 
7) Program Manager
8) Product Manager
9) Linux System Administrator
10) Architect - Java - $220k base, $300k+ total comp
11) Hadoop Big Data Principal Engineer 

If you are looking around, please send a resume to me at [anonymous]. If you have any questions, I can always be reached at [anonymous]. If we are not already connected on LinkedIn, please send me an invite. I can be found at:

Production: Status Report...

Submitted Script, character designs, and design bible into co-producer over at studio.

Awaiting more input.

Producing My Very First Short Animated Film....

So I'm finally going to get to flex my muscles as an animation producer.

The truth is, you don't wait for the offer, you create the work yourself...

On the Downside: I'm producing animation on a shoestring budget, so the funding is limited which inhibits certain things.

On the Plus Side: I'm getting work in animation, technically...

I don't have enough money for a Pilot.

But I have a script I wrote and a lot of pre-production work completed of my own accord.

I'm in talks with a small budget  freelance studio for the actual production.

I'm happy about this. You have to start somewhere...A lot of people never do. And it's often because you think you need to wait for an invitation to begin production.

Jay's Favorite Lists:

• Comic Book Rebels: Conversations With The Creators of New Comics (Table of Contents) 1994
• Animation Magazine's "40 Auteurs We Love (1987 - 2006)
• Mangaka America (Table of Contents) 2006

Creative Powers, Energy Levels, and Their Limitations: Know Your Limitations...

My abilities, despite having a lot of power and energy, are limited. Generally I only have enough energy to tap into my full power and control, or manipulate and harness, it, once or twice a day.

Well, the fact that I can only use my powers once a day, and can only use one power per day.

So, Novelist, Screenwriter, or Cartoonist, I can only be one of those things each day, once a day.

So I can only be a novelist for one consecutive day, once a day.

I can only be a screenwriter for one consecutive day, once a day.

And I can only be a cartoonist for one consecutive day, once a day

That's the limitations of my powers and energy. 

Gravity Falls - Creepy Letters From Li'l Gideon (All 4 Letters)

Travon Script - First Draft

TRAVON - The Screenplay

Dear Jeff Zucker, Please Kill Yourself. Sincerely, AFarewellNote. Now that NBC fired you should investigate your own pedophilality

Why does Jeff Zucker like pedophiles so much? He's a pedophile's biggest fan, what with his Hitler army at NBC he commanded, or is it Joseph McCarthy, or both. Oh well, he's out of power at NBC, so no more opportunities to terrorize the populous with NBC News and Networks. I'm glad his reign as a bigot and zealot in a position of power is over. From overseeing NBC's entire anti-pedophile agenda, in secret of course. He ran NBC like a third world military, controlled by a corrupt Bush Administration. NBC cranked out horrible, bigoted, racist, misinformed, ill advised and discriminatory series, from "To Catch a Predator" to "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit", that really were out to hurt me and other people. But especially me, trying to make me look like a criminal falsify my reputation on numerous occasions. I was their unknowing pawn. Their effigy, all because of loli porn. I noticed on some websites. It's amazing how far they wanted to make it seem so much more criminal and serious than just me looking at loli and yuri porn online. 

My Brother Andy, Der der der der der der der der My Little Pony

I must admit, I do kind of miss living with my brother. He was my number one point of reference. 

His opinions were beneficial in a certain way as a conservative....Not because they were ever right, but because I could always count on them proven to be WRONG.

Andrew was my counterpoint. No matter what happened, I could always count on him, my misguided brother, to do the wrong thing and take the wrong side, politically OR socially.

He wasn't reliable for doing anything right. But he was ALWAYS reliable for doing something all WRONG!

In one sense, in an opposite day kind of way, he WAS my moral compass.

I could always count on him to reflect on what the true idiots of the world are and were actually thinking at that moment in time.