Untraceable: Living in the Age of Wi-Fi. Network Security in the Modern Era and How to Kill Hackers

What I learned about Network Security and OS PCs:

Wired security is nonexistent. Any PC plugged into a wall without a wireless router isn't safe. Wireless Laptops with wireless  routers, mobile Portable Operating Systems, and Wi-Fi devices with WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access 1 and 2), are the only technology hackers and Wi-Fi stealers can't access. It's one way to protect your identity, privacy, and information: Go Wireless Networking. This is how most safe networks STAY safe. Wireless is an Amazing Shield to protect yourself from The Age of Ultron. Not only is wireless safer. It's immune from Wi-Fi thieves and viruses.

What's His Power Level??

It's over 12 Million Impressions.
TWEEELLLVVVE MIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIOOOOOOOOOONNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!

WHAT!? 12 MILLION??!!!

Ahhhhhh. Deep breath in....Gust of wind picks up

Ahhhh. Feels good to have things back in order for the most part finally....I can actually focus on my life and work again for the first time in....forever! Well, a really, REEEEALLY long time anyway...

News: "MONO: Megamix" Hits 1 Million Impressions on Amazon

That's correct. It didn't sell  that much. But it was seen on Amazon that much.

PRODUCTIVE!!!

I'm PRODUCTIVE!!!

Popularity Stats

According to my Amazon Author Central Stats,

I'm the 12,000th most popular author out of the 1.2 million authors on Amazon.com

If you do the math, I'm in the top 1% rank of Amazon author popularity. 12K is 1% of 1.2 million.

What End Times IS...How to Be Innovative

END TIMES isn't just an experimental book or comic book series.

It is an Experimental Avant-Garde pan-medium project. It's a series concept more than anything. A lot of people asked me "What is it"? "Is it comic book? Is it a manga? Is it a video game? Is it a TV show? Is it a novel? Is it a Feature Film". 

In a way, END TIMES is the blueprints for all of those things and none of those things. I just remember being REALLY obsessed with creating TV show pitches, TV production roles (Character design, concept design, screenwriting, production design, storyboards), and TV series "series bibles" at the time, and  that really ended up getting reflected in the final product. That nonlinear development path with no predictable destination, more likely to drive me to bankruptcy than millionairesville in L.A. It didn't conform to the pre-existing guidelines in the beginnings. It didn't "follow the rules" of industry formatting by sticking to any one area of production or media completely. It confused a lot of people. It was "too innovative, ambitious, and smart" in the eyes of the Industry.

And when you think about it, what's more risky and experimental than that?

Technically, it's ultimate manifestation took the form of a "Making Of" Book. But that doesn't mean I wasn't exploring the media landscape along the way...

[adult swim]

In a former lifetime, I really did want and hope to sell a show to Williams Street and Adult Swim, back around 2004 or so. End Times of course.

I mailed them a package with my End Times series bible in it. They either didn't know I was actually submitting a show idea to them, or I got rejected, cuz I never heard back from them. It was almost like they acted like it never even happened, like I never sent them anything to begin with....

That's how it is sometimes.

My perception: Why my old work can feel like decays with age

If a drawing or comics page achieves too much age, maturity, wisdom, and oldness in my mind, I'm less motivated (and likely) to work on it. I've got to find ways to keep the material new, ripe, alive, current, and fresh in my mind, otherwise it risks going stale. It's like bananas. To me, drawings have a shelf life.

That's interesting. Those French "Auteurs" and their "Terminologies"...

That's interesting, in France nowadays, on the Dargaud publishing website at least, in the professional French Bandes Dessinee scene, French cartoonists and creators are referred to in English terminology as "designers", and writers, or artists and "designers" who double as comics writers are dubbed "screenwriters". Reminds me of the whole French auteur filmmaker debate thing, except it's referencing comics, and they using new words and terminologies with new meanings. 

Oh man.

The new comics joint is looking really killer. Not going to be able to publish it for a while, but rest assured, all this time spent dwelling over the pages of End Times and Mono IS adding up to something I've never done exactly like this before. The level of detail is uncharacteristic of my normal page drafting style. Finally took my own advice, I guess.

-J.M.

Tutorial: What you need to publish your own manga on Amazon Kindle: Manuscript formatting: PDF Doc Manuscript

·         PDF Document (Manuscript) is the format your digital comic book manuscript needs to be in, with JPEG or PDF pages in sequential order within the document, so it's like an e-book on your computer

·         Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft word: This is the software you will use to edit your comic book, manga, indie comic, superhero, cartoon, or graphic novel manuscript.

·         PDF Doc Bulk Compiling, In Adobe Acrobat, click "select a task", click combine files into PDF. highlight J-PEG and PDF Docs and place them in the "Combine Files into PDF option", either folders or files

·         Cover JPEG, Illustration with the title and author's name on it in fancy font style, with a high DPI rate (digital pixels per inch)

·         Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat: You do not upload one page at a time. You must have the PDF Document pre organized and read to be published, all pages must be the same size. Adjusting page size is done through converting the document back and forth between Word Document Format (where you determine page size), and PDF Document format

·         After you've formatted your files and docs, you need to upload your PDF files into the upload manuscript portion of your Kindle dashboard, or the auto comic book maker software

A lot of artists who want to be self publishers often get frustrated when they can't figure out how to format their graphic novel or digital comics the right way. Drawing is important, an important step in the Cartoonist DIY process, but so is formatting the manuscript for your work!

Nick's gonna be just fine....

I'm sure he's watching episodes of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood with God in Heaven, right this very moment!

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Secrets of Lord Hater's Success...A 1,000 Chapter Series....

The power of the Japanese manga spirits and Gods, lies in YOU young grasshopper. It's not about what critics and haters say about you or your peers and  generation. It's about what the Japanese manga Gods think of you, and how that affects how you view yourself and your own aptitude and potential for worldly success. Here's a good question any American who wants to succeed in manga should ask him or herself. Not everyone who makes manga, succeeds in manga. The vast majority of "weeaboo" or "OEL" criticism by people criticizing others who make their own manga, the projection of "failure" on those who still carry the torch of success and hope, is brought into manifestation by people who deep down on some level, FAILED at creating their own comics, or who MADE comics no one pays attention to. They failed at some point, failure is their whole world view, so they harbor vindictive envy and words of venom and dicouragement towards those who still want to achieve the same things Lord Hater's army could not. Suddenly just because you fail at something and no one noticed you now you want to proclaim yourself an online incognito gatekeeper lurking in manga comments sections ready to spew venom every time a new article on the industry gets written. People fail so  badly at something, could be anything, they can't stand sitting back and watch other's win a prize they believe should be theirs. And they treat all people with any hope and ambition that way, whether it's labeling people "weeaboos" (gay word, by the way), or "talentless" or shitty artists, or any other monkey wrench they can think to throw at you or anyone who will read or listen, and that sort of bullshit becomes their whole mantra. A million and one reasons your manga won't sell in "wretched America" OR Japan. Or oh hell, I don't know, TIMBUCKTOO even. You're doomed there too, just as long as you listen to me, and not, y'know, existing success stories of people who DID make it, and stop trying like me and my friends did.

You get the idea...

The Moral of This Easter Sermon

God has a plan for all successful people, and he forgives mistakes. God isn't going to let your mistakes stop you from inheriting your success,

Also I was reading the book, Mastery, by Master List Maker Robert Greene [y'all know, cuz, well, I kinda am one of the modern era, like it or not. Plus I was obsessed with his other book, The 48 Laws of Power, at one point in my life, he's a great self help author], and if you're going to be a Master of Comics, Animation, Novels, or Screenwriting, any competitive and high paying creative field, you've got to learn how to cope with envy, because geniuses get a LOT of it. A lot of envy-inspired hatred and criticism. Even Justin Bieber isn't all THAT bad in reality. It's just his youth-based success and occasional arrogance make him an easy target for the bullying known as envy-hating and shit mill gossip. I've never listened to a Justin Bieber album, but I can relate to how much people envy him purely because of his fame and status. There's a lot of people who are a lot worse than him, most of whom we DON'T RECOGNIZE in the limelight (surprise surprise. Wonder why that is. ENVY, of course!)