TECHNICALLY, I'm not officially for or against ANYone really. I react to other people BASED ON how you treat ME, first and foremost....

Hell, I've ranted about Viacom when it sucked plenty of times, but even Viacom has done it's share of good in the past, animationwise. They employed my boy Jhonen at one point, and as an executive produceer he hired one of my favorite production designers in all of animation, Corey Senderov Jackson who did much of his best work on Zim. Sadly, Corey's site is down and he vanished. No one knows what the hell happened to the guy.

Respect is earned by Loyalty,

You WON'T HAVE TO BEEF WITH ME if A) You don't say may name, like an idiot, and B) you show respect and loyalty, the same way I do to everyone else. Respect is not a 1 way street. Especially not with me.

New Background Design: Science-Fiction

OEL U.S. Publishing Market

Me myself? So far I'm primarily, if not entirely, self-published.

However, if you like to draw Manga and live in North America, though Tokyopop, the number one publisher of OEL Manga folded, there are still places that will publish American manga-ka. Two main names that come to mind (who publish world and OEL manga) are Seven Seas and Yen Press. I'm sure they still get at least some submissions, if not a whole lot. And Self-Publishing through CreateSpace or Lulu to develop a portfolio of books is also another way to go about "breaking into" American manga.

But the most important part is that you at least try to draw every day if possible (even after your published), and put a lot of time into your drawings. Manga isn't AS hard to draw if you're willing to invest the time needed to draw the amount of detail manga requires.

News: "Art: Manifested", My Book, Now Available Online at Amazon Japan

This is the first time anything I've ever published has ever been distributed officially in Japan, in anyway whatsoever. Pretty exciting for me, when I think about the fact that I've wanted to draw manga for a long time now. This technically is an art book with manga sensibilities, so I think some manga fans in Japan interested in the designs of American Cartoonists and Designers might dig it.

LINK AVAILABLE HERE

Pleasant Night People...

It's ACTION TIME! OEL Action Manga Prop Study!

Random Handgun study, for an OEL Action Manga series I'm working on...

The Only American Manga-Ka Anyone’s Heard of

• Nyanko-Chan
• Piro
• Felipe Smith 
• Lindsey Cibos
• Jared Hodges
• Paul Pope 
• Adam Warren 
• Svetlana Chamakova
• Bryan Lee O’Malley

 

So....

Been arguing with my bodygaurd, er, I mean older brother recently. He really needs to find his own place to live...eventually. It's cool that he always wants to share his firearm collection with me. It's cool and all, but y'know, time to man up, bro. That's what we (his family) keep telling him anyway. He's a man like me I guess. But you're not a full fledged man until you own your own place in some way. That's just my opinion though.