I'm a little Disappointed with the Current Japanese comics publishing scene....Why? Read on. I'll tell you...NO ACTION!!!

Am I influenced by most modern manga? Hardly. Modern manga retailers in Japan these days are so deprived of the modern day Katsuhiro Otomos and Hiroaki Samuras. I log onto Japanese Amazon, and all I see is sexy girl manga, or really perverted hentai, or eloquent boy's love or Yaoi. Nothing like what I'm used to in the states. It's all very naughty. It left me high and dry. Where is all the ACTION and Manly Martial Arts Comics I wondered. Does Japan even make real action comics anymore. Shows and studios like Avatar: The Last Airbender, Teen Titans, The Boondocks, and Titmouse have got Japan's comic books beat in the contemporary action department, hands down. I guess all this isolation from Japanese society left me blind to the reality of it. That most Japanese manga nowadays is just porn!

But not all Asia has lost it's martial arts way like Japanese manga has. Fortunately for readers worldwide, there's two countries in particular that make comics of the manga variety with TONS of good old fashioned ASIAN Action Martial Arts and Ass-Kicking in them: China and Korea.

Chinese and Korean comics are still being made quite often today, and it's obvious the Koreans and Chinese know how to draw fighting and martial arts in sequential art form just as much as the Japanese do. They're picking up a lot of the slack Japan is leaving lately when it neglects action and martial arts combat in favor of pornographic imagery. 

Some actual GOOD comics that are action?

Avatar The Last Airbender
Naruto
One Piece
Bleach (Lotta filler material though)
Rurouni Kenshin
Priest
Jackal(s)
Tales of the Blood Sword
Trigun
Claymore
Berserk 
Dragonball Z
Star Wars Comics
Blade of the Immortal
Felipe Smith
Batman
Spawn
Scud: The Disposable Assassin 
Tank Girl
Queen and Country
The Gunwitch
The Nocturnals

It Almost feels like action and martial arts comics have fallen out of fashion in Japan

The era of great fighting manga that isn't just shonen coming out of Japan seems to  be over, or at least on hiatus. I go to the Japanese comics stores online, and what do I mostly see? Porn. Cute girls. Hentai, fanserice. And boatloads of it. Arousing, but not to testosterone!

If you want action shows and comics, watch stuff like Toonami. Because chances are you won't find that kind of thing in Japan mostly. Toonami packages its anime and action in it's own branded way. Toonami action is way more intense than most manga in Japan. 

Japanese anime is slightly better and less vulgar than manga. It still makes porn, but not as much as Japanese manga does!

Animation Race Card, Till recently...

I always felt like the online international Asian art community took me less seriously than 100% as an artist, ironically enough, seemingly because my genes are not 100% Asian. The harder I worked, the more I realized it had more to do with international reputation and stature in the Asian and American communities than ANY kind of artwork I could ever produce. No matter what I did, and STILL do, no matter what I draw it will probably never be taken seriously by white artists OR Asian artists. Many of elite artists despise me and my so-called ":big ego" purely because I don't fully belong to any one specific culture, but am instead a new  generation of cultural artists: The Mutts. The Half-Bloods. The Mixed Bloods. The Multiracial artists.

But yeah, I've always got that kind of reaction from the fans. THEY HATE IT. And I mean,  the REALLY hate it, American and Japanese anime fan alike.

To Americans, my style is "too detailed, too Asian."

To ASIANS, my style is "too simple, too white, too abstract, too American and Western"

I get rejected enough equally by most artists in  BOTH countries

The RACE CARD has always influenced my popularity, or LACK THEREOF

Fine, I can accept this. You'll never accept me Asia. Great....

I have yet to see if the race issue affects my employment status in animation and comics.

I started off in this world with NOTHING. Zip. Zero. Zilch. Ground Zero. No money. No family. No friends. No education. No overwhelming talent. No connections. NOTHING!!!!

Whatever legacy I leave on this earth at the end of my life, whatever revolution and empires I start in art, literature, comics, animation, computers, technology, and media business will have  been 100% self made. Built from the ground up.  Built by an Builder and Architect who had to build his empire using NOTHING to aid him at the beginning. Any money I earn from my career, any fame I achieve, any power I have, CAME FROM ME. I inherited a big fat NOTHING from my family resource and connections-wise. Even my genetic lineage is questionable. But it does exist somewhere, far off in posterity records of future researchers and outer space. 

I'm Becoming Quite the Expert at Making Contacts in Hollywood and Los Angeles, Digitally

I've emailed at least 3 to 4 main players in the Greater Los Angeles Area in the last 3 years alone, and because of my willingness to network in animation and comics through email, I've gained some very influential contacts in my inbox.

I'm surprised more artists don't think to sell themselves in this way (email).

How to Get a Larger Audience on Blogger (From a Comic Artist Perspective)

1. Always Link the Articles You Actually WANT the world to see, which would probably be all of them, to your TWITTER ACCOUNT.
2. Use as many pictures in your article as possible. People enjoy picturess
3. Post comics you've created and your NEWEST work no one's seen before.

Ah, I see they have a pre-prepared response for EVERY SINGLE THING I will ever say.....Well, in that case....

Reads from the phonebook aloud...for the next ten years.

Promotional Tour

I do love Travel. God how I love Travel!

I want to Travel The World some day.

I'd really like to travel the world to promote my mainstream work some day. If I've got any mainstream work to promote, and even if not.

Dammit, I just wanna get out!

Anybody want to fund my travel expenses?

Just thought I'd ask. It would go to a good cause. Mainly the cause of getting me out of an away from my parents house.