Running 4 frigging MONTHS BEHIND! Cut off from news and cartoons. FUCK.

But I'm back now. You're safe now kids.

J.M. Matthews's Flavors.me profile [brand new homies!]

J.M. Matthews:

I am an internet writer, among numerous other things, duties, and responsibilties...I am an award winning anime  reviewer, an author of numerous fiction and nonfiction works. A cartoonist. An animator and designer. And a devout Christian-Mystic and Internationalist Counterculture revivalist. I also talk a lot too much when I'm not drawing and writing or being an obscure famous celebrity type person and French-Japanese and Chinese Connoisseur wannabe traveler and Florida Southerner expatriate.

J.M.'s YouTube Series....

Live Action Video Segments

Secret Rules of Pitching Concepts, Ideas, Books,and Shows. TIMING: Save and Protect Your Darlings for the Right Opportunity and Moment

Save your best ideas not for first meetings with your industry peers once you meet them. Get to know producers and studio heads and publishers first, develop a relationship with less B.S. and hype or pressure, pick a time they're not busy THEN pitch your idea. Don't rush people out of the blue. It comes across as much more demanding and gets on people's nerves. Being "All Business" and "No Friendship, Trust, and Bonding" can turn people in Hollywood off. That's all they deal with for the day. Put yourself in the Producers and Studio Manager's shoes: Who can you trust with a 6 month project to handle Day to Day operations. An assistant artist or writer who's been working within the studio staff for five years,or some people scheduling an appointment with you for 45 minutes who you've never met. Trust and Kindship is important. You may not know people at first or right away, but you will over time. Have faith in the hiring and business. Slowly work your way up through the ranks, and save your best ideas not for the first meeting, but the 15th one with your bosses, even if it means getting internships and putting in that grunt work with your niche skills you already know how to do up front, like music making, or screen writing, or animating, or storyboarding, or art direction. Etc. Snowball it. Relationships often develop a lot slower than individual projects, but relationships lead into projects and establish trust, and can last for many career lifetimes, and have much more peace, quiet, and stability to them, and don't bug people in the industry as much with their impersonal nature. You can achieve this in anime too. Just  ask Kris Prynoski, John Lasseter, Dan Vado, and Thomas Romain. I did at one point, believe it or not, and in some rare instances, I was actually honored with a thoughtful and courteous response. Which kind of validates my point through my own experience so far in and of itself.. I've still got a long way to go though.

After 7 Dominant Years, The Webcomic You Grew Up With, Is Moving. Witness the Rebirth of a Legend...The Fall of Webcomics Nation and Joey Manley (My condolences to Manly's family and fellow WCN Publishers)

I was going to say something sooner about he untimely Death of Webcomics Nation (WCN) site founder, publisher, president, webmaster, and webcomics Power Player Joey Manly, but at the time, I thought to myself "But I don't really KNOW Joey Manly other than through his website, plus is it really my place to speak out on the subject? We did have our rocky moments afterall."

But now I'll say a few words about Joey. 

Joey Manly was great at comics! I admired his publishing and internet web master know how, and published End Times through Webcomics Nation initially (you can find) End Times at its now permanent home, post-WCN, Comic Fury, a site that I have a much more INSTANT and NOTICEABLE, as well as less unpredictable audience over at. 

When I started publishing comics online in 2007, the same time I was writing reviews for Anime TV with Bang Zoom! Entertainment for titles like Fate Stay/Night with the so-called "Bosch crew", I was popular, yet very insecure. I honestly had no clue what I was doing. I just knew this was headed some where potentially big, if things worked out all right in time. Well...Yes and No.

Link: NEW WEB ADDRESS AND HOME

Second URL: 
ComicFury

Old One: Webcomics Nation

J.M. Matthews: Webcomics Artist

Yes yes. Please don't tweet me. It's a lot of stress and adjustment for me and my small audience of diehard fans, apostles, and devotees, but it is by NO MEANS THE END (so to speak). It's not End Times for End Times. Just a bumpy patch. But it is timely and aptly titled, oddly enough. It's NEVER The End in the World of End Times. And It NEVER WILL BE. People just like to SAY it is. But fuck them. What do they know. They haven't been right about things SO FAR . Everyone when I first started off said my career was going to simply die off and rot in obscurity because of how much of a "perverted friendless girlfriendless loser I was. Totally NOT sexy". All the things you hear in the beginning.

please exuse me, it's 2 months later almost from my traumatic entry, and i'm still a bit shellshocked. Doing relatively okay, though. 

We had a good run, Joey and WCN! But I'm setting sail again.

Webcomics nation was just as much of a webcomics brand as End Times, Mono, and J.M. were at one point. And easily just as famous and powerful. Dunno about now, though. Tough to say. I am "Ahmed" after all. I don't know why people call me J.M.....I need to buy a new scanner. If only I weren't poor and had no money or resources to do so. hmmmmm.

G+ aside, it's official. I currently publish End Times and various Mono Projects at ComicFury. But I'll make more announcements and social media press releases about those things in the future. I left Webcomics Nation and am no longer associated with it in a branding sense, even though it's impossible to delete accounts from there for publishers who don't badger them to do so or threaten legal action if they don't help you.. But ce la vi. What's done is done. I've moved on yet again. Surprise surpise. I always do. 

I like it there so far. I like the comics equally. I like the fans and their kind treatment of me for the most part. I like the responsiveness. I like how I have a small but large audience and better more informative analytics there.  EVEN WITH the negative side of that whole Thing with a capital "T" of the eerily racist-istic Ahmed-eque famous-infamous arrest at the hands of my adoptive father, Cary Alberts sicking his police bloodhounds on me without telling or informing me he was doing so beforehand or warning me to not misbehave in any way, back in Casselberry, Florida, which surprisingly was never publicized in reality (if only things were as simple as they were on TV shows! ya know?, other than by me being likened to Ahmed through news, Twitter, and media insinuations since it was  similar situation of racism and injustice, in August of 2015, right around the time the Pope named dropped Thomas Merton my famous relative, this year narrowly missed me and threw a monkey wrench into my publishing career, plans, goals, and schedule and could have ended in COMPLETE and not just "partial" Disastrophy numerous times.

But yeah. Joey Manley. Good Guy. Good Legacy. Untimely Death. Hopefully more people will become aware  that WCN has sort of retired or at the very least become incapacitated as a website because Joey is no longer alive to run it. I'm still alive though, and I'm still publishing and kicking, so I looked for other options for my webcomics career than a website run by a corpse in a computer chair (far as I know. No one told us any different. You see what I'm getting at here??)

hopefully my newer-ish youtube audience, my Amazon and Google audience and my webcomics, manga, and anime-swim audience will be able to make peace, play nice and get along for the most part. 

Joe's Write's The Modern Filmmaker's Bible: How to Be a YouTube Indie Filmmaker and Producer

How to Be a YouTube Indie Filmmaker and Producer

(no budget required)

Things to Keep In Mind When Favoriting Videos

(For Posterity, Fans, Other Filmmakers, Broadcasting Networks, The Press, Producers, Movie Studios, Neo-Hollywood, Aspiring Filmmakers and Producers, Fans, Otaku, and Anyone Else Watching My Shit Who's Curious)

Notes of a Super-Genius

• Youtubes never cost anything. Aside from paying for video budgets, your budget 95% of the time is $0.00, otherwise I wouldn't be here.
• Showcase and show off your favorite things with people. The public, the masses, the world, friends, enemies(?), the world, your fans, the press, journalists, celebrities, power players, producers, other filmmakers, directors, broadcasting networks. Anyone? No one? You never know ahead of time actually most of the time
• Post Anonymously, especially if your violating copyright, which you can, and both should and shouldnt depending on how poor you are and your situation. Just remember,in terms of identity and how much you contribute, what you contribute, how much, and at what level, there is a cosmos of difference between being a fan and filmmaker. The latter is considered to be a more desirable and high pressure position. But there is less a whole ton less fear, intimidation, snarkiness, and pressure to running a successful youtube operation than there is to running, say, DeviantART, or Adult Swim, or Viz, or Dream works. They actually have Money. Well, Google does too and they have it in more countries than ANY of those guys, easily, but that's not the point. The point is not all people operating on Google ARE Google, Work for Google, Make Money through Google, or Cooperate With google
• Google doesn't mind porn in it's search engines. Just not stuff that's completely illegal and the people distributing it know it, and it's hurting people's reputations, lives, minds, and careers, etc. You all know better people. If you want to be treated equally, don't break the rules, “terms of service”, and law every 2 seconds. Sexual reference, youthful sexuality (teen), risque euro ero, yuri, romance (gasp, not just sex??),
• A feminie point of view. Human romantic relationships, are not generally condemned on YouTube, but most o f us are geeks and they make a lot of YouTube fans avoid them and skip to the next video JPEG and clip. But if you WANT to go there for a few minutes or thirty minutes for a few scenes or one concept, be my guest. Female filmmakers are welcome at YouTube. Just remember girls, there is still stigma out there, so be wary of your video comments
• Music is welcome on YouTube. As is Political Causes and General Equality, AS LONG AS
• YouTube blurs just as many lines, rules, divisions, categories, genres, mediums, cultures, and nations as it defines. Behold the Power of Social Media and the Internet.
• Linking is Good. Music is Good. Anime is Good. Information is Good. Film is Good. Animation is Good. Technical Ability and Technique is Good. Strategy is Good. Quality is Good. Originality and Uniqueness is Good, Even if it is a variation of a repeated thing.
• YouTube is JUST as open minded as Google and Twitter and LinkedIn. Don't Deny it.
• YouTube is neither Google nor Not entirely Google, nor NEVER Google, it just is. Is a Walkman Sony, or is it a Walkman?
• If you're a REAL fan of YouTube Videos and Their publishers and distributors and supporting your favorite tubers, you must be just as willing to watch 2 seperate videos with equal consideration. The one with 2 views, and the one with 200,000.
• But you do have to be willing to play “armchair therapist as a mentor for the gal who once only had 2 measly hits who wrote you an email and said you saved her life and career and said you saved her life and career by making here a millionaire brand and icon in the otaku community when you favorited her Toonami and drove her popularity through the roof from a struggling middle school anime fan to a Hollywood player that one time. Yup, that happens a lot. AND VICE VERSA! That's why some videos on YouTube DO get 1,000,000,000 views, and then suddenly stop getting views at one point
• Radio Friendly and Catchy. Doesn't have to be. It can be just as dissonant, as long as there is some form of higher meaning there.
• No everyone reads between the lines: Dialogue context and subtext, Screen composition and mise en scene, video editing and order, video length, publisher name or reputation, who made what, How much the video costed to publish, who's watching, what people in the comments section are saying (do we really read ALL video comments, what hollywood's opinion is, what the fan opinion is, how many people are linking to the video, who's aware you're the publisher or favoriter or fan comment giver, whether your comments are being flagged or commented on, or favorited, or linked on other sites by pros or fans or haters or not), but sometimes it does help to make your choices accordingly, in according to these things in on a subliminal context, not just because you like them.
• Haters sometimes gonna hate, though not always,and not always when you're more influential
• You can make a living from you tube, but it can be depressing and frustrating if that's your only incentive, not the quality of your reputation on you tube, your relationship with your viewers, how much people love you, what your publishing, how much your helping people, and how big the scope of your audience is. And audience size can be deceiving in and of itself, YouTube viewer figures are pretty accurate and honest for how big they are, believe it or not (for the most part), but they can still get manipulated behind the scenes when we're less likely to pay attention or get aware. Like any other only publisher in their published stats and anaytics, billion audience things can register as “1 hit” (yyyyyaaaaaayyyy!!! - Peter Griffin), and 1 hit videos can be platinum sellers in disguise, or PRODUCED BY A NOBEL WINNER OR BILLIONAIRE who really wants to be your best friend or gain your trust and friendship behind closed doors, but doesn't want you too get too sought out or hassled like he ended up being as a result. There is a higher truth and wisdom behind many things happening on the YouTube Network system and community and genre, but it can be incredibly hard to explain quantify and track all the time. MUCH OF the time. But not all.
• Entertain us! Don't be intentionally dull, stupid, immature, offensive to the wrong people, mean to sensitive people, loud to quiet people, or boring to the easily bored, or too patient with the impatient. Some YouTube producers get mistaken for Jesus, and there is a DAMN GOOD reason for that, and not, it's not just always because of the username
• If you get some groove on with some of them hot hot YouTubeLove69 groupies, tell me how you did it. Cuz I ain't got NONE of that hot hot action yet like how John Lennon once did. I'm more of a Flint Lockwood.

Sincerely,

The YouTube Filmmaker

The J.M. Approved Alexa Top 500 WORLD Web Bestseller List

Top Ranked Bestseller, Most Popular, Highest Ratings

1. Google
2. YouTube
3. Amazon
4. Twitter
5. Google.co.in
6. LinkedIn
7. Google.co.jp
8. Bing
9. Google.de
10. Amazon.co.jp
11. Google.co.uk
12. Blogspot.com
13. Google.fr
14. Tumblr
15. Google.ru
16. Google.it
17. Amazon.de
18. Google.ca
19. Google.co.hk
20. Amazon.co.uk
21. Blogger.com
22. Google.com.sa
23. Deviantart
24. Google.cn
25. Google.se
26. Goodreads
27. Google.ae
28. Pixiv
29. Scribd
30. Google.co.il

Non Google-Amazon “Indie” Sites

1. YouTube (Content)
2. Twitter (Content)
3. LinkedIn (Social) (Networking) (Anime)
4. Bing (Search/Content)
5. Tumblr (Content)
6. Blogger (Content)
7. DeviantART (Content) (Artwork) (Anime)
8. Pixiv
9. Scribd (Content)