So today I had a unique problem, one that I have only experienced twice in the past year. For many Trans Women of Colour the danger to their safety is something that they have to live with in public. Transgender people experience more hate crimes and discrimination than any other group of people including African Americans and gays. Trans Women of Colour especially need to look out for their safety as they are sometimes targeted. Today, I had an experience…..
Translation: Cold of the Soul (Depression). The Japanese had a hard time believing in depression. The producers of Prozac actually gave up on the country when the drug first came out since there was no such thing as “depression in Japan.” You would grin and bear it, get some rest or just go exercise and then be expected to go back to work and suck it up. Depression was not really recognized in Japan until 1996. It was not until…..
This is Rom from the Packrat Sprawl, making waves and coming to you live and direct from the Lafayette stop on the subway line in the Echelons. There is an unrest here today, as it is the end of the month and you know what that means – round up. The Zone Police are going around and rounding up psychics to send them to experimentation and work camps in the kedek mines. The Packrats are out in force trying to…..
Today in our making manga series we are going to talk a little about creating a storyboard. This process has a few terms for it, including a “name.” I went to art school and took a storyboarding class and I write novels so I know how to write a story. When writing the dialogue and story information for the grydscaen graphic novel – volume 1, I initially did a storyboard for the first 6 chapters. I started out just sketching. Mapping…..
So in today’s making manga we are going to talk about tools. But before that I wanted to talk Doujinshi vs Manga. In Japan to be a mangaka you need to be published in a magazine, a serial magazine like the famous Shonen Jump. You can enter a contest, get feedback, get picked up, get an editor, draw your manga and get noticed, maybe even if you are popular get an anime. Doujinshi is amateur art of maybe someone else’s…..
For our making manga series today, we are talking about character pairing and sketching. One of the first drawings for the manga graphic noise was an image of Shiro Ijima, the best selling scifi author of the Fissure series and the indie manga artist Noiz with his manga Disaster Code (on the left). Before we could think about a cover or the character sketches we had to get the basic idea down for Shiro and Noiz. I wanted Shiro to…..
So the United Nations tribunal ruled in favor of the Philippines regarding a set of contested islands in the South China sea. I guess this irritated China which said the tribunal arbitration council had no jurisdiction to enforce the ruling. The Philippines gave a soft response to the ruling which may have also been political due to a recent change in government power. The islands which may be rich in resources are in a contentious area which China claims is…..
So more into our making manga series. Today we talk about Branding. Every artist, writer or creative needs a brand. This can be related to your artwork, your music, the thing you produce, your novel. But you have to have a stamp for yourself that distinguishes you from someone else. It may be your art style, your subject matter be it fiction, science fiction, paranormal, yaoi or romance. Since I started off writing cyberpunk hard science fiction with the grydscaen…..
In the novel and manga creation process one of the things that you have to do at the outset is world building. I just started writing chapter 4 of the novel “graphic noise” which will also be turned into a manga. The two main characters are Shiro Ijima, the best selling scifi author and the other character is Noiz, the manga artist. The story is set in Manhattan in the present. Usually I write scifi set in a post-apocalyptic future,…..
This is Rom from the Packrat Sprawl. I am on my way to a data sale at Hack in a few minutes to check out the job board there. I need to get myself another gig. Anj lets me go out every now and then even though I am on a short leash from the Processing Centre. I wanted to describe Hack to you a little bit so you can get a feel for the place. Hack is a tech…..