I am so excited to share with you the cover of the next book in the graphic noiz novella series. Book 3 will be out in another few weeks. This cover features Shiro Ijima the bestselling writer as he works on edits for his scifi novel Fissure volume 4. All the previous covers have featured Noiz the manga artist in some way but I wanted Shiro on the cover of book 3 because the story in this volume focuses on him…..
So today in the Making Manga series I wanted to talk about planning. I am in the process of writing book 3 of graphic noiz the yaoi novella series. Book 1 of the graphic noiz manga took place between book 1 and book 2 of the novella series and the final chapter of the manga ended with the last scene in book 2. When I wrote and illustrated the first volume of the manga I just winged it going along…..
Want to read the yaoi manga for free? Chapter 1 of the graphic noiz manga “Nobody’s Business” is available at: graphic noiz manga: chapter 1 Finding a hosting site for your manga/comics So I am a member of a Facebook group called Mangaka Masters which is a group for mangaka who are working on their own manga and have published a volume. So, they run you through a test when you join to make sure you are serious and have…..
So excited to be able to show you the cover for the graphic noiz manga which is available now as an ebook on Amazon Kindle and will also be available in paperback. The manga follows the story of Noiz, the amateur manga artist as he works on the Fissure manga based on the bestselling scifi Fissure series by Shiro Ijima. The cover features Noiz, the manga artist with his skateboard and some pages of storyboards he is creating. He is…..
How do you do that publication thing again? So I just added the graphic noiz manga volume 1 to Amazon. How do you put something up on Amazon you ask? Well I am going to tell you. For manga you need to use the Kindle Comic Creator. I have a problem with the application because it crashes on me as I add each page but in the end as long as you save while you go it ends up working…..
So I just came from ComicCon yesterday and had a fun time giving away doujinshi, grydscaen graphic novels and A Storm’s Coming manga, as well as rubber bracelets, campaign buttons, trading cards and bookmarks. There was a lot of traffic at the table. I think some of that was because everything was free. I also gave away free ebook downloads for The Alchemist’s Ranger. All in all my first ComicCon experience as a featured author was a positive one. But one…..
So I have been working on the graphic noiz manga today and I can successfully say that all the lineart is done for the manga. We are onto shading now after we spent an hour photocopying and reducing the 10×14 artwork to be 8.5×11 so it can be scanned. I usually don’t shade my manga but I thought since I had some feedback that I would do it for this story. I am still light on backgrounds but that is…..
We are happy to reveal the next cover in the graphic noiz series. graphic noiz: book 2 will be up for pre-order starting 23 January, 2017. Release date for graphic noiz: book 2 is 14 February, 2017. graphic noiz 2 Book Summary: Noiz is a 19 year old illustrator and mangaka straight out of art school who created his own manga, Disaster Code. Scouted at ComicCon where he was showing his art by Keita Shimura, agent to bestselling author Shiro…..
What is graphic noiz? graphic noiz is a yaoi novella series about 19 year old skateboarder and amateur manga artist, Noiz who went to ComicCon in New York city as an artist in Artist Alley and was discovered by the literary agent, Keita. Keita is bestselling author Shiro Ijima’s agent and he gets a peek at Noiz’ original manga Disaster Code at the con. After putting Noiz through an art test and stringing him along with words, dinners and few chance encounters…..
There you have it grydscaen style Today was an excellent day. Went to the printer with all the grydscaen RPG Trading Card game files. The game is finished. We have tokens, 78 cards, 2 Rare cards, Tarot Guidebook, RPG Rulebook and a box with graphics. Should see proofs of the game set early next week after receiving the printing estimate tomorrow. Then onto proofs and then finally the actual printing. The grydscaen RPG game has been a dream of mine for…..