A bonus list of Things You Mangaka Need To Think About When Drawing Your RSOM Entry I came up with when reading through all the entries. 1) FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, PEOPLE, don't submit work to a competition with spelling mistakes and bad grammar! They make you look careless and leave a bad impre...
03.09.2007 01:52 PM
Rain - There's a lot of good energy in the artwork, although the figures are at times too stiff and a bit unconvincing. The effect through the glasses, though? Love that. :) The story is generic, and the characters are stock characters until page 18. I think it would be more effective if the ...
03.09.2007 01:51 PM
Gagaku Berceuse - So ... is it possible to have a harem comedy with only three characters? Art's fine, story's OK, didn't grab me. Ignorance - Art and layout are a bit stiff and missing something, but I'm not sure what. (Mostly because it's what's missing in my own art, methinks.) Maybe mor...
03.09.2007 01:51 PM
Ares Maier - Art wonderful. Guy can draw, and draw action scenes, no doubt about it. However the entire first half is one long action scene that loses my interest before it gets to the twist, and the first page isn't intriguing enough to make me care to read longer - if I weren't reviewing thes...
03.09.2007 01:50 PM
A new anthology of manga short stories by up-and-coming young Western artists. Recommended.
12.10.2006 05:41 PM
Good all-round book, not only on using pen and ink but with tips about other aspects of manga production. Recommended.
12.10.2006 05:38 PM
...if you are 19 years old or younger. Creber Monde is hosting a Shakespearen manga contest - the basics are that they want 5-10 pages of inked and lettered artwork illustrating part of a scene from a short list of Shakespeare's plays, plus a mockup of a cover, plus a $35 entry fee by December ...
12.05.2006 07:48 AM
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