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For everyone else, Deb Aoki of About.com's been running a five-part series on Making a Living from Manga. Of special interest in the latest installment, covering TokyoPop's influence on the American manga market , DC's short-lived Minx line, and how you have better chance of winning the lottery, literally, than being a successful gaijin manga-ka in Japan.
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I wouldn't be remotely happy doing anything else.
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In other news, my Kickstarter finally closed at $83,100, which is literally more money than I've ever had access to at one time in my entire life. It's double the down payment I made for the apartment I'm currently sitting in.
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And now you'll know better than to say something so stupid ever again. You're absolutely right, sir. For future reference, I'm a woman. But "sir" is fine. In my experience, a person only needs to draw on six sentences-- two statements-- before that person can accurately sum up what a person is or isn't. The ability do so as concisely as you do must be oh-so-handy. Has it occurred to ...
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Her book was pulled off Amazon, she lost a chance at a $20,000 prize, and she hasn't worked as a writer since.
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If you don't want feedback, you're in the wrong place. Go to Promotions. And stay there. If you only want positive feedback, stick to DeviantArt. Ego-stroking hug-circles a-plenty there, and always room for one more. And there's nothing extremist about discouraging idiocy. Hijacking an internationally bestselling chunk of Anne Rice's IP and expecting a forum full of reasonably literate ...
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Hoping I'll give up and go away because you don't burst into rage-tears doesn't make you any less of a plagiarist, doll. What you're doing is morally and creatively cretinous. You don't have to acknowledge it, but it's fairly important you realize you're not fooling anybody. If you're interested in being taken remotely seriously, you'll self-correct. This is a forum for creative people, and ...
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You're lucky this isn't graded. Why did I say "No." Hazard a guess. A wild, wacky guess. One about your confounding lack of originality.
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Pop quiz. What was my input, and in what way are you thankful for it?
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No.
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This was the same argument I heard when webcomics first took off. "Now that anyone can make one, it'll be harder to get noticed." As if it were ever easy. Here's the thing, though. The classical, top-heavy, executive-favoring, creative-exploiting production model Shouting Fox is so eager to drop his pants, grease up, and bend over for? It wasn't doing a very good job. Publishing on a lar ...
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Kickstarter is the best thing to happen to independent creatives in a decade. Possibly longer.
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The more stubborn and personal your grudge becomes and the less willing you are to acknowledge reason, the less convinced I am we're actually talking about your "friend." But hey, maybe it's just me.
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That is without a doubt the dumbest thing I've heard all day. How many people can you name that started off with a creator owned work and have made it work for them profitably? (By which I mean, how many of them are making a comfortable, continual living in comics doing only creator owned work?) The flip side is, how many people can you name that started off working on a company's shitty title ...
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Nope. And for the record, I have been plagiarized, for profit. back when I made t-shirts, someone nicked a distinctive design, plastered their URL beneath it, and not only made their own shirts for comic conventions I was also attending, but put it on the main character in their own, terrible comic book. Yes, this pissed me off. I confronted him, and he immediately manufactured an imagin ...
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