tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post2016841636649454837..comments2024-03-21T19:12:11.065-07:00Comments on Every Day Is Like Wednesday: One of the secrets of becoming a success in the comics industryCalebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01391759187396994380noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-60697867839569758702010-05-28T13:17:24.083-07:002010-05-28T13:17:24.083-07:00Ya gotta love the harsh commentary this series sup...Ya gotta love the harsh commentary this series supplies to the western comic book industry.<br /><br />Cheers!<br /><br />Steven G. Willis<br /><a href="http://www.xowcomics.com/" rel="nofollow">XOWComics.com</a>nyrdyvhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14160524980681398010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-16504379373494880342010-05-25T20:26:57.918-07:002010-05-25T20:26:57.918-07:00For a country whose comics/manhwa industry was in ...For a country whose comics/manhwa industry was in a serious decline even before the worldwide recession started around 2008 (at least, that's what the panelists said on the big manhwa panel at the first New York Comic-Con about five years ago), Korea certainly has a lot of manhwa about people who are either in or attempting to break into the manhwa industry. Besides "Comic," there's "Hissing," whose teenage heroine is both an aspiring manhwa artist herself and the daughter of a not-so-successful manhwa-ga(sp?) whose series has just been cancelled, and "Forest of Grey City," whose twentysomething artist heroine earns at least part of her living drawing manhwa. There's also the TokyoPop series "Queens." This is about a high school pretty boy who gets rejected by his crush because she prefers the macho jock type. The distraught protagonist, inspired by a manhwa called "How to Be a Manly Man" he spots at the bookstore, decides that he'll be able to learn how to become more macho much faster if he goes straight to the horse's mouth and apprentices himself to the artist who's creating the manhwa--who, ironically enough, turns out to be a tomboyish, androgynous-looking woman.Marfisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16424608674577208124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-32701046852164592302010-05-24T08:02:46.664-07:002010-05-24T08:02:46.664-07:00Bakuman made me want to gag about the time the kid...Bakuman made me want to gag about the time the kid wanted to work himself into a hospital bed drawing Manga, following his uncle's example who died of overwork. That's a great example to send young artists.Rocahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12023548506198486232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-59702760154940129332010-05-23T18:42:20.803-07:002010-05-23T18:42:20.803-07:00So Caleb, have you read Bakuman yet? It's a ma...So Caleb, have you read Bakuman yet? It's a manga by the creators of Death Note about two high school kids trying to get published in Shonen Jump. Its really interesting for the behind the scenes info on how SJ's editorial process works.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03021943379915718040noreply@blogger.com