Finally bit the bullet and started watching “Attack on Titan” as part of my recent anime education (PARASYTE, DEATHNOTE, TOKYO GHOUL, etc) with CHAINSAW MAN being my favorite but I have to admit I can see the allure of AOT since it has teeth (excuse the pun) getting my interest and putting real stakes. This is what American comics are missing, real stories sterilized in a way to give a shit. The other problem is the format I think. 24 pages a month doesn’t cut it, it needs to match the pace of mangas, weekly. The total amount of pages for weekly serialization has about 18-20 pages for one chapter each week. For a monthly magazine, they have around 30-50 pages each month. Generally, one manga volume is about 180 to 220 pages (this may vary depending on the publisher). As such, a manga whose chapters are released weekly (about 20 pages), will generally have between 8 to 12 chapters per volume. No one in American comics is doing that. NO ONE. But if you have a team a real team making comics at that pace? Maybe with a head start of 60 pages or so, it could a phenomenon for sure. It’s all a wonder that’s for sure.
Ah, I’m telling you folks every night you should pray to PAPA DIOS and have him make me a millionaire because all I would do is develop this. For at least five years I would make a mean machine of comics making and go from there, with a cadre of lovable misfits blowing out comics like monsters out of a gah dam Godzilla movie. Fuck we could make it awesome. It would take some green for sure but also a hardy bunch of maniacs who love making comics to do it. Ach if only to find that group! So if you’re a billionaire who loves comics and wants to make some fantastic shit, partner with me, and let’s go blow shit up!
SIGH
Sorry if that was a small tirade but it’s my whole message to the universe moment here. Until then. I’ll have to do it ALL BY MYSELF! TO BATTLE!
Setting up a schedule for upcoming projects. Loose but not concise. As I said it would be a type of guideline as all these new things come up. I’m delaying FWACATA issue 2 until I can get things in line as far as digital comics-making. MEATHOOK “PACHANGA” and “POWERS THAT BE” will still be developed at this time but not ready for full production until then. That leaves REZ to be finished with part 2 and then getting H00D back online since I wanted to do this in pencil with watercolor it makes sense. Funny I did figure this out until I wrote this. THE POWER OF JOURNALING! So now it’s about a third story. I want to do MANSLAUGHTER or SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DEMONS but those aren’t fleshed out yet. manslaughter is a novelette for sure I could do 50-69 pages easily. While STDEMONS would be a 5 issues limited series or so. HURM.
Maybe some fun shorts? I have does on those even some autobiography kinda stuff. I’ll mull this over and get it all together soon. Until then here is a preview of PACHANGA for you!
Things are changing we have more stuff coming down the pipeline bi there is a good chance you will get some radio silence from them for a stretch on all things social media and the blog. Nothing bad if anything good but I’ve done this comic book thing full-time for 7 years and well, it looks like I’m going part-time again. It sucks because I thought I had made some headway but enough and now it’s time to go back to the workforce.
I’m not fucking quitting you tit, just going to throttle down and aim for other things for a bit.
Especially in the beginning to see what my schedule will be like and then what my options are and then full throttle again.
That’s the way it goes. Sometimes it is not about stopping and going it’s about what gear you are in and where you are. Allows yourself to feel the road a bit you can always open her up again later.
Hello from the Magic City, where the creeping summer keeps whispering in my ear that it’s going to melt like cheese and wrap my liquidated remains around a pickle and make “cheekle” out of me. What? That’s an actual thing. I’d be fucking delicious!
Off to make these changes...