Comiket, Manga/Anime money, Atlas Shrugged. One of these things is not like the others. UPDATED
on August 18th, 2009Site’s been down most of the day due to server problems. Sorry about that.
I am being a good freelancer so I’m almost all about the work. Here’s some quick goodies I can’t resist sharing with you.
Ken Talton is at Japan’s monster show Comiket, with the other 560,000 manga/anime fans (number from Anime News Network.) Did you know you are not allowed to take pictures at Comiket? Me, neither. Ken has a few, however. The pic of the line to get in the line to get in is scary as hell.
He adds in a previous post:
This is the last Komeket before the censorship/doujinshi crackdown this October, so this may be the end of an era.
Whoa, doujinshi crackdown? Anybody got more recent info than this?
If restrictions on expression were legalized based on the inappropriateness, harmfulness and menace to children, the artists could quite possibly lose the freedom to create, which might even destabilize Japanese society and its “release valve” of fantasy, said noted psychologist Saito Tamaki. It is imperative not only for doujinshi artists and consumers but also the rest of the world that surrounds doujinshi society to recognize that legal regulations do exist for doujinshi, even though it has been acknowledged as a lawless area. To avoid losing it entirely, Sakata concluded, otaku must sacrifice personal freedom for communal survival.
MISSED IT! Slave wages paid to Japanese animators. $11,000 a year!
You know, I’ve been saying to American fans for years now that all is not dancing unicorns and candy mountains in the anime/manga business, and I usually just get shouted down by rabid otaku who conclude that any American who says this sort of thing is seething with jealousy. Yeah boy, if only I were working for $11,000 a year. Then I would know true joy.
At Vimeo, cool links to digital art tutorial lectures by Adi Granov, Brandon Dawes, and Dave Gibbons.
Ayn Rand considered Farrah Fawcett for the role of Dagny Taggart in Atlas Shrugged.
Bad news for those of us who like to run off to the coffee shop to work. They are turning off the Wi Fi.
Oh, and art sales continue. Here are the ebay offerings. I will be selling at least four or five works per week for several more weeks. And then, all the art goes back off the market again. My last art sales hiatus was a whopping eight months. Get ‘em before they go back into the vault!
