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Wed Jun 24, 2009, 6:23 PM
  • Mood: Peaceful
  • Listening to: The Yardbirds
  • Reading: Really really girly books about shopping
  • Watching: 30 Rock
  • Eating: Snacks
  • Drinking: Water
I'll be in New York for most of July and taking another SVA cartooning class. I have no idea how much internet I'll have there since I know I won't be bringing my own laptop to the apartment, so it depends on whether or not my roommates have laptops and if they feel like sharing. Anyway, excited.

So what else happened recently? Oh yeah school let out. I am so glad I'm going to be a senior next year. Yeah, I'm looking forward to prom. hahaha. I still need to fill out this college recommendation sheet for my (old) AP English teacher before I leave.

Right after school got out I finished some mini-comics for my table at the Kids Read Comic convention. Yikes. The convention went well, though I totally broke down the night before and was afraid that nobody would buy anything from me. But I was wrong, the kids there all seemed really excited because my all-ages comic was about ice cream, and the adults liked how I did the Nate #2 covers (only drawback was that people kept asking for "Nate #1", which I actually ran out of before the convention). The cosplayers didn't seem so interested in my comics because they weren't "kawaii" enough or something, oh well, you can't please everyone. Some of the other people selling comics there were at TCAF as well, so it was nice seeing them again.

Right after Kids Read Comics I was rushed downtown for a gig at Top of the Park with the cover group I'm in. Thankfully that went really well, too. People in the audience said they liked "the girl", which (hopefully) means they liked me, since I was the only girl in the set. What sucks though is that I haven't had any other chances to go to Top of the Park this year (so far), since I've been babysitting a ton instead.

I'm not going to Vermont this summer, by the way. I thought I was for a while but it turns out I'd be the youngest one in the art class I wanted by like a decade or something, so no. I'll probably do it once I'm in college.

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I'm a cartoonist/student who self-publishes and distributes her own mini-comics. Right now I'm trying to put out a new mini-comic every couple months, and get them in as many stores as possible. My goal is to eventually move to New York and make a living doing what I love.

Devious Info

  • Current Residence: My house
  • Interests: Cartooning, comix, music, theater, guitar, fashion
  • Favourite movie: Juno
  • Favourite band or musician: The Beatles
  • Favourite genre of music: Rock, Blues, New Wave, Blues, Bluesss...
  • Favourite artist: Peter Bagge and Rumiko Takahashi
  • Favourite poet or writer: Where do I start
  • Favourite style of art: Peter Bagge and Rumiko Takahashi...?
  • Operating System: Windows XP or whatever the heck I'm using at school
  • MP3 player of choice: Well, I have an iPod...
  • Shell of choice: I'm not a hermit crab. D:
  • Skin of choice: I don't shed my skin. DDD:
  • Favourite gaming platform: NO.
  • Favourite cartoon character: KOTAAATSUNEKO.
  • Personal Quote: "I rock like the rockers on a rocking chair."
  • Tools of the Trade: Not computers

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~green-tea-mochi:icongreen-tea-mochi: Feb 18, 2009, 10:13:05 PM
This is why, [link]
it's a gas. [link]

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If you had a handful of hot dogs, you might be in trouble.
Do you snorkel with hot dogs?
~kotatsuneko:iconkotatsuneko: Feb 15, 2009, 7:51:39 PM
My comic ended up being 12 pages (the ten-page SVA story and two short comics), not including the cover. I also silkscreened the cover and used stitch-binding, which helped it stand out from some of the other mini comics in the store. If you add hand-done touches like that, people probably won't feel cheated; half the fun of minicomics are the fact that they're handmade. Really, it depends on the store you're selling at. Are there a lot of mini-comics and zines? It seems like people who read, say, the Green Lantern tend to stick with the Green Lantern and don't wont to read books that aren't as "slick". I've tried selling at both "indie" and "superhero" stores, I sold out pretty quickly at the local indie store but another store, which sold primarily Marvel and DC stuff, wouldn't even touch it. People who normally go for mini-comics, though, don't seem to care much about the length.

Longer mini-comics are always really nice, but it's easier to get hung up on long comics and not finish them. If you've got a lot of other pages already or think you can finish a lot quickly, though, go for it... it will just take a lot longer.
~xglassmenagerie:iconxglassmenagerie: Feb 15, 2009, 8:42:58 PM
12 pages is what I was thinking, thanks! And I'm definitely silk-screening the cover (I love to silk screen, so I won't pass up on the chance), hopefully on some nice type of bristol--something along those lines... It's a small store in Toronto, called the Beguiling, and I think people who go in there are primarily looking for indie comics--It's kind of like the forbidden planet of Canada.
Downstairs is for indie and mini-comics (they have a whole shelf just for them), and upstairs is for marvel/dc. The walls, are covered in original art, and very beautiful.

I'm sorry I keep asking you so much! Although it's great to talk to some people around my age who are serious, and yet silly about what they do (at least for me).

TCAF (toronto comic arts festival) is coming around happening here in May. It's essential an indie comic con (best way to describe). My art teacher is telling me to network, so now I have to make some business cards, haha.
~kotatsuneko:iconkotatsuneko: Feb 16, 2009, 9:40:19 AM
Awesome!! I've heard a lot of great stuff about the Beguiling, it sounds like such a cool store. That's awesome that you'll be networking, too. There aren't any big indie cons where I live... actually, TCAF is probably the closest! I've mostly been networking at indie art fairs, which they have a few of in Detroit. TCAF sounds so cool, though... some of the guests there look great. I LOVE Bryan Lee O'Malley, and I noticed Paul Pope will be there, too... also Adrian Tomine, who started publishing mini-comics when he was our age. So cool.
~xglassmenagerie:iconxglassmenagerie: Feb 16, 2009, 11:03:20 AM
Well if you can get a bus ticket to Canada for that weekend, you're free to stay here! I'm not sure how big it is, the first time I went, it was a decent size...although it seems they've expanded a bit.
I'm a huge Paul Pope fan. I've grown, and admire numerous other artists, but Paul Pope was the guy who made me realize I could do comics. It's cheesy, I know. I found his work at TCAF, and going to TCAF on a whim (I saw an ad for it in the newspaper and figured why not) broke down that stereotype of american comics being either strips or superheroes.
Embarrassing to admit that I once thought that, but it happens.

There's another nice artist that started publishing mini-comics at our age (although he's not at TCAF), who went to SVA, Nate Powell. I recently read his book "Swallow Me Whole"
~kotatsuneko:iconkotatsuneko: Feb 16, 2009, 8:50:30 PM
If I'm able to get enough money, I'd love to come! The bus seems pretty quick as long as I get a ride into Canada first (no annoying transfers or anything). I'll let you know more about that once it gets closer to May.

As for Paul Pope, I feel exactly the same way about Peter Bagge! The first time I picked up one of his books, everything just clicked and I realized why I want to make comics etc etc etc... it really helped me find my voice. Before that I had many failed attempts at "angsy"-er comics... yikes. And, yeah, I used to think all American comics were about men in tights or were newspaper strips, too. I also thought I had to move to Japan because the only way I could make graphic novels was manga-style and nobody liked manga from the U.S. (I was twelve, okay??)! Things have changed a lot, ha ha.
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