So, there is no announcement of a sale this morning, but they have made a deal with Harper Collins, publishing rival of Random House, for HC to distribute their books to the trade. Further, there'll be manga adaptations of popular HC authors, with Meg "Princess Diaries" Cabot being name-dropped. Here's hoping the adaptations are more like the movie, which was delightful, and less like the books, which plod in comparison.
The cuts make sense now, as HC staff can/will cover.
St00 Le\/y makes his usual incomprehensible pronouncement: "[the deal] would expand the manga lifestyle into mainstream youth culture, building a new paradigm in entertainment, where east meets west and a new generation of mult-ethnic creators can flourish"
He's like a one-person fucking drinking game, isn't he?
For every time he says "paradigm", one drink.
For every time he says "lifestyle", one drink.
For every time he says "east meets west", one drink.
"Multi-ethnic creators" SNORT. Or should I say, "BINGO!"
NBM/Papercutz, I hope, will be quick to point out they did it first with Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew. I wouldn't want to draw Hardy Boys again, but I'd so love to do adaptations of the classic Three Investigators. (I don't think 3I need new stories.) On the other hand, I've drawn HB, The Little Mermaid, and Marsupilami, and it's cool to say you've done it, but the pay is not what you'd expect for such legendary properties, especially not when you take into account the amount of work a conscientious artist* puts into the job.
* And yes, I'd consider myself one. For the HB, I researched their home's layout, their mythic location, which direction planes came into Paris from the Middle East, Persian Gulf road signs, GPS, bicycles, military humvees, tent bases, horses, how to get to the Eiffel Tower across water, and LAN parties.
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I will be interesting to see where the manga medium goes from here. It's popular enough now among the teenage crowd that when they are "all growed up", it might not be unusual to see it even more in the 20+ crowd. These days, I can't travel without seeing at least 1 to 2 people in the 12 - 19 year old range reading it nearby - and I'm the old guy who pulls out his (read "V for Vendetta" again recently that way).
Though, reading one that my sister recommended on the plane can make a guy feel like a dirty old man when you turn the page and get face to face with a bathhouse scene - muchu embarrassment hoping the elderly lady on my left and the business gentleman on my right didn't think I was checking out Aoi and her friends all nekked (insert sweat drops here).
2] Regarding you drawing the Three Investigators.... I'd love to see you draw THE SIVER SPIDER and all those lovely romantic medieval castle scenes. But I'd also have a hankering for your vision of just some of the basic 3I stuff like Tunnel Two and Headuarters. I think you'd be ace.
I'm glad to see it results in more work for Cartoonists, and hopefully Harper Collins will have a good affect in how TP deals with their creators. It'll be interesting to see future announcements for licesnes and domestic works once the companies settle in to their respective roles.
Bon sang de bonsoir!
I love le Marsupilami!
I just might commission you to draw me one, if you're amenable.
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Remember what I said about the OEL initiative by TP, and their contracts that hem in creators? PROPERTIES. Making the bottom line look shiny with l9ots of exploitable properties, and creators.
Not that I could think of working for TPop, regardless. I just can't draw the manga style. It ain't in me. Maybe I should just move to France and get drunk with Gilbert Shelton.
I may end up being wrong with my gloomy predictions, but nothing in comics so far has shown me a TP deal is the way to go.
The good thing about learning to draw comics is that you learn so much stuff that you can use in places other than the comic industry.