Looking into my crystal ball....

More and more recently, I have been looking into what I want to do with SPOON, whether to publish it into book format or just have it as a webcomic. I have always had it as a webcomic in hopes of it becoming a book but with the paper industry becoming more and more obsolete, it seems making SPOON a webcomic seems more beneficial and publishing it in volumes.

This post is not about me being depressed like I was a couple of months ago, but rather thinking of different ways to make my dream become a reality. :)

But before making any final decisions, I will still finish chapter 0 and submit it to various companies and see if i recieve, if any feedback.

In other news, me and my rival, Mr. Contreras have created a PROMATEURS twitter account:
http://twitter.com/#!/promateurs

So for those of you who missed it, catch the first episode here:
http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=99009&cmd=tc

We have decided to release episodes in a biweekly format so the next episode will be out next Friday! If any of you have any interesting topics for us to discuss, let us know!

-YOONICORN-

ON AIR

I am rolling along with SPOON finally and calling it chapter 0. After it's completion, I will submit it to other companies hoping for SOME kind of feedback, since I am getting back into my groove. Whether I will serialize this edition is still up in the air since I do have a really good story in mind (well I think it is). Also....

The PROMATEURS podcast has finally hit the air!...on the internet that is!

http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=99009&cmd=tc

Me and my rival/friend Contreras (author of BLADE OF THE FREAK) will be doing a weekly podcast every Friday discussing various topics in the world of manga/comics/webcomics. If anyone has any interesting topics for us to talk about, feel free to comment on this blog or my fanpage or Contrera's fanpage. We would love to hear what everyone thinks!

YOONICORN

PROMATEUR

Hello!

So I have finally graduated from college and now looking for jobs...hooray?

Anyways, me and my rival, Contreras have long last met...computer to computer through skype! And with this technology, we have decided to do a weekly podcast called PROMATEUR.

what is promateur?

It is a name I came up with in one of my discussions with Contreras about a possible magazine title and I came up with Promateur which was the inbetween of going pro but yet still amateurs in technique. So it is an inbetween, but we have decided to name our podcast this instead. So with this podcast, we will be discussing various topics such as the state of manga today to various penciling techniques. If you have any topics or questions for us to address in the podcast, just write on my SPOON page or Contrera's fan page:

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pages/Blade-of-the-Freak/125511932636

So tell all your friends! A post about when and where to hear these podcasts will be arriving soon!

YOONICORN

Been awhile

As you can see, I have completed the cover to a new edition of SPOON! The character on the cover may seem familiar :)

I actually did draw 2 pages but I have become fickle and decided to scrap the two pages, which I might post up later as reject specials. I plan to get my drawing groove back and start applying for jobs as well to get my life together. The deadline for the contest is July 31st and as to whether I continue reserialization with SPOON is 50/50.

Me and my rival, Contreras have been discussing more and more about our online manga/comic idea and there seems to be other sites that have already started this, but that is not to say him and I will not do it. So now that college is over, I now have no more excuses to pursue my dreams and I hope to keep up this enthusiam! I will keep whoever reads this blog updated on how I plan to go about the future of SPOON, but first things first! Finishing this oneshot! :)

YOONICORN

The Dawn of a New Age

Today, I have read an interview between two mangakas: Ken Akamatsu and Kentaro Takekuma.

http://2chan.us/wordpress/2011/04/17/article-translation-the-exhaustive-debate-between-kentaro-takekuma-x-ken-akamatsu-%e2%80%9cthe-role-manga-editors-should-take-in-the-e-publishing-era%e2%80%9d-part-1/

It is divided into 5 parts and it is a conversation about the future of the manga industry, well comics in general with the coming of the technological age. This is much like conversations I have had with my rival, Contreras, creator of BLADE OF THE FREAK.

My father always asks me what i want to do with my future and I always reply, make manga and then he asks, "how?"

My plan was to keep practicing and coming up with a good story that I enjoy and one day start serializing it on paper while being a teacher (unless I start making more money making manga, lol). But with the internet becoming more of a resource, especially for comics, with people reading manga online instead of buying it, which I also guilty of, lol.

As of now, my plan in a couple of years is to start serializing SPOON online and have people pay a dollar a month and then publish chapters into volumes and perhaps collaborate with other mangakas on the site. Me and Contreras both are on board with this idea and will start having a podcast, lol. So this is my idea for the future and I hope all of you will support me, especially since I feel the power! haha.

-YOONICORN-

BREAKTHROUGH

Hola, Haven't posted in awhile and I just want to say that I have been having huge leaps of progress in my thouht process, meaning I think I got through my writers block! Of course some may argue such a thing may not exist, but my definition of it is even though you are coming up with ideas, they just are not good enough, nothing that makes you all excited to draw and I have been struggling for a long time trying to come up with a main backstory for SPOON. Like what are his goals and how people can connect to him. I juggled with a lot of ideas and talked with a lot of friends to figure it all out but I think I finally know what to do. I finally feel the creativity and feel like the story is all coming together! I feel that I have been going through periods of high amoutns of creativity and this is something every artist struggles with. I always read interviews by Terry Moore and he explains that he loves drawing with ideas that make him so excited and he wants to see it happen. I finally understand what he means. So what is the new idea? I'll explain: "Because of a curse, Charles has become a spoon and is on quest to find a spell to revert him back to his human form. " That is the main concept and I will not go into detail, lol. It may sound cliche, but I know with my ideas, I can make it a fun ride! To be honest, I read a manga called "Oumadogaki", which I highly recommend and it helped me...well believe in myself a little more. Oh and on top of that, I plan to enter this contest where I have to come up with a drawing showing all the characters of BAKUMAN. Here is the link for those of you interested: http://shonenjump.viz.com/bakumanfanartcontest I've reread all the chapters yesterday and have a decent idea, lol. The deadline is at the end of April and I do plan on submitting and we'll go from there. =)

Instead of doing homework....

Instead of doing homework that is due tomorrow, I ended up making this piece, lol.

Some of you may notice I have tweaked Charles' design a bit, haha. It is not 100%, but I like it more than before, I hope you all agree as well, haha.

Since the tsunami, I have wanted to make a drawing showing my support for Japan and inspiration finally hit me while I was at my friend, Oscar's place. I started to think of some decent thumbnails for the chapter I want to submit for the contest.

So yeah, JAPAN!

=)