[Ashlee]

who the hell cares!"HIC" Just keep her Comming DCM,Another drink Sweetie,
"HIC" and I show you what I did with the washer machine!"HIC" 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆

[JimmyDimples]

Regrettably, I can't get DCM's blog from here… must be that Great Firewall in action. 🙁

So I'm glad for the tip-off.

Oh, and DCM, nice work as always.

[David C. Matthews]

I'm very gratified by all the support, but don't be too hard on Androxi. I'll be the first to admit my attempts to do a "manga/anime" style aren't as sucessful as I'd like to be in its "authenticity" (by which I mean, "does this look like it was actually drawn by a Japanese manga-ka?")

But as Kulli points out, it is my style, and it does seem to be unique. And I am happy that so many readers like it. And I realize not everyone's going to enjoy it; so as the words of the old song goes, "you can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself."

(And Androxi said he/she did like my other comics, so that's a good thing!!)

[David C. Matthews]

Regrettably, I can't get DCM's blog from here… must be that Great Firewall in action. 🙁

So I'm glad for the tip-off.

Oh, and DCM, nice work as always.

Great Maker! It never occurred to me that there'd be places where my blog would get banned. (I'm assuming you can still access the main site, right?)

Is anyone else having this problem (a government or other "official entity" preventing access to either the main site or the blog)?

[JimmyDimples]

Yup.  The main site I can see clear as day.  Thank heaven for small favors.  🙂

[ze fly]

Hey man, your the one who writes and illustrates the tetsuko comic aren't ya? I'm really sorry to have to tell you this, but in my experience, your tetsuko character really doesn't look much good in the anime style. It's the face I'm sorry to say. It looks really queer to me.
The fact is that your so good an artist that the anime face on the superbly drawn and richly coloured and shaded body of your character looks completely out of place. For it to work you'll have to draw with less detail. In all the animes and mangas the characters never have that much detail to start with, the characters are pretty simplistically drawn and shaded. Regular mangas aren't even coloured!
I hope this helps. really. I like your other comics though, they're superb.

Well, if on an academic point of view, I concur with you, I'd be really disapointed if  DCM changed his style.

First, mangas are simplistically drawn due mainly to the high productivity asked from the authors, which is not the case for our great artist (it's absolutely not a reproach: I prefer quality to quantity).

And second if you want to be a purist, mangas are japanese, like "BD" are from Belgium… and if my eyes don't deceive me when I look at dcmatthews avatar he barely look asian to me so let's say he made an amalgam we might call "dcmanga" if the author doesn't find this to pretentious 😀

Wow, hope I wasn't too pompous. 🙄  Anyway, Androxi may be right but I still love the art… 😆

[David C. Matthews]

so let's say he made an amalgam we might call "dcmanga" if the author doesn't find this to pretentious 😀

"DCManga"… I think I like it!! (It'd make a great publishing-house name, except for the confusion with DC Comics…)

[mangamuscle]

*comes out of hiding, waves to the crowd*

First, mangas are simplistically drawn due mainly to the high productivity asked from the authors, which is not the case for our great artist (it's absolutely not a reproach: I prefer quality to quantity).

This is a common misconception, making black and white drawings (with lots of pantone ditherings) is not faster than doing color comics, quite the opposite. As a matter of fact you need a "head artist" and four "auxiliary artistis" to do the average manga monthly quota. The truth is that black and white drawings are cheaper to print (1 ink vs. 4 or more inks) and they can be printed on cheap (recycled) paper, that is why for little money you can get telephone sized books. So no, if Tetsuko suddenly became "manga style" pages would not be drawn faster, maybe you are confusing it with the "anime style", that is quite faster to draw and color, albeit that style is used for animations and so far I have only seen few animated clips of tetsuko ;_;

And second if you want to be a purist, mangas are japanese, like "BD" are from Belgium…

As a purist I must say "manga" is simply the japanese word to say "comics", people have come to identify it with a suposedly japanese style of drawing when the truth is that the big eyes, the action lines and other "manga attributes" were taken from american comics, if you want true "japanese style" comics you must look at earlier historical periods and even then you can clearly see chinese influence in those drawings. To summarize, we live in a global world, every day becomes harder to say any art or artisan style is "pure" (as in "has no influence from diferente cultures").

*quickly goes back to hiding*

[David C. Matthews]

I just finished Page 8!

(Eegore, you were right about the splash page 😆 )

[g-man]

Nice!

My only minor complaint, there seems to be some texture warping along the right side of the bed. It looks like it has been smudged upwards.

[Author]

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