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So, for those of you who don't know (which would be everybody except like two of you on Gaia, I think), me and a friend of mine have been trying to get a manga off of the ground. It's something we've worked on for awhile and we have high hopes for it. Well, we did. Except for the fact that, over the course of the last couple of...years, the project has hit setback after setback. My friend is calling it cursed now. I don't think it's cursed, but who knows? You decide.
First Instance: When we first formed this idea in our head, we were all set to go. Had characters in our heads, storylines mapped out and our friend the artist all ready to draw! And then we....lost interest. See, procrastination and laziness is always a very large obstacle in this project. At first it was anyway. So that was when the project hit the first nose dive.
Second Instance:The revival came about about half a year later and, this time, the writing team was all set to go. Writing team being me and one friend of mine. The problem was the artist. See, I had a very simple storyboard all set for him. Nothing complex. It didn't even have to look that good! But, through some warped twist of logic, he decided he needed complete details. Meaning road maps and names of streets and sewer system bluprints. He's very into the realistic thing. But it's a goddamn manga! I don't think any of that is neccesary! I was fully willing to do it, though, just to get the project going, but I suck at drawing. And he wanted me to draw out stuff. If I could draw out stuff, I wouldn't have needed him in the first place!! What I had was unacceptable and so we lost our artist.
Third Instance: A few months later, we put up an ad for our need for an artist on a forum specifically made for that. I think it was called Artists Wanted, com or something. I'm sure somebody out there has heard of it. Anyway, we put up an ad for a new artist and got a couple of responses! E-mails were traded and plans were made and we were on our way.....and then we never heard from the artist we had found again. No more e-mails, no more responses to our e-mail, nothing. Dissapeared off the face of the earth. So the project hit another snag.
Fourth Instance:Morale was low, supplies were slim and we had to eat our guide and fashion his skin into warm clothing.....wait. That's a different project. Sorry. Anyway, this time around, morale really was low. We were starting to give up and so one of us, the public relations man of our group, went to go take down the ad he had put up. This was a few months later, mind you. When he went, it turned out we had gotten a hell of a lot more responses! We were psyched, obviously. Thought we were going to get the project off of the gound this time! We got an artist and everything and she even drew a few sketches for us without dissapearing! I was ecstatic and started writing out scripts and sketching rough storyboards and everything! And just when we were going to start on the first page of the actual manga....the artist went insane. Literally. In and out of psychitrist's offices and hospitals and on medications and everything. Strait jacket, padded wall crazy. Out of nowhere.
And this is how it stands now. Needless to say, I'm getting a bit discouraged. But I still have faith! This manga will get drawn and on the web! People will see it, dammit! You know.....barring anymore insanity or dissapearances, that is.
The Mighty Jorge · Fri Mar 24, 2006 @ 08:09pm · 0 Comments |
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