We had a chilly morning here in Texas…in September. That’s unusual; at least it has been, for the last eight years. Perhaps we’ll see ‘Fall’ before the end of October for a change. ^_^;
It’s a production day, so I’m slave to SKYPE until 6:30 my time. 
I’m going to drink my coffee and answer some emails; I won’t be blog surfing until tonight, because I actually have lettering to do and I can’t put it off. I’ll be updating the GGY Polska blog with some samples of ‘Sacrifice’ [I still like Blood & Ash—but if she wants to call it Sacrifice, I won’t complain]. Hopefully there won’t be any script issues during production today, and I can knock out 125 pages of lettering by 4 p.m, of course that’s wishful thinking—something always gets in the way!
Oh, from the coot–but not reeely file:
Tina – I don’t do snarky. I’m into learning and understanding new ideas.
Oh, is that what it’s called? When you constantly harp about how much ‘western comics’ annoy you by bitching only about ‘Capes comics’ as if they’re the only thing coming out from the west? Oh, and Crat is incapable of learning and understanding new ideas…but you’ve cornered the market on it? It’s U 4TW Jack Tse…
*rolls eyes* Honestly, I didn’t mean to get all Julia Sugerbaker over there at PreCur, but I’m sick and tired of people extolling the virtues of the Japanese medium as a whole, and comparing it to to JUST ONE aspect of the American medium [always superhero fare], and feel that they’re making a legit comparison. Capes and spandex isn’t all English comics, stop comparing ONLY IT to all ‘comics from Japan’. There’s just as many lame ass Japanese genres out there as well, and shounen, for the most part, is just as contrite and stupid when it comes to accurately presenting girls and women—there’s good and bad, there always will be, in every genre–no matter what country of origin.
I’m also tired of hearing about how ‘Japan lacks diversity in comics’ because they’re an ‘isolated culture’. Bullshit. They know there are people of color, they know there are OTHER Asians, and they know other cultures exist…but many creators in Japan have never cared about accurately portraying them because no editor, publisher, or fandom, has ever called them out to do so. Just look what happened in BL…there was never lube and love, and ‘admitted gayness’ in BL until the last four years, when more and more critics and fans started saying ‘that’s not very realistic, can we get more realistic on such things’ and so writers [the good ones] started tailoring stories ‘just real enough’.
*shakes head* enough of that, I have real work to do.
