i’ve seen the book. the colouring was probably done in like 5 minutes–that sort of colouring standard is the standard when someone just uses one colour for the hair, then switches to screen brush mode and quickly colours out the highlights. the pictures are of a standard of a NOVICE manga artist. i dont know how anyone with that standard DARES to put out such rubbish into the market.

i’ll tell you what manga is good. pick up REAL manga from japan and you’ll see whats good.

I had to order the manga from over sea\’s becaue it won\’t be released in Australia.

I\’m not saying that her latest album isn\’t as good as her last ones, but compring her to Paris Hilton, now really, is that necessary?

The story is fantastic and there is a lot of depth behind it, everyone should read it before they judge it, and if you don\’t want to read it because you think it\’s \”gay\” then what\’s the point in even leaving a comment?

I\’m a huge manga and anime fan, so I know when work is good. I even plan to one day become a manga artist myself and am well on the way of learning japanese.

So don\’t diss unless you really know your manga and anime well.

I too before i read it would have thought the same thing as Patrick. But I was wrong I would actualy recomend it to you guys but I am sure once you have made your mind up you will/ won’t like it ether way. I still do not get why it says staring avril lavgine… She isn’t really the star of this whole manga. xD

Too bad it’s true.

Heh.

Chris Hart’s art is dreadful, and his “manga” even worse. His art instruction books are dreadful. The only good art in them is drawn by other people.

I’d be very surprised if DelRey has taken on a Hart book with art by Hart.

Think I’m being mean? See Hart’s own work at:

http://www.artstudiollc.com/manga_tutorials/manga_cat_girl.html
It’s pretty grim. You can read any of them and realize Hart hasn’t even the most tenuous grasp of “manga style,” nor does the instruction (getting my Toth on here) teach a damn thing about structure or good drawing–just how to ape Hart’s wretched work.

Blech.

I do get what Sean says above. I don’t begrudge him that opinion in the slightest. But for us to push ahead and make the innovated leaps in tech necessary to download an entire 220-page graphic novel onto a cell phone we had to align ourselves with a media juggernaught who would capture the attention of an audience larger than just the early adopters. Unfortunately this is the paradigm we must play in if we’re to make change.

One of the reasons why this will not be downloaded onto N. American phones is that the tech-level of the phones here cannot support our ambitions, unlike the more advanced phones in Asia.

So, the fact is that I wrote the best story I could (Avril isn’t an actual character in the piece, she’s the imaginary friend of an obsessive 15 year old Japanese girl), and I’m proud of it. Just between you and me and the rest of this board, I agree that corporate association compromises the artistic integrity of any art. I wrestled with saying yes to this project for a long time. But in the end, I think the work we’re doing in Asia will be viewed as a seminal step in moving comics into a digital realm, and I wanted to be a part of that.

This whole Del Rey thing, it’s just the corporate machine at work. Del Rey had nothing to do with the production of this book. I’ve never even talked to anybody at Del Rey, and I’ve been a part of this project from day one. It was put together by the visionaries at House of Parlance. Thanks for reading.

I just can’t get behind a story published as press for a new album, I know her fans will probably eat it up though.

-SH.

There is a Good Year plant that pays very well, but treats their workers very badly. The rest of the works is retail/service jobs for those people, with the exception of the government offices. There is a lot of unemployment there. As they say, it’s a very small town and I don’t think they have any post secondary education there.

So I don’t have anything bad to say about her. She used her talents and did what it took to get out of there and into a better life. Good for her.

http://www.joshuadysart.com/journal/archives/001327.html

PS: There’s now talk that we can get the cover re-colored to better fit the tone of the piece, which is actually a young adult horror tale.

And for the cat who said that “Anime purists are gonna love this news”, let me just say that the rights were sold in Japan (where it will be downloaded onto cell phones and then printed in hardcopy) before they were ever sold here in the States. The North American rights are secondary.

But the derision is understandable. Those few non-Avril fans that give the story a shot will be pleasantly surprised by the depth and darkness of the work.

Peace.