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How Faye Yong drew Shylock for The Merchant of Venice

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Manga Club Goes to Edinburgh

Back L to R: Rebekkah McAleese, Natalie McAleese, Darren McKenzie, Douglas Steel, Madison Alexander, Mrs Ingram, Kerri Sargent,… Continue

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Star Wars lightsasber chopsticks from Kotobukiya

I have nothing to say about these chopsticks, other than they are very cool and from Japan. Continue

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Interview with Emma Vieceli

In case you missed it, here's another chance to catch up with Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing artist, Emma Vieceli courtesy of the lovely people at Animetion. Continue

Added by SelfMadeHero on August 10, 2009 at 1:36pm — No Comments

Manga Day at Milton Keynes

We were very pleased to hear again from our friends at Milton Keynes Library’, who recently their first manga event. The night's organiser, Victoria Thornley, let us know that "it was a big success!" and sent some pics to prove it. Thanks Victoria!

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BBC BLAST – Get creative, part four

You can buy Emma's books here and here. Apologies if you can't see the video, as the BBC doesn't allow video streaming outside Britain.... which is… Continue

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BBC BLAST – Get creative, part two

You can buy Emma's books here and here. Apologies if you can't see the video, as the BBC doesn't allow video streaming outside Britain.... which is… Continue

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BBC BLAST – Get creative, part one

You can buy Emma's books here and here. Apologies if you can't see the video, as the BBC doesn't allow video streaming outside Britain.... which is… Continue

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Workshopping

SMH have been out and about doing some workshops in schools and museums. I took a quick snap of the whiteboa… Continue

Added by SelfMadeHero on July 7, 2009 at 3:16pm — No Comments

Comics artist in Residence

Friend of SMH, Karen Rubins, will spend the next s… Continue

Added by SelfMadeHero on June 29, 2009 at 12:24pm — No Comments

Mashing the classics - free event

This isn't something SMH is involved in, but looks good and it's free. So if you are in London on Saturday, then you could have some free fun on the Southbank. Here are the deets: The first of three Fresh Off The Page events in the London Literature Festival platforming some of the m… Continue

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Remember to download your free Manga Shakespeare glossary....

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Royal Shakespeare Company - Open Day (with Manga Shakespeare workshops!)

On the 19th July, the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford upon Avon (RSC), is throwing open its doo… Continue

Added by SelfMadeHero on June 22, 2009 at 11:19am — No Comments

What are you doing this Sunday?

I only ask, because if you are a Scottish Manga Shakespeare fan then you will have the rare opportunity to meet Manga Shakespeare artist, Emma Vieceli... in the flesh! That's right. *THE* Emma Vieceli, artist for… Continue

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Free Manga workshops in London (Sunday 28th June)

Breeze I… Continue

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MCM Expo May 2009 – The view from here

Well, SelfMadeHero enjoyed MCM Expo at London's ExCeL a few weeks ago and we've finally got round to showing you some of our photos from the day. This one (above) is King Lear artist, Ilya, The Tempest artist, Paul Duffield and the A Midsummer Night's Dream artist, Kate Brown. Each… Continue

Added by SelfMadeHero on June 3, 2009 at 4:21pm — No Comments

Camden New Journal praises King Lear

London based artist, Ilya, who recently illustrated King Lear, for the Manga Shakespeare series, was recently interviewed by The Camden New Journal. You can read the story here, but I thought I'd post a couple of quick snaps of the actual paper as they really went to town with an image of Cordelia and splashed it over the first page of t… Continue

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Manga Shakespeare Saturday at The Cartoon Museum

This is what SelfMadeHero was up to last weekend as London baked in (almost)… Continue

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Manga Jiman Competiton 2009!

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hehe, I did an A4 comic page for magazine use for these guys, and look what the clever things did with it!
If you know any footballers who would be interested in a product like this, do pass the link on...I got to sample the energy sweets, and they're fab!
Sci-fi half time oranges :)

The Making of The Tempest & Midsummer Night's Dream

The final cover.

Oh yeah ...!



This was the cover that ended up being used in the final book design! The image is cropped a little bit on the cover, and it's a veerrrry slightly different colour (more yellow in the shadows, I seem to remember), but this is basically the picture ^_^

Oh my god, I drew this about ... three or four months ago now? I cain't remember. I do remember it was a couple of pages [of comic] before I started on the section with Bottom with his animal head, so I wasn't used to drawing the donkey ... as such, this image took about two hours to edit together so that the problems I had with the head were sorted into a more or less convincing ... er, image. Originally, Titania was leaning on him, but now she's ... er, not. Um!

I learned during this comic why, in most illustrations of Donkey-Bottom, he is really rather well-built ... and it's because trying to fit a huge head onto a skinny body really doesn't work. Of course, MY Bottom is quite thin (never thought I'd be able to say that in context, hahaha). So I had a lot of problems!

.............. p194

... finished.

p177

I've .... I've just drawn an amphitheatre. *cough-hack-die*

To those who don't know - which I'm guessing will be about 100% of you - my absolute pet hates in drawing are (in order of lowest to highest Hate): feet-and-toes, chairs, curving scenery/things that involve circles, and stairs. So obviously, a ROUNDISH theatre COMPOSED OF STAIRS is not high on my list of likes. Oh god. Oh god. I haven't pencilled the lines yet, it's still at rough stage. IT COULD ALL GO VERY WRONG.

I had a count-down to the day I had to draw Bottom with his animal head (it was called D-Day, hur hur hurrrr), but THIS one sneaked up on me. I only realised today was Amphitheatre Day when I sat down to draw.

At any rate, all I can hope for is something that resembles an amphitheatre to some degree ... whine, moan, etc.

I have HOWEVER thumbnailed the entirity of the sequentials now. I finshed the buggers off (I hate thumbnailing too) the other week and now feel much better for it.

I'M NEARLY DONE I'VE NEARLY DONE THE WHOLE THING OMG.

The Book is Here!!

The Tempest has been printed! :D I received a copy in the post a few days ago, and it's looking great! It's amazing to actually see and hold a book that's filled with your own illustrations, I'm pretty excited!
It's also good to be able to read it through in its intended format. I'm quite pleased with the pace of the read, although I can't really comment objectively, since I know the story inside out now. Well, next step, release date! The launch event is later this month :)

It's in the trees! It's coming!

I'm out of the woods! I'm out of the woods!! I DON'T HAVE TO DRAW ANY MORE TREES OMG so happy. *headdesk*

Fnurgle.

OOOooooh. Coffee and F-Zero X for breakfast does not a steady hand make. Urrrgh.

... page 138 ....

Off To Print!

Proofing on The Tempest is now finished! Hopefully every last spelling mistake and image-based error has been found and sorted out. It should be a few weeks at the printer, and then I get to see the finished thing :D I can't wait! It's going to be my first complete book!
I'll check back when the finished thing is ready.

Proofing

I guess it's common opinion that once you've finished working on all the pages that's it! You're done, the comic is finished and the printer just needs to print it (or at least that's what I naively thought XD).

But no!

Proofing turns out to be quite an extensive and intense process! So far about 6 or 7 people (including me - many times) have read The Tempest through, making notes and suggestions that will help the final product to be at 110% quality.
In this process, all sorts of things are picked up on, such as inconsistency in images or characters, page order and page numbers, confusion about speech bubbles and who they belong to, page flow, legibility of text etc etc.

So far, more than 20 pages have been tweaked and edited. It's amazing how many mistakes a fine-tooth comb can pick out! However, this process has gone quite smoothly, and is now almost over... the day that the book goes to print is truly growing near, and I'm really looking forward to seeing it printed and bound!

Thanks to Kate, Charlie & Simon for taking time out to have a look over it :)

Lysander is a meanie

To be honest, Lysander is my least favourite character in Midsummer Night's Dream. It always shocks me how awful he becomes when under the influence of the flower (just say no, kids). Like, ACTUALLY horrible. Look how upset he makes Hermia:




Of course, it's not really Lysander's fault. The dear couldn't have done ANYTHING wrong, really. So with feminine lightning-quick recovery, Hermia beats on her best friend instead:




Haha! Hmm. Well, regardless of his nastiness, I'm not keen on Lysander. There was something about him that left a bad taste in my mouth from the beginning, and although my opinions of each of the characters has changed variously as I've worked with them, he's ... still way at the bottom of my scale of Likeness. Mm.

My most favouritist character is Helena. She's genuinely wonderful :D She's so ... kind of ... flappy! I don't know how to describe her. I think her edit for the Manga Shakespeare version has worked really well, too.

The character interactions are very delicate in general, especially during the long scenes in the wood ... I really appreciate these parts. It's been really cool breaking them down and deciding (as fast as possible, hur hur), what to do and how to place the couples and etc.

I am just about to start thumbnails for 130 - 161! It involves more screaming and shouting and Oberon.

FINIIISHED

Wahey! I've finished The Tempest! That's 193 b/w pages and 9 colour pages, plus a cover illustration and various revisions/tweaks.
It feels great to have completed something so large, and I'm really excited to see it go to the printers. I'll be getting a copy of the proofs in a few days, and after all the checking has been done, it'll be a month or two before the actual shop release date. There's already a provisional page for it up on amazon.

I have to say, having completed the project, I now respect/appreciate Shakespeare in a whole new light. Previously, I'd only studied his plays for educational purposes, and never really enjoyed it properly, but the act of constantly referencing the edited version with the full version, and trying to deconstruct the prose and verse into images and solid meaning is a real eye-opener. If you want to do well on a Shakespeare-based exam, I suggest trying to edit down and illustrate a few famous passages! You won't forget those bloody quotes after you've had to create a character to deliver them! And you'll really appreciate the poetry of the language when you're bashing your head on the table thinking 'how can I create an image meaningful enough to replace this bit of what I previously though was just meaningless embellishment!?'.

Anyways XD I digress... I'm finished! And taking a short break from work, which is a pleasurable relief after 12 hour days 7 days a week for months.

Sonia Leong - Livejournal

Leeds Thought Bubble news coverage

Aha, found out about this thru my twitter friends. Here be a youtube clip from the regional news coverage of the event. OMG, comics aren't just for kids, SHOCK HORROR. Let's play Spot Who You Know XD

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