Okay, last one for today, I promise.
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dolariSomething kinda funny before bed. I was friended the other day (and friended back) an artist/writer on my friends list. So i'm reading his entries along with everyone else and suddenly see the "Antarctic Press" with a link to the AP forums.
Not many people know that in another time and another place, I had a history with AP. :)
So I figure, he's just an AP fan, which is cool by me. Then I keep reading...and I find his profile on the AP forums. The guy writes Ninja High School, which is APs flagship title. And that's when I become SERIOUSLY glad that (1) I've transitioned over to being a girl (2) my online name is NOTHING like my old name and (3) people mellow with age (well, I mellowed with age, I can only hope everyone esle did).
Cause if this guy found my old name, and if he mentioned back to Ben or Doug or anyone who was at AP in the late 80s, early 90s, I'd get a knock on my door quickly followed with a punch to my face. :)
Back in the late 80s, I was a teenager with aspirations for stardom, and was pretty obnoxious (although we never know it at the time), and DAMMIT I was a KICK ASS artist and writer. Looking back a good 15 years, I was a kick ass WRITER. My art sucked. Still does, although not nearly as much as it did back then.
Living in San Antonio, going to the C/FO meetings, I met Ben Dunn and the AP crew, and tried to make an in with the company. Again, though 15 year old goggles, I was way in over my head, and was really obnoxious about wanting to get into comics and the like. When I was rejected (do you see AWFW or CS now? Imagine that a million times worse and trying to SELL it as a monthly comic), I took it a bit personally, and got all passive aggressive about it.
I said a few inappropriate things here and there I shouldn't have, pissed off a buncha people and general made myself unwelcome. I worked at the AP Comic Store till 1992, and a few years and comic-adventures-later, I got out of comics alltogether although I never really got INTO comics), till 2001, when I started AWFW.
I did see Ben a few years ago at a Chinese Buffet (I had to go male, because I was living with my parents through the 2001 layoffs), and he was really nice and cordial. Still, considering how I acted in the 80s/90s, I didn't want to push it by saying "Yeah, sorry about all those things I said about AP and NHS and whatnot." I really am sorry about it now, cause now I see I really was a Big Jerk.
Anyways, Hi, Robby! Say hi to everyone for me, and when they say "Who the hell is Jenn Dolari?" just give them a little nod and a wink maybe even a "You were right." But for god's sake DON'T MENTION THE MAYONNAISE INCIDENT. We were young, and unprepared for such things....
Huh, somehow I missed my 2000th journal entry. :) We're at 2004.
BED NOW!
Not many people know that in another time and another place, I had a history with AP. :)
So I figure, he's just an AP fan, which is cool by me. Then I keep reading...and I find his profile on the AP forums. The guy writes Ninja High School, which is APs flagship title. And that's when I become SERIOUSLY glad that (1) I've transitioned over to being a girl (2) my online name is NOTHING like my old name and (3) people mellow with age (well, I mellowed with age, I can only hope everyone esle did).
Cause if this guy found my old name, and if he mentioned back to Ben or Doug or anyone who was at AP in the late 80s, early 90s, I'd get a knock on my door quickly followed with a punch to my face. :)
Back in the late 80s, I was a teenager with aspirations for stardom, and was pretty obnoxious (although we never know it at the time), and DAMMIT I was a KICK ASS artist and writer. Looking back a good 15 years, I was a kick ass WRITER. My art sucked. Still does, although not nearly as much as it did back then.
Living in San Antonio, going to the C/FO meetings, I met Ben Dunn and the AP crew, and tried to make an in with the company. Again, though 15 year old goggles, I was way in over my head, and was really obnoxious about wanting to get into comics and the like. When I was rejected (do you see AWFW or CS now? Imagine that a million times worse and trying to SELL it as a monthly comic), I took it a bit personally, and got all passive aggressive about it.
I said a few inappropriate things here and there I shouldn't have, pissed off a buncha people and general made myself unwelcome. I worked at the AP Comic Store till 1992, and a few years and comic-adventures-later, I got out of comics alltogether although I never really got INTO comics), till 2001, when I started AWFW.
I did see Ben a few years ago at a Chinese Buffet (I had to go male, because I was living with my parents through the 2001 layoffs), and he was really nice and cordial. Still, considering how I acted in the 80s/90s, I didn't want to push it by saying "Yeah, sorry about all those things I said about AP and NHS and whatnot." I really am sorry about it now, cause now I see I really was a Big Jerk.
Anyways, Hi, Robby! Say hi to everyone for me, and when they say "Who the hell is Jenn Dolari?" just give them a little nod and a wink maybe even a "You were right." But for god's sake DON'T MENTION THE MAYONNAISE INCIDENT. We were young, and unprepared for such things....
Huh, somehow I missed my 2000th journal entry. :) We're at 2004.
BED NOW!
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Date: 2005-02-03 08:55 pm (UTC)And be glad you don't work here, they are slave drivers! I've been working the last three weeks solid on How to Tone Manga (a 144 page book from SCRATCH! In three weeks!) while toning three other books and I'm still barely getting paid for it! Working in comics sucks! But its also the greatest job there is at the same time... Go fig.
As incidentals- How'd you figure out I write Ninja High School? You'd actually have to look thru the site a bit to figure that out. I think. Names aren't overly prominent on the site unless its Fred Perry or Ben Dunn...
-I friended you due to reading your posts via Jonathan (tsubasa_kurenai) cause your ramblings seemed pretty amusing and fun. Say hi if you see him at the anime meetings.
-The Mayonaise incident? Do I want to know?
I was never here...
Date: 2005-02-03 11:10 pm (UTC)Re: I was never here...
Date: 2005-02-04 12:01 am (UTC)I shouldn't write when I've been up for 30 hours.
Re: I was never here...
Date: 2005-02-04 02:19 am (UTC)Re: I was never here...
Date: 2005-02-04 06:50 am (UTC)Re: I was never here...
Date: 2005-02-04 07:34 am (UTC)http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~anime/
They always love it when new people come :)
Re: I was never here...
Date: 2005-02-04 12:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-04 02:46 am (UTC)>deal with that?
I'm in the middle of a sex change. :) Started living as a woman in 1997, haven't looked back since (well, not very often, and only when I look at my bank statements).
>And be glad you don't work here, they are slave drivers!
Ah, so nothing has changed! ;)
>Working in comics sucks! But its also the greatest job there is at the
>same time... Go fig.
Yeah, I was talking with a fellow webcomic artist last night about how we make zero off these free comics...but we wouldn't give it up for the world. PEOPLE READ OUR STUFF AND LIKE IT! That's such a nice feeling....
>As incidentals- How'd you figure out I write Ninja High School? You'd
>actually have to look thru the site a bit to figure that out.
A little bit of homework, and curiosity.... When I saw you had an icon for the AP Forums, I went there, and saw all your posts. In one, you mentioned working on NHS. I was like "That's still around?" and ran off to the Titles section of the website. There ya were: Story be Ben Dunn, Plots by Robby Bevard. That's when I said "HOLY COW, THEY'VE FOUND ME!"
-The Mayonaise incident? Do I want to know?
If I told you, I'd have to kill you. Either way, you'd definately wanna wash your brain out with Lysol. ;)
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Date: 2005-02-04 04:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-04 11:22 am (UTC)Ah,all my time in the industry has either made me major fast skilled... or bitter. I'm not sure which...
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Date: 2005-02-04 02:01 pm (UTC)I recently came into some old 1990s support group strips I drew, which are in B&W and pretty heavy on the crosshatching. Normal floodfills just aren't going to cut it here, so I did all the color on a seperate layer.
No idea it was called Flatting. I just thought it was "saving a hell of a lot of time with the fill tool." :)
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Date: 2005-02-05 12:50 am (UTC)You just saved me a days work on my webcomics. Although, to be honest, I tried this and ended up with a scribbly nasty mess....
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Date: 2005-02-05 01:02 am (UTC)I guess "digital inking" is just a bit of a filler term people can use to label the process without having to get into the details. I have a feeling it won't be long till inking as a trade by itself bites the dust. Actually the discussion that led to me downloading that pic was about "digital inking". Rob is a pretty big proponent of it but it seems a lot of fans really miss the finishing. To be honest i don't really notice the difference as a quality thing, i just see it as a different style - it's all good yanno. Anywho so people were going on about how "digital inking" was a quick and dirty solution, that a monkey could do it... So off i went with this picture and, well, as a graphics amateur i couldn't get it right after adjusting levels and things. End result i don't have any less respect for the artists who go digital because it's still not easy, you've just got a bunch of new problems i guess. So yeah. I don't know what my point was.
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Date: 2005-02-05 01:11 am (UTC)no subject
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