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Shakespeare Manga Creator Roundtable
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| Shakespeare Manga has landed on B&N & Amazon |
[Feb. 5th, 2008|09:50 pm] |
The official release date for Wiley's Shakespeare Manga is February 11th but somehow it ended up in Amazon and Barnes and Noble sooner. So soon that you can order it right now and have it at your doorstep the day after you order it.
I don't know about other Barnes and Noble but in NYC you can get it today in the Shakespeare section not the manga section. Here is a shot of it all lined up and shiny.
You can order it through Amazon in the links provided.
Romeo & Juliet by Yali
Hamlet by Tintin
Macbeth by Eve and Candice
Julius Caesar by me.
hope y'all enjoy. If you have any criticism email me or post it and tell me about it, I will read it and hopefully make the next comic without those flaws. |
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[Jan. 23rd, 2007|12:35 am] |
at loong last! the pencils for hamlet! I usually make rough pencils and finish the drawings at the inking stage, but these are pretty tight pencils for me! the lettering is still being worked on though, I finally figured out how to use Illustrator for lettering. photoshop is a be-yotch!
I was looking at the hamlet manga strip being developed by Self Made Hero in UK and noticed that both of our hamlets have platinum blonde hair. What is up with that? What is it about the Danish Prince that makes people want to color him as an albino? Reminds me of Elric of Melnibone'.....hmm, white haired bastards......
on to ACT TWO |
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[Sep. 5th, 2006|10:48 am] |
Well... guess I'll post some of the toned pages..... It's coming but slowly
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12_13
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16_17
fell free to verbally attack the pages. |
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| Interesting specs and useful information |
[Aug. 24th, 2006|02:07 pm] |
Hey!
I just wanted to make some suggestions for setting up the pages that aren't listed in Wiley's specs. It's just how bleed area works and how to bitmap the pages so they print out crisply.
For how bleed and safety areas work I advise going to Tokyopop's rising stars of manga machanical specs here- http://www.tokyopop.com/aboutus/mechspec5.pdf. It's not the size we're using but it gives you a good idea of how things will look on a page and what things will be likely to get cut off when your lettering.
For printing I find that 600 DPI works really well bitmapped at 50% threshold. This will prevent against the fuzziness, which will happen if the page isn't bitmapped. That's why a lot of the older manga looks fuzzy. To bitmap, go to mode and select bitmap, then choose 600 DPI (your page has to be scanned @ 600 DPI for this to work) then choose 50% threshhold. You also wont be able to keep any layers after this. You should also bitmap after lettering if your lettering in photoshop. Well, that's about it! If you have any suggestions let me know.
~Eve |
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[Aug. 13th, 2006|03:01 am] |
Hamlet comic is coming akong well! just finished scanning act one . Now for the tedious task of compositing. I thought I'd be done sooner if I just photocopied the art, but you lose so much quality that i t decided to scan the pages in bits and stick them together in photoshop. here's a teaser of the final inks. It's one of my favorite panels because it took so long to ink, and all you really see is Hamlet's damn big eye.
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[Aug. 13th, 2006|02:21 am] |
Guys, I think I just noticed something. Since each Act starts with an even numbered-page (on the left-hand side)- the Act Title pages are always gonna be on a right-side page (odd numbered page).
This means that the Act Title pages will always be on an odd-numbered page (on the right side).
For this to happen, every Act has to end on an even number. For example, Act one cannot end on page 33, it has to end on 32 or 34.
Furthermore, the Act Title page is already numbered as if it were a normal comics page. That means that if an Act is 34 pages, that 34 pages is made up of 33 comics pages and one Act Title page.
Am I correct? Somedbody please verify this, my math/number skills are atrocious! I think I understoond it the first time, but I'm not taking any chances. |
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[Aug. 10th, 2006|01:49 pm] |
By the way, what is everyone using to screentone...do you have a screentone program? I was planning to use photoshop but want to start experimenting with commercial tones.
And does anyone but eve ink digitally? im finding it's a pain in the ass to scan each page twice because they're too big |
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| Nice Work |
[Aug. 7th, 2006|10:05 am] |
Hi, all -- Adam here. Just checking in to express my general admiration (bordering on amazement) for the work you're all doing -- and I know Greg, our editor at Wiley, agrees with me. I honestly think we're adding something new to the centuries-long tradition of interpreting Shakespeare's plays, and I'm thrilled to be a part of that.
Along those lines, I want to encourage all of you to strive for representations of the situations and ideas in the plays that aren't possible in any other genre -- things that can't be done onstage or even in the movies. One example of this would be Eve and Candice's panel illustrating Macbeth's disemboweling of an enemy. It's absolutely faithful to the language of the play, and yet I've never seen it dramatized anywhere -- not even in Roman Polanski's grisly film (which I highly recommend).
Starting with Act II, therefore, I will be leaving the page layout of each act entirely up to you, the artists. As in Act I, you will receive a script entailing the action and dialogue to illustrate, but the precise use of the 35 pages per act will be your call. While you must stay true to the content of the play, I encourage you to be as radical as you want, drawing panels -- pages! -- with no dialogue whatsoever, if you like. Lots of closeups, overhead shots, you name it. Be as manga as you want, and then some.
Let me know if this makes sense, okay? And keep doing what you're doing, everybody -- it's amazing. |
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[Jul. 27th, 2006|03:26 pm] |
Bloody hell, it takes too long to link to everything! Just go to this folder if you wanna see the entire Act 1 rough pencils.,
Am inking now...the inking was a bit schizo -until everything clicked together sometime yesterday afternoon. I had to dig out my old deleter nibs , which I thought I'd given up for the brush permanently...looks like I'm gonna have to mail order more nibs from California soon. |
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| New pages |
[Jul. 16th, 2006|02:07 am] |
All righty. Here's some new pages, plus page 9 with more battle! Over 50% more carnage than before. What a deal!
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[Jul. 11th, 2006|02:22 pm] |
Well, here's the next set of pages. We've come two thirds into Act one, with all the major characters being introduced. Here's a couple of notes:
Most productions of the play have Claudius, and Gertrude give their blessings Polonius's son, Laertes, and discuss the problem of Fortinbras. I've separated the two speeches because it seems to me that the former is of a more personal nature than the latter, so it's logical that they'd be made in different settings. The beauty of comics is that you can restage whole turns of dialogue without worrying about having 'dead space' in the soundtrack, and turn what would have been spoekn or narrated, as a voice-over.
Another note:, Hamlet commonly gives his first soliloquy "Oh that this too, too sullied flesh should melt..." in the empty throne room after the king and queen have departed. I originally wanted to stage this in his bedroom, until I realized something: Everybody's been discussing the dead king until now- in fact, the entire act revolves around the king's recent death. Yet, save for a ghostly image, we haven't seen the dead king (Hamlet Senior). He's just a concept at this point. So I staged Hamlet's soliloquy inside the crypt instead, as he gazes at his father's tombstone making Hamlet Senior a character in his own right, and making a visual connection between the dialogue and the drawings.
It was hard finding reference for Medieval castle interiors- most castles of sufficient "Medieval-ness" have been destroyed or damaged from war, reducing their grand halls and private rooms to rubble. So I've had to look at medieval monasteries and cloisters instead- many of them are still in use.
http://mentaltentacle.com/IMAGES/Externally_Linked/HAMLET_Production/roughpencil_7.jpg
http://mentaltentacle.com/IMAGES/Externally_Linked/HAMLET_Production/roughpencil_8.jpg
http://mentaltentacle.com/IMAGES/Externally_Linked/HAMLET_Production/roughpencil_9.jpg
http://mentaltentacle.com/IMAGES/Externally_Linked/HAMLET_Production/roughpencil_10.jpg
http://mentaltentacle.com/IMAGES/Externally_Linked/HAMLET_Production/roughpencil_11.jpg
http://mentaltentacle.com/IMAGES/Externally_Linked/HAMLET_Production/roughpencil_12.jpg
http://mentaltentacle.com/IMAGES/Externally_Linked/HAMLET_Production/roughpencil_13.jpg
http://mentaltentacle.com/IMAGES/Externally_Linked/HAMLET_Production/roughpencil_14.jpg
http://mentaltentacle.com/IMAGES/Externally_Linked/HAMLET_Production/roughpencil_15.jpg
http://mentaltentacle.com/IMAGES/Externally_Linked/HAMLET_Production/roughpencil_16.jpg |
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[Jul. 8th, 2006|10:38 am] |
I just saw an interesting post regarding our project over here: It's by a poster who calls himself David D. And he makes a very good point :
"What I think could be great about this- particularly for what seems to be the high school and young audience this editor is targeting (it is telling that the four titles they chose are the ones that sold best in Cliff Notes)-- is that if a student who doesn't have the opportunity to see a good stage production of one of the plays can read this first to get a sense of the plot and then actually go and read the play. The Elizabethan audience would usually know the plot of the play ahead of time, as Shakespeare was adapting stories and histories rather than inventing plots. So a student who had already done the Manga of Hamlet to know the characters and events could then have better footing when actually reading or hearing the play. Hope this works out for them."
I have to confess that I at first doubted whether the market really needed yet another Shakespeare adaptation. But this post really convinced me. I mean, the Shakespeare stories are so famous, to be a literate Western educated person it's almost necessary to at least know the plot s, characters and a few best lines. It's part of Western popular culture. |
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[Jul. 7th, 2006|04:00 pm] |
Hey, ok, here's the first 4 pages of macbeth. This is pretty diferent from how I envisioned it, which was with lots of crazy crosshatching, but hey, u do what u have to. Besides, I actually kind of like it like this suprisingly. The black and whites are kin dof nice and I'm going to besad when grayscale is added. The background on page 9 is going to be changed, cause I want big massive battle scenes. Hey, body parts flying is what it's all about after all.
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