Dreams and Dragons: Page 3

Dreams and Dragons is a web comic written by yours truly and drawn by the very talented Pockymonster. It's a short fantasy story about a group of monster hunters who may have taken on a job that's too big for them. Page 3 is now up on Smackjeeves: http://dreamsanddragons.smackjeeves.com/

Tuesday means new Random Play

Page two of the two page story 'Stargazing' is up now at Random Play: http://randomplay.smackjeeves.com. It's a short comic I did last summer as part of a challenge with myself to use only paint (the real stuff, not the MS kind) to illustrate a comic. The result was a little messy and short on detail (actually, that sounds like how all my drawings look), but I really love the first panel on page one. There are some inconsistencies that bug me now reading it a year later, and I would have done the panel transitions a little differently if I had done it now but overall I'm fond of it, like a mother of an ugly child.

Random Play: Stargazing

It's Friday, which means a new page on Random Play. Go see it here: http://randomplay.smackjeeves.com/comics/

Scott Pilgrim and Unearthly

Went to the comic book store yesterday (of course I did, it was a Wenseday) and picked up a comic I'd been antcipating for a long time. Scott Pilgrim & The Infinite Sadness! I was afarid that it would never arrive, and that when it finally did it would never live up to my expectations, but it did on both counts. In case you haven't checked out this awesome series yet, it's about a slacker named Scott Pilgrim who lives in Tah'rana (aka Toronto) with a cool gay roommate, dates a high school girl and plays bass in a band. Everything's fine and dandy untill he meets Ramona, an American delivery girl who regularly rollerblades through his dreams.

In the third volume we learn a little more about Scott's ex Envy (the covergirl for this volume), see the further evolution of Knives Chau's hair, and find out what Kim Pine does for fun on weekends.

I also purchased Unearthly, a lesser known book than Scott Pilgrim but just as deserving of attention. But while SP has tons of fans, Unearthly is in danger because of low sales. The prospect of a second volume being printed is looking bleak, according to Ted Naifeh's blog, where he states that :[url=http://www.tednaifeh.com/tednaifeh2/ted_news_frameset.htm]"My manga book, Unearthly, may never see a second volume. This is due to the abysmal sales of the first volume, which never seemed to find its audience"[/url]

So I've bought a second copy of Unearthly, and I'm trying to figure out some way to use it to promote the book. I'm thinking maybe an international bookring through [url=www.bookcrossing.com]Bookcrossing[/url], but so far there's been no takers. I'm also toying with the idea of a fansite, but I really suck at web design (this blog is a minor miracle). I will figure out something though. There has to be a volume two!

New Random Play pages!

Two new pages are (finally) up on my web comic: http://randomplay.smackjeeves.com. Random Play came about because I had a bunch of short stories I wanted to tell, and nowhere to tell them. It's a story telling exercise for me as I'm trying to tackle as many genres as I can and learn first hand how to tell a story using sequential art. I really prefer writing to drawing, but drawing comics gives you a good idea just what you can and can't do on a page, and keeps you from later inflicting artists with immpossible panel directions ;).

Moonlight Meow interview up!

At Gomanga.com, Seven Seas's website, my interview with Bambi Eloriaga and Roland Amgao is up: http://www.gomanga.com/news/features_mmeow_001.php

My favorite part of the interview is hearing about the Philipine comic scene from Ms. Eloriaga. It's always interesting to hear about other cultures, especially about the impact of manga in that country. People often discuss the emergence of 'Ameri-manga' as if it was a purely American phenomenon, but it's apparent now that it’s a global experience. Manga is being created everywhere outside of Japan, from the Philippines to Australia to Germany to the UK to Canada to the States (and all the places in between). Interviewing creators in other parts of the world really drives home this point for me.

First post

Hello, welcome to my blog. Before I start posting about articles I've written or updates on my comic book projects, let me tell you a bit about myself.

My name is Shannon Fay, I'm a journalism student and comic book enthusiastic. I love combining the two by writing about comics. When I'm not writing, I'm working at my main job at a restaurant, reading, or searching for my lost cat (come home Buster! T_T). I'm not good at talking about myself, so I'll leave it at that for now.