PSA: The Manga vs American Comic Competition

Mel is currently in the "The Manga vs. American Comic Competition", sponsored by Facebook! The comic is inspired by the film, "Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame".

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Prize Details (text taken from the competition site)

Manga or American? Which comic book style is superior? Melissa DeJesus (My Cage, Santa vs Dracula) has created a Manga-styled Detective Dee comic while Andy Belanger (Kill Shakespeare, Bottle of Awesome) drew a Dee comic in the American style. You, the fan, gets to decide which preview of their Detective Dee graphic novels gets turned into a full motion comic book!

PLEASE NOTE: Voting will run from November 1 to November 13th, 11:59 PM.

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Both Mel and Andy are awesome artists and they need your votes! To vote now, please go to the site here!

PSA: Mel’s Santa vs. Dracula Graphic Novel: Kickstarter Site!

Something to look forward to! My good friend Melissa DeJesus's new comic project! Please help support  it!



Mel is re-teaming with her My Cage collaborator, Ed Power to bring you their newest comic: "Santa vs. Dracula". Originally submitted as a web comic project, the feedback from it has been so great that they will like to make it into a graphic novel! Please go to their Kickstarter page to see how you can help make this happen! You can also view sample comic pages over there as well! Please help support this project - deadline is at Sunday, November 12th!

4/11/2010

(2010, inks, white-out)

Another page (minus text).

MoCCA was awesome this year - maybe since they moved it to the spring and was better organized. Of course I spent most of my time coming in late, wandering around aimlessly (and hungry), passing out behind the table, etc. I also need to work on my social skills more...

However, I managed to pick up some awesome comics and gave most of my mini comics away too so I say this was a success. Please feel free to comment (thru here or e-mail) on it - I need all the critique I can get! I'm going to aim to print it much larger by the next con.

Looking forward to next year!

4/09/2010

(2010, inks, white-out)

Page from a mini comic I finished. Lots of love, caffeine, and loud R&B music went into this.

4/01/2010

(2010, inks, white-out)

Something I'm working on. You don't want to know how long it took me to ink this... Need to start picking up my pace.

3/20/2010

(2010, inks, white-out)

Finished this in a day. Good for me. Let's see if I can finish the rest for MoCCA!

11/21/2009

(2009, pencils)

Just watched a bunch of slutty Korean chicks on Youtube. Like Lee Hyori? UGH- EW. Still not as hot as Beyonce.  

11/19/2009

(2009, pencils)

Wasn't feeling too hot so stayed home and slept all day (srsly, until 5pm...). Here's another rough page. Hopefully will finish some work during the weekend.

Listening to 자우림 / Jaurim. I forget how fucking amazing they are. Her music is amazing...

11/18/2009

 

(2009, pencils)

I'm not completely satisfied with this page. I must have re-did it 5 times until I did this rough. We'll see what the finished version looks like...

11/17/2009

(2009, pencils)

Haha--- totally cheating by putting my half-assed finished pages here. But at least I'm updating.

11/16/2009

(2009, pencils)

Page 2 of this supposed comic story I will FINISH.

Apparently I'm having a Lee Byung-hun movie marathon. Just finished watching another movie he was in called 번지점프를 하다 (Bungee Jumping of Their Own). Not the best gay movie I've seen but it was very endearing. Plus it wasn't really gay either. I loved the concept of it more than it's execution in the movie.

11/15/2009

(2009, pencils)

I'M BACK. Work this week was amazing. Like a tsunami. Barely had time to breathe.

Working on a short comic. Penciled 8/10 pages so far. I'm actually going to try to put some time and effort on this so it looks semi-decent.

10/24/2009

... and my scanner works.

Thumbnails for a new comic story. Will I ever finish? Only I will know. I love how all my pages are all over the place.

Got to hustle. Almost November!

10/21/2009

(2009, inks)

Since I haven't been updating in awhile, I'll put this up too. It's the one-shot comic page I did for our mini-comic for SPX.

It was done in a day. I don't know if you could tell that. I'm also rusty in comic.

SPX - BELATED POST

A lot of love and thanks to those who picked up those K.G.B. samplers in SPX; you were treated to a sneak peak to page 4 (coming out this Wednesday - WITH KOREAN RAP LYRICS)! And more love to those who traded comics with Mel, Robin and me on our comic-collab debut:



I dumped my RR Hood story in there - since it was originally for this comic we planned out...... ages ago...... But I managed to do a one page short (theme courtesy of the loverly Ms. Cloonan =3). If you were not able to get a copy, we'll be back at another con soon. YES! GO COMICS!

I should have blogged about this before going to SPX but haven't had the time. There were so much awesome shit I found there - will talk more about it later~