Robyn Paterson's Blog, page 3
April 20, 2022
Lord of Goblins: How was it Made?
Rob was part of the Moonquill podcast last weekend talking about the webcomic I script – Lord of Goblins with the authors and publisher.
Enjoy!
April 11, 2022
Manga Monday: River End Cafe
[This is a running series where I share my thoughts on a different comic each Monday, sometimes Manga, sometimes American, Chinese, Korean or UK comics. I read a huge amount of comics and thought I’d start to highlight some of the more interesting ones.]
Series Name: River End Cafe
Author: Tanaka Akio
Artist: Tanaka Akio
Tags: Slice-of-Life, Drama
Target Audience: General Audience
MICE Quotient: Milieu
Rob Rating: 8/10
Official Synopsis: In the aftermath of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, the idyll...
April 4, 2022
Manga Monday: The Fable
[This is a running series where I share my thoughts on a different comic each Monday, sometimes Manga, sometimes American, Chinese, Korean or UK comics. I read a huge amount of comics and thought I’d start to highlight some of the more interesting ones.]
Series Name: The Fable
Author: Minami Katsuhisa
Artist: Minami Katsuhisa
Tags: Slice-of-Life, Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Yakuza
Target Audience: Seinen (Older Teen Boys)
Synopsis: After a major killing, two assassins raised from birth to kil...
March 28, 2022
Manga Monday: Bambino!
[This is a new running series where I share my thoughts on a different comic each Monday, sometimes Manga, sometimes American, Chinese, Korean or UK comics. I read a huge amount of comics and thought I’d start to highlight some of the more interesting ones.]
Series Name: Bambino!
Author: Sekiya Tetsuji
Artist: Sekiya Tetsuji
Tags: Cooking, Drama, Romance, Slice-of-Life
Target Audience: Seinen (Older Teen Boys)
Official Synopsis: Shogo Ban, a college student from Fukuoka, likes to cook. Thanks t...
January 30, 2022
How do People Play TRPGS Around the World?
Today I stumbled across this fascinating YouTube channel called Don’t Stop Thinking which has a series of videos talking to gamers from around the world about how they play D&D (and some other RPGs) around the world. The playlist includes discussions with gamers from South Africa, Italy, Malaysia, Germany, Taiwan, and of course Japan. Here is the Japanese Tabletop Role-Playing Games video from the playlist, and actually this the first of a two-part video, so make sure you watch both parts!
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January 21, 2022
An Eastern Western : Shintaro the Samurai
In 1962, Shinichi Nishimura, a TV Japanese producer, decided to create a Japanese TV series which mimicked the American westerns which were still super-popular at the time on TV and Film in the USA. With this in mind, he created a series called Onmitsu Kenshi (隠密剣士, “Spy Swordsman”) which was about a wandering government agent operating in the Northern reaches of Japan during the Edo Period. The main character, Akikusa Shintarō, was effectively a Japanese Texas Ranger, who defended the weak and...
December 6, 2021
Wally Wood’s 22 Panels that Always Work
American comic book artist legend Wally Wood created a set of 22 panel layouts that he used as his go-to when he needed inspiration while drawing his comics. The idea was to have 22 ready-to-go ideas when he had two characters just talking to each other or needed to come up with something visually interesting at the last minute.
The “22 panels” we know today were assembled by one of Wood’s assistants, Larry Hama: “When I was starting out as an editor at Marvel, I found myself in the position...
October 28, 2021
Lord of Goblins became Webtoon.com’s #1 Fantasy Webcomic Today!
The webtoon Lord of Goblins, scripted by this humble writer, hit #1 in Webtoon.com’s Fantasy category today in their Canvas section. As you can see below in this screengrab…
There’s a new goblin king in town!For those not familiar with it, Webtoon divides their webcomics into two levels: Originals and Canvas. Originals are webtoons which are signed exclusives to webtoon.com and get featured on their front pages. They’re the big boys of the website, like major sports league teams. Canvas w...
September 29, 2021
Study the Masters of Manga with Manben!
Today, one of the manga greats, Takao Saito (creator of Golgo-13) sadly passed away, and while reading the outpouring of comments about his death on social media, I came across an interview he did for an NHK series called Manben which is about conversations with manga creators.
Don’t worry, it’s subtitled in English.Curious as to what Manben was, I kept digging and learned that it was an NHK TV show where the (many) award winning manga genius Naoki Urasawa (20th Century Boys, Billy Bat...
August 5, 2021
The Modern Audio Drama virtual convention playlist is now up on YouTube!
From July 24th-25th, a the Modern Audio Drama convention (MADcon) was held virtually this year, and the playlist of the sessions is now available on YouTube for anyone interested.
These 16 sessions are a how-to by experienced creators and podcasters which cover everything from writing audio dramas (aka radioplays), to setting up your production team, finding people to work on the production, and of course audio engineering.
