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Monday, July 07, 2008Another Newspaper, Another Interview
Hard to believe that Undertown has been running in the Sunday comics section of major newspapers for over 6 months now, and we appear to be just starting! This past Sunday we welcomed another paper to the fold -- the Concord Monitor from Concord, NH.
To celebrate, the paper ran an article on manga, for which I was interviewed. You can check it out here. Labels: interview, newspaper strip, syndication, Undertown // posted at
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Thursday, June 19, 2008A New Undertown Review
A review like this makes all the struggle of being a writer worthwhile. From Tokyopop.com comes this fan review:
Undertown is an amazing book. And I didn't even know about it until recently! I was reading the comics in the newspaper because I particularly enjoyed the tokyopop manga section. Then, as usual, the manga changed, and it happened to be Undertown. Now, it didn't catch my attention quite at first, but by the second or third time it appeared I was interested. So as I was heading to Borders, I thought I'd check it out, even though I planned on buying another novel. It wasn't there, and I didn't have much money for anything else, so I left, but the next time I went, I bought Undertown. Up until this point, I was interested by undertown, but not extremely excited...Well that changed. When I finished reading Undertown, I was thrilled by it and I'm proud to say that it is one of my favorite manga now. What makes Undertown so great is not only the artwork and appealing cover, but also the story. I think it is a very exciting plot line, and no part is too slow. The characters are also very well developed and you don't figure everything out in the first book, that is some things are still left unsolved, and that makes me even more excited for the second book! My favorite character is Sama, because he is not your average hero. He is an ordianry boy thrown into difficult situations and has room to develop further in the future books of Undertown. Overall, if it weren't for that newspaper, I'd be missing out on something truly special. -- by Sassysapphire20 Thanks, Sassy. Book 2 is for you and all the other fans like you! // posted at
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Friday, June 06, 2008Undertown Book 1: The Script
Given my interest in discussing the process of writing (see my Writers Tips posts on this site), I thought it would be interesting to share the complete script for my recent manga book, UNDERTOWN. So I'm serializing it on Tokyopop.com -- a new page every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, along with "creator commentary" that either explains some of my crazy ways or offers some kind of behind-the-scenes insight.
Today is the end of week one, so there are already three pages up. Because I have over 1400 members of my online fan club, The Undertown Explorers, and because many of them are aspiring manga writers, I'm hoping that we can start a discussion not just about Undertown the story, but about the nuts and bolts of writing comics. Also of interest is the fact that this is the "shooting script," which is to say that it's the version that Jake Myler used to draw the book. After the whole thing was written and the book was drawn in pencil, I went back and polished all of the dialog. So adventurous writers-in-training can compare this version with what was published and try to figure out why I made the changes I did. The script serialization located here. I hope you get something out of this peek behind the curtain. Labels: comics, manga, script, Tokyopop, Undertown, writers' tips // posted at
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Sunday, April 27, 2008New Contact Info
Exciting! Yes, for those of you who do not know me personally -- and for those of you who do and have not stayed in touch for a while -- I finally deleted the OLD unchecked email address on my previously inaccurately named CONTACT page.
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Sunday, March 30, 2008Manga Master
Rock on, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette!
Today the above-mentioned Pittsburgh newspaper published an article on me and my book UNDERTOWN. And when I saw the title in print, I was humbled and awed: "Comics Writer a Manga Master." To be fair, as proud as I am with the success of Undertown, I feel like I'm still a ways off from joining the true manga masters like Otomo, Toriyama, and the mighty Tezuka. But nice articles like this make me feel that I'm at least on the right path... Labels: interview, manga, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Tokyopop, Undertown // posted at
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008More Undertown Press
The Undertown PR machine marches on! Check out the rather in-depth interview over at Comic Book Resources.
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Monday, February 11, 2008Writer's Tips: Writing vs. Developing
Having finished the script for Undertown Book Two, I find myself in a period of story development -- I'm working on the extended pitch for the manga series after Undertown, and I'm also fleshing out Undertown Book Three. This leaves me without a script to write on a day-to-day basis. And I think I'm going to try to schedule my time differently in the future.
I find that there's comfort and stability in cranking out a bunch of pages every day. It's much harder to feel the progress when you're writing a huge ream of notes for an upcoming project. As glad as I am that I finished Undertown Book Two when I did, if I had already been working on the outline for the next project, it would have been much easier to jump right into another script. I've said it before, but momentum is one of the big keys to successful writing output. Labels: writers' tips // posted at
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