I helgen smäller det!
Comic Con Malmö för första gången någonsin!
Det ska bli kul och intressant, hoppas det kommer mycket folk~
Nosebleed Studio kommer såklart vara där och sälja våra böcker, samt jag kommer ha med mig både Sword Princess Amaltea, Mjau! och mina andra böcker till salu. Dock har bok 3 av Amaltea inte kommit från tryckeriet ännu...
Utöver att sälja böcker vid vårt bord kommer vi även ha event och framträdanden, så missa inte:
Lördag 12:e september
12.00-13.00:
Mangabattle med Nosebleed Studio
Plats: SF-bokhandelns monter
Kom och utmana proffsen i Nosebleed Studio i mangateckningsduell!
13.30-14.30:
Panelsamtal: Svensk Manga
Plats: Scen 3
Kan man skapa manga i Sverige, och hur
skiljer dem sig från andra svenska serier? Och kan man överleva på det?
Panel med några av Sveriges främsta mangatecknare i Nosebleed Studio
samtalar och svarar på publikens frågor.
15.00-16.00:
Få din serie bedömd av proffs!
Plats: Egmonts monter
Du som tecknar egna serier har chansen att få visa upp din portfolio för redaktören Mikael Sol (Fantomen, Svenska Serier) och serieskaparen Natalia Batista (Mjau!, Sword Princess Amaltea) och få tips om hur du kan utvecklas som kreatör!
Söndag 13:e september:
13.00-14.00:
Få din serie bedömd av proffs!
Plats: Egmonts monter
Du som tecknar egna serier har chansen att få visa upp din portfolio för redaktören Mikael Sol (Fantomen, Svenska Serier) och serieskaparen Natalia Batista (Mjau!, Sword Princess Amaltea) och få tips om hur du kan utvecklas som kreatör!
14.00-15.00:
Signering med Natalia Batista
Plats: SF-bokhandelns monter
Natalia Batista signerar sina serier Mjau! och Sword Princess Amaltea (bok 1 och 2).
Yay, hoppas vi ses på mässan i helgen!
07 September 2015
29 August 2015
Convention report from DoKomi in Düsseldorf
Time to finally make a report from DoKomi that I visited with my sister Catarina this May!
I've been locked in a cave (metaphorically speaking) working on the third and final volume of my manga Sword Princess Amaltea (yes, the website has also suffered from the heavy deadline, as you can see, but will be updated soon!) and as I'm slowly gaining my freedom again I can now make a much needed blog entry about the trip!
The book will be released in Sweden in September, and online in English bit by bit during the coming year.
I've wanted to visit a German manga con since I first started checking out the manga scene in Germany back in 2007 or so. It's so close but yet so far, and the fact that I don't know how to speak German (but do understand some, since Swedish is not that far off) made it a little "scary".
In 2009, I sent my BL manga A song for Elise to the German publishers, and got a positive response from Tokyopop. The same year, I signed a contact with them and Ein Lied für Elise was released during Fall 2010 at the Franfurt Book Fair. That was my first experience of the manga market in Germany, and it was huge!
Since then, a lot of things have happened. Even though Germany managed well through the financial crisis, the book market there (just like in many other countries) have become even more competitive and publishers are having a hard time to sustain. At the same time, the German manga artist scene is growing and becoming more talented than ever! Still, I could not imagine what I was about to see at DoKomi...
We decided to go there because a German friend of mine Christian Allmann (artist himself and co-owner of the brand new publishing house PYRAMOND) was in charge of the Artist Alley at DoKomi and recommended that we'ld come, since the table price is only 30€ (!!). We booked a table for Nosebleed Studio immediately!
So, let's begin the report. I prefere show it with pictures:
DoKomi is short for Doitsu Komikku Maketto (Japanese for German Manga Market) and was inspired by the Japanese manga convention Comiket. Thus, a big focus at the con was on the creators and cosplayers and fan projects etc.
This is the main hall for the Artist Alley. The Artist Alley had over 250 tables, so even though this hall was huge, many more tables was placed in other parts of the Congress Center Düsseldorf.
As you can see, many of the artists had elaborate booths, and I'll show some of them here below.
There was almost too many great creators there! It sometimes felt like we were drowning in all this amazing talent... But still, the visitors still seemed very interested in checking out your stuff and pay for it, unlike at some other manga cons where the focus is on other things than the artists and creators.
Now, let me introduce some of the amazing artists at the event. Please check out their homepages that I have linked their names to!
This was truly a trip of a lifetime! I highly recommend for all Swedish and non Swedish manga fans and artists to go to DoKomi and see this thriving manga making culture for yourselves. And I really hope Sweden's manga cons can at some point hold a manga market of this or simmilar magnitude. I'll strive to make it happen!
✩ Thanks for reading! ✩
I've been locked in a cave (metaphorically speaking) working on the third and final volume of my manga Sword Princess Amaltea (yes, the website has also suffered from the heavy deadline, as you can see, but will be updated soon!) and as I'm slowly gaining my freedom again I can now make a much needed blog entry about the trip!
The book will be released in Sweden in September, and online in English bit by bit during the coming year.
I've wanted to visit a German manga con since I first started checking out the manga scene in Germany back in 2007 or so. It's so close but yet so far, and the fact that I don't know how to speak German (but do understand some, since Swedish is not that far off) made it a little "scary".
In 2009, I sent my BL manga A song for Elise to the German publishers, and got a positive response from Tokyopop. The same year, I signed a contact with them and Ein Lied für Elise was released during Fall 2010 at the Franfurt Book Fair. That was my first experience of the manga market in Germany, and it was huge!
Since then, a lot of things have happened. Even though Germany managed well through the financial crisis, the book market there (just like in many other countries) have become even more competitive and publishers are having a hard time to sustain. At the same time, the German manga artist scene is growing and becoming more talented than ever! Still, I could not imagine what I was about to see at DoKomi...
We decided to go there because a German friend of mine Christian Allmann (artist himself and co-owner of the brand new publishing house PYRAMOND) was in charge of the Artist Alley at DoKomi and recommended that we'ld come, since the table price is only 30€ (!!). We booked a table for Nosebleed Studio immediately!
So, let's begin the report. I prefere show it with pictures:
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| Outside the convention. |
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| Inside the main Artist Alley area, before the opening. |
As you can see, many of the artists had elaborate booths, and I'll show some of them here below.
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| Another hall filled with artists, fashion designers and other creators. |
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| Another pathway filled with artists! |
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| AlleyCreek is an amazing illustrator and designer. Her tables were filled with both prints and artbooks as well as goodie bags and pencil cases and note pads with her beautiful manga and fantasy artwork. |
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| KishiShiotani is another talented artist, with such cute and beautiful manga art! I really like how she does cute facial designs for her manga characters. |
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| Sabrina Ehnert's table/booth was soooo adorable I almost died! Her bunnies are just too cute, had to buy almost evey postcard she had! |
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| Natalie Wormsbecher and Inga Steinmetz was so nice and friendly! I med Natalie for first time back at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2010, so it was really fun meeting again. We all went out during the evening to a local Japanese restaurant (with authentic Japanese foods!) and talk about projects, the manga market and other fun stuff! Both are super awesome manga artists and illustrators, with long curriculums! |
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| The brothers Laovaan and Jasdavi was two of few guys having booths/tables at DoKomi, but their talent was remarkable! And Jasdavi (who also does BL stuff) bought Swedish Comic Sin 2 with Kwok Hei Mak's bara manga in it! Check out these amazing artists pages if you like schmexy manga guys! ;) |
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| Kyaaaaah!!! Kyaaaah!!! OMG!!! Yes, the most amazing thing about the trip is to meet all the super awesome Greman artists that I have been following for several years. One of them is Nana "Yaa" Kyere, and she's not just a super productive manga artist making it on her own, but also super nice in person! WARNING: pretty hard core BL stuff! |
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| Another idol of mine: Niloo!! Amazed. Impressed. So happy to meet her! *cries* Her art style is so inspiring~ |
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| And one more artist I have read about and followed: Nashi! I actually knew about her manga since she put it up at DeviantArt several years ago, but her art style has changed a lot and especially her color art pictures are truly awesomely brilliantly stunnig! Check it out! |
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| At the con, there was aslo a lot of fan projects and fashion designers that had their own booths, and Mad Modesty had such cute bag designs I just had to buy the black one with cat eyes! Perfect for all my new bought mangas, hehe~ |
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| We weren't the only International people there. This booth was for the team behind Mangatellers, a Greek manga artist team that make mangas with a flare of Greek history. They had a story that take place in Thessaloniki, and the collector in me had to buy their mangas (I collect non-Japanese made manga). |
This was truly a trip of a lifetime! I highly recommend for all Swedish and non Swedish manga fans and artists to go to DoKomi and see this thriving manga making culture for yourselves. And I really hope Sweden's manga cons can at some point hold a manga market of this or simmilar magnitude. I'll strive to make it happen!
✩ Thanks for reading! ✩
21 August 2015
My next big project: Mjau! The Anime
I'll do this in English, so my international readers may follow the process of my next big project as well as my Swedish readers.
I have been doing comics and manga for 10 years now (professionally since 2006, but finished my first comic in 2005), and at some point you might want to change things a little or try something new. I feel I'm there right now.
So... I'm going to level up and try to do my own anime!
Yes, yes, I know what you're thinking: "But Natalia, anime is made by an animation studio! Will you be able to make anime on your own?"
And I can only give you a short and simple answer: I don't know. But I'll damn well try it!
So I'm going to [try] make my kitten manga Mjau! into anime.
Mjau! has so far been my best selling manga, and has been published in Sweden and Portugal.
In Sweden, it has sold over 10 000 copies, which is s lot in a country with only 9 million people, and most comic books sell only about 500-1000 copies.
This has actually been a bigger project in the making for about a year now, and not something I decided yesterday.
About a year or two ago, I started daydreaming about making my own anime, but I kinda thought it was impossible. But at last year's NärCon (Swedish manga convention) I met Eric Bradford, one of the creators behind Senpai Club, a hilarious anime parody made for youtube. He's a young and ambitious animator that started the project together with his fiend Olivia Bergström and together they make a full anime, without any huge anime studio.
He really made me believe that my dream was possible!
It felt like destiny, I needed that moment of clarity. He showed me how they work, which was great and made me understand the process.
Also, more destiny:
About that time, a guy called Richard "Ahturo s" contacted me because he saw my trailer for Sword Princess Amaltea on youtube and wanted to make a dubbed manga video of it, together with his gang of awesome Swedish dubbers (yes, they are awesome!). Sadly, I was super busy at that time with making the manga, but I always felt I wanted to do something with them...
And so this project formed in my head. It WAS destiny.
And some othe destiny things:
I posted a question on a facebook group for Swedish animators asking what payment and contract I should give my voice actors, and some days later Johan C.B., a comic making colleague came by my table at a comvention and started asking about it. He's into making animation too, and knows a lot of good people to know in the business. In speaking with him, I learnt even more vital stuff that could make or break a project like this, and now he and his friend Tobias are kind of mentoring me in this project.
So is Eric Bradford, and Richard is helping me find voice actors right now, sending his best group members to me.
✩✩✩THIS IS GOING TO BE AWESOME!!✩✩✩
I'm so hyped!! (as you probably can tell)
I have started working on the anime bit by bit. Most of it is not for show at this point, except for this:
My plan so far is to make 5-10 min episodes of each chapter. And look for sponsors and funding. But one step at a time, and right now I just want to animate!
I'll keep you posted. Oh, and please follow the Mjau Manga facebook page or my instagram nataliasmanga for more progress updates!
✩ Thanks for reading! ✩
I have been doing comics and manga for 10 years now (professionally since 2006, but finished my first comic in 2005), and at some point you might want to change things a little or try something new. I feel I'm there right now.
So... I'm going to level up and try to do my own anime!
Yes, yes, I know what you're thinking: "But Natalia, anime is made by an animation studio! Will you be able to make anime on your own?"
And I can only give you a short and simple answer: I don't know. But I'll damn well try it!
Mjau! has so far been my best selling manga, and has been published in Sweden and Portugal.
In Sweden, it has sold over 10 000 copies, which is s lot in a country with only 9 million people, and most comic books sell only about 500-1000 copies.
This has actually been a bigger project in the making for about a year now, and not something I decided yesterday.
About a year or two ago, I started daydreaming about making my own anime, but I kinda thought it was impossible. But at last year's NärCon (Swedish manga convention) I met Eric Bradford, one of the creators behind Senpai Club, a hilarious anime parody made for youtube. He's a young and ambitious animator that started the project together with his fiend Olivia Bergström and together they make a full anime, without any huge anime studio.
He really made me believe that my dream was possible!
It felt like destiny, I needed that moment of clarity. He showed me how they work, which was great and made me understand the process.
Also, more destiny:
About that time, a guy called Richard "Ahturo s" contacted me because he saw my trailer for Sword Princess Amaltea on youtube and wanted to make a dubbed manga video of it, together with his gang of awesome Swedish dubbers (yes, they are awesome!). Sadly, I was super busy at that time with making the manga, but I always felt I wanted to do something with them...
And so this project formed in my head. It WAS destiny.
And some othe destiny things:
I posted a question on a facebook group for Swedish animators asking what payment and contract I should give my voice actors, and some days later Johan C.B., a comic making colleague came by my table at a comvention and started asking about it. He's into making animation too, and knows a lot of good people to know in the business. In speaking with him, I learnt even more vital stuff that could make or break a project like this, and now he and his friend Tobias are kind of mentoring me in this project.
So is Eric Bradford, and Richard is helping me find voice actors right now, sending his best group members to me.
✩✩✩THIS IS GOING TO BE AWESOME!!✩✩✩
I'm so hyped!! (as you probably can tell)
I have started working on the anime bit by bit. Most of it is not for show at this point, except for this:
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| Character Sheets for the first episode (chapter 1 of the manga). |
My plan so far is to make 5-10 min episodes of each chapter. And look for sponsors and funding. But one step at a time, and right now I just want to animate!
I'll keep you posted. Oh, and please follow the Mjau Manga facebook page or my instagram nataliasmanga for more progress updates!
✩ Thanks for reading! ✩
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