ikanreed posted:

If you haven't actually read Mr boop, you should.

Phanatic posted:

Absurd Alhazred posted:

I started. It was extremely cringeworthy. So I stopped.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

I started. It was extremely cringeworthy. So I stopped.

Tiberius Christ posted:

Mr.boop goes some places, is it ok to apply Freudian reading to the text cause the author is a self insert and he sure does like writing about his sex hangups

Empty Sandwich posted:

nobody in this thread can be trusted

thetoughestbean posted:

The Freudian reading is that he wants to gently caress his wife (who is Betty Boop)

Absurd Alhazred posted:

The only reading of it that I care about is the one I did where I started and was bored and rolling my eyes so I stopped.

Empty Sandwich posted:

ah, yes, a derridean reading

CzarChasm posted:

Boba Pearl posted:

U03

e-dt posted:

four and three and two and one...I gave the kid the pancake and the trauma was done

Makoto Yukimura posted:

I don’t see myself as a creator with a wealth of creativity and inspiration. Because of that, in order to get one thing done, I make sure to put in three times the effort and hours compared to creators born with excellent talent. Though inborn talent is unfair, time and effort are fair. I compensate for talent with time and effort. However, there is one thing I would like to propose young people who dream of being manga creators do: Always ask yourself, “Why?” to yourself, to your work, keep asking, “Why? Why?” Why do I write this piece? Why did I pick this setting? Why does this turn of events occur in the story? Why did I make this character appear? Why did I kill this character off, or why did I let them live? Why is this building constructed this way? Why is the tree growing there? Why is the mountain this shape, and why is it here — why? I ask “why” to everything.

Some questions are easily answered. Some things you can find out right away by doing research in books. However, there will always be some questions to which the answers are hard to find. Even if you do figure out the answer for the moment, that answer may lead to even bigger, even deeper questions. And that never stops. You are fortunate if you can arrive at such a question. That will most likely be the core of your work. Something like that, with so much universality captured within, must be written about; perhaps it is even worth risking your life to write about it. If you can ponder it, agonize over it, and keep chasing it, and then somehow transformed that process into entertainment, you will probably create something good.

It seems that a lot of people stop in the middle of their chase for understanding universality. That’s why I believe that there is meaning in continuing to ask, “why” even more, going even deeper, even further, for everyone else’s sake. Then, after you’ve talked everything out and finally obtained the answer, it’ll probably be hard to contain – do you want everyone else to hear it. Most likely, you’ll feel a new sense of duty to relay this answer to others. Till that happens, keep asking questions. That is how I write my manga.

Hempuli posted:

Maybe
Imogen
Spare
Tower

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

Hempuli posted:

Emzedoh posted:

Chapter 3: The Paper, the Knife and the Messenger (part 1b)

Tree Bucket posted:

Also Lyndon Painatorium is probably the best character name in any comic, ever

Sleve McDichael posted:

Right, time to start postin' my favourite Junji Ito stuff. Hope y'all enjoy/are grossed out!

The Groaning Drain

Kennel posted:

I'm glad Ito moved to mundane slice of life comics.

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

Having a greasy gropey smelly stalker and being urged to just quietly resign yourself to your fate as a mundane slice of life story is far more upsetting body horror than whatever supernatural poo poo that dude will go on to do.