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BlueBlood by =RYE-BREAD:iconRYE-BREAD:

Categories Manga/Anime > Digital Media > Manga (comics) > Pages

©2009 =RYE-BREAD
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Allow me to say this first: I am not proud of this. At all. But now that my one-year exclusivity period with TokyoPOP is over, I can finally post it online. Anyway, I'll be scrapping it soon because it's embarrassing.

This was a manga pilot I was commissioned to do last year. There was a structural revamping within TokyoPOP soon after I completed BlueBlood and many editors were fired, including my own (who, I must say, was an absolute pleasure to work with. Thanks, Hope!). In the end it was never published, and I suppose it was all for the better.

I know it's corny and cliché, and a helluva lot of the drawings suck because they were rushed, and it's not my style at all, but I worked hard for little pay and I guess that's enough to motivate me to show it to the world.

I hope someone enjoys it, because I sure as hell don't.

PSCS3 & Painter X & Maya
A few months '07-'08
34 pages

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!Guldov Mar 29, 2009, 11:48:49 PM
How much did you get paid, in the end? I hear that these contracts didn't state the pay you'd receive, and it left a lot of room for fucking the artists over. Basically very scam-like, especially since they were dangling it at small time artists or younger people who'd fall for it and not know what they're doing.

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=RYE-BREAD Mar 29, 2009, 11:55:49 PM
it came out to about $22 a page :/ Definitely not worth it.

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*oceangranny03 Mar 30, 2009, 12:00:22 AM
how many hours did you put into each page? just curious...and yeah, thats a pittance for page pay!
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~Gaia715 Mar 30, 2009, 12:08:10 AM
I think you did a great job. It's definitely an interesting storyline, and ironic.

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*drigzabrot Mar 30, 2009, 12:09:53 AM
Nicely done... I give props to those who do mangas having done a few myself.

And $22 a page??!!!! You're getting screwed man. Even if they pay you cheap this should easily be $80-$100.

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=RYE-BREAD Mar 30, 2009, 12:14:44 AM
tell me about it :[ Don't work for TP.

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=RYE-BREAD Mar 30, 2009, 12:16:23 AM
quite a bit. most of the time was spent matching the 3D backgrounds to the central characters. even kané's goggles had to be rotated around his head in each frame.

...and now that i look back on it, it just totally sucks haha. what a waste. psshh.

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*oceangranny03 Mar 30, 2009, 12:19:20 AM
aww, it still looks good. but yeah i know how it goes looking back on old stuff. its like "BURN IT ALL!!" haha

so maybe ill actually get a good speed going on my graphic novel so by the time im done i dont wanna destroy the early pages. haha
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=nyanko-chan Mar 30, 2009, 12:21:19 AM
Working with TP is a surefire way to get boned, lots of us know better and lots of us do anyway lol. You're in good company ;)
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*drigzabrot Mar 30, 2009, 12:23:07 AM
That's funny. I was hired by TokyoPop before but it collided with school. I decided not to work for them. Didn't know they screwed their own artists.

But kudos to you man. You might not like this work or how you got paid, but this is solid portfolio material. You'll def go far.

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