So more into our making manga series. Today we talk about Branding. Every artist, writer or creative needs a brand. This can be related to your artwork, your music, the thing you produce, your novel. But you have to have a stamp for yourself that distinguishes you from someone else. It may be your art style, your subject matter be it fiction, science fiction, paranormal, yaoi or romance. Since I started off writing cyberpunk hard science fiction with the grydscaen…..
In the novel and manga creation process one of the things that you have to do at the outset is world building. I just started writing chapter 4 of the novel “graphic noise” which will also be turned into a manga. The two main characters are Shiro Ijima, the best selling scifi author and the other character is Noiz, the manga artist. The story is set in Manhattan in the present. Usually I write scifi set in a post-apocalyptic future,…..
This is Rom from the Packrat Sprawl. I am on my way to a data sale at Hack in a few minutes to check out the job board there. I need to get myself another gig. Anj lets me go out every now and then even though I am on a short leash from the Processing Centre. I wanted to describe Hack to you a little bit so you can get a feel for the place. Hack is a tech…..
So I am working on a new manga and novel called “graphic noise” which is a yaoi manga about an indie manga artist and a best selling science fiction author who meet at AnimeFest, a comic convention. The story is set in New York City and will as much explore the particular culture of Manhattan like the subway, bike messengers, Central Park, Grand Central Station and the Javitz Convention Center as it will be a story about two artists getting…..
Anime is one of my favorite things. I have been watching anime since I was young. The funny thing is that you can see anime when you are young and it has no effect on you or you can watch it and become an avid fan. I grew up with such shows as Akira, Robotech, Voltron, Ghost in the Shell, Gundam, Gatchaman, Transformers, Dungeons and Dragons. I like anime that is art driven and plot driven. Things like the Simpsons or…..
I was asked by a friend I used to work with in the Tech industry to write a Non Fiction novel about my story in college and beyond. At first I was thinking that no one would possibly want to read that story and how could my story help others. I had already written grydscaen: utopia which has some parallels to my experiences in college set in a fictional backdrop so why would I need to write another story. My…..
The difference between a cyber activist and a cyber hacktivist is degrees, and sometimes the lines are very thin. An activist expresses his or her views maybe using social media and stays within the confines of the law. The hacktivist on the other hand has another agenda which might include illegal activity such as infiltrating systems, exposing data, and releasing this data onto the Internet for all to see. Some hacktivist groups have multiple members but others may not even…..
One of the things that I wanted to capture in the grydscaen series is the idea of becoming oneself through change. This can be physical change, mental change, emotional change or learning. There are many ways to grow more into your genuine self. I have been on a journey for the last 2 years after many years of self discovery to become my genuine self. 2015 started the journey that began when I was 5 and became fully realized at…..
Continuing our series on cyber security, we will feature some new articles on aspects of cyber warfare. Today we start with the Dark Web. What is anonymity? Can I find out who you are? Can I spider a site to get its content? Can I find it in a search engine? What is the cost of being virtually invisible? The US Naval Research Laboratory created Tor in 2002. Tor was originally designed to create totally anonymous communications across the Internet……
When I set out to write grydscaen, I wanted to make sure that we could expose the grydscaen message to the global market. With the short stories that were first made available in grydscaen: tribute regarding the character Rom, I am making the grydscaen world accessible in other languages. To date, some of the grydscaen short stories are available in Japanese, French and English with planned translation into Spanish coming soon. Currently the story “A Storm’s Coming” is available as…..