TwoMoons

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Two Moons - 651

Jenshin

on Feb. 18, 2010

So I went to the bookstore because I was excited about getting paid and in the heat of things, ended up buying a magazine that I already had.

It is sort of a half artbook, half magazine called Kikan S.
Would anyone like it? It's 166 pages in color and 20 pages in black and white.
I'll sell it for 20 US dollars or 2000 yen.

The seasonal theme is "The space between Man and Woman." So inside is a lot of androgynous art. It features…
A Range Murata fold out poster (anime director, concept design artist, and figure artist)
Utena (anime series and movie)
Otomen (manga)
Kurage Hime (manga)
Shuto Mikio (photographer of young boys)
The history of androgyny in Japanese comics
Sayaka (Watercolor artist, a little erotic, how to watercolor in her style)
Kemonogatari (Interview with the director)
Euromanga (What european artists are popular in Japan this season)
Wow there are so many artists in here I'm gonna stop listing them. Okay some other things that caught my eye in this..
Panamaman - One of my FAVORITE Korean artists, and how he/she? uses photoshop layers
Photography of transgendered people.
Dolls made by a girl living in the psycho ward.
Foo's tips on how to use Copics
How to draw clothes on well endowed women.

I will be translating the Utena article, since I'm interested in what they have to say about the roles of men and women in that and how it may have influenced the art.
If you can't read Japanese, that's okay the pictures are totally worth it.

Next:
Does anyone want a CD copy of Two Moons? A couple people mentioned to me that they fell out with my comic and needed to re-read the whole thing again to get back in to it. And between connection issues, the length of the story, and having to hit the next button so many times, they thought it would be easier if I mailed them a CD. So how many copies should I make and who wants one? I'll send it to you for free. I mean shipping is probably only 1 or 2 bucks, it's not worth all the effort to make people pay me for it!

Respondy on hold since I'm busy.
Enjoy EG and Issen's intensive conversation!

- Jenshin