December 2011
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Female Entrepreneurs →
michelleltrevino:
I started my business in 2000. As a young woman in the tech sector, I faced many challenges, but the one thing I wouldn’t do was undervalue my work. I think that was the key to my success from the beginning. It’s also why I see so many businesses fail.
Unfortunately, women have to be twice as dedicated to get the same respect as men in the workplace. Especially in the tech...
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Tutorial: Creating Knockout Letters
When creating your own manga, comic or graphic novel, you’ll usually end up adding some text to it. You can do this on the computer once you scan in your artwork (or as part of the process if you do all your drawing and inking digitally), or using a pen directly on your art as you ink. Typically, you’ll create the layout to accommodate black words on a white background or in a word...
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“We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies...”
– Neil Gaiman, from his Newberry Medal Acceptance Speech (via neilgaiman)
And that’s why we need writers… (via michelleltrevino)
Writers are the lifeblood of society. We artists owe a debt to writers that we could never repay.
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Celebration Time!
Last night I received word via my Twitter friend, Erik, that I was one of the winners of a contest held over the summer by ShonenJUMP magazine. SJ publishes manga (Japanese comics) chapters in a Japanese weekly edition and an international monthly edition, to introduce some of the manga they publish worldwide. The contest was based on creating a 4-page “name” (the manga word for...