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Article about BroCon is up on ikikata.se

YaY! I just got the email from Ikikata.se and the article I wrote for them regarding BroCon is up on the site! ^_^

I haven’t written articles in forever and I’d forgotten how much work but also how much fun it is. I’m definitely doing that again.

BroCon Interview: Selene

I had a quick sit down with Selene, a budding talent, at Limericks BroCon. Selene has been drawing since she was 13 but changed drawing style to manga when she was 14. Today Selene is trying to develop her own style but still keeping true to shoujo, as she finds manga characters too generic.

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Manga review: Love Control 1&2

The perverted bear Kumakun is back and ready to review all the BL manga he can get a hold of for your guys. First out is Love Control.

Story resolves around the interior decorator  Yamashiro and the bar and restaurant owner Okumura’s love affair.
Both characters are quite stubborn and in the beginning I was worried that this would stop the story from moving forward or make it a bit boring. Thankfully this is not the case and the uke is only stubborn to a point and then slides over to being cute and embarrassed, so the same can figure out what is going on.

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THE Kumakun is Back!

Kumakun is a long time ReYa blogist and use to write for the Ai – Love and Pain section of our site, but has been tragicly quiet lately.

Well, no more! Last week when I was in Sweden for a couple of days, he told me “Strawberry, I can’t stand reading your bad excuse for updates any longer and by the way, you draw way to slow! I’m going to fly over with you and make sure something worth reading gets updated and I might as well keep an eye so you actually do some drawing, you idiot!” Well, I had little choice in the matter after that proclamation.

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Slide show from BroCon Talk about Manga in Sweden

As promised during BroCon, I’m now uploading the Manga in Sweden – slide show, for everyone’s enjoyment and referance. ^_^

Hope everyone had a a great time at the talk!

BroCon 2010: Cosplay!

So while I was at BroCon I took the chance of taking pictures of all the Cosplayers I could see. There where quite a number of them, considering this was the first time the con was going. ^_^

Have a look!

BroCon Interview: Sophie O’Gara

Between the bustling of the artist alley tables during BroCon, Sophie and I sat down to have a talk about it all. Sophie is an artist, president of the Anime and Manga society at Limerick University and also one of the organizers of BroCon.

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BroCon Interview: Ciaran Lucas

I took the chance to have a sit down and talk comics with Ciaran Lucas at BroCon in Limerick. Ciaran has been making a living as a digital artist since 2007. So far he has mostly been working as a Colorist and inker. Some of the comics he has been working on are Jenna Blue, Vincent Price and Angel (as in the comic version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin off), but also children’s illustrations for school books and for the Irish scouts.

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Why I don’t normally go to many Cons

I just got home from the con (I’ll post pics and stuff later this week) and realized why I generally don’t go to too many cons.

It was once again a bitter sweet realization. ^_^’

I’ll be eating noodles for the rest of the week… Sorry Neko, I think I’ll be busy with… eh… um… work! for the next couple of days. ^_~

BroCon day 1

So yesterday was day one of the con, and we are about to start day 2.
I managed to forget my camera cable at home ( with about half the things I needed….) so you will have to wait for the pics from the con. -_-’
First day 130 people showed up.

The workshop went well with 16 people showing up and even though the room was a bit awkward to draw in, we did fine.

I got the chance to interview one of the Irish comic artists and will post that interview later this week when I’m finished editing it. ^_^

So, of I go for day 2!