Behold, a text piece of yore that might be wildly off-base!! (Patreon)

Wellp, desperate times call for desperate measures as I'm running quite far behind on Patreon posts, and had to tap one of my few remaining "emergency options" for a quick post. Lordy loo!

Anyhoo, above is the forward I wrote for the 2006 book Mangaka America: Manga by America's Hottest Artists by Will Staehle and Tania Del Rio (for Steelriver Studio LLC). Note that I briefly glanced at the book's reviews at that Amazon link and was immediately rewarded by the second review bitching about how long said forward dragged on; that's why "don't read the g-d reviews" is always a sound policy, folks.

Must admit, I barely glanced at what 2006 Me wrote for the piece while I was processing the PDFs into jpegs via Photoshop, so it's entirely possible that I was wildly off-base on the various assumptions I posited willy-nilly back in those halcyon days of the mid-2000s. (I did spot a line about how the artists featured in the book might be the last hope of the American comics field, which seems like a rather aggressive and dramatic flourish on my part.)

NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: Not sure at the moment as to exactly what's coming up in the next M/W/F slot, TBH. Let's find out together, shall we? UPDATE: Ehh, probably something in the Distressed Damsels vein, such as a rejected commission rough I'm working up as a CSP brush test today.