Comments on: Varjomaailma – Shadow World

By: finnishcomicsdissected

finnishcomicsdissected — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:11:02 +0000

Worry not, all is explained in my newest entry, maybe to even TMI-level of detail. I should at least warn people when I am too busy. But hey, thank you!

By: Link

Link — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:18:32 +0000

You enrage me! I love your blog, I downloaded all the pages so I can read them offline, not a post since march? Damn all! xD
But seriously man, I love it, hope you update soon, I really look forward to it!

By: finnishcomicsdissected

finnishcomicsdissected — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:41:13 +0000

It’s rare to see a comic with flying unicorns that manages to be down-to-earth! And also equally rare is to see an anime artist who does not fall to the cliche’s of “I’m holing two fingers up cutely while winking”-type of overused bs. Let’s see if we will see more comics like this from the sub-genre of finnmanga.

By: nvjinx

nvjinx — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:51:02 +0000

Well well, this one was a positive surprise. Those story was down-to-earth and surely touches a whole lot of Finns considering how common drinking-related problems are around here. I’m pretty impressed by the art. It retains a nice touch of manga without going into the blatant HAY GAIS IM DRAWIN ANIMU. And it’s free too! Thumbs up from me.

By: Maaria

Maaria — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:30:58 +0000

True, true… I’m so glad I quit my old webcomic that I’d started back in 2003. It’s nostalgic but GOD is it awful on the other hand, I can hardly read it without feeling suicidal. It had a small fanbase for some reason though.

Hehe, I stalk people much more than I care to admit. Nothing can stop me <3

By: finnishcomicsdissected

finnishcomicsdissected — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:26:18 +0000

Never fat enough! ..okay, let’s say he’s fat enough
It’s good you’re doing something of your own. Even if it will be complete and utter shit, it will let you breathe and learn. I speak from bitter, bitter experience. Oh the horror of my first comic, I don’t even want to see it ever again. If it would be a person I would hire an assasin to take him down and if it would be a cat it would be so malformed and ugly no one would never even laugh at it because it’s just that bad.
BUT! Yeah, even I have moved forward and learned and I seriously think you are on to something. I’m also sure you’ll see my comics because you stalked me to my art-LJ you sly dog <3

By: Maaria

Maaria — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:28:32 +0000

One of the baddies in Phantomland is quite round… still not fat enough?
Dissecting your own comic could be interesting. I haven’t seen much of your works at all so I’m looking forward to that :>
Also it could be fun to team up for shorter projects but right now I’m being plain stubborn and want to tell my own stories even if they turn out bad, haha.

By: finnishcomicsdissected

finnishcomicsdissected — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:17:09 +0000

Don’t worry, if you get a big head out of this, I’ll just critique you harshly to negate the effect!
It’s interesting to see what and how you have actually improved from Varjis. The backgrounds caught my attention again and I think those were the best indicators of progress. But you know what would make you different from all other “finnmangakas”? Draw a HUGELY obese person. Honestly, no one has done that yet.

I agree with this with all the strings of my existence. As long as you can produce even badly but learn from your mistakes, it’ll be worth it.. which reminds me that I will have to dissect my own comic here some day. Though I have to do it all sneakily tee hee. I do shitty art but like to tell stories, we should like team up or something. Can you draw giant squids fighting off sunfishes in outer space, by the way? ..just asking.

Good luck with Phantomland! It can be hard to do freelance work because no one’s kicking you in the butt to do it except you yourself. I hope it can be ordered trough the internets if it proves impossible for me to get to Desucon.

By: Maaria

Maaria — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:08:27 +0000

Hahaha! Don’t praise me so much, I’m getting a big head at this rate
I feel like replying with a couple of sentences about “well I didn’t really study the horses that much” and “oh if only you knew how hurried that comic was drawn” so yeah, you’re pretty much right about the self-critique part. It’s been a year since Varjis and I’m already amazed by how bad some of the drawings are!

But hey, being perfectly satisfied with my stuff would only stop me from developing – aside from brief moments of self-contentment, I think it’s more interesting to have crazy big ambitions and try to reach for one’s full potential. I have to admit, though, that 100% independent & personal works like Phantomland are especially tough on me because I place lots of sentimental value on it thus will definitely want to make it as good as possible; so naturally I’m in constant fear of negative criticism because I’m not sure how well I can handle it. I’m not a good writer at all, but here’s hoping people will appreciate the technical effort at the very least…

See you at Desucon! Now that you’ve put a little bit of that extra pressure on me I’ll be sure to pull some epic allnighters to finish the damn comic on time :F