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Flickr and Getty

Flickr is a web camera in the early days disdain. I felt unattractive. Now that I found out and sailing in the community flickeriani, I can not do without. Upload my photos, create sets and add my photos to a wide variety of photographic groups. And exploration. There are some real trend on flickr and amazingly talented photographers. Flickr can also be as a showcase to present to various types of people who do the work (without having to do a site specifically). But on flickr you can also sell and in fact it was a pleasure to discover that the prestigious Getty Images goes fishing pictures more interesting "commercially" and sells on his website. Fantastic! In fact, posting some photos on a specific group, editors have chosen some of my Flickr pictures that have gone to increase the stock of Getty!

Not bad! Keep working!

© 2010 Elena Fantini

Motivational Letter To A Depressed Friend

Figure

Yeah. These days, looking around in the sea in the world of comics in Italy, seem to see some of the constants' everywhere. Look, look, think, and you realize that the world of minor publishers often lack of important figures. Consider perhaps superfluous, unnecessary, that you can do without when it comes to limit expenses. A salary less. Money saved, so the comic book comes out well anyway. " Let's not let them disappear in 'indifference .

And we begin with a very special figure. Yes, we speak of because editor, this unknown.

"Who is it, man?" What? Why would anyone would miss it? " application, the reasonable reader.

Well, let's see. A self-respecting editor, to begin working in a drawing, for example. With a phone maybe. Here's the first problem: if there is no editor, if we can do without him, what the hell is an editorial? You can do without, of course. And his phone.

But (of course) who is it? What exactly does? How does it fit in a process editorial that leads to create a popular comic strip?

We try to answer. In a comic, there must be a writer . Which is often the subject. Then there is the designer. And letterer. And the publisher and printer, and distributor , and newsagent, and so on. The

writer writes the script . It goes to the artist. In a popular comic strip, monthly or so, find themselves working together most designers. A cartoon drawing in 100 pages a month (although some did), in theory even in three months (even if someone is proud of it), and if a number has to come out every month, meet to work on the same days at least 4 or 5 designers. Sending the tables designed, and are paid accordingly.

Here, those who send them? By mail or in digital mode? To someone who should be taken against the production, dates, number of days before the deadline. That once received by mail sent to the letterer , catering and put the lyrics. Which shall be read and checked. And once the re-read the story several times, looking for inconsistencies and errors. "One moment," he interrupts the watchful attentive reader, "But that's what makes him writer! "Yeah, now he thinks it. And he always takes into account the time, all the while writing stories for 3 3 designs that bring a hurry.

is that our figure is missing out. P hy this part of the work should be him doing it, our editor is missing. One who might be willing to spend the whole day to examine the literary history, to check if everything is clear and in place. All while answering the phone ringing.

you know how many times it happens that an author builds a story, you face all the questions and give answers, and then a Once you start to forget to write them all ? You forgot to mention or give a solution, believing that everything is clear? Why is absolutely convinced of her date, know why they had thought about so much, that he invented a perfect solution?

Example: The editor read the complete story, and finally says, "But this misses the motive of the crime." The writer says that there is, the cop says so clearly. But then he goes to check and see that ... at the last moment he changed a dialogue, and without noticing has taken important clue. But more will become aware potersene easier than I can someone who read that story for the first time. The reason why a cartoon (but also applies to the novels) should always reread several times by several people (old rule Bonelli ). Otherwise the forum will be filled with readers who enjoy find errors and inconsistencies . Here, the editor is the first critical eye. But then, to think is not good. There may very well think the writer , while simultaneously writes 4 stories for 4 designers busy. Or read it (without commitment, but hurry, please) to friends, relatives, his girlfriend, or Baker's fumettofilo .

Our editor should also keep an eye on the drawings. Assuming it has a good working knowledge of comics, will find that a designer is "pulling out" (they do, they do, the designers are human beings, with all faults and qualities that this entails), or using a valid and anonymous aide for backgrounds. Or inexplicably delayed deliveries. And then the necessary changes to our editor detective, investigates and informs, because this could affect the quality of work. An artist falls ill and can not draw for three weeks? And his story is at risk of not ending time? Who makes measures, investigate who else might continue the story, if it was not really possible to postpone ? Which is held every schemini and dates on a sign on the wall?

Yeah. But this can also do the writer in his free time that allows the work to write 5 stories for 5 designers involved, so what good is the editor? Let

. to acquire and prepare designs for print, perhaps? Well, of course, somebody has to think, no? Or to receive shipments of the designers, to photocopy or scan everything. "You do not think the designers?" Calls the inclined reader. Oh, yes, it must also thwart the designs because are ready for printing. Where once it was not their task. Either we think our dear writer, in his spare time that leaves the difficulty writing with 6 stories for demanding designers 6.

And if the artist has copied from other comics? Modestly or entirely intentional ? Who ever let him touch the cazzettone a must? Always the writer

, breaks for meals that can win while writing stories for 7 7 designers in a panic.

Okay, but then who meets the young designers and willing to make calls and send their drawings to the young and aspiring writers who send their revolutionary logorrheic and trilogies? Those who read and watch everything, to be fair to them? In order to encourage an informed opinion of them to give themselves to the noble art of horseracing, or others to insist because something good, though still immature, is it?

"I know, I know!" said the reader easy-going, "We think the WRITER!"

Damn. You can not really hide anything. Already, in the end can really think of him as he writes damn 8 stories for 8 damn designers in a hurry.

Well, then yes. So I really do not need (an employee salary less). Just as it is a drawing (a rent less). The editors may well become the home of writer , spaces that carves out writing stories for 9 complicated 9 workaholic designers, with the money they earn and can afford to pay for the phone whenever he called the designer who moved to Iceland.

Well, now maybe the next time a reader complains that a writer is losing shots, or who no longer writes a time, take 5 minutes to think and reason above, and then gives the answer himself. If not then there is the problem, it means that I only lost 20 minutes to write a post that is perhaps unnecessary, God bless. Anzichenò.

Yes, yes, as a very old advertisement said, "It looks easy!"

Easy, right?

PS: Well, after all this (and more) could do it another figure missing, the editor . But it seems he may well do without. But we will see in another post.

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potential atomic bombs

Sometimes even the phlegm from classic to designer, what I do for all the doodles, that answers all the questions, who has the patience to listen to someone more nerd than he (yes, they exist), every now and then relents. And the artist receives from her gut upside a subtle thought, a whispering voice that whispers in your ear a delicate little word: "Send him affanzùm."

But what ever may trigger a reaction in such great personage well as for our dear designer?

Oh, many things, but no more than the others.

Tizio Caio, an aspiring artist in the grass, Gatton crawl approaching the designer polite. She asks him if he wants to look at his drawings, and maybe give you some advice . The artist welcomes clean-cut, and looks. Look at those drawings, turn the pages, and there is a problem:

design is different from person to person. So maybe I do not like the style but who cares - after not even like the style of some of Marvel comics. So can not give an opinion on style, but on the whole. Because maybe that style will evolve spontaneously into something extraordinary, and you do not know. So, unless extreme circumstances with no hope (yes, there are those) who are you to point out defects of the classic topical: hands too big, scale bust etc., or watch the story. If you work environment for some time, if you drew more than a thousand pages, if you continued to be critical of yourself, you'll see for sure. Our designer friendly look at the page and note that the narration does not work. Bobo is the hero in an apartment on the phone in a cartoon, and soon after was in a car, and then somewhere else. The designer

patient notes this error, explaining that some leaps in time are not used, because they create confusion, which in these cases also helps give the reader the space action. And then for example would also draw the car along the road. Or the young

asordiente overlapping vignettes with identical shots, without using reverse. The budding designer listens rapt, agrees with a gesture of the head, and then, at the climax draws his supreme bullshit. The word that destroys all that there was complicity nall'aria until then.

says, "But I like it."

point. The final answer, one that does not allow replies. What the designer says now irrevocably altered one thing that goes something like "I do not mind that advice you gave me, nor any other you can give me, to tell the truth, because I have already learned . "

Back in my body and I resume talking about me, I explained the concept now. When it happens me, my answer is always the same: "Then why seek advice?".

you make an effort to make Mr. Spock, to argue with logic and cut the hairs, and the other side would you rather have a ' Horta rather than with the young man that you are smiling face. But you were trying to do no more or less the same thing as the art teacher had done with you in your school years, when I had seen the Smudge with fingers on graphite. I patiently explained that it 1) you could not make a uniform surface larger and 2) you could not make that effect with the ink. The reason over irrationality. Damn. It 's true. Why not I arrived there alone? And run for cover.

The editor notes that Jonathan refer you shoot with his right hand into a vignette and the other with the left? Heck, it's true, I have to adjust. Your car takes a left and you're not in London: error, I have to adjust. You have seven fingers drawn to a man: But how the hell did I do?

Here, when you do this job you need to know that there are people you can trust that you will point out the errors, so that you can correct them. NOT to tell you that you are stupid.

Years ago, before they came all now retired, went back to my school to say goodbye to my old teachers. And in the middle of a lesson I see my art teacher from life to approach a guy and make him notice that he was making a mistake, as he had done with me and other willing students in its time.

The student response this time was "But I like it."

Here's my little prayer: if one day you happen to see me absorbed after a feast to draw and I want to ask for advice (but I'm sure that goes for all my colleagues), I ask you: when I gave Council specifically requested , do not respond, "But I like it." Otherwise, sooner or later I'll end up doing a bang ...

Bum. Crash. Zoom.

Gulp!

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Carpe Diem


The Selfarea is one of the best initiatives of recent years about the comics convention. Established in Luccacomics ( & Games ) three years ago, on a proposal and management of the comic Andrea Pazienza Center provides a space available of self-produced at a lower price than that of Exhibitors normal, all within an exhibition of great interest as Lucca.

on this experience sooner or later I'll write a piece, but when I focus on a detail of the last edition (November 2009). Is organized each year in the selfarea initiative that would involve groups present. This time it was asked to compose a cartoon of a story in continued (more or less, then everyone invents his own and violates the rules, as taught Moebius). Purpose had been made a space in the warehouse, where a tripod and white cards, along with black acrylic paint and brushes, waiting to be used by young artists.

In three days of the fair I was always in a hurry. At the booth of Anjce we'd change with Miriam when possible, and every so often one of the boys of the staff asked us if we wanted to make a design well us, and whenever I have time maybe the stand was already occupied, where at other times the time I was missing altogether.

And then comes Sunday night. People are starting to sbaraccare, they make a decision, gather the autoproductions and come off the posters, and there's a big pit of people and boxes. And when I stop by to look at the drawings, and I begin to think it is a shame not to be able to join. The drawings attached to the wall are really beautiful, different from each other, a thousand different styles, from abstract to photo, from the funny to the Cubist, a feast for the eyes

But ...

But now the stand is empty. Yes, there is a large pit, but if you like ... yes, but then I am bringing that idea? It is, I decide to take those few minutes to make the design promised. "More and sought to continue ..." I suggest a young staff, apparently satisfied that in the end I also participate.

In seconds you do come to mind? In this case, a simple extrapolation "comic story - the beginning - the progress - the final." Here, I write the end. And do it quickly (I have a pencil to sketch, I will manage). The brush is medium, but is saturated with color until the middle of the neck, no one should have thought to clean it after use, or simply has been placed inside the jar of water (half a plastic bottle cut in half) for too long. Benvenuto Cellini managed to make it look like a titanic merger of the statue of Perseus in fundamental text Life ( essential "for those who studied art history, of course), I do not I'll try not to describe those 10 minutes, with everyone you pass by carrying something.

And then in the end it was fun. And my idea to end it was not bad.

The picture I did in the opening few minutes after the drawing, which is still on the stand, just before they were to remove everything, and being able to aprofittare a rare moment when there was no crowd. The top one is the last, my, of course, the last one.

is one of the reasons why designers sometimes start a blog: to tell similar stories and show these moments, which otherwise would be lost .

Since then, every so often happens to me, especially the mind expect a light to change or queuing at the post office (or when someone tries to convince me with his skillful dialectic gestalt is better than mine), well in similar cases happens that my mind climbs in elliptical virtuosity and colorful abstractions, and suddenly decides to pull the fundamental questions. And suddenly you get the urge to find answers to questions like "Why do we do?", "What happened to have made the designs made in selfarea?" or "What the hell I put as the head of the blog?".

Then the light turns green, here comes your turn to row in the mail and the phone rings scassamaroni persuader, and your cycles to resume their normal thought pattern analog and relaxing.

And when you find the header for the blog, and think that after all is not so important to know why you do what you do, you still have a question that sought to answer: what have made the designs of selfarea? Someone will make a publication ? Someone has photographed and put on-line ? Some visitors to the selfarea paused to watch?

Colorful abstractions and elliptical virtuosity, precisely ...

Kates Playground With Rabbit

I wanted to be Stanley Kubrick ... Every now and then resurface

was a bit 'that I wanted to post it somewhere, but outside of my pc has never been possible. I could put it on Facebook, but the vision was restricted to visitors. Youtube? Too broad. And then I find that blogs can also make movies.

Okay, so let's start with this. April 2010, as if I were to report, here is the tour of Naples Comicon. Recommended vision in the dark room, because the light in the movie is really low.

Have fun ...