In our article highlighting DoujinPress, we announced that EtherFuture would be submitting a manga doujinshi piece for commission consideration. Since then, we have kept quiet about our progress, save two production pictures we posted on our Facebook Page and a few choice tweets. In the end, our hard work and determination has paid off yet again.
Recently, a close online friend, budding illustrative artist, and emphatic supporter of EF’s work asked me to critique her latest piece of art. I jokingly replied, “My opinion isn’t really worth very much. I’m a writer and digital designer.” To paraphrase her response:
In the past, I’ve written that we would be making efforts to become more socially engaged online. Over the past few weeks, we’ve done just that in order to hopefully grow our online network. Complete info after the gap.
The owner of AnimeAlmanac.com described MangaNEXT, to be a “small, cute convention“. Having gone in 2008 as an Artist Alley attendee, I could agree to an extent. In my opinion though, this year’s 4th iteration proved to be a little more than just “small and cute”.