12/14/2007 04:42 Filed in:
Manga | New Releases
| Art
The writer's strike may
have put a dent in some of my favorite iPhone
sponsored TV shows like
Moonlight and
Chuck, but it's not stopping me from
writing new iPhone manga. I forgot to mention
that my latest release
Blood Isle is up
and available in the
Alchemy Manga
Shop, joining the recent
Evidemic
released last week. Blood Isle is a story I like
to call a fantasy with a twist you won't
believe. It follows an axe-wielding barbarian
woman called Ozelle as she moves through the
battles waging around her on this island. This
is just the beginning of an iPhone manga series
I am very excited about and so expect to see a
lot more of this story as it develops. The twist
in question will become more apparent in the
next chapter and things really explode from
there!
It was a fun title to work on as I chose to
experiment with the look and feel of the piece,
deviating from the sharp look of the previous titles
to try something more painterly and earthy. I enjoyed
playing with colors, foggy settings and depth in the
scenes. Because the world of iPhone manga allows for
a blend of techniques from print and screen graphics,
there are a lot of interesting directions to go
artistically. I am sure I wll discover and expand on
this as time goes on.
Coming up this month, in
time for the holidays, will be a new CG
collection titled
Manga Dolls: Holiday
Wallpaper Pack. It will provide a way to
give some sexy holiday cheer to your iPhone with
some different holiday backgrounds. The CG
collection will contain 16 beautiful background
images featuring the cutest characters around in
holiday themed environments. This will be the
first of many seasonal CG collections to
supplement the iPhone manga available in the
store. CG collections are extremely popular in
the digital manga world of Japan, and as more
artist create content for iPhone Alchemy, I hope
to have some image collections from some of the
greats overseas in the store very soon.
Even though I'll be after great iPhone formatted
manga content from a variety of artists in Japan and
globally, that won't stop the development of my
original stories. Look forward to the next chapter of
Heaven's Burden, coming later this month,
along with continuing stories of
Evidemic
and eventually,
The Legend of Zahur. Also,
the web app I mentioned previously is underway for
the iPhone and should be showing up in the next
couple of weeks. I feel like I'm on a roll now and I
am having a ton of fun. Things are just beginning to
accelerate!
Tags: Blood Isle, Mobile Content, Manga