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DeviantArt Gallery - This is
where I throw up what little other art I create and also the best place
for you to leave anonymous comments.
Livejournal - See me be absurdly
personal without knowing who a reader is.
Psycho Bunny Productions - Work
is slow over at PBS, but we do make use of a Gaia guild for its forum
communication.
jeremy_mmz_forbes (at)
yahoo.com - That happens to be the email address I tend to
use. It's generally full of spam since it's so old, though.
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This comic
originally started after I was given Jhonen Vasquez'
awesome
comic "I Feel Sick". I loved it and found myself
wanting
to imitate it's style with all of it's elements that I hated and loved
at
the same time. So I doodled a few characters and ended up with an
early
version of the character that is now Anti. My first impression of
him
was that "he is so not bishie. He's... anti-bishie...."
And
thus the idea for the comic slowly began to take form. After that
I
made the decision to focus the story around YaoiCon merely because I
had friends who were interested
in
it, and I could relate to the subject. I assumed that the subject
of
people
who aren't yaoi fans being friends with those who are could easily be
humorous...
and on top of that the general confusion and misunderstanding of the
subject
left me with basically a clean canvas to work with.
Originally
I hoped to release Anti-Bishie as a very short one-shot comic that was
self-printed
and given out for free or at least very cheap at a convention.
That
idea was quickly scrapped, but I refused to give up on the project.
I then finished a proto-type comic with Anti explaining to his
friend
Tira
the best way to write a yaoi-theme fan fiction
and I knew that I had something that, at the very least, I found to be
very
entertaining. So with a desire to make a comic and an interest
in
actually having people see it I opted to make a webcomic. Prior
to
Anti-Bishie I was more or less unaware of the state of online comics.
I
simply didn't read them. In fact, I kinda avoided them... mostly
because
I kept hearing about them from people I didn't like very much.
But
I eventually fell to the might of MegaTokyo, Penny Arcade, Real Life
and others and created a
tiny
little webcomic of my own.
Over
time the story more or less grew completely out of control... I
developed an entire mythos for YaoiCon and it's
subject,
a grand quest for my main character, and and overwhelming number of
characters
to interact with. The thing that brings a smile to my face though
is
that at it's heart Anti-Bishie really is a sappy romantic thing.
It's
about getting along with people even if you don't understand them,
falling
in love, friendship. All of that sappy stuff. It's just
buried
beneath all of the insanity.
I feel that I should probably now explain what yaoi is, for those that
aren't sure. I am told that "yaoi" is actually an acronym for "yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi
nashi" which supposedly translates to "no peak, no point, no meaning".
You may all thank an old friend of mine for this
information. Of
course,
there's the more obvious -and often less hardcore- "shonen-ai", which I
myself
can translate into "boy-love". So basically what we're talking
about
here is gay men. Though the stories are generally written for
women
by women... and thus are more more feminine in nature.
I hope that both avid yaoi fans and startled
yaoi-newbies
might both giggle at the reluctant adventures of a guy who just wants
to
be left alone. ^_^ |
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