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boychild
00:59 / 28.09.05
Hi all,

A hopefully easy question - am i allowed to put a posting telling people about my new comic book on barbelith?
Still not sure.

Cheers, Sean
www.boychildproductions.co.uk sean@boychildproductions.co.uk
 
 
matsya
01:15 / 28.09.05
I reckon it's okay - Ray F has posted here about Mnemovore, JH3 spruiks his own gigs, MacGyver talks his up. I mean, I'm not speaking as a moderator here, just a punter, but I'd like to know about it.

You could also put something in the Creation thread, too, though that has its own issues...
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
05:39 / 28.09.05
It generally helps if you have contributed anything else to Barbelith before you start pimping - right now all we know about you is that you want to promote your comic to us.
 
 
Ganesh
05:50 / 28.09.05
Is it about boylove?
 
 
sleazenation
06:37 / 28.09.05
Yeah, we generally try to encourage people post on subjects other than just their own comic. I think a greater amount of engagement with the board benefits everyone...
 
 
boychild
02:44 / 15.11.05
Thanks for these replies.

I'll take this is a 'Yes, but we'd like to know you a bit first.'

No shagging on the first date, huh?

The name 'boychild' come from the song by Scott Walker on his fourth LP, 1969. Im a big fan of his (and 60's music in general) I've been using the name since 1993 for various creative efforts. There is nothing boylove about it, although - oddly enough - I am currently thinking about writing a Yaoi manga story (which is basically boys love/sex type manga).

Grant Morrison is also a big influence on me - him and Alan Moore's writing and attitude got me into magick, and im glad of it. Grant once told me I had a cool haircut, its being his type of beatles/mod style - and I still do.

Im from Edinburgh, Scotland but have lived in Japan since last year. Ive done three graphic novels so far (well, two and one anthology book). I am right now deep into doing a historical manga book with Sakura Mizuki (the artist on the RING horror manga adaptation). We are doing it for a museum in England, its called THE JAPANESE DRAWING ROOM, due to be out in May 2006.

But the book I want to tell you all about now is the last one BEAUTIFUL THINGS - its all poetic short stories in comic book form.

Best,
Sean Michael Wilson
www.boychildproductions.co.uk
 
 
Triplets
08:39 / 15.11.05
I think what sleaze meant was contributing to threads other than just ones about yer own stuff. Don't masturbate! Interacterate!
 
 
sleazenation
08:39 / 15.11.05
I take it you guys will be at the Brighton expo?
 
 
Spaniel
09:50 / 15.11.05
Sounds cool, Boyo. Just be aware that Barbelith is about more than advertising. We like people to engage with the board.

I'd like to check out yer stuff. Is it available in the UK?
 
 
Bed Head
10:11 / 15.11.05
Sorry, without any posts on any other threads or about any other subjects from this suit, surely this *is* just spam? He might be the greatest artist since Leonardo, but so far he’s not managed the basic requirement of discussing things on a discussion board, or interacting as a member of a community. And he's missed, what, two huggly hints to post on other subjects already? And ploughed on telling us about himself instead. And then spammed the Conversation. It looks like he’s just turned up with the sole purpose of telling us all about his new book. Some extra information about boychild-the-artist doesn’t make that any less spammy, does it?

If anybody here wants to know about his comic, there’s the link to his own site. Maybe there’ll be an email list you can sign up to.
 
 
boychild
12:35 / 16.11.05
Ok guys and galls
- since there seems to be some disagreement about this, and my effort to say something about my self has also been taking badly, then - I promise I will not bother you with any more of my 'spam' - or even spam, spam, egg and chips.

Except to say the general point that efforts at letting people know about your creative work when you have no one but yourself to do it, and your books barely break even, money wise, I think should be given a chance. Spam from big companies, yes, fuck em - but individual creators at a smaller level should be giving a bit more support,no?

Making Indie level comic books is hard enough...

Best tae ye all anyhow,
boychild productions
 
 
Ganesh
12:44 / 16.11.05
I think the gist, BoyChild, is: in order to engender Barbelith's interest in your comics, it might help to demonstrate some reciprocal interest in Barbelith ie. spend some time here, post on other threads, invest a little in the message board itself.
 
 
_Boboss
12:45 / 16.11.05
spam away if you're willing to stick around a bit mate - the barb's quite good at encouraging members to hawk their latest products, and buying them direct, but have a bit of a muck-about with the rest of the board as well hey?
 
 
boychild
13:02 / 16.11.05
Cheers you two. I will have a look around and do some posting. Then maybe, one day, i will post some spam and eggs...

boychild,
Late night in Japan
 
 
Bed Head
13:38 / 16.11.05
the general point that efforts at letting people know about your creative work when you have no one but yourself to do it, and your books barely break even, money wise, I think should be given a chance. Spam from big companies, yes, fuck em - but individual creators at a smaller level should be giving a bit more support,no?

And I think our general point has been made umpteen times now, boychild, and this isn’t necessarily to do with evil ‘big companies’ vs deserving ‘individual creators’. For what it’s worth - here are links to several comics that existing members of this community have made, ie, that aren’t seen as spam because they’re by members of barbelith that we all know; and so when they’re telling us about what they’re up to, we’re interested. Which is to say, please do stick around and join in and everything. Because then we can be quite good at being supportive.

If you just want to talk about yourself and your work and build up your boychildy artistic persona and suchlike - absolutely nothing wrong with that, and here is some information about setting up your own message board - no snark, but it’s dead easy to set one up and hang it off the side of your own ‘boychild productions’ website and so create and maintain your own mini-community of boychild fans. Likewise the recommendation about having an email/mailing list.
 
 
sleazenation
13:46 / 16.11.05
Bedhead - I think Boychild has taken onboard what has been said here to some extent and has now started another topic that isn't about his own work here...
 
 
Bed Head
13:55 / 16.11.05
I got that. I was just trying to help with the link to the ‘comics by lithers’ wiki page - useful example of previous policy, I thought - and then figured maybe the other thing about community building software might be helpful somehow to independant artist and then got carried away etc etc arrrg

But yes. Seen it. Point stands. But yes.
 
  
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