COMIC CON 2013 RECAP #5

I almost forgot...

This

is

the

coolest

thing

EVER!

One Piece's

Fire Fist Ace

with

HOLOGRAPHIC FIRE!

COMIC CON 2013 RECAP #4

If you have informants on the street,

they'll undoubtedly tell you

that I love

Shonen Jump

magazine.

I love it even more 

now that it's gone

weekly

and

all digital

so I can read it on my iPad!

One Piece!

Naruto!

Bleach!

and my new 

favorite

ONE PUNCH MAN!

It's all in there 

plus

MORE!

So of course I had to stop by the

Viz Media

Shonen Jump 

booth

at 

Comic Con.

And whaddaya know?

They had a fun little scavenger hunt:

Shoot,

I was going to visit

all these booths anyway!

I even went for the bonus

and paid a visit to the

Shonen Jump 

truck out on the pier!

Mainly because I

wanted a free 

One Piece

energy drink:

note:  

i didn't actually DRINK the energy drink.

i have plenty of energy and fear i would burst into flames

if I had anything like a red bull.

 They were also screen printing 

Shonen Jump t-shirts on the spot

but the line was

soooooooooooooooooo

long I didn't get one.

<Sigh>

Anyway,

for completing the scavenger hunt

I was entered to win an iPad mini

and

I got this poster:

This coin:

And this pin:

Just a bunch more reasons to love

Shonen Jump!

COMIC CON 2013 RECAP #1

So

WHAT

did I see amongst 

the wilds of

Comic Con

this year?

I saw

LOTS

of

people:

And

LOTS

of 

costumes:

I saw

LOTS

of 

people

like

Venture Bros

creator

Jackson Publick:

George

"Kill 'em all"

Martin

And

Fish Hooks

voice actress

Felicia Day,

who I wanted to say HEY to but 

she was busy playing Magic: The Gathering

for her Web channel,

Geek and Sundry:

I saw art:

And giant Batmans:

Lots of cool

One Piece 

toys:

An

Adventure Time 

mountain:

Lego Turtles:

Hello Kitty 

+

Street Fighter

=

GENIUS:

"OOOOOOOOOOOOOH"

And

Star Wars Jammies

that 

Mrs. Warburton

insists

she

DOES NOT WANT:

I'm not quite sure how I 

ended up without

any

stormtrooper

pictures,

tho.

Wanna see 

what else

I saw?

Keep it locked here

for more

Comic Con

recap
after next week's
KND
original
storyboard
post!

ONE PIECE AT A TIME

Remember that One Piece vs KND drawing I did for Shonen Jump?

Well, the folks over at the One Piece At A Time Blog had some sooper triple
gear three nice things to say about it.

Click on their logo to check it out:


And if you read the comments, there are some thoughts regarding Numbuh 86 standing in for Nami, the Straw Hat's navigator.

I LIKE that idea.

So let's do it:


Thanks One Piece at a Timers!

KND vs. ONE PIECE IN SHONEN JUMP!

Okay... remember THIS:


Well, now it's in THIS:


That's right... the Codename: Kids Next Door/One Piece mash-up
I drew actually made it into the
September 2011 issue of Shonen Jump, my sooper most favorite magazine in the universe!
See?


And I'm all like,

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH!!!!!!!!

And in case you didn't know,
we sell copies of this print in the mighty printlab!

So I'm thinkin' we gotta celebrate with a big sale.

Now go check the printlab.

You know you wanna.

And THANKS Shonen Jump!
You guys rule the universe!

ONE PIECE vs KND

A while back I openly professed my love for both Shonen Jump and One Piece
over HERE.

So I thought I'd share this drawing I did back then:



After I bought my Cintiq drawing tablet I spent a lot of time experimenting with it by giving myself little projects... and this was one of 'em!

I sent it to Shonen Jump to see if they wanted to print it but never heard anything back.

Booooooooooooo, I say.

Boo!

UPDATE:

YAY, I SAY!

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

This print DID get published in Shonen Jump!

And in case you didn't know,
we sell copies of it in the mighty printlab!
And to celebrate we're puttin' on a sale!

So go check the printlab, okay?

ONE PIECE!

I LOVE SHONEN JUMP!

There.

I said it.

I didn't want to...

But you made me.

What's that? Some of you aren't familiar with Shonen Jump?
Then it's a good thing I'm here to tell you about it.


Shonen Jump is Japanese, long-running, big, thick WEEKLY, black and white magazine that's chock full of the hottest manga series. There are lots like it, but Shonen Jump is really THE creme de la awesome. I first picked up a copy in Japan years and years ago but my Japanese wasn't quite rockin' enough to read it properly. But then a bunch of years back they started releasing it here in the States in a monthly format so I grabbed it!


I first loved it for NARUTO... because, c'mon-- Ninjas RULE.
In fact, I spent a loooooong time pestering the folks at Cartoon Network to put Naruto on the channel. A LONG time. Then, of course, when they DID get it they said-- "Hey Mr. Warburton-- have you ever heard of this new anime series we got called Naruto? You might like it."

Ugh...

Anyway... Naruto was definitely my favorite for a long time. Shaman King was another sooper giant favorite and I was kinda bummed when they stopped running it (please disregard the American version of cartoon-- they totally changed it from what the manga is!). Sand Land, by the creator of Dragonball Z, which also ran, was cool. The Yu-Gi-Oh stuff was kinda silly... and I'll never get why anyone likes Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo. I tried. I really did. They jumped right into the middle of Bleach, so it took a little while to understand what was going on-- but now I really like it.



But my ultra sooper favorite grew to be ONE PIECE by Eiichiro Oda. It's about a kid named Monkey D. Luffy who wants to be King of the Pirates. That's simplifying it a bit, but it's really an amazing series with fantastically original art (the posing! the angles! the world!), sooper creative characters (a swordsman who fights with a sword in each hand and one in his mouth, a clown pirate who can dismember himself, giant banana gators) a weird sense of humor (Luffy and some of his crew tend to be brilliantly stupid), and a ton of real heart (a couple stories have brought a tear to my eye).


Now the only real drag about Shonen Jump is that since it only comes out monthly and some of the series have been running for eleventy thousand years in Japan, they're waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay behind the Japanese issues. By, literally, HUNDREDS of stories. And that's why I never watch the anime of Naruto or One Piece... I don't want to ruin the manga (which are often very different from each other).

BUT THEY'VE BEEN FIXING THAT!

First, they stopped running Naruto for a bunch of months and helped us catch up to the Japaense series by releasing more volumes of the compiled manga! Normally, one issue of Naruto has 3 or 4 twenty page chapters in an issue. But one of these babies has over 200 pages... and they gave us THREE A MONTH.

Can life get any better?

YES, IT CAN!

They've been doing the same thing with One Piece recently so for the last couple months they've been releasing FIVE (5) ... OMG... FIVE beautiful beautiful volumes EVERY MONTH.


I've never wanted it to be the beginning of a new month more.

One of the things I really love that Mr. Oda does better than anyone is group shots.
He takes the characters and puts them into these great situations that tell a fun story without words being neccessary. If you get a chance, find his Color Walk books.


A lot of his group shots are in there and I constantly refer to them for inspiration.






Now if I could just meet Mr. Oda and have him draw me a sketch I could die happier than I already am.