marketing

I also want to participate in the heatwave of fury. I mean really, WTF?

Some of you might not know what I’m talking about here, so let me explain.

As I mentioned before, my friend and me are making a comic. Generally a small project for our own selves. The idea was to make the first Lithuanian comic about IT and such. Well, since we had a lag of sorts, we finished second, but still, I know we’re better ^^. Anyway, since it’s a comic about IT, inevitably we encounter such things, as appliance of computer brands, energy drinks.  Why not make it fun, and make one character obsessed with a certain brand? I don’t think  it’s advertisement, if we make a three part series about “RedBull”- what  if it’s an actual problem/feature of our….um…..job/hobby/obsession/life? So if I’m making a comic, and want to make an apple or a dell freak in it, that means, that i’m advertising them? All I can say is F*** bloody you.

Fine, so let it be, that product placement IS a part of advertising. But we live in a real world. I mean how many of you actually act: “Wow! Tom Cruise has an “Apple”, hmmmm, maybe I should get one too?” This is stupid, and you know it. So just to let you know. We’re not gonna delete the brands, or make up any new ones. Blog’s and such ABOUT commercials are not commercials. Learn to see the difference, and learn some respect.

TRUCE!

a new idea

Had this thought storming in my brain today. Since I’m working on a comic already, I figured it’s quite minimal right now, and I want something bigger. Bigger, meaning not the length (hopefully ITopia will last for quite a while), but the quality. I have a storyline in mind, and a small idea about what the characters should look like. But i still can’t decide how to display all this. Either paper edition, or create some kind of line-art and then proceed with digital coloring. I really want o see what i’m capable of, and as soon as I’m finished with all the deadlines, this is next on my schedule.