[ Posted by JasonCopland on Jun 13th, 2007 4:27 PM ]...

Marv... time to start pimping the first issue of Inanna's Tears!
(Here's the Product Code: JUN073244)
Looking forward to it.
See you in SDCC!

1 Reply [ Latest posted on June 15th, 2007 11:30 PM ]

[ Posted by mpMann on Jun 15th, 2007 11:30 PM ]... hey Jason, and right you are! Inanna's Tears will be coming to comics shops in August. We should have some interviews at jazma online soon, and Brett warnock and dirk deppy have picked up on the web version at ModernTales, whicxh will still be available until the end of June. In other news I have just today finished principal art for Some New Kind of Slaughter, n my next OGN with A. David Lewis. I still have to color it, but I'm well ahead of the curve on this and should have it all finished well ahead of my deadlines for a December publication date. Hope all is well with you and i look forward t catching up with you're doin's in SD.

[ Posted by MicahFarritor on Apr 17th, 2007 1:13 AM ]...

I just checked out your proposal for "Some New Kind Of Slaughter" It sounds great. I hope it goes well. And I'll be looking for updates on Inanna's Tears as well. Thanks for the add!
-Micah

[ Posted by SamJohnson on Feb 9th, 2007 3:17 PM ]...

Cheers for the tips, Marvin!

[ Posted by SamJohnson on Feb 6th, 2007 4:12 PM ]...

Hi Marvin, good to hear from you. How're you? What you working on at the moment?

Re: lettering: Yeah, looking at doing lettering myself might not be a bad idea; do you know of any free sites/tools you can recommend?

-Sam

2 Replies [ Latest posted on February 6th, 2007 4:51 PM ]

[ Posted by mpMann on Feb 6th, 2007 4:47 PM ]... I do my lettering in Photoshop although i think that most letterers use Illustrator. I think that Coral has a suite of vector based tols to use... but wait! I downloaded and installed OpenOffice the other day and just now used the Draw program to open a PDF of Inanna's Tears and it will allow you to do lettering and even has some preset word balloons to use. I haven't experiemented with it enough to see what the limitations are... but its freeware and you should google it, download it and give it a try.

[ Posted by mpMann on Feb 6th, 2007 4:51 PM ]... As for what I'm working on... I still have one more 25 page Act for Inanna' Tears to complete... just waiting on script right now. After that I begin an OGN of Flood Myths with A. David Lewis, Some New Kind of Slaughter ~or~ Lost in the Flood (and How We Found Home Again)

[ Posted by JasonCopland on Jan 27th, 2007 6:35 PM ]...

I'm loving Inanna's Tears, Marv! Really nice stuff, sir.

2 Replies [ Latest posted on January 27th, 2007 8:54 PM ]

[ Posted by mpMann on Jan 27th, 2007 7:59 PM ]... Why thankee, Jason! Sunday night I should be uploading the final installment of Chapter/Act/Book One, so that will be a good time to check out a fully readable chunk. Currently I am rolling past the halfway point of Act Four, and expect to have all five Acts completed by the end of February. Archaia Studios Press[i] is interested in publishing [i]Inanna's Tears come mid-year, with Some New Kind of Slaughter ~or~ Lost in the Flood (and How We Found Home) coming at year's end. And how are things progressing with you? Postcards is due mid-year, yes?

[ Posted by JasonCopland on Jan 27th, 2007 8:54 PM ]... That title is indeed a mouthful. ;) Looking forward to it, though! Yeah, Postcards is going to drop late June/early July, I believe. But, definitely in time for SDCC... which will be cool, as I'll be there again, this year! Always nice to have something out while at a convention. You'll be there again, yeah?

[ Posted by xiamoua on Jan 20th, 2007 5:52 PM ]...

As for sequentials; I'll post up a couple of them up when time permits.

[ Posted by xiamoua on Jan 20th, 2007 5:41 PM ]...

Thank you for your kinds words, Mr. Mann. I agree with everything you said; consistency and quality is key........and meeting deadlines. Speaking of writers; as of now I'm in collaboration with writer/publisher Robert Young.

This current project will challenge me to be as versatile as possible, being that the style is Manga. Mr. Young has good taste in culture and history that he integrates well into his stories. Thanks for droppin' by. Peace.

[ Posted by JimSalicrup on Dec 31st, 2006 5:36 PM ]...

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[ Posted by Samdegraff on Dec 23rd, 2006 6:09 PM ]...

I dig your style. the Innana's tears sample I saw was terrific. And I never (well at least it'd have been less likely) would have seen it if it wasn't for this site. Exposure potential: HIGH.
I'm glad I found this place.

2 Replies [ Latest posted on December 23rd, 2006 10:22 PM ]

[ Posted by mpMann on Dec 23rd, 2006 10:11 PM ]... Thanks for the kind words, Sam. Rob Vollmar and I are excited about Inanna's Tears going live at ModernTales Strip Lounge the first week of January. We're building up a big backlog of pages so that you'll get weekly updates like clockwork. Once that is finished, I'll be starting on a follow-up to The Lone and Level Sands called High Waters which will bring together flood myths from around the world. Hope 2007 is a big year for you in comics!

[ Posted by Samdegraff on Dec 23rd, 2006 10:22 PM ]... And to you as well. 2007 will be the big start for me I think. Finding this site was rather auspicious.

[ Posted by SamJohnson on Dec 19th, 2006 6:29 PM ]...

Cheers, Marvin. Cool. And if you do wind up working on one of my projects-for-submission in the future, it wouldn`t be Manga-style, most of mine aren`t. Seeya in the funnybooks.

1 Reply [ Latest posted on December 19th, 2006 6:59 PM ]

[ Posted by mpMann on Dec 19th, 2006 6:59 PM ]... Thanks Sam. Keep us all informed as things progress.

[ Posted by mpMann on Dec 18th, 2006 10:58 PM ]...

New pages of script came in today for Inanna's Tears and are they ever good! I've drawn two of them already tonight. I have no doubt we'll be ready to roll out the weekly episodes at ModernTales starting in January!

The plan is to have it 60% finished before we go-live so that there are no interruptions. We should have the whole thing finished by the end of February and it will serialize for the first half of 2007.

[ Posted by Stan_Yan on Dec 18th, 2006 6:46 PM ]...

Marv, thanks for your friendship. Makes me feel good to be rubbing elbows with ya... maybe some of your greatness will rub off on me.

[ Posted by SamJohnson on Dec 18th, 2006 6:23 PM ]...

Hi Marvin, thanks for the add! I sent you a Friends-request because I like your work and I read one of your postings, where you were saying you`re getting pages done faster than the writer. This is absolutely *^$#ing unheard of in my experience, so I was wondering if you do 5-sample-pages for submission to publishers-type deals, where the money comes from the publisher if the book gets picked up/makes money, `cos I`m looking for artists for a couple of my projects, and the bane of my existence has been unreliable artists!

Please check out my site http://www.myspace.com/cabracini for more on me and my stuff, and if you`re up for what I`m proposing above (obviously dependent on you being into the idea of the project in question), I`d be very interested in working with you.

Please drop me a line either way.

Best,

-Sam

[ Posted by JimmyKitty on Dec 17th, 2006 8:14 PM ]...

Marv, get to work... you slacker!

These young upstarts got nothing on us. I still recall the day I came by your house in Alameda and you gave me tips on my art. Don't ever change on me Marv, or I'll come knock some years off the side of your talented head!

Looking forward to your new work, always a pleaasure. Keep fighting the good fight for comics. Perhaps I'll see you at APE again... you can see how fat I've gotten. I bought a treadmill for the house... it just sits there. I swear I'm gonna get on it. Perhaps a New Year's resolution?

Merry, merry...

1 Reply [ Latest posted on December 17th, 2006 8:42 PM ]

[ Posted by mpMann on Dec 17th, 2006 8:42 PM ]... Slacker? You shittin' me?! My writer can't keep up with me. I'm waiting for script as it is. And this isn't the first time I've raced down a writer. I swear from now on I only start scripts AFTER they are finished. Of course, I've said that before and here I am... Actually Inanna's Tears is going to be a good one. It'll start at ModernTales in January and then Mark and Aki at ASP have expressed interest.

[ Posted by JasonCopland on Dec 16th, 2006 1:40 AM ]...

Marv! Did you delete your myspace account? You seemed to have vanished into thin cyber-air!

Things are good, yeah?