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GeekNights 080618 - MoCCA Arts Festival 2008
Tonight on GeekNights we discuss our trip to the MoCCA Arts Festival. In the news, there's a gigantic manga database now online, and Inu Yasha is over.
Scott's Thing - Japanese Vending Machines
Rym's Thing - Wakfu and Eretzvaju
Scott's Thing - Japanese Vending Machines
Rym's Thing - Wakfu and Eretzvaju
- Jason
- Dash Shaw - The Bottomless Belly Button
- Chip Kidd - Bat-Manga
- Mike Dawson - Freddie & Me
- Josh Cotter - Skyscrapers of the Midwest
- Teen Boat
- Diarrhea Diaries
- Killing Tree Quarterly
- Prince of Persia
- Hereville
- Matt Loux - Salt Water Taffy
- Jeff Lemire - Essex County
- Parade (with fireworks)
- Mariko Tamaki - Emiko Superstar
- John Lang - Fragment
- Pat Lewis - The Claws Come Out
- Wondermark
- Old School
- Take Boat
Comments
Out of the ones I've gone to in the past year (Colossalcon, A&G Ohio, Ohayocon, and Anime Punch), Anime Punch is the only one with consistently good panels. Ohayocon, for the past few years, has had absolute shit. They have at least 2-3x as many panels as AP, but there's potentially less panels that are worth your time.
As for rehashing panels, Colossalcon is the worst. I think the '07 panels were exactly the same as '06. 1-2 may have been different. '08 seems to have a ton of new panels, based on the list, so it might turn out better.
The sad thing, though, is that the core story is really, really good. I intensely like everything about InuYasha except watching it.
I put in one and got rejected but it's okay. The paragraph Alabaster(Jim) put up answered questions. I'm glad they are changing panels around because last years were kinda meh. Plus how he said it was awesome.
Mine was audio/visual/discussion panel about anime about otaku. (Genshiken, Otaku no Video, etc.) It was probably thought of in the vein of "Show XYZ rules yay" type but I wasn't going to make it that way. Meh, it was probably a kinda lame idea. Plus my only experience was running game shows and events but not panels.
It seemed like ZGL (Meredith?) was doing this herself. It took a long time to get responses for a ton of people. Poor ZGL.
Connecticon usually asks us to run as many events as we are willing to show up for (we did eight last year, and may be doing even more this year). Katsucon is the same way, though they also give us a bunch of event-level programming in addition to our panels, and we have our additional duties as staff. The New York Anime Festival tries to get us to run as much as we're willing to, though we try to keep it to a few panels and at most one or two events. We declined running panels at the New York Comic Con this year in order to spend more time acting as press. We also declined Anime Next, partly due to the somewhat-PITA panel application system they have.
Connecticon lets us play around a lot with new panel ideas, and we get wonderful feedback from the audiences there. Katsucon is where we refine existing panels into perfection and roll them out to a larger audience. Ideally, every panel will get its final run at Otakon, at which point we will retire it.
Otakon is the stingiest by far. This year, of the eight or so we sent Otakon's way, they accepted one and took another as a con backup. So, 2/8 were accepted. Otakon has never taken any of our events programming to date. Frankly, I'm fine with that, since we're refining these shows more and more every year at all of the other cons. The Match Game, for example, has improved every time we've run it. I'm expecting it to be a transcendent experience by Connecticon this year.
You won't lose your teeth.
Man up.
Okay, after some minor 'research' Wakfu is indeed also a game, though it's basically Dofus, only updated. Both are made by Ankama. The characters you see in the trailer are still pretty similar to their Dofus counterparts (and their class names are still the same), only with updated character designs, and a few classes having had major overhauls. But those classes aren't that represented in the trailer. Some of the designs are better, and some are worse (Sram's new design is ugly), but the style is still pretty. Might be a decent TV series, but seeing as it's an MMORPG with turn-based fighting, I wonder how much of an anime they can make out of it.
About that guy's band that was into the obsolete media , did he look like a masochist to you?
One - The festival was great to go to and my first time. It felt good to look around at the different comics and say hello to some of my favorite artists. A very relaxed atmosphere and a really interesting neighborhood.
Two - Meeting Rym and Scott was an added awesome bonus. I have to say you guys were very cool and I enjoyed talking to you. Also for anyone who has not met these two I recommend looking for them if you are at a con they are going to, especially PAX.
Unfortunately I did not introduce myself so I will do it now.
My name is Michael and I happened to also remember both of you from RIT anime, currently I live near Baltimore and I did not have a chance to get a sketch from Jason as you suggested. Thank you for stopping to talk, I still have to listen to the episode I have gotten a bit behind. Keep up the fantastic work.
Quick Question: Has anyone read Octopus Pie, I picked up her book at the festival and have been enjoying it but also have a weird feeling I am not enjoying it to its fullest extent, is anyone else not fully getting it? Latest storyline about laser tag is awesome.
I 'specially like the shirtless story arc. Some of the humor is a comical take on the lifestyle of young people living in Brooklyn, so it might be easier to relate to if you are from NYC, but in the end I think it's pretty random for anyone.
The artist has put out a couple of cool time lapse videos showing her comic creation process. Check it out, if you're interested in seeing digital comic art in action: