Aidan Clarke

Part of being able to handwrite stuff like this is having a better grasp on how long the whole book will take (hint: it's NOT short), so volume 4 has bit more of the special sauce put into the lettering than the previous ones.

The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy At All volume 4 is out! Here's some fun bits of lettering I did for the English version. *the difference in green in these screenshots between the JP/EN versions is down to I assume export settings for different platforms

RIP

This variant cover for Brothers of Japan is based on the obi band of the JP release! Shoutout to our designer Zach for doing a wonderful job on the English cover!

🚨 VARIANT COVER REVEAL 🚨 Brothers of Japan by Taiyo Matsumoto is getting a special variant cover edition, exclusive to the Manga Mavericks Store! This limited-edition cover is a must-have for your collection, so secure yours before it's gone!

🚨 NEW LICENSE ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 Georgie by Mann Izawa and Yumiko Igarashi Follow a spirited young girl from the Australian countryside to England on a quest to find her roots. This classic 1982 shojo masterpiece is coming to print in two gorgeous deluxe editions!

Georgie, a lively girl growing up in the Australian countryside, embarks on a journey to England after meeting a young English noble named Lowell, hoping to uncover the truth about her roots. Discover Georgie, the beloved classic shojo manga, coming to Omoi Spring 2027! @mangamavericks.bsky.social

Let's celebrate a master. 🎨 Taiyo Matsumoto brings unmatched art and raw emotion to his pages. We're honored to bring his anthology, Brothers of Japan, to you in 2027. Work is happening right now! Who is excited? buff.ly/AxSxCLK

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Back in high school, a friend borrowed my flash drive to get a paper printed. She returned it later that day with a new file saved to it: "Your new background.png" So here's the image she made, please use it as your new background on your devices. It tiles seamlessly.

before i disappear from bsky again, here's a logo i designed for a discord server i think looks nice

Working on my handwriting font. Got samples of all of the letters and vast majority of the symbols prepped, ready to begin tracing. I scanned them at 600dpi, so each square of graph paper is 150px. Slight fuzziness when loaded into Fontlab, but that should be fine since I'm tracing manually.

Now more than ever

knockoff software is making headlines, so i would like to remind everyone not to download software from publishers you don’t trust. even if it’s going viral. especially if it’s going viral.

Brandon points out one of the most vital skills for a manga letterer. Retouching art is something to approach in steps. Fully white out the JP text and isolate that area. Get the broad strokes like boundaries out of the way before doing any detail work.

—and things like the signs people are holding up. In blue you can see all the spots where I filled things in. The illusion holds up pretty well, but I tried to pay attention to things like rotation/angle of the crowd in different parts of the arena.

Here's a look at how I handle some of these big sweeping crowd shots. If you look at the English SFX laid over the art before I retouch it, you see a lot of gaps where I need to fill in the crowds. Clone tool makes quick work of these, but it's important to establish the borders (highlighted red)—

As usual, most of my SFX are laid out with fonts, and then I loosely trace them with an assortment of brushes to integrate them into the art. Most manga SFX are hand drawn by the artists or assistants themselves, so I find it important to maintain this feel when possible.

Beyblade X volume 7 is out! As is tradition, I will be posting the sound effects that look the coolest. This volume coincides with the end of season 2 in the anime.

Back in high school, a friend borrowed my flash drive to get a paper printed. She returned it later that day with a new file saved to it: "Your new background.png" So here's the image she made, please use it as your new background on your devices. It tiles seamlessly.

Cage can be all over the place, but he's also the core of some of the best films by great directors. Raising Arizona Wild at Heart Bringing Out the Dead Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Ya gotta see those.

Rod Serling tells me that Peter Falk stars in the next episode of The Twilight Zone. Nice. Not so nice when it turns out he's in brownface as a Castro stand-in.

had an amazing opportunity to letter Ding Pao-Yen book. Please back this Glacier Bay preorder cause it looks like an amazinnnnng batch!!!

videogames are beautiful

This week on the podcast, we talk about Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance! Things are changing! Things are different! Shinji seems... generally pretty happy! He's like... actually connecting with people! He's also... become quite the shōnen boy... Listen now at exportaud.io!

some Japanese guy on Twitter got really ticked off getting talked down to by a foreigner about how sophisticated their respective tastes in manga is and he made this image and it is so fucking funny how they completely clocked the English-speaking Serious Manga Guy Online canon lol

I adore Nathan Fielder, and would never *ever* agree to be on camera with him.

Never After Dark is a great ghost story movie. Seems like today's the last day it's playing here, only a single-week run. If you can see it tonight, give it a shot. Love the main performance from Moeka Hoshi. Great ghost stuff, fantastic music, just a huge surprise. Check it out!

Such a wonderful panel effect

Do you think that in 2000 years when the colors fade people will assume that funko pops were always little grey plastic guys the way we think of roman statues

it’s worth underlining that the amount which a modern live game is not this is directly the result of devs fighting inch by inch, for months if not years, against the guy at every corporation who demands an explanation for why you aren’t doing this at all times

🪲INCOMING LICENSE‼️ Alien 9 -The Complete- by Hitoshi Tomizawa Grimcute sci-fi?! A grade school Alien Defense Force risks their lives on a daily basis to dispatch aliens that are constantly trying to invade their school. It’s sticky, slimy, scary work, but somebody has gotta do it. Coming 2027

Never After Dark is a great ghost story movie. Seems like today's the last day it's playing here, only a single-week run. If you can see it tonight, give it a shot. Love the main performance from Moeka Hoshi. Great ghost stuff, fantastic music, just a huge surprise. Check it out!

Detective Conan and One Piece have both hit 100 volumes in print in English! JoJo is close behind, with Steel Ball Run omnibus 10 containing the 100th volume coming out later this year. (You could kinda say it beat Conan if you count the three Rohan spinoff volumes.)

Nobody told me Disaster Report's box art was this funny

Fans of the Bionicle character Thok will find a lot to love in Ichi the Killer volume 6.

And lastly here’s just some pages that I particularly liked!

One of the interesting things about working on mahjong manga is that the dialogue will feature tiles. And it can be a big challenge trying to get those tiles to fit without overlapping the text above or below it or making the line spacing too far apart.