Irresponsible Manga Reviewer (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} erinfinnegan) wrote,@ 2008-04-08 11:47:00 |
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Even A Monkey Can Draw Manga
Sometime in 2000 I read the now out-of-print but still widely available on amazon Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga. At the time I had only read a few odd issues of Sailor Moon in pamphlet comic form, and the first volume of Mai the Psychic Girl, but I was taking in enough large doses of Toonami to get the gist of most of the jokes in EaMCDM.
Since 2005 I have been copious quantities of manga, mostly under the guise of being a reviewer of some sort. Late last year I began getting paid to write reviews of manga and anime. More and more, I come back to the useful information provided in EaMCDM. The book comprehensively lays out everything one needs to know about manga genres - recently, I have even been thinking of it as a book with useful life advice!
Click this image to view the whole page (warning, brief nudity):
You can view more sample images atshaenon's Overlooked Manga Festival entry on the book.
EaMCDM is the first manga I recommend whenever anyone asks for a recommendation. It's a must-read. I'm considering buying a bunch of the used copies and just giving them to people who I feel need to read it. It may also be the best how-to-draw-book ever, and the best parody, and as I touched on earlier, it's a guide to life.
Although the authors draw themselves nude from photocopied snapshots throughout the book, and it can be a bit hard to take. I mean, they're hairy guys.
Sometime in 2000 I read the now out-of-print but still widely available on amazon Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga. At the time I had only read a few odd issues of Sailor Moon in pamphlet comic form, and the first volume of Mai the Psychic Girl, but I was taking in enough large doses of Toonami to get the gist of most of the jokes in EaMCDM.Since 2005 I have been copious quantities of manga, mostly under the guise of being a reviewer of some sort. Late last year I began getting paid to write reviews of manga and anime. More and more, I come back to the useful information provided in EaMCDM. The book comprehensively lays out everything one needs to know about manga genres - recently, I have even been thinking of it as a book with useful life advice!
You can view more sample images at
shaenon's Overlooked Manga Festival entry on the book.EaMCDM is the first manga I recommend whenever anyone asks for a recommendation. It's a must-read. I'm considering buying a bunch of the used copies and just giving them to people who I feel need to read it. It may also be the best how-to-draw-book ever, and the best parody, and as I touched on earlier, it's a guide to life.
Although the authors draw themselves nude from photocopied snapshots throughout the book, and it can be a bit hard to take. I mean, they're hairy guys.
