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Hmmm....
Looks like Clay Editor 2 is going to be a guest at the "local" con in Dallas again this summer. He went last summer, too, when I chose not to lose three days of precious work time and didn't go myself. I seriously doubt I'll go this year, either. Cons simply aren't much fun for me, now that anime is so mainstream and the dealer's room has so much generic fantasy, gaming, and non-anime pop culture mall-shop clutter.
If I did go and managed to track CE2 down, I'm not really sure what I would say to him, anyway. We never really clicked personality-wise. I imagine it would go something like, "Hi, I'm s2m. S2m. You know, the letterer for Claymore...??? I think I irritated you a couple of times through email back when you were still the editor and translator........err...um....I'm-looking-forward-to-the-next-Clay-volume-bye!!" *runs beore she accidentaly burns any bridges*
I wish one of my current editors would be a guest at this con, but nope. Now that there are soooo many cons all over the US, manga and anime licensing companies ignore all but the ones in Important Cities of Note. Of which apparently DFW (with a combined population of 2 million people--NOT counting the hundreds of suburbs) doesn't count, even though A-kon is the oldest anime convention in the US. :P Only the two Texas companies come, namely the local Funimation *wince* and ADV from Houston. Though ADV didn't bother to show up the last time I attended, back in '06.
Me and anime cons. There's a fun history. I've been to 8, I think. Only the last one was after I began lettering manga.
On occasion, I've debated offering myself as a guest of some sort. Surely the hard-core fans at least would like talking with me about what I do and how I do it. Maybe some immature scanlators (you know some of them are) would try to stir up trouble or something. But what if I had to put on a panel in exchange for my free con admission? I don't have the time to plan out something like that. (though it would force me to finally buy a laptop.) And the pressure to perform! O.o I guess if a con approached me to be a guest I'd be much more tempted, but I just can't email them up on my own and offer myself to them on a platter. "Hey, how about me as a guest! I letter manga!!! Naruto, even!!" (name dropping FTW, right?) But I can't do that, it's not me. -.-;;
I hardly run around announcing to people what I do for a living. Even online, safe behind Utena, I almost never say a word outside of this blog. I think I only officially admitted my job to two of you. The rest either already knew me IRL or discovered it for yourself upon my profile or my entries. Out in publicthe light! It burnses!!! I've only fessed up once, to fellow audience members at a manga panel back at A-kon '06. *waves to Warlockd-kun* I especially keep quiet when I'm in the manga section of bookstores, even when I end up chatting with fellow fans. I pretend to be a complete civilian with a tendency to rec certain titles *cough cough*. To tell whatever innocent fangirl I'm talking with what I do for a living seems like bragging and fishing for glory, which is definitely not me, either.
I doubt anyone would really believe me, anyway. Can you imagine??? You're in the bookstore happily flipping through a manga, you see an adult fan (ZOMG THE HORROR!) browsing, strike up a conversation for the hell of it, and find out she's the person who lettered that volume of Skip or Clay or Naruto you're reading. Yeah right! LIke that would ever happen!! *blows raspberries at fate*
Meh. What would I DO as a con guest, anyway????? Would Viz's legal department even let me show before and after pics, at the very least??? What about printing large poster-sized things for display?? Kinkos would have a fit unless I had an Official Letter of Permission, especially for the colossus that is Naruto. (Maybe pages from an already-published volume would be okay??) Would any fans really be interested in my end of things?? Could I even begin to draw FX in a live demonstration when I'd be so nervous my hands would be shaking? What if I stumbled and admitted something I shouldn't say during a Q&A, like the title of NE3, or some of my manga sooper sekrits??? *hides beneath her desk* Remember when I hypothetically ran from CE2? I'm useless under social pressure. ><
......it would be fun to debate lettering styles with scanlators, though. *snicker* I swear, the few I've talked with take themselves much too seriously. "I'm in it for the love of the art form!!" Yeah, it's like that for me, too. Only I'm lucky enough to be paid for my efforts, which are legal on top of that.And when was the last time Yazawa-sensei or Kishomoto-sensei looked at YOUR work, hmmm?? Being given money in exchange does not make me the enemy, little fanboy. (It's usually the boys.)
Okay okay, I'd never do that IRL or online. But it's amusing to think about. *guilty grin* I'm sure if a scanlator really did try to start something my brain would freeze in panic at OMG conflict!!11! IYADAAAAA!!! and I'd come across as a stuttering helpless twit. :P And of course, an hour later I'd think of the perfect mature and cutting debate in response...much too late to be of use.
*wistful sigh* Me as a guest at an anime con. I wonder if I could stay in the hotel for free....I think I would like to try it, some day....*sighs again* I wonder.....
I wish one of my current editors would be a guest at this con, but nope. Now that there are soooo many cons all over the US, manga and anime licensing companies ignore all but the ones in Important Cities of Note. Of which apparently DFW (with a combined population of 2 million people--NOT counting the hundreds of suburbs) doesn't count, even though A-kon is the oldest anime convention in the US. :P Only the two Texas companies come, namely the local Funimation *wince* and ADV from Houston. Though ADV didn't bother to show up the last time I attended, back in '06.
Me and anime cons. There's a fun history. I've been to 8, I think. Only the last one was after I began lettering manga.
On occasion, I've debated offering myself as a guest of some sort. Surely the hard-core fans at least would like talking with me about what I do and how I do it. Maybe some immature scanlators (you know some of them are) would try to stir up trouble or something. But what if I had to put on a panel in exchange for my free con admission? I don't have the time to plan out something like that. (though it would force me to finally buy a laptop.) And the pressure to perform! O.o I guess if a con approached me to be a guest I'd be much more tempted, but I just can't email them up on my own and offer myself to them on a platter. "Hey, how about me as a guest! I letter manga!!! Naruto, even!!" (name dropping FTW, right?) But I can't do that, it's not me. -.-;;
I hardly run around announcing to people what I do for a living. Even online, safe behind Utena, I almost never say a word outside of this blog. I think I only officially admitted my job to two of you. The rest either already knew me IRL or discovered it for yourself upon my profile or my entries. Out in public
I doubt anyone would really believe me, anyway. Can you imagine??? You're in the bookstore happily flipping through a manga, you see an adult fan (ZOMG THE HORROR!) browsing, strike up a conversation for the hell of it, and find out she's the person who lettered that volume of Skip or Clay or Naruto you're reading. Yeah right! LIke that would ever happen!! *blows raspberries at fate*
Meh. What would I DO as a con guest, anyway????? Would Viz's legal department even let me show before and after pics, at the very least??? What about printing large poster-sized things for display?? Kinkos would have a fit unless I had an Official Letter of Permission, especially for the colossus that is Naruto. (Maybe pages from an already-published volume would be okay??) Would any fans really be interested in my end of things?? Could I even begin to draw FX in a live demonstration when I'd be so nervous my hands would be shaking? What if I stumbled and admitted something I shouldn't say during a Q&A, like the title of NE3, or some of my manga sooper sekrits??? *hides beneath her desk* Remember when I hypothetically ran from CE2? I'm useless under social pressure. ><
......it would be fun to debate lettering styles with scanlators, though. *snicker* I swear, the few I've talked with take themselves much too seriously. "I'm in it for the love of the art form!!" Yeah, it's like that for me, too. Only I'm lucky enough to be paid for my efforts, which are legal on top of that.
Okay okay, I'd never do that IRL or online. But it's amusing to think about. *guilty grin* I'm sure if a scanlator really did try to start something my brain would freeze in panic at OMG conflict!!11! IYADAAAAA!!! and I'd come across as a stuttering helpless twit. :P And of course, an hour later I'd think of the perfect mature and cutting debate in response...much too late to be of use.
*wistful sigh* Me as a guest at an anime con. I wonder if I could stay in the hotel for free....I think I would like to try it, some day....*sighs again* I wonder.....