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So, the WGA has organized something brilliant for the fans to do. Some of you may have heard about how fans sent nuts to producers to keep Jericho on television. The folks at United Hollywood developed a similar plan: send pencils to the producers in support of the strike. Joss wrote about it here, and you can get your pencils from United Hollywood here. They're environmentally friendly pencils, no less, and these folks are coordinating the effort to have an overflow of pencils (much like the potatoes that Murphy Brown dumped on Dan Quayle's lawn, if you remember that far back in TV history).

In other news, Tokyopop is doing some brilliant marketing: they're running a contest to advertise their Tokyopop TV, which puts some of their manga into flash. In this contest, they're asking all of their readers to post certain clips of episodes on their blogs, MySpace pages--anywhere that it can be seen by the public. So they're enlisting the fans (much like the WGA above) to get the word out. The clips look like this:







Now, there are two ways to read the fact that I, too, am posting one of these clips. One is that I have been taken in by Tokyopop's clever marketing (which isn't entirely untrue: they are offering a Wii as a top prize, and I'd love one of those machines). But it's also true that I'm fascinated by viral marketing, and thus must blog about it. And with that, I'm back to work.
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I just discovered today that my blog is actually working in syndication over at Tokyopop! Hi manga readers!

Since I'm reaching the comics crowd, I'll take a moment to talk about Cowboys and Aliens: Worlds at War. We're back to the story now after a couple of weeks of concept art, and it's just thrilling to see my scripts turn into actual comics. Sometimes it's interesting to see how the artists take ideas and run a slightly different direction with them. On Monday and Tuesday of this week, Rick (Hershey) ended up giving much more focus to the facial close-ups than I'd realized I'd put forward in the script. The result is stunning--getting right up close to the characters' faces carries emotion better than I'd imagined.

It will be interesting to see how people read today's page, when it goes live. My intention had been to imply that the room was full of noise--and I don't know if we succeeded in that. The second panel shows definite argument in the background--but does it come across as hushed? Noisy? How do you show widespread noise in a comic without resorting to "bang" and "pow"? (Even that doesn't really cover it.)

I'm learning more and more as we go, and loving the whole process. I hope those of you who are along for the ride are enjoying it also!
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No, it doesn't make sense. It's a string of random numbers that, if my RSS feed works correctly, will mean I have a blog live on Tokyopop. I've got an e-mail in to the folks at Amazon Connect to see if I can get my blog imported there as well. My words, goofy and serious, will be everywhere! (This terrifies me a little bit, but I remind myself that "I Am the Brand" and therefore any place people see me means that I have a better chance for people to read my books.)

Out of curiosity, to the other writers who pop by and read this: how do you feel about the "I Am the Brand" philosophy. Is that true in your market? Do you cultivate the brand concept, or reject it?

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