Comments on commenter:DreamFromTheLayer

@Algester on post #3838197 (akigumo (kantai collection) drawn by curse_(023))

2020-03-28T12:48:18-04:00

and also hentai doujins is in its own lie in a teethering red area depending on country so importations are not an option, which really sucks honestly I hope Comitia if not sunshine creations which happens mid autumn picks up the slack and HOPEFULLY this pandemic comes to a bit of pass.

for now if you have the cash which I assume most wont for now try to hit up their pawoo skeb, pixivfanbox, patreon for pitching in

@Paracite on post #3838197 (akigumo (kantai collection) drawn by curse_(023))

2020-03-28T11:59:36-04:00

Doujin (off existing properties) are prima facie illegal, they're just under a category of law in Japan that only makes them actual crimes if the copyright holder brings a claim against them. As such, especially with hentai doujinshi, they don't want to go too far.

However, in recent years, there's less and less doujinshi that you can't just get from Melonbooks, Toranoana or even the various download sites. Most big circles already have stock at the consignment stores, even on the day of Comiket (or before!), and will have signs out after they sell out to tell you that which of the stores you can pick it up from later - some circles also have an agreement to pass off any unsold stock to a store for later sale. Really, from experience, a very large proportion of non-ero doujin are readily avaliable from the stores, and a good amount of the ero ones also. Once they're sold out on the stores though, the chance of a reprint depends entirely on the artist making more, a lot never get a second run - though sometimes they make collected books (and often these are A5 rather than B5 sized)

Comiket itself has no desire to make an actual store, as that goes against their guiding principle of making a space for artist and readers to meet.

@79248cm/s on post #3838197 (akigumo (kantai collection) drawn by curse_(023))

2020-03-28T11:40:40-04:00

DreamFromTheLayer said:

Oh, I might as well post this here since it's relevant, but we should be worried about convention organizers, book printers, and merch producers. Comiket is asking people to buy the catalogs to support future conventions, and they had already printed the catalogs at cost before the decision. Japanese participants aren't asking for refunds out of support.

Is there any reason Comiket couldn't make an online store? Frankly I never understood why artists would make a lot of their works convention only items, especially if they have surplus leftover after the con.

@DreamFromTheLayer on post #3838197 (akigumo (kantai collection) drawn by curse_(023))

2020-03-28T11:27:55-04:00

Oh, I might as well post this here since it's relevant, but we should be worried about convention organizers, book printers, and merch producers. Comiket is asking people to buy the catalogs to support future conventions, and they had already printed the catalogs at cost before the decision. Japanese participants aren't asking for refunds out of support.

@Paracite on post #3838197 (akigumo (kantai collection) drawn by curse_(023))

2020-03-28T11:17:36-04:00

Almost all the ones who actually make decent cash of doujins are either massive names, or do hentai.
Cosplayers actually rake in the biggest amount at Comiket, as they can get away with charging more money for the books than doujins ever can. (the price of a doujin is still expected to be 500 yen, even with changes in printing costs).

The real money for artists these days is on patreon and patreon-equivalent sites.

@DreamFromTheLayer on post #3838197 (akigumo (kantai collection) drawn by curse_(023))

2020-03-28T11:12:31-04:00

79248cm/s said:

Is that con really that much of the artist's income though? I would think the vast majority of their income is mostly based on commissions and contracted work, with cons more just to interact with diehard fans willing to find them.

Commissions still aren't really a big thing in Japan and there's only so much contracted work to go around, so a lot of the doujin artists do it on the side to their main job of something (possibly unrelated to art), deadlines and all. There are some few who actually do make a living off of doujin work (this may or may not include gifts).

@79248cm/s on post #3838197 (akigumo (kantai collection) drawn by curse_(023))

2020-03-28T09:40:15-04:00

Death_Usagi said:

Not too sure if that's a good thing when it comes to the artist's income though.

Is that con really that much of the artist's income though? I would think the vast majority of their income is mostly based on commissions and contracted work, with cons more just to interact with diehard fans willing to find them.

@Elmithian on post #3838197 (akigumo (kantai collection) drawn by curse_(023))

2020-03-28T08:47:10-04:00

Keo said:

That might be used as more of a joke and because of procrastination. Most doujin that go through that is because it is tend to done during times like Summer break (since alot of the artist are students, etc.)

Also, it’s not like you can refine it much anymore once you screen tone and ink the thing, least you want to restart from the beginning.

Plenty of artist do digital though? In fact, I would think most artist that value their time and long term income would do that at this point. There are plenty of programs that can be ahem "acquired" that can pretty much perfectly simulate the setup of a inked work if you desire it to look like that.

Not saying everyone has saved up for the work tools required but lot of those that are serious for this would have saved up money for such things.

@Keo on post #3838197 (akigumo (kantai collection) drawn by curse_(023))

2020-03-28T07:24:08-04:00

DeadW@nderer said:

But look at the brighter side: throughout of many doujin commentaries/afterwords I've seen a whinning of a many about "deadlines"... Consider this time as "Deadline push" to get the shit together/refine on a rougher edges.

That might be used as more of a joke and because of procrastination. Most doujin that go through that is because it is tend to done during times like Summer break (since alot of the artist are students, etc.)

Also, it’s not like you can refine it much anymore once you screen tone and ink the thing, least you want to restart from the beginning.

@DeadW@nderer on post #3838197 (akigumo (kantai collection) drawn by curse_(023))

2020-03-28T06:35:10-04:00

Death_Usagi said:

Not too sure if that's a good thing when it comes to the artist's income though.

That's why I used "brighter".

@Death_Usagi on post #3838197 (akigumo (kantai collection) drawn by curse_(023))

2020-03-27T22:36:53-04:00

DeadW@nderer said:

But look at the brighter side: throughout of many doujin commentaries/afterwords I've seen a whinning of a many about "deadlines"... Consider this time as "Deadline push" to get the shit together/refine on a rougher edges.

Not too sure if that's a good thing when it comes to the artist's income though.

@DeadW@nderer on post #3838197 (akigumo (kantai collection) drawn by curse_(023))

2020-03-27T21:54:34-04:00

But look at the brighter side: throughout of many doujin commentaries/afterwords I've seen a whinning of a many about "deadlines"... Consider this time as "Deadline push" to get the shit together/refine on a rougher edges.

@Frawnkenstein on post #3838197 (akigumo (kantai collection) drawn by curse_(023))

2020-03-27T21:17:43-04:00

C98 will be cancelled to prevent the spread of coronavirus, as expected

@DreamFromTheLayer on post #3818978 (pooh and corona-chan (original and 1 more) drawn by bee_sang_(ms0603749))

2020-03-27T08:59:23-04:00

k2NeXTTUNE said:

This is a work to criticize China and Xi Jinping.
As a Chinese ,I do agree that Xi is much worse than Hu Jingtao and Jiang Zemin,but it is definitely to consider China as the country that should be blamed.Spanish Flu actually first outbreak in US in 1918，infected over 500 million people and killed over 40 millions of people worldwide.Did anyone calls the Spanish Flu as American Flu?(the reason of people calls the name Spanish Flu is because Spain Government first treat the flu epidemic as a disease that is widely spread.)It is totally unwise to simply connect China with COVID19.

That and this are different things, however. Chinese officials went out of their way to obscure initial information about the virus (remember Dr. Li Wenliang), so yes, unfortunately for you, people will always connect the virus with China.

@Steak on post #3818978 (pooh and corona-chan (original and 1 more) drawn by bee_sang_(ms0603749))

2020-03-27T07:56:53-04:00

Ashenhawk said:

It may have been noticed in the U.S. first, but thanks to the "lovely wars" going on at the time, it went largely unnoticed, aka "censored", in most places. With Spain being nuetral, they allowed talk of the problem, causing a larger notice on Spain, giving us the name, Spanish Flu.

Since it was quickly picked up on and the origination point was in Wuhan, China, it is fair to call it the Chinese Flu. I feel like the pooh bear is just to call out his poor initial handling of it. Heck, that's also the reason she's given a chinese dress. I honestly couldn't care less what we call it to be fair.

Or in the words of Patrick Star, it's just a drawing.

Many diseases are named after the people who discovered and/or worked to treat them.

@Ashenhawk on post #3818978 (pooh and corona-chan (original and 1 more) drawn by bee_sang_(ms0603749))

2020-03-27T07:24:47-04:00

k2NeXTTUNE said:

This is a work to criticize China and Xi Jinping.
As a Chinese ,I do agree that Xi is much worse than Hu Jingtao and Jiang Zemin,but it is definitely to consider China as the country that should be blamed.Spanish Flu actually first outbreak in US in 1918，infected over 500 million people and killed over 40 millions of people worldwide.Did anyone calls the Spanish Flu as American Flu?(the reason of people calls the name Spanish Flu is because Spain Government first treat the flu epidemic as a disease that is widely spread.)It is totally unwise to simply connect China with COVID19.

It may have been noticed in the U.S. first, but thanks to the "lovely wars" going on at the time, it went largely unnoticed, aka "censored", in most places. With Spain being nuetral, they allowed talk of the problem, causing a larger notice on Spain, giving us the name, Spanish Flu.

Since it was quickly picked up on and the origination point was in Wuhan, China, it is fair to call it the Chinese Flu. I feel like the pooh bear is just to call out his poor initial handling of it. Heck, that's also the reason she's given a chinese dress. I honestly couldn't care less what we call it to be fair.

Or in the words of Patrick Star, it's just a drawing. It's not promoting attacks on Chinese people itself, aside from calling out Xi Jinping for his poor decisions.

@k2NeXTTUNE on post #3818978 (pooh and corona-chan (original and 1 more) drawn by bee_sang_(ms0603749))

2020-03-27T05:43:35-04:00

This is a work to criticize China and Xi Jinping.
As a Chinese ,I do agree that Xi is much worse than Hu Jingtao and Jiang Zemin,but it is definitely to consider China as the country that should be blamed.Spanish Flu actually first outbreak in US in 1918，infected over 500 million people and killed over 40 millions of people worldwide.Did anyone calls the Spanish Flu as American Flu?(the reason of people calls the name Spanish Flu is because Spain Government first treat the flu epidemic as a disease that is widely spread.)It is totally unwise to simply connect China with COVID19.

@Monki on post #3818978 (pooh and corona-chan (original and 1 more) drawn by bee_sang_(ms0603749))

2020-03-25T10:21:00-04:00

Resident Evil had the T-virus and G-virus.

We got the Xi-virus.

@Hexfiles on post #3818978 (pooh and corona-chan (original and 1 more) drawn by bee_sang_(ms0603749))

2020-03-25T10:16:56-04:00

Winnie the Flu

@Meddy-san on post #3830918 (corona-chan (original) drawn by triple-q)

2020-03-23T18:29:59-04:00

The current outbreak is just the latest in the Chinese gov't bungled handling of epidemics. Meanwhile, their mouthpieces are blaming the virus spread on Italy and the United States. It doesn't need to be referred to as a "Chinese virus", but the PRC is trying to deceive the public about the virus origins, and generally shift blame away.