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STGCC Day 1

 

 

 

The year is coming to an end soon, and with the New Year less than a few hours away, I have to clear my posts.

Pardon me for my outdated post, as I was dragging myself to work with my ill body for the past weeks.

Singapore Toys, Games, and Comics Convention was held over 10th – 12th Dec this year.  This year planning was very thoughtful and the lineup was great.

Let me start with Day 1 – 10th Dec 2010.

I reached the venue early and got to walk around the halls before the crowds from level 3 enters and got to see some of the behind the scenes preparation and rehearsals. Media kit provided for the medias are very helpful and informative, it comes with the time table of the happenings, catalog of the exclusive releases and collectibles, opening media release, fact sheets, and  introduction of conference and panels and it also came along with a media kit CD medium, with PDF, reference  pictures and photos.

During the media preview, the director of the convention gave the opening speech and with him are some guest invited to the event; Alex Maleev, Esad Ribic, C.B. Cebulski, Tim Tsui, Matt Fraction, Gail Simone, and Leinil Yu.

 

A short QnA were held before the doors were opened.

Here are some of the extracts.

Media : What's the greatest challenge in your profession?

C.B. Cebulski: As talent scout for Marvel Comics, I travel around the world and meet so many talented artists, and  the biggest challenge that I find is actually getting the artist into the system because there are so much good,  artistic, creative talent out there, that finding a home for all of them is impossible.

Matt Fraction: American comics come out every 30 days, whether or not you are in the mood to write it, it has to come out. We have to work consisently and not even a day off.

Gail Simone: This is as Matt said, something that has to come out on time, consisently, all the time. And as  scriptwriters, we have to get the work done on time, so the artist have the time to do their best work. If we were late, it really has a terrible ripple effect. But I don't find it a challenge to be one of the female up here,  alot of people asked me this question. I enjoyed my work and to me I don't really think about a female writing comic until other people bring it up to me. 

Tim Tsui: To be on schedule, because we always need to fly here fly there and we need to prepare everything for the worst.

Media : How has social media and new digital technologies impacted the comics industry?

Gail Simone: I'm pretty excited about it actually. One of the issues we have been dealing with comics is how to bring readers in, readers maybe have a hard time getting the actual books. And with DC we are doing alot of digital comics right now and we are seeing to reach a much wider audience, much more worldwide, which is another reason I'm very excited about this particular convention because western comics are no longer just in America, we also have online content that is available only online. I think its all for the good that the business is growing in getting more and more diversity, more different types of content.

C.B. Cebulski: From the fan point-of-view, its easy for the creators to communicate with the fans, and get the message out there using social media like Facebook and Twitter, and it brings the comics community close together. Back in the days we used of have just the last issue box, fan letters at the back with comics, thats the form of communication with the publishers, but now we have instant access, in the international level it had brought the world more closer together. Gail and I have been tweeting here in Singapore the response is fantastic. From the business point-of-view for me, from a talent scout point-of-view is that it makes my job mush easier because I'm able to get instant access to artists around the world through Facebook and Twitter and its easier for them to find me and me to find them. And the last aspect is from the publishing point-of-view, which is still an uncharted territory because we have so many mediums out there, that there is no set kind of platform. From the publishing pov we are still learning and growing, and publishers are all working with the distributors trying to find a "happy medium" for everyone that both can exist; printed comics and digital mediums. The comics business will keep growing and need to learn to adapt with it.

I would like to comment on the way this convention was organised, the organizers plan for space to queue, example the entry queue at level 3 before the crowd can enter the halls, the AKB48 queue for the handshake at the stage, the walk of fame where the fans get to meet their favorite artists to get them to draw and sign for them.  

 

 

STGCC! ARE YOU READY?! – updated 10/12/10

Hi everyone its 12am here! 10 more hours!

The media preview will be tomorrow at 1030hrs. 

Please follow me on twitter to have updates. XD 

 

Really looking forward to this show :D

The flight for the 3 members from AKB48; Nakatsuka Tomomi 中塚智実, Uchida Mayumi 内田眞由美, and Ishida Haruka 石田晴香 should have already landed in our Changi Airport! 

They will be performing at STGCC stage at 1600 to 1630.
Only the 1st 50 person in the queue will have the handshake chance with them. [updated this on 10/12/10]

The other members will arrive tomorrow too, and the 12 girls will be having a meet-the-fans session on Sat. 

About the meet the fans session. There are some points to note:
All fans attending this paid event will receive their 19th Single Chance no Junban (チャンスの顺番) postcard.
Queue starts at 3pm. 7pm is the session. and PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT IS NOT IN THE EVENT HALL -_-" (sweats)
Fans are able to play games with them and get CD [there are not clarifications on how this system works] – updated 10/12/10

 

For now, Eriol will continue cracking his head for interview questions with AKB48, and enjoy his magazines! 

 

AFA X Day 1 – It’s all about the stage and stars

The crowd had gathered around the AKIBA MINI stage around 10am on Saturday morning. The moment I heard girls screaming, I knew it was time for me to do some work.

Up on stage was KANAME and his translator, fans were given the opportunity to go up the stage and ask their celebrity cosplayer questions on cosplay.

 

In the other hall, the movie screening of Mardock Scramble had just ended, it was soon followed by a talk by Mr Go Nakanishi; Animation Producer of King Records.

I don’t even recall if I had lunch on that day or not?!

Next I left for the Show Management office to meet my friends that are collecting their pre-signed autographed poster from May’n. When she came out of the door to the booth, she waved and smiled at me as I was standing at the 1st row of the audience; I was surprised that she still remembers me.  

I started the queue for JAM PROJECT autograph and was the 1st to shake JAM PROJECT hands and collect the poster!

Lunch or not, the next lineup follows, the Cosplay Meet and Greet with Alodia Gosiengfiao, a cosplayer from the Philippines, and a common face on the Animax channel. Fans are able to take a photo with her in her Haruhi Gothic Lolita costume.

There’s never enough time and I wished I could have splitting abilities, on the Stage hall, was a special appearance by MILKY HOLMES seiyuu team which I will cover on a separate post.

After the MILKY HOLMES, was the ANIKI autograph collection, again I was lucky enough as my friend let me collect the poster in his place.  Off to Show Management Office I go.  The queue for ANIKI was epic long and I was the last few to get the poster and handshake with him.

By the time ANIKI finish issuing the posters, Kana Hanazawa the seiyuu for many well known animes and the recent hit, KUROI MATO from Black Rock Shooter, was already on stage. She did a live dubbing of the scene where she brought Yomi to the place she likes to view sunset and presents Yomi the star strap.

And that was the last event of the day. Other then the I LOVE ANISONG concert.

Stay tuned for the MILKY HOLMES post. 

Yuki Nagato China Dress Poster

Saw this on Amiami. Releasing in August 2008. 3150 Yen

And this is at my doorfront now. I picked up a gem ^^ for only $10 Taiwan original sometime here. It is made of pure plastic sheet. Very happy ~

Figurakuen – Firu Ai Wallpaper

Figurakuen have its 1st anniversary. We have our own logo and mascot – Firu Ai. Now a wallpaper!!!! Stickie stickie stickie! My desktop is full of moe~

C.D.S Belka Vita

Gotten this off Taesake, lucky he got extra =3. Done by C.D.S. This is acutally a subset of the full Belka series of 6 with A4 and A3 sized prints.

Didn’t order the prints as I just have no where else to display them and don’t want them ended stashed in somewhere in the house for good. Heh the bookmark is good enough for me.

Color Garance

Wee out of her box. She came with a manga booklet and a mini booklet. Although I don’t understand whats the 4 tiles manga is talking about.

Lucky Star – Kagami moe tsundere

Having tsundere fits, was looking something to replace my Konata v.^^.v wallpaper. Found some on the net.



O.O Boobslicious. Currently using the second one. MOE~~~~~

Hatsune Miku SMILES~~~

From Windbell

Ino’s Velvet Skin x Happoubi Jin’s Sweet Body

My 2 ultimate art-books just arrived one hour ago. Good thing it is not lost, and the delivery package is top notch and minimal damage. Want to know what inside? Just google the darn title. Its too popular not to have any result. I think a review is not necessary since the images already out there floating. Velvet skin is very thick.

Thanks to Heiseidemocracy for the recommendation and MK (Oppai-man) for the "sauce".