August 2013 Wallpaper
Shaenon: You know what I suddenly thought would be a good idea? If the adventures of Nick and Baron Mistycorn were a 1960s shoujo manga. Hence this month’s wallpaper.
As usual, if you make a donation in any amount to the Skin Horse Tip Jar, I will send you a link to the wallpaper. Each wallpaper a comes in two different aspect ratios (regular screen and widescreen) to fit most computer monitors, and in both Mac-friendly and PC-friendly orientations.
As a bonus, your donation will also get you the first Tarot-themed wallpaper I made, the Fool. I need to make some more of these.
Here’s a link to the wallpaper page.
Channing: Admit it. You totally want to see a manga about a crabby angry nerdy little princess and her crabbier angrier nerdier unicorn steed.
They’d just sit around playing video games all the time.
Well, that rules that out. Everyone knows you can’t have a comic about two people playing video games.
Y’know, a manga about two people playing video games would be REALLY IMPRESSIVE for something described as “1960s”. Pretty much just Spacewar!, Tennis for Two, and Lunar Lander.
In the 1960s, Nintendo was still making playing cards, although they had also branched out to love tester machines. Video game manga came along in the 1980s with titles like Game Center Arashi
Yes, I have devoted sober thought to what adventures the Niko-Hime manga would actually contain.
wasn’t that also the starting point for leo and h.t.’s wildly successful strip, was two lions playing video games? (now that we should see as manga 😉
Shaenon, your list of “wish I could draw” comics is steadly increasing. First Seth&Cal Flatmates (which at least you were able to do a bit as bonus) and now Niko Hime. At some point you must stop making that list grow and start making them for real.
I, for one, would read them eagerly 🙂
So kawaii ^____^
(Side note: If I ever do that again, slap me)
I think that’s supposed to be “Niko Hime” (“Princess Nick”), but it confused me at first with the sub-radicals shown like separate kanji – writing it as 「ニコ姫」 would be better than 「ニコ 女臣」.
Either approach is ok. Depends on the typography the artist wants. I’ve seen both. It’s just as likely to have been “姫コニ” in the early 60’s, since people were still occasionally reading right to left. Although, phonetically, “Nick” is actually “ニック”.
“niko” is onomatopoeia for “smile” (okay, smiling is silent, but that’s manga SFX for you), so it could be a case of stretching the transliteration for a double meaning.
“Niku” would be closer to Nick’s name than “Niko,” but “Niko” is cuter!
Specifically, ‘Nick’ would probably become ‘ニック’ (‘Nikku’), with ‘Niko’ being the name of GTA4’s main character, but I can approve of deliberate change for the sake of cuteness. *smiles*
My eyes!
Niko-hime no Daibouken! (ニコ姫の大冒険)
Hello Shaenon, glad I caught you, Challenge!
1. Draw Pokémon teams for team Skin-Horse and Virginia Lee.
2. Draw team Skin-Horse and Dr. Lee AS Pokémon.
Do it for the november wallpaper so you have X and Y material
Secretly, Baron Mistycorn yearns for the Tiara too.
mnem
As do I… *Sigh*
Is it just me or does anyone else notice how similar the manga cover is to the Tarot card? (Esp. Nick’s pose compared to the Fool’s pose.)
Nick and Baron Mistycorn vs Chibi Demon Hunter Seth and Caliban.
Chibi Mell wins, naturally.
Maybe as a Mini Comic? Something Jack Chick tract sized, but in color & on nicer paper?
I’d love to see a Whimsy character Carl Barks-style Funny Animal Comic, too.