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Daily Doodle

Date an orc who treats you nicely and gently when you're touch starved

Just a stupid little comic

This honestly made me feel a whole lot better about my contributions.

I feel like I did @icysage a complete disservice after looking at his reimagining of my sketch, but quite frankly, I think I’m just not skilled enough to polish my contribution that much, even if I sank hours into it now. Dude, just know that you made some amateur really happy and that he’s gonna try and get enough practice to make up for it.

He’s gunna sugar coat that ass.

WIPs

And my Daily Doodles.

YOU THOUGH THAT  precious–pansexual ASKED THAT QUESTION BUT IT WAS I DIO!!!!!!

precious–pansexual submitted: Will you draw my dog

hows this

Thralls not very hairy sadly. I need to start putting more detail into these sketches.

6/31

He screamed and cried, he had no idea what was going on and no way to escape his fate. Being toyed with while being taken over was not on his lists of ways to go out,

Trying out a new coloring method… fuck this looks so good. Probably try i this way again. (with a background next time)

Guess what Month it is!

To be honest as an artist I already knew posting stuff online like this wasn’t a “nice” thing to do but what this blog is not is not what it started out as. It was just me online storaging the Manga I had found online so i could view it faster and from any of my devices. I didn't expect to get any followers much less the 2.2k I have now and after a while the notes i was getting started getting to my head. I took a lot of time organizing them because i felt really guilty about the whole thing. It will take me a while but buy 5 pm today all of the gay manga that I have posted will be removed. If you ever see Seizoh Ebisubashi tell him i apologize to him the most for i have really posted a lot of his work. And in the end I’d still like to know where to find that book by Go Fujimoto because I’d still like to buy it.

P.s. I may be an artist but I do not regard myself highly I was thinking of posting my own work but not until I am comfortable with it. I doubt that anyone would buy what i have to offer right now. But when i do i hope you look at it and tell me if you like it or not.

P.s.s I already knew that i shouldn't call it “bara.” It was manly to make my blog easier to find as it is one of the more widely used terms. when I found that out i started adding gay manga as well as bara to my hashtags. I was going to call my blog gay manga but someone already took that name

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As for my followers, obviously I'm going to lose a lot of you over this but if you still like to stick around this sinking ship id like to show you my own work which i always planned to do.

In the mean time visit http://www.massive-goods.com/ they have some great manga there. Its not free but they have most of the artists I’ve posted and some more with great titles buy them I have used them and I’ve got to say they are great.

Dear Editor of the Tumblr ********-bara,

Thank you for getting in touch with me, it’s good to start a dialogue. I’ve seen your site before and felt immense sadness and frustration that many of my favorite artists’ bodies of work are available on your Tumblr for free. I had decided to let it go (because what can I really do? I’m powerless to stop this in any meaningful sense), but the fact that you’re reaching out to me indicates that you haven’t quite thought through the ethical ramifications of what you’re doing. So if you’ll humor me for a minute, I’d like to walk you through it. You messaged me to ask where you can find a book that you’d like to buy (a single copy of), scan, and then disseminate for free. How are you okay with that?

Is it because it’s erotic art that you feel entitled to do this? Or, do you think the creator of said book (Go Fujimoto) makes so much money that he doesn’t need any more? Because he’s famous to you, do you picture him like Rick Ross, driving a Maybach around Okinawa and making it rain at the gay bar? I’m sorry to say that’s not even remotely the case. It would be amazing if gay mangaka were rewarded so handsomely for their incredible stories, their rarified artistic skills, their brazen courage to create homoerotic fantasies in the face of censorship and social stigma—that they didn’t have to worry about things like making the rent and keeping the heat on. I WISH a career in gay manga could pay artists the same amount of money that their more famous, heterosexual mangaka counterparts make.

Or even beyond that, imagine if Gengoroh Tagame or Jiraiya were rewarded for their labors – their hundreds of hours of work every month – with the kind of money that renowned contemporary artists make. I’m talking Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst money. Those fools make hundreds of millions of dollars for gold-plated, diamond-bedazzled turds churned out by anonymous assistants. Wouldn’t it be nice if all the artists we loved and respected made that kind of money? If Damien Hirst ever makes a comic book, by all means, you should bootleg that shit.

Unfortunately, Seizoh Ebisubashi does not have enough money to buy a small island. In fact, I’m not totally sure he has enough money for a vacation to a small island. But he works hard every day to keep churning out the artwork you love. He even posts free excerpts and work in progress on Tumblr.  And then when he finishes a manga, he humbly posts a link to where you can spend a few dollars to legally download the work he spent weeks putting together. That’s apparently not enough for you. You have posted entire long-form works by him that took months or years for him to make, but are instantly devalued their free availability on Tumblr. Why buy the book when they’re right there on the screen?

Someone asked you recently how long you’ve been making this “amazing work.” Maybe they were confused because they’d never seen it before, and their only point of access to the life’s work of Gengoroh Tagame, Jiraiya, Seizoh Ebisubashi, Satoru Sugajima, Takeshi Matsu, and the others you’ve pirated, came through the filter of your bootleg scans. You responded: “Oh, Although I am an artist I haven’t posted any of my art work on my tumblr. The credit for the Manga that i post goes to the respected artist who I put in the description and the hastags.” The artists are not benefiting in any way from you “crediting” them in the hashtags. You’re only making it easier for their work to be found on Google and through Tumblr, be reblogged, and further devalue the worth of their books.

If you care about these artists as much as it seems like you do, because you spend a lot of time neatly organizing and sharing their work, you’ll stop what you’re doing. Remove the hundreds of unauthorized images of their work from your Tumblr. I encourage you to read the book I co-edited, Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It, and listen to the voices of the artists you’re bootlegging describe with passion and frustration how difficult it is to continue on with their careers in a world where their work is consistently devalued by sites like yours. (Also, they don’t use the term “bara” to describe their work, but that’s a whole other can of worms).

I’m not saying things are perfect – there are hundreds of gay manga out there that need to be made more readily available through authorized translations not only in English, but many other languages as well. It’s slow work, but we’re making incremental progress and soon we’ll be walking instead of crawling, and then we’ll be running instead of walking. I know that’s frustrating when everything can (and sometimes seems like it should) be made instantly accessible with a few clicks. But that’s a shortcut that harms the artists and the fragile industry that supports them.

If you like gay manga and want to see more of it, there’s a simple way you can help that happen. You don’t even need to spend any money—Just don’t reblog. It’s as simple as that. Don’t post and don’t repost the bootleg manga you will inevitably come across on this endlessly expansive Internet, and you’ll become part of the solution instead of part of the problem. I know this may involve some cognitive dissonance, but you’re going to have to divorce in your mind the act of bootlegging a Michael Bay blockbuster or a Taylor Swift album from the act of bootlegging a gay manga made by an artist struggling to meet deadlines in a one room apartment. At MASSIVE, we’re trying to foster an environment that can support the creation of new works, that can reward the artists the way they deserve to be rewarded. You can be a part of building that, too, simply by doing nothing! And that’s what you’ll do if you care about this work at all.  

With love and respect, Graham

P.S. How about instead, you post your own artwork that you mentioned? It seems like you have good taste, so maybe people who like what you’re bootlegging will appreciate the work you’re actually making. And then some day you can put it in a book! And hopefully people will buy it and you can make a living off your art. Wouldn’t you like to live in a world where that’s possible?