Masters of Manga is back!

I’m very happy to announce that Masters of Manga is back.

More than one month has passed since my last update, Tetsuya Chiba’s drawing of Ashita no Joe’s main character, Joe.
It might seem that I’ve been away on vacation, sipping pina coladas by the beach, but no. August is one of the busiest months of the year for me because of my work as a manga translator, I have to translate some new series that will be presented during the Barcelona Manga Fair (end of October).
Thus, while almost every other Spaniard out there is leisurely soaking in the beach or traveling around, I need to spend every August working non-stop to meet the deadlines. I don’t really mind, don’t get me wrong. I get to work with no urgent e-mails or phone calls breaking my concentration and, what I enjoy the most, I get to travel during the less tourist-packed seasons of the year.
Anyway, this month I’ve been working hard on Masters of Manga in order to prepare for the new “season”.
I’ve been preparing new videos and contents to upload.
I’ve worked with my fellow volunteers to create subtitles and translations for these contents.
I’ve been thinking and working on the strategy, e-mails, letters and so on to try and get more exciting interviews during my next stay in Japan (a short one in October).
And, above it all, I have created a layout sample of the book. I took Tetsuya Chiba’s interview, I transcribed and edited it, I scanned images to illustrate the text and I put it all in a created-from-scratch InDesign layout. I’m very satisfied with the result and I’m sure it will be of great help for both getting new interviews and selling the project to prospective publishers in the English-speaking world.

If you’re still not doing it, I recommend that you become a follower of Masters of Manga’s Twitter account. You’ll get news about this project and updates about my struggles and joys with everything around it. If you’re already a follower, by the way, everything I’ve been writing now rings a bell, doesn’t it?

Of course, if you are still not a member of our community page in Facebook, what are you waiting for? There I share also the information and I post pictures and more stuff I don’t put here.

Finally, you can also subscribe to our Youtube channel. I’m uploading videos all the time, mostly to have them prepared for when I decide to make them public or to show the Japanese mangaka or editors in order to get their OK. Of course, these videos are not made public yet, but –I know it’s very silly to say– I sometimes forget to click the “Make this video private” button, and than all the subscribers to the channel can see it beforehand. This happened this week, for example, with Yoshikazu Yasuhiko’s drawing of Gundam’s Char Aznable (not available now, of course)!

Anyway, we are back! MoMs02e01 coming very soon!!

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