Comments for fumboo - the website of Jamie Smart

Comment on THE TWING by Alannah Murphy

Alannah Murphy — Mon, 14 May 2012 19:20:01 +0000

THAT was BRILLIANT….but I’m going to have nightmares now…MOOOPE!

Comment on THE TWING by Kitsune6

Kitsune6 — Mon, 14 May 2012 09:32:05 +0000

i’M LOL’ing on the train – people are looking at me. MOOOPE MOOOOPE MOOOOPE <3

Comment on The most disgusting cake in the world (and its tragic legacy). by Stacebob

Stacebob — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:06:56 +0000

I used to do a similar thing, except I made “soups”. I use inverted commas because what I concocted could rarely be classed as any sort of foodstuff, let alone a soup. I’d basically just dump anything I could get my grubby hands on it there; starting with a base of Oxo cubes and water, progressing to vinegar, the juice from a jar of beetroot, handsoaps, remains from other people’s dinners…

I remember once daring my aunt to lick a chicken leg bone that had been marinating in one of my creations for half an hour. She did it, pulled the face of someone who was feeling intense and instant regret, and then coughed several times. It seems the news that said chicken bone had previously been sucked clean by my rather disgusting uncle upset her more than the taste of Stacey Soup du Jour…

Comment on The most disgusting cake in the world (and its tragic legacy). by Satsy

Satsy — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:31:06 +0000

All of the laughs. That is terrible and hilarious, and, yes, sounds like something you’d expect from George’s Marvelous Medicine.

I’d just pour things into the bath. We had a godawful oven that even my mum was never sure about using, so cooking wasn’t often encouraged. So I’d make potions in the bath or sink, out of the expensive crud that we always had around.

Your story’s better than mine. :P

Comment on EVERYTHING’S EXCITING AND NOTHING HURTS. by bob

bob — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:48:20 +0000

Four things you need to know about life
would also be a good title for your article.
with slight modifications of course.
very wise.

Comment on MEGALOMANIACS crash into The Dandy! by Lwn

Lwn — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:05:10 +0000

Okay I’m going to start looking out for the Dandy.

Comment on Royal Wedding, Elephunt, Skulls, Dr.Who by girls of desire

girls of desire — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:46:58 +0000

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Comment on Japan and the boom of the bland. by Howard

Howard — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:19:09 +0000

What I find quite alien about Manga is the different language for showing expressions, where there are odd rules for transforming otherwise vaguely-normal people into baby-doll versions of themselves or having icons for eyes. It’s not that I think it’s stupid, more that it’s a visual language I don’t understand.

The mock-Japanese kind of glyph-for-character approach to character design that a lot of people are adopting (and I’ve no idea if they know what the glyphs mean, I don’t) just feels like a very different school of both drawing and storytelling, and to me it reads as very blunt. Why bother with body language when you can replace someone’s face with a glyph that means OMFG?

It’s all a very different kind of drawing and storytelling to what I try to do, and although I find drawing really difficult, I try to avoid that kind of shortcut where I can, just because I don’t know what they mean. Seems a bit blaxploitation or like getting a celtic tattoo without really grasping any of where it’s come from just to appropriate the design ethos. Can’t say I’m sure whether or not that’s a good thing, but my instinct (probably in my grr, I spent so much time learning art history grump) is that it really matters to understand the semiotics of the things you’re making.

Um, rambling. Taken painkillers. HELLO!

Comment on Japan and the boom of the bland. by dondo

dondo — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:55:43 +0000

Wait. What characters are you talking about?

Comment on Japan and the boom of the bland. by Satsy

Satsy — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:21:39 +0000

I was about 13 when the big Japan wave really hit (or more, Pokemon and DBZ became the big things), and I spent years learning how to draw manga, getting a feel of what made it what it is, and somehow still managed to avoid (not with intention) half the Japan junk you see today.

Then, a couple years back, having already established what I could draw, and stopped trying to make it Japanese, I found myself again peering at what we in Europe and America have crafted iconically over the past hundred or so years. Our own cartoon characters, and the styles, simplistic or otherwise, built around them. Going back to my roots, as it were.

What bothers me is I still get people looking at my stuff and saying how ‘anime’ it is. That actually really bugs me, considering it was barely anime to begin with.

Set me with it, yes, I can draw a manga face.

But that’s not what I’m going for, and rarely what’s coming out.

The line has become skewered and that bothers me so much.