>What is a Publisher-Tan?
An anthropomorphic personification of a publishing company.
>Why are you making these?
Because we are autistic and/or bored.
>Why are they all girls?
Japanese -tan tradition. But we do have some boy -tans too, like Diamond-kun.
>Where is the gallery for all the images?
http://publisher-tan.booru.org/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=all
>Where is the pastebin for all the ideas?
http://pastebin.com/n0xR9Zgb
>Previous threads?
http://pastebin.com/Gv7LCxZ4
>How can I help?
If a publisher doesn't have a personality yet, then you can suggest ideas for one.
If a publisher doesn't have a design yet, then you can suggest ideas for one.
If a publisher has a personality and a design, then you can draw them.
If multiple publishers have all of the above, then you can draw comics of them interacting.
>How many publishers do we need?
All of them. This isn't a Marvel/DC project, so please don't focus on them.
Please do not respond to console war comments.
And last but not least, remember to have
>fun
Previous Thread: >>84271095
Oh nice, I hadn't realised I'd lost track of the days.
I found out at the weekend that unlike a lot of publishers, Dark Horse actually started out with the owner opening his own comic-book store in Oregon, then used the funds to start the publishing company proper. That made me think of DH running their own comic shop when they're not between wandering off into the Oregon wilderness, which in turn made me think of High Fidelity and the snobs who run it. Could be some mileage in Indie comics / Indie band parallels, and it gives a reason for the non-Big 2 to hang out or for tans to be seen reading or talking about stuff the companies they represent actually produce.
If you wanted to bring in the Big Two, you could have they make as analogous to mainstream pop music - kind of necessary to keep the whole operation afloat because it brings in customers, but it doesn't half make the other grumpy. Its especially galling considering Marvel and DC are independently wealthy (or at least have access to the Mouse and the Warner Bros cash).
Here's that wip from last week
Anyone else here kind of ship Milestone-tan with Syndicated comic strip-kun?
Quit making generals for everything you autistic fucks!!!!!!!!!! Has it ever crossed your mind that not everything needs a general!?!?!
>>84441607
Seriously? We've been doing these for like, a month now.
>>84441597
I would
>>84441597
Nah, I kind of think of the Newspaper dude as a a grouchy old man who's seen it all, and done it all, but is perennially stuck looking like a kid. A bit like Baby Herman from Who Framed Roger Rabbit if he looked a more like Calvin/Charlie Brown than a baby.
That could be more down to me conflating "newspaper comics" with "modern syndicated comics", mind you. The first newspaper ones turned up in America in the late 1890s - The Yellow Kid is often thought of as the first, but the Katzenjammer Kids in 1897 was the first ever to use word balloons and the subject of a nasty early copyright battle between rival newspaper syndicates. Political cartoons in things like Punch Magazine in England also did much the same thing a long time before that, but that's way beyond the scope of this project.
I finished the Rebellion tan art i promised last thread, but scanners fucked so yeah that helps.
On an off note, anyone knows who publishes Beano/Dandy? Figure they could benefit a page. Or Viz.
>>84442069
I do, I was trying to sketch some ideas in the last week! Dandy and Beano were and are published by DC Thomson in Dundee in Scotland. There main business is actually Scottish papers, but they've always been very influential in British comics. The Beano and Dandy are just the most well-known internationally.
https://www.dcthomson.co.uk/brands/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_D._C._Thomson_%26_Co._Ltd_publications
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_Thomson
Viz is done by Dennis Publishing. As far as I'm aware its the only comic they produce.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Publishing
The owner bequeathed the whole publishing house to The Heart of England Forest Charity, which is interesting.
>>84442164
Dundee actually put up statues of Minnie the Minx and Desperate Dan in their high street a few years ago to honour D. C. Thomson & Co.
Less well known but still important publishers for comics in the UK would be Titan Books and SelfMadeHero, in case anyone was interested.
http://titanbooks.com/footer/about-us
http://www.selfmadehero.com/books.php
Historically there's also loads of Franco-Belgian publishers, but I'm not 100% sure on which ones are still active. Les Humanoïdes Associés / Humanoids Publishing (who do Métal Hurlant, among other things) came out of administration in 2009 and are doing pretty well. I think that ones got potential at the very least.
>These threads are somehow still a thing despite being BTFO by channel tans
>>84442448
they were? when
>>84442421
is the art there by the guy who did lone slone?
>>84442739
Philippe Druillet, yeah. He does gorgeous stuff. Its like if Moebius tended towards smooth edges, pastels and rounded lines his are jagged, high contrast nightmares
>>84442903
I do fucking love what i've seen of it.
Sorry to change thread subject but what books do you recommend of his work, my freind has the first book if Lone Slone which he's giving to me when he's done but other then that im at a loss.
>>84442955
If you're enjoying Sloane there are something like three or four books collecting the various stories, but I'm not 100% clear on how its currently being published. I'd say try looking for Délirius after you've done with your current one as its the next in sequence, and then have a look for yourself. Yragaël is also really good if you like Moorcock's Elric (I was lucky enough to find a first edition English translation in a charity shop, and its my pride and joy) and the Salammbô trilogy, based on a Flaubert novel of the same name, well, it looks like this.
>>84443280
>>84443287
A little off-topic, I know, but one of the problems we run into in this thread that the Channels and Consoles don't face is that there's really only two companies most people would know about and everything else is really obscure because they're quite hard to get hold of (to say nothing of the fact that hardly anyone reads comics at the best of times anyway!) The more comics people are exposed to, the more they're likely to read them, the healthier everything will be. Plus there's potentially more variety of tans, which is nice.
>>84443280
>>84443287
>>84443287
>>84443373
You are 10/10 anon thanks, thinking on that i ought to draw up a Heavy Metal tan (Pretty sure its published by a single guy)
>>84443515
No worries my man, its nice to be able to help someone out!
The guy you're thinking of Kevin Eastman, the co-creator of the Ninja Turtles. He sold his stake in the magazine back in 2014, but he still acts as publisher (which I guess makes the Publiisher-Tan literally just Eastman in a dress!)
Also bear in mind that Métal Hurlant and Heavy Metal are a bit more different than just translations of each other. Métal Hurlant is published by Humanoids, for one thing, so you can draw in all the other things they do like all the Jodorowsky epics like The Metabarons (but not the Incal, apparently, because that's SelfMadeHero).
>>84443373
You are 100% right
SHIT YEAH
Getting home just in time.
WARNINGThis might be nonsensical garbage
>>84446831
I couldn't remember the dialogue and didn't bother looking it up
>>84446845
>>84438619
>What is a Publisher-Tan?
The saddest thread on /co/
>>84446850
>>84446853
It isn't the Preancher show threads. I never saw one with two digits of replies.
Made a Malibu-tan real quick.
>>84446831
>>84446845
>>84446850
>>84446864
This is good
And yes it kinda doesn't make sense but i'll assume it because of the no dialogue
>>84447294
If you want add some feel free.
It's Archie setting a hot dog on fire.
Self Publisher over reacting and putting all the fire out.
Marvel bitching that everything is wet so won't light.
DC pointing out the Axe
Marvel Asking Dark Horse to chop wood.
Then Rebellion Tan lust over Dark Horses chin.
Then Dark Horse asking rebellion to carry the wood because she's tired.
Some body wrote a little script about the rebellion and dark horse part I just couldn't really remember any of it outside of the general premise.
There's quite a few publisher-tans that haven't been made yet, huh?
>>84449402
Looks like it.
I wonder if it's too soon to add Albatross
>>84446845
>>84446850
>>84446864
Dark Horse is best girl.
>>84449402
Pick up a pencil and draw one you think it might look like m8
Would like to see what other people can come up with
>>84449402
too bad that none of them are any good/cared about
>>84449710
Why DH didn't pick that, again?
>>84449907
I could design a Wildstorm-tan, probably. I've got a few ideas, but suggestions are welcome.
>>84446831
Poor Archie-tan.
>>84451488
Let's see them
>>84449897
Its the chin, and the vague suggestion of ornery hillbilly. I like Rebellion too, but I'm not quite sure the glasses and lip piercing quite work. For some reason I always imagined her with big baggy eyes.
>>84451488
Wildstorm really has to have a lot of Jim Lee influence, but other than his trying to draw in hi style I'm not sure how to get that across. Maybe using Image as a base, but with an even more 90s outfit, complete with puffed chest, tiny waist, wonky spine and near complete absence of feet? Imagine Image and Wildstorm next to each other, Wildstorm posing and yelling with a mouth that's way too full of teeth
"IMAGE! [in big logo text, like the hero names in the comics] SISTER! Do you WISH to come to the STORE? We're all out of MILK!"
And Image is just cringing and trying to not give the impression that they're in any way related.
>>84452114
>>84452502
I based it more off later day Wildstorm titles like The Authority (her metal skin/hair) or Gen13 (her outfit) than Wildcats. This is till very much a WIP, so any critique is welcome.
>>84446906
"... you guys should watch Preacher."
>>84453164
Needs more straps and to be over all shinier even the costume should be really glossy looking
and pointy triangular tipped feet.
Her and Image used to be besties and dress alike kinda grew up but Image grew up some
>>84454127
No holsters, only straps.
>>84453904
"... it's time to watch Preacher, you guys."
>>84455761
Preachers weird, if I never read the comic, I think I'd really like it. But in comparison it really drags and I'm just kind of stuck on the fact that nothing really cool has happened yet. Except that clone mass murder thing.
>>84454549
yeah, that's better
>>84455841
"Clones, you say?"
My idea for Dynamite-tan's hobbies:
>reading old pulp shitand sometimes trying to behave like one of the character from those
>>84455761
Did you know that in the UK, before it was collected in books, Preacher was initially published in the Judge Dredd Megazine? It's another nice link between Vertigo and Rebellion.
>>84462767
wasnt there some other vertigo series, lazarus churchyard or something
>>84463128
Lazarus Churchyard is in a similar boat because it appeared in Blast! magazine first in the early 90s, then reprinted in 2000AD / The Megazine, then collected in a book by Atomeka Press which was later re-issued by Image when it went under the first time.
Rogan Gosh as well as some other Peter Miligan, Mark Miller and Grant Morrison comics from the early 90s which appeared in 2000AD spinoffs were later collected and republished by Vertigo though.
