🧵 Oi! Tales of Bardic Fury Volume 3 Storytime
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Sep 2022 05:46:13 UTC No. 715050
Oi! Tales of Bardic Fury Volume 3
-Burn Your Idols-
>The exciting conclusion to the Banshee Vale Saga- Oi village vs Banshee Vale-who will prevail!
Volume 2 Storytime: >>709305
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Sep 2022 07:05:59 UTC No. 715095
really? two threads? fuck off
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Sep 2022 11:14:20 UTC No. 715104
3
>>708898
>>709305
>>715050
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Sep 2022 23:44:53 UTC No. 715159
>>715050
baka I bet she couldn't name one Misfits song
Anonymous at Tue, 27 Sep 2022 00:58:51 UTC No. 716681
>>715050
why not story time this in co?
Anonymous at Tue, 27 Sep 2022 05:01:27 UTC No. 716710
>>716681
I have done that before. I'm planning to finish this volume by Halloween and do a Samhain storytime in October.
Anonymous at Fri, 14 Oct 2022 05:22:24 UTC No. 719064
>>719056
>Was getting captured part of-
FUCK
Anonymous at Sat, 29 Oct 2022 21:57:02 UTC No. 721393
i dont reply often but i genuinely enjoy your thread OP thanks for sticking around
Anonymous at Mon, 7 Nov 2022 06:44:12 UTC No. 722537
>>721393
Hi anon thanks for the bump. I'm working on a cover for volume 3 now (pic unrelated) and will try to get new pages of the next update uploaded this week. thanks for reading!
Anonymous at Thu, 10 Nov 2022 17:43:28 UTC No. 723080
>>716710
>I have done that before. I'm planning to finish this volume by Halloween and do a Samhain storytime in October.
How many people even use /i/? I asked this a month ago and the threads still up.
I do plan to read your comic btw.
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Nov 2022 03:33:34 UTC No. 723171
>>723164
i was waiting for this thread to end to catch up on the story but finally gave in and finished what you've posted so far
good job its a bit out there and disorganized in its pacing but its been a fun ride : D
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Nov 2022 13:20:08 UTC No. 723229
haven’t seen you in a while. pretty cool resolution this has been
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Nov 2022 00:58:52 UTC No. 723476
What...is this?
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Nov 2022 19:45:45 UTC No. 723538
>>723476
It's volume 3 of a comic I'm making about bards druids idols and witches in an anachronistic version of Ancient Ireland. The story follows a bard who gets sent to a village by the sea that never heard music before called Oi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S0
you can read the earlier volumes here if you ever wanted to:
https://tapas.io/series/Oi
https://www.webtoons.com/en/challen
>>723171
>>723229
thank you for reading and keeping up with the story. After I finish coloring this cover, I promise to deliver the finale of the story as quickly as possible. Illuminating times are ahead for the idols of Oi and Banshee Vale.
Anonymous at Thu, 1 Dec 2022 15:36:22 UTC No. 726654
an anon made a video review of Oi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulo
Anonymous at Sat, 24 Dec 2022 02:45:32 UTC No. 729760
>>729759
my personal favourite panel so far
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Jan 2023 18:41:42 UTC No. 731628
>>731612
hey OP how old were you when you started this comic?
also what are somethings you'd do differently if you were to do it all over again?
also you mentioned that you had to struggle to get the rights back from some shady publisher how did that happen and what are some redflags people should watch out for things like that?
sorry if im taking the thread off-topic you're a fascinating case is all
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Jan 2023 20:40:37 UTC No. 731637
>>731628
>sorry if im taking the thread off-topic you're a fascinating case is all
Thanks anon! I'll try to answer all your questions succinctly, but I have a tendency to ramble.
>hey OP how old were you when you started this comic?
I think I was 20 or 21. I studied graphic design and illustration in college (I know it's meme degree, but I can't change the past). For the final project, we were allowed to do whatever we wanted, so I decided I was going to make an issue of a comic. I went to a really shitty university, but the upside of this was because students were so unmotivated and didn't care, my friends and I were able to start a comic society and get funding from the Student Union to print our comics. We started a club hoping more students would join but for the most part it was just me and my two bros. Our school also had a risograph printer that no one else used, so we basically used it as our private printer to print out our comics and posters. At the first comic con I went to with Oi! I sold out of all 60 issues of #1, so that's what inspired me to keep going with it and start issue 2-selkie blues.
>also what are somethings you'd do differently if you were to do it all over again?
I dunno. Everything I learned about comics was from the experience of doing. The main thing I would do differently would be to get a non-meme degree and do art on the side-that's what I recommend to everyone in college! I should have studied business or marketing or something. My art courses were full of arty farty conceptualists and we didn't even get life drawing classes as part of our illustration course-it was a joke! Comics wise, looking back, I would have grinded fundies harder and kept regularly grinding fundies. In some early issues and even now, if I don't do life drawing for awhile, the anatomy gets wonky.
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Anonymous at Sat, 7 Jan 2023 20:50:59 UTC No. 731638
>>731637
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>>also what are somethings you'd do differently if you were to do it all over again?
Also I would have put Rhiannon in issue 1 somewhere, and hyped up Banshee Vale more in the hurling sections when I briefly mentioned them in volume 1.
>also you mentioned that you had to struggle to get the rights back from some shady publisher how did that happen and what are some redflags people should watch out for things like that?
In all honestly, I don't trust any publisher at this point anymore. I am hearing that even big publishers like Marvel, Boom and IDW aren't paying their creators on time-and the guys who work for those companies are way more talented and skilled than me, so if they aren't getting paid right, I don't expect I'd get treated any better. I'd much rather work on my own stories and characters than these dinosaur legacy IPs but that's just me. I used to like capeshit but I'm pretty over it now.
>get the rights back from some shady publisher how did that happen and what are some redflags people should watch out for things like that?
Yes this was a nightmare-learn from my mistakes! I think in 2014 I went to a comic con that had a bunch of editors from smaller publishers reviewing work. Every single editor meeting I had went well, but I waited to meet the biggest one of them before saying yes to the others. The final editor showed the most enthusiasm, only wanted 50% of the IP rights, and was publishing some big IPs I heard of and working with high level artists.
Also I have to note that I went to this convention with a family member who attempted to start major drama with me right before my editor meetings, so I wasn't thinking straight and was emotional when I signed the rights away. For a whole year, the Publisher refused to tell me how many books were selling and how much money I owed.
I got to continue this in another post, it's actually
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Anonymous at Sat, 7 Jan 2023 20:58:59 UTC No. 731639
>>731638
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I also have to add that I signed with this company because they were publishing a few major IPs I had heard of, so I thought it would be a good place for my comic-and I would be able to focus only on making the pages while they did all the marketing and book design stuff-if only!
Anyways. after I kept asking how much money I was owed and getting no response, the publisher started being a dick to me and said he would bury the book and take it off the website when I asked for the rights back.
He sent smug asshole emails basically laughing at me. At this point I decided to fight back.
Remember my shitty university I went to? Another perk was because it was such a garbage school, it was easy to become the elected student Union vice president of the art department. After I graduated university, I was VP of art for a year and I had to go to a bunch of student union conferences meeting other student unions.
I threatened the publisher that I would use my connections to tell every single art student union and art department in the country to warn away their students from ever working with this publisher because how he treated me and my work. I said I would go to every school nearby and make speeches warning students about working with shady publishers. It was a complete bluff but it worked. Finally after 2 years the asshole publisher agreed to sell me the full rights of Oi back for $200. It was alot but I agreed.
At this point when I got the rights back, it was 3 years since I last worked on Oi, and I was mainly doing normie cat comics and coloring books. The characters in Oi always stuck with me, and I thought about their story all the time, but because other projects were in the way, it was 5 years and late 2019 before I started drawing new oi pages again-the winter solstice issue, and I've been working on it as my primary project ever since.
My final warning-beware of these shady publishers-many are assholes who don't care about screwing artists over.
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Jan 2023 21:00:32 UTC No. 731640
I hope that answered all your questions. If you have any more, let me know!
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Jan 2023 21:05:05 UTC No. 731641
final point- My experience working with this publisher and hearing stories over the years of my friends being screwed over by publishers lead me to firmly believe in self publishing, and I haven't attempted to work with other companies or publishers since. Self publishing is easier now than ever and unless some company agrees to pay you the big bucks and up front (not some promised "your pay is based on future sales we will never share with you LOL" bullshit) I recommend self publishing to all new comic artists starting out.
Anonymous at Sun, 15 Jan 2023 04:57:30 UTC No. 732874
I these new pages are nice. Good work OP.
Anonymous at Fri, 10 Mar 2023 12:34:00 UTC No. 739258
>>739247
Dig it man, thanks for the threads!
Anonymous at Sat, 18 Mar 2023 18:28:29 UTC No. 740103
>>715050
Where can I read the previous volumes?
Anonymous at Sat, 18 Mar 2023 20:58:58 UTC No. 740112
>>740103
I have volume 1 and 2 free to read online:
>Tapas: https://tapas.io/series/Oi
>Webtoon: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challen
>Mangadex: https://mangadex.org/title/77f67cab
Anonymous at Wed, 22 Mar 2023 21:20:27 UTC No. 740547
>>740112
ty Paulybro