Some of My Hot Blogs, Must Read

CreativeEssayOnline.Blogspot.com
A blog on creative happiness. A blog on creating essays. A blog on life. Essays on money. Essays on power. Essays on art. Essays on books. Interviews with authors. And personal narratives.

MindGigs.Blogspot.com
A blog on mind, work, ethics, and the power of game. I created this blog as a counter to working too much. It helps encourage different forms of work. It goes against work, and with laziness.

SmilesResponse.Blogspot.com
A marketing blog on response, ready by bloggers, marketers, and business professionals. Everyone needs smiles and everyone needs response. Get them smiling by reading online business blog posts.

JourneyEssay.BLogspot.com
Journey essay is my blog on the journey of life. I adore the essay. I go with the essay every single day of my life. It’s a secret love. I love sharing these narrative stories with readers across the world.

Post2Gig.Blogspot.com
A blog on earning from blogs. A blog on monetizing blogs. A blog on freelancing jobs. A blog on blogger’s hope.

CreativeBusinessFreelance.Blogspot.com
A blog on the freelance industry to make money freelancing. Business is all about being creative. Read this blog to improve creative business skills.

Buzzpaper.BLogspot.com
What is the buzz paper? How can it help you? The buzz paper is a white paper in action. What is a white paper? I can’t give it all away. Keep reading.

TransformersOutpost.Blogspot.com
A blog on the series Transformers, 80s cartoon, mecha, and how they influence the world. A cartoon can influence the world? Cartoons are art. There is more to animated series than art; you can go with comics, novels, and manga too.

BrokenEssayPoets.Blogspot.com
A blog featuring more of my creative essays, some poetry, and bliss holding points. You must remember your Blake, your Keats, your Frost, and Your Thompson.

IronSwordGames.Blogspot.com
Why play Strategy Games? Why play first person shooters? Why take breaks? Strategy and FPS help your mind. Strategy games and FPS games allow you to take breaks. Games allow you to make money. Games teach you much. Read this blog for some creative happiness, reviews, commentary, and good buys.

BusinessCoffeeMedia.Blogspot.com
A rejeccted query. A bad cup of coffee. A video going viral. These things hapen to all of us. Business Coffee Media is my response to Smiles Response. Marketers can read it for ideas, writers can read it for money, and bloggers can read it to take some breaks from the business world.

BrokenSwordComics.Blogspot.com
Comics are some of the highest forms of art. This blog demands more reading. Reading comics can be addicting, and this is a good addiction. Find reviews, find essays, find investments, make money.

VideoFeedBook.blogspot.com
A blog comparing video to books and ideas to hope.

GraphicStoryInvestor.Blogspot.com
A blog on making money off graphic novels and manga. These are always good investments, much like buying a first edition hardcover or softcover is worth money.

AnimeInvestor.Blogspot.com
A blog on making money off anime, having fun with anime, buying manga, and selling comics.

HistoryforBattle.Blogspot.com
A blog on military history and strategy, from Napoleon to Caesar, World War 2 to the Punic wars.

GameStoriesGo.Blogspot.com
A blog on game stories, chronicling wins and losses I have had and others have had in games such as Civilization 2, Warcraft, Age of Empires, X-Box games, and Playstation games . Every game has a story. You might find some fan fiction for fan fun here too.

GameArtEngine.BLogspot.com
A blog on the gaming art. A blog on making money off games. A blog on creating games. A blog on strategy.

　

Why Read Comics?

Reading comic books has to be one of the biggest thrills I’ve ever experienced. There is nothing like going to the comic shop, bantering with workers and other would-be fans, and purchasing a months supply of comics.
So why should you waste your time on comic books? It’s not a waste for anyone in any career or stage of life. Let me explain …

For Children

The bread and butter of the comic medium is pandering to children. It’s important for children to read comic books. As I learned to read, it became obvious I wasn’t going to pick up a copy of Virginia Woolf or Stephen King like I could riding a bike. Instead, I was offered comic books by my parents, titles like Iron Man and The Thing and Batman so that I would learn to read at a smaller level. This isn’t  to say comic books are always easy to read, but some titles like spider-man are just as important to read in times of youth as that first time you pick up “The Hobbit” or “Harry Potter.” Comic books teach just as much as a movie like Star Wars or books like “Lord of the Rings” do. Usually there is an emphasis on the battle between good and evil. Some comics will even bring up subjects children should acknowledge at a young age, including drugs and depression. Still, I wouldn’t give a child a copy of The Punisher.

For Teens
Teens like burning time, escaping from school, and trying to stay away from drugs. Comics help you read, can kill some time, and can be of more value than games. Teens often read endless amounts of comics, both the ones for youths and the ones for adults. Teens are not always the biggest buyers, but they can be.

For Adults

If you like a good novel, there are plenty of comic books with comparable weight. While titles like Spider-Man can be good for children, many tales are driven towards adults who began reading comic books at an early age. Try out longer forms like “Maximum Carnage” and “Revenge of the Sinister Six.” There are always the classic graphic novels. Many libraries have whole sections of graphic novels, some even special collections with single issue comic books. Take a look at your comic shop for one that catches your eye; you’d be surprised how many adults find themselves walking down the comic shop aisles.

For Writers

Want to write? Want to be an artist? Comic book writing is a bursting field that is always looking for new talents. The medium actually pays well and many creators make a living solely off selling comic book scripts or illustrations. I have heard as much as $2,500 for a comic script from top publishers, though that was noted by Neil Gaiman ages ago, so it might be higher or less. That’s a shot in the dark: If you want to write comic books you have to start with short stories for independent publications, then you have a chance at the big gig. If you have dreams of creating super heroes, it can be done. This leads into my point: If you want to write comics you will have to read them, just like writing a novel.

Still not convinced you should read comic books? I’m done arguing, but give it the same chance you would a novel by an unknown writer.

Trading Ins, Buy Outs

Trades to Buy:
Essential X-Men
Why? The Uncanny X-Men Omnibus is out, so you may want to keep it sealed or continue the story. If you go with the essentials, you can continue on with x-men history. They might, however, come out with another omnibus. Both are good investments.

Where? Amazon and Ebay are good points for essentials.

Other Essentials
Iron Man
Why? The Omnibus is out for the original iron man stories, but you may want to save money by doing more with Iron Man via essentials. These are classic stories by some outside writers for the Marvel universe.

Akira is also coming out complete again. Even if you don’t like manga, Akira trades are a must buy. You may wait until they all come out; I am not sure if they are all out yet. Tales Of Wonder is a good spot.

HardCovers to Buy:
Buy “The Killer” and “Okko” by Archia Press are good buys. Both are incredibly addicting. Killer wins on crime, Okko wins on dreamlike art and fantasy archetypes.

Powers is another good buy from crime in hardcover format. Watch out for The adaptation of Richard Stark’s “Parker” series written by Darwyn Cooke, of Batman TAS and Justice League fame.

 

Games to Watch
Kill Zone 3 and Crysis are out for Playstation. I would consider Kill Zone first. If you want role playing, Dragon Age Origins wins, but Demons Souls is the older game to go with. For combat, you may try Call of Duty on some titles. Playstation is winning with first person shooters, but they have some final fantasy offs, such as demons souls and the upcoming Children of Eden.

Books to Read
There are some interesting adaptations out. Conan is coming out again, and there is a new release. Crysis has a release of an adaptation. Iron Man: Virus is a good book to try; DC is coming out with adaptations, so Marvel is starting to follow suit.

Game of Thrones is out on HBO. It’s a dreamlike historical fantasy with northern men with big axes and pretty girls. You might try the original writings by George R.R. Martin.

What 2 Watch For:
The Thor movie is out, but I would go with Game of Thrones. I really want to see the next Spider-Man film. Smallville is done, so what do we go with for television? Heroes is secondary, and always will be. You may simply watch some of your old Smallville toons. Watch out for new animation to come out because of the comic craze. Netflix is the win here: you can check out animation and anime online and via some game players.

My final recommendation would be to save. You cannot buy everything in he book. the economysucks right now for many of us. So you might sell to buy more. Sacrifices are good. Much of what you may not like can bring in some dough on Ebay.

Tenebre

The author is always called in horror, especially in the 80s, those long nights with Stephen King, clowns, and cheap drug movies. Friday the 13th was at play and Halloween was dreaming nightmares for cheaper versions, like comics.

Dario Argento called Suspiria with witches, and he calls the author out of hell with Stephen King in Tenebre. Tenebre has the visuals — the girls and the houses — and it has the cheesy natural look of a movie no one else could make. I am reminded of Dawn of the the Dead, the original version with the mall fort.

Girls always die in these movies. Italian horror can be different, if you watch enough.

There are some money plays here as well. Of course: the agent is here. There is an interview with the new famous author. It was a drug for many of us in the 80s, where some are born.

Is he a Stephen King? He is a bestselling author. This movie is not “In the Mouth of Madness,” which you may be thinking of all ready. Tenebre is a book with necro pages.

The setup is the author and the agent. This is the easy stuff. The death call and the dogs calling out is the 2nd point. The 3rd point is the loss of life. This is the code.

Oddly, the author has all the girls.

Will he lose his heart to the horror? The horror is the woman. The horror is the dogs.

There is nothing left to give away. This is the code. Watch it in the afternoon. It’s a decent foreign film. In my analysis, Suspiria is the win against Tenebre.

Starting and Quitting: Paths to Creative Writing

When a writer starts a new project there is excitement; we are about to undertake an expedition that could take a hour, a day, or ten years. When we, the writer, quit a writing project we are opening one door and shutting another. This essay will explore the basics in creative writing: Why we start a project, why we quit, and the path to success that lies somewhere in between.

Never quit your art.

Smiles Response

New Blog SmilesResponse.blogger.com. This blog will focus more on business writing and creative marketing. I am also offering a training course on blogging for ambitious freelancers looking for new, real, income, not just passive, but checks.

I am rebuilding this site to offer more for you. Keep reading for reviews and commentary. To support the site I will try some new ad sites, but I love blogging to much to quit anyway.

A jazz lodges a transcript below a defensive hello.

Northwind, a Boom! Studios Fantasy GN

North Wind
by David Digilio, Francisco Gamboa, Renato Faccini, and Alex Cal

Boom! Studios Graphic Novel

Review by Jacob Malewitz
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If you want a surreal modern fantasy, look for something good, better than a story about Potter maybe, or perhaps just to the rising fantasy comic book medium. Crossgen Comics Sojourn did it well (I reviewed that series here).
With rave reviews, a good eye on quality, high end artwork, and a fascinating story not of an ancient or medieval time, but a future not so far away—North Wind is here and it made a splash.

From Artist to Novelist, The Unpublished Guy Speaks

From Artist to Novelist
By Jacob Malewitz

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Oddly, I began with the notion of short stories. Short stories by the hundreds! Writing short stories, selling short fiction to the biggest markets, even if they didn’t publish anything close.

Then came the idea of the novel. What writer hasn’t though of writing a novel? In my experience, the natural progression of any artist is to go big, to take the big gamble, and then to see what happens.

What kind of artist are you?

The Freelance Journalist Working and Selling

The Freelance Journalist Working and Selling
By Jacob Malewitz
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I have been a freelance journalist for over five years, exploring this craft which sometimes pays well, usually pays something, but often pays low. So how do we get around that? If you’re a beginner to the field of freelance journalism, in 10 minutes I give you an edge on this powerful, profitable, and constantly enjoyable field.

Starship: Mutiny By Mike Resnick, A Modern Science Fiction Classic

Overview: “Mutiny” is a masterful adventure story first, a science fiction classic second. With perfectly orchestrated characterization over a fascinating world full of action and space adventure, Mike Resnick’s natural talents are obvious and still growing. This science fiction story keeps you guessing as the Theodore Roosevelt and its crew take chances out on the rim. They are outcasts, but a man named Wilson Cole intends to turn them into soldiers again.

Starship: Mutiny by Mike Resnick