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Have a question? Get the answer straight from the horse's mouth...or from Cami and Damian if you wish. Here the co-creators will answer three questions from each other. |
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Three questions for Damian 1. What made you want to get into the world of script writing? I was reading one of Neil Gaiman's Sandman trade paperbacks and in the back of the graphic novel was an example of how he writes his stories. I love the medium and have read comics all my life, so using that as a template I started to create my own tales. 2. How did you start in the business? (Laughs). Well, it's questionable if you could consider me in the business, but I guess I surfed the internet looking for opportunities and trying to find passionate and talented people that I could collaborate with...I would also submit script samples to any manga publisher I could contact. 3. What are your long term goals? Hmmm, my short term would be to write a few pages of Heartstrings tonight (I try to write everyday)...I have so many ideas for "HS" that one of my goals would be to get as many people reading this series as possible. I think it has great appeal! Three questions for Cami 1. How long have you been creating Manga? Actually I haven't been doing manga very long, but I have been interested for some time. I discovered the world of manga and anime fairly late in life; I watched wildlife programs as a kid! I was getting ready to enter my A-Levels (aged 17) and decided that I wanted to continue my interest in art. My teacher told me I had to draw people so I started researching on the internet which was new at home. Guess what I found? Sailor Moon, that sparked off my interest in anime and from that I became obsessed with the style; moving onto Gundam wing then Dragon Ball Z then discovering the world of manga just before I entered university. I quickly became completely obsessed and decided I wanted to produce it, not only draw it for myself. And even though I am now 20, I feel like a permanent teenager, and I never want to grow up if it means loosing what I have now. 2. Who inspires you? Apart from the famous manga artists like Akira Toriyama, CLAMP, Masume Shirow and Yuki Kaori, the artists I find on deviantart, many of whom are utterly amazing. Also the people around me, not only friends and family who support my struggles with art, but random people in the street. There was a guy who used to busk on the road near my house, he was going to be touring the world training to be a guide and had his own band who had interested some hotshot company. Yet there he was, every Saturday, singing country and pop for cash. He dreamed and strived to reach those dreams, refusing to let the modern world restrict him. 3. What other series are you working on? Oh well, I have so many characters with stories but actual scripts that I'm writing myself include; Kale and Kyoshi, my oldest pair of characters and the rest of the cast though the story has no name yet and is still in my head. Shounen-ai with two half-angels and some very confused mystical characters struggling on in a world where myths and fantasies are considered oblique. Elementals is a story about four 'spirit-angels' who possess the power of the four elements. The four boys appear human and go to school, each one struggling with the normal problems of teen life. Yet when their powers awaken they are called on to help save and protect the earth herself. At the same time having to learn to trust and help each other, not easy when Fire and wind are the un-sociable types. This is also shounen-ai. 'The Rose Prince' is my third script, about a young prince obsessed with roses. A jealous demon, a curse and a younger street-rat who looks and clothes like a girl make this story one crazy ride with the main char being the most irritating and obnoxious guy you will ever love to hate-also shounen-ai. Full Moon is a werewolf manga. But its not your ordinary 'man growning fur and fangs' story. Three sisters, born to werewolf parents, live as ordinary humans. They go to school, hang out with friends, have sleep-overs. All untill the youngest hits puberty and the new student, on a 'school-swop' transfer rubs everyone up the wrong way. Half breed high jinks follow as the sisters run the risk of exposure, in more ways than one. My latest script is called 'Butterfly' and is a shoujo-ai manga with cross-dressing, cross-gender antics and general gender and identity confusion. Butterfly is a world famous ice skater and performs with a supposedly all male skate group, yet the star is a female. She is a punk haired, rock/metal loving chick with a bad attitude and a taste for the good life. Enter Jet and his best friend (and would be girlfriend) Sophia. They see Butterfly perform and both are smitten, forcing Jet to question his sexuality and getting Sophia into some sticky situations. Will love conquer all? Or will the mysterious dancer fool everyone and get away once again with 'gender still unknown'? I also have three novels on the go. Future's Past, an outlaw vampire is summoned from his home to earth by a girl jealous of her sister's bloke. Earth Key, where two young men in very different situations, one a young businessman the other a slave, find that their futures are intertwined as much as their pasts, a story questioning today's morals and ideals, shounen-ai. The third is 77 Cross St. -An ancient vampire lives in a futuristic world where crime and corruption are rife, befriending a local cab driver and opening the doors to his secret world, where mythical creatures hide in the bright city pulling the strings of the humans law and business, and also revealing his own origins through out the long centuries right from the start of civilization, shounen-ai. |
![]() Damian Originator of the Heartstrings universe, he is linearly challenged and writes his scenes bass-ackwards only to link them together afterwards. He is a huge fan of Cami Cross as an artist and author.
Cami Cross The artist, and co-plotting genius of Heartstrings. She fell in love with the script and became a drawing demon, populating the story with colorful characters. Dedicated to art, she struggles with the dreaded 'block', talks in her sleep, and begs the deadline to 'wait just a little longer'. |
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