Creative Sheep

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Sup.

So, I read Odd and now I'm all fired up about our anime/manga/comics club. We will fund raise for the majority of our money. We'll have our own prez, vice prez, and treasurer. We can meet on Fridays either after school or during lunch in Room Ten (I think that's the one that isn't being used) and go to conventions. We can rent 15-passenger vans or have parents carpool us to the conventions. We'll make our own T-shirts. The club will have several objectives: reading and discussing manga and anime, creating and producing manga and anime, and sharing manga and anime with the community. We'll have an art showcase and festival twice a school year. Eventually, we should be able to get our own artists' table at the conventions.

We will have about 25 members, I think. Me and all my friends, plus a few kinda-friends (that's the thing with our school--there are pretty much your friends and your kinda-friends and that's all we have room for) and some other people who we don't know about. We'll elect the officers at the first meeting. We'll have one of the teachers to mentor us. (Oh, Ms. S has those manga chibis in her room on her bulletin board. I know many among us could be more pleased with her, but she might know something about art. Other than that, Ms. W. )

We'll have sign-up sheets to go to the conventions so we know who is going. We can handle it outside of school so we won't need permission slips. I think the cost per person, counting transportation and food and tickets but not souvenirs would be about 35 dollars. That's doable for mostly everyone at our school. And then you'd have to bring your own money for souvenirs. At the meetings before the conventions, we would also have one or two people responsible for collecting all the contest entries and decide on the time we leave and the time we get there.

We can each create our own T-shirts that have to say the name of the club on the front left, but whatever on the back. Chibis, slogans, whatever. We can give each other comissions, too, and the more experienced artists could even hold manga seminars every month during club meetings.

The club's objectives would be reading/watching/dicussing/producing/sharing manga, anime, and comics. We'd each pitch in and fund-raise to pay for the subscription of at least 3 magazines--one shojo magazine, Shonen Jump, and maybe a seinen one (although I have no idea what seinen manga acutally is...). We'd have one manga and anime that we would follow from each category, to be voted on during meetings. Then we'd discuss it and study different styles and history of manga/anime. I happen to have an incredibly remarkable book that contains great secrets about how to make great manga. It emphasizes working on art in general, and creating your own style, and also has production tips. We would eventually have our own website, hopefully linked to the school's website.

And then there's our school's manga/anime/comics festival. Our club would run it, and it would involve seminars by our artists/editors/fans, plus stalls where our crafts (handmade posters, T-shirts, buttons, plushies, hats, etc.) would be sold (50% benefits to our school) and also hopefully a cosplay and art contest. We'd have to work closely with our activities directors, but I think we could basically run the whole show.

Our long-term objectives would be to have festivals/showcases at least once a year, have at least one group trip to an anime convention, produce our own art and manga each year to enter in various contests, and collect our own archives of manga and anime.

I also think we should start talking to kids at our school to see how many people would be interested, get them involved with drawing up a plan during lunch, and then taking that plan to our mentor teacher and Mr. H. When/if they agree, we would compile our objectives and ideas into one or two handouts and then hold an introductory meeting during lunch time. During that time, we would sign people up for the club, vote for our officers, and explain/decide on pretty much everything we're going to do over the year.

I am totally going nuts with this. I'm gonna have to look over this post and take notes, and then take it to my room where I will spend a lot of time under the covers working on a decent explanatory document.

Whatever. We begin our crusade tomorrow.

Revision: we begin our project tomorrow. The crusades were horrible times. People basically went to war over what religion you belonged to and who got the right to the Holy Land.

So, my friends, whether you read this or not, we're starting tomorrow. Be prepared to talk to a lot of people, students as well as teachers (or the other way around) and be prepared to have me boss you around. Bikachu, let's just keep tossing this idea back and forth, adding to it.

What do you think?