Blizzard Comics began making manga in the year 2001, starting with three writers:
Winter: Artist and Writer, costume designer, leader
Megan: Executive Co-writer and assistant costume designer
Janella: Co-writer
(Last names are being held for privacy purposes.)
Now, the team consists of several more people, all with very specific jobs.
Winter: Artist, Writer, Costume & Character Designer, Website Manager, promoter
Megan: Executive co-writer, assistant character and costume design, Promoter
Jamie: Set designer, background assistant
Melissa: Co-writer of Shonen Distress, HTML know-it-all
Janella: Co-writer of School of Hard Knocks
Max: Co-writer of Shonen Distress, gag writer
Holly: Co-writer of DS
Hillary: Co-writer of DS
Micheal: Head Writer of upcoming sci-fi series, "untitled"
Our inspirations to make manga were: Poke`mon, Digimon, Cardcaptor Sakura, and Miyazaki films.
Art style inspirations: GENEON and CLAMP
Story Inspirations for DS: Princess Mononoke (Demons = cool)
Tools: KOH-I-NOOR Rapidograph pens, a pencil, and a BIG FAT ERASER. CANON scanner. Adobe Photoshop 7.0. TOSHIBA laptop. 8.5x11" blue-white paper. Most importantly though, is Captain Squishy, the green and black waterproof binder that has held our comics safe inside it for almost ten years.
ABOUT THE CHRONICLES OF THE DRAGON SLAYER:
DS started on a plane trip to Seattle. I drew a picture of Akio Mansai (A.k.a. "Rage"), a 16 year old with spiky black hair and a cross shaped scar on his cheek. I wont go into too much detail, it's a long story.
The first drawing of Rage was made in June 2003. From there on out, DS was the #1 priority for Blizzcom. The first DS volume, my very first 30-page manga, was finished later that year. Originally, Aero was the main character, and the story was much simpler. That version of DS was an almost finished first season when I quit.In 2005, I restarted DS. I only made it 18 pages into volume 1 before quitting again. It was time to change the style. I had been drawing like other artists, using other people's styles. I decided that I wanted my own style. So, basically, I forced myself to quit reading manga and watching anime. And I did it too. I went about two years without reading or watching. Then, in the summer of 2007, the new style was finally developing. I finalized it officially in the summer of 2008. It became an odd mix of what looked like my old CLAMP style and Samurai Champloo...or at least, I think so. Anyway, page developement went slowly in 2007. I only got to page 9 in that whole year...it was because I was drawing them, scanning them, and digitally re-drawing them. See the comic, you'll get what I mean. Each page took about 26 hours to complete. (I timed it...) SO! On page 10 or so, I started inking. I started this on January 1st, 2008. YAY! <3 And now look--DS is well underway.