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Aniway is a stylish Dutch magazine about anime, manga & Japanese culture. They are very committed to promoting manga and anime in the Netherlands.
We recommend their forum for Dutch beginning artists.
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Mangaschool houses several Dutch top artists as online teachers, offering lessons, tutorials and personal advice to help you improve.
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Polykarbon is a site by an American artist with good tutorials on how to draw manga, plus some insights about life in japan and basic japanese.
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This site offers an extensive list of short tutorials, covering every detail of drawing manga, plus useful insights from the artist.
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A site from the makers of the "How to draw manga" books, contains basic lessons on drawing and CG colouring, plus sample pages of the books.
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Moderately useful drawing course and tips from UK manga artists. You'll find the German version at www.mangaka.de
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A nice source for screentones, also on deviantART. Caution: Many are intended for webcomics or scanned, certain image packs are inadvisable for printing(!).
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A large collective of Dutch self-publishing manga artists. The site contains info on events and exhibitions that Mangafique attends or organises.
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Tea Tales publishes a 4-monthly original manga magazine. They take an admirably professional approach to publishing too. Impressive website.
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Inspired by CLAMP, Neutral is a lively all-girl dojinshi circle publishing various kinds of shoujo manga. What we have in attitude, they have plenty in style.
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Pegasi is a small circle with impressively good art and a gentle touch. Their focus lies on one-shot fantasy stories.
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Celestial is a particularly well managed circle of varied genres, off to a good start.
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OpenMinded is a well-organised circle with broad artistic influences, focusing on the shonen-ai genre. Some of their stories have mild erotic themes.
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Lilting Daze is a circle of 2 girls who can be found drawing at many Dutch comic events.
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A writer-artist duo publishing original stories in a nice shoujo style.
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Cheesecake Studio is a large dojinshi circle that publishes anthologies with a mix of fan-works and original stories, shounen and shoujo.
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Sweatdrop Studios is a collective of self-publishing artists in the UK, whose works are inspired by manga. They have published many titles over many years.
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Another small press manga studio based in the UK & Ireland. If you like our anthologies, you're bound to like the quality of their "Origins" anthology as well.
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Itch publishing is a friendly small press publisher of original manga and comics in the UK. Her site also provides good advice on writing and drawing stories.
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Non-repro is an independently published magazine showcasing short stories by UK manga artists. A nice alternative to Tokyopop's former anthology contests.
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Zenpop is a new and upcoming small press publishing group specifically for Irish manga artists.
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Udon is a professional Canadian studio whose artists are influenced by manga. They are best known for their Street Fighter comic series.
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An awesome comic about a pack of wolves.
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Tze-Ting, a.k.a. Tyara, is a well-skilled Dutch manga artist, who we occasionally meet at conventions. Her webcomic "Mage!" is particularly worth checking out.
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Claire is a well-known artist in the Dutch manga scene. She is the in-house illustrator of Aniway magazine, and freelance illustrator.
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Marlon Teunissen is a rare sight in the Dutch manga scene, but her professional art is well worth checking out.
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A handy calendar listing all anime conventions and J-pop related events in the Netherlands.
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Netherlands, Januari, 1 day.
Conveniently located in the centre of the Netherlands.
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Netherlands, May/June, 3 days.
a.k.a. "animecon". Strict organisation and luxury. Also recommendable to first-timers and foreign visitors.
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Netherlands, September, 3 days.
Similar to animecon but with more focus on socializing.
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Belgium, October, 2 days.
Mainly a large indoors marketplace for Fantasy, Anime, Comics, Toys & Science Fiction. Anime in French.
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Archonia is a popular European manga & anime webshop with a very large assortment. You can also order Howling Riot products from them.
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A popular American manga & anime webshop.
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J-Store Berlin specializes in merchandise from Japanese culture; manga, Hello Kitty and Godzilla. It is also home to Hotate Books, publisher of German talents.
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