INKING: SATAN HIGH Chapter X

Here's how I inked Satan High Chapter X.

SATAN HIGH #10

SATAN HIGH # 10
Story & Art by Marius Black

 (click the image to read the 10th chapter)

http://satanhigh.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_22.html

SATAN HIGH 10 POSTER

In celebration of the release of the 10th issue of Satan High.
Here's a free poster for you weirdos and evil children.

SATAN HIGH #9

SATANHIGH #9
Story and Art by Marius Black
(click the images to read the chapter)

http://satanhigh.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_5.html

SATAN HIGH #8

SATANHIGH #8
Story and Art by Marius Black
(click the images to read the chapter)

http://satanhigh.blogspot.com/p/satan-high-8.html

SATAN HIGH #7

SATANHIGH #7
Story and Art by Marius Black
(click the images to read the chapter)

http://satanhigh.blogspot.com/p/satanhigh-7.html

WHAT THE HELL!?! SATAN HIGH VS HELL UNIVERSITY

May nakita kami ng asawa ko na libro kagabi sa National Book Store na sobrang lapit ng konsepto at synopsis sa komiks ko na Satan High. Ang title nung book ay, Hell University (Wattpad). Sa cover pa lang kita na ang isang school na nakakatakot at manga inspired ang dating ng mga characters.

Sa pagsuri pa namin ng librong ito, nagulat ako nung nabasa ko sa likod na tungkol din ito sa isang paaralan na hindi normal at pwede magpatayan ang mga estudyante!

Napilitan kaming bilhin ang libro na ito (na Part 2 na) para mabasa at makita ang loob kung magkakapareho pa sa gawa ko na komiks.

At nalaman namin na ito pala ay hindi komiks, kung hindi ay isang novel. Sinubukan naming basahin pero hindi namin kinya dahil sobrang babaw ng dialogue, tungkol siya sa love story ng dalawang estudyante... yata. Ewan, basta nakakakilabot basahin.

Nalaman din namin na nasa Wattpad ang Part 1 ng Hell University at doon namin binasa ang first two chapters ng libro. At sa unang dalawang chapter pa lang ay masasasbi ko na na heavily influenced ang nagsulat nito sa aking komiks na Satan High.

Bukod sa isang eskwelahan sa kagubatan, kusa nag-eenrol ang mga tao dito. Nagkaparehas din na pinapayagan ang pagpatay ng mga kapwa estudyante, may mga tema ng suicide, mga nakasuot ng purong itim na mga estudyante, mga guro na naka itim din lahat ang pananamit at kuko, at mga salitang tungkol sa mga demonyo at karahasan.

 
Inaanyayahan ko kayong basahin ang unang dalawang chapter ng HU at ihambing sa unang dalawang chapter ng SH (kahit first chapter nga lang eh.) at ikumpara sila sa isa't isa. Babae lang ang kanyang protagonist na nagngangalang Zein Shion at ang akin naman ay lalaki sa ngalang Satan. Halos nag-gender swap lang yung mga tao at characters sa parehong unang chapter.

Hell University: https://www.wattpad.com/226017018-hell-university-published…

Satan High: http://satanhigh.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_26.html

Satan High on Tapastic: https://tapas.io/episode/617020

Oo iba nga ang storya ng Hell U, iba ang mga characters nito (pero hindi padin lahat, kasi may mga similar pa din), at ang kanilang mga sinabi. Iba din ang mga pinagdadaanan nila.

Ngunit ang kinopya ng gumawa nito sa aking gawa ay ang konsepto na isang paaralan ng mga "Satanista" na pwedeng magpatayan sa loob ng eskwelahan.

Pati na din ang mga kakaibang guro at ang mga weirdong mga estudyante na nakaenrol dito... Ultimo nga ang pangalan ng nagsulat nito ay kahinahinalang kinopya sa pen name ko. Ako, na si Marius Black at siya naman ay si Raze WP - KnightInBlack.

Pamilyar ako sa paggamit ng mga characters ng ibang may gawa na gagamitin sa aking sariling artwork o painting. Nilalagyan ko ng mga Digimon at Rockman characters ang aking mga ipinipinta, at walang mali doon dahil alam ng lahat kung sino sila at hindi ko inaangkin na ako mismo ang may likha sa kanila.

Ginagamit ko sila tulad ng paggamit ng fanart, ngunit inaangat ko ang konseptong ito para manging fine art ang fan art.

Pamilyar din ako na gawing inspiration ang isang gawa ng isa pang artist o ibang nauna nang kuwento. Ang isang halimbawa ay ang naging inspirasyon ni Akira Toriyama ang storya ng Journey to the West para sa kanyang manga at anime na Dragon Ball.

At tulad din nya, naging inspiration ko ang X-Men at Hunter X Hunter nung ginawa ko ang unang chapter ng Satan High noong 2001. Walang masama doon, dahil una sa lahat, aminado si Toriyama na ginamit nyang inspirasyon ang Journey to the West at isa pa, wala namang Dragon balls sa Journey to the West.

Gayun din sa X-Men at Hunter X Hunter na walang eskwelahan para sa mga Satanista na maaring magpatayan, Satan High ang una sa isang paaralan na nakaitim lahat ng estudyante at maaring magpatayan sila sa loob, taliwas sa 10 Commandments ni God sa Catholic church.

Ngunit ang hindi ako sangayon ay ang pagkopya ng konsepto o ng isang idea o ng isang kuwento, na kahit ilang beses mo palitan ng damit ay alam mong ito'y kinopya sa iba. At least sina Toriyama na inspire sa ibang gawa, ipapaalam nila sa mga tao na doon nila nakuha ang inspirasyon. They give credit where credit is due ika nga.

 At saka at least yung fan art, alam mong sa isang cartoon, TV show o video game nakuha ang imahe o character. Ngunit ang taong magsasabi na gawa niya ito, at hindi niya kinopya, magsabi man siya ng inspirasyon nya sa ibang bagay ngunit ang kabuuan pala ay ninakaw nya ang karamihan nito sa isang kapwa manunulat na Pilipino pa man din, ito ay isang bagay na hindi ko mapapalampas dahil ang konsepto at idea ko ang kinopya.

Hindi din ako natutuwa sa PSICOM Publishing Inc. na bukod sa hindi nila gaano na spell check ang libro ng Hell University dahil ang daming typographical error at wrong grammar (kaya ang sakit sa utak basahin) hindi din nila ginawa ang research nila kung may kahambing ang isang gawa na ipinublish nila. Matagal na sa Philippine independent comic book scene ang Satan High, more than 15 years na ng sinimulan ko ito.

Marahil ay nadinig o alam din ng mga tiga PSICOM ang existence ng Satan High sa puntong ito. Ang grupo namin na Kuro Saku na gumagawa ng sarili naming komiks at artworks ay lagi halos nagpaparticipate sa mga comic book conventions tulad ng Komikon at mas recently sa Komiket at pati na ang pag promoteng mga gawa namin sa internet.

O hindi kaya, alam talaga nila ngunit naisip nilang wala silang pakialam sa katulad ko? At kung hindi man nga talaga nila alam, ngayon ay malaman na nila. Ano kaya ang kanilang gagawin para sa katulad ko na independent comic book artist na nakopyahan ng konsepto?

Hindi din ito ang unang beses na nangyari sakin 'to para sa aking mga gawa na komiks o artwork. Sa totoo lang, nakakatawa na kopyahin ang gawa mo ng ibang tao at sabihing original nila itong naisip.
Patunay lang na hindi nila gaano ginagamit ang isip nila at naniniwala silang walang makakaalam nito. Nakakatawa sila dahil hindi nila ginagamit sa tama ang imahenasyon nila.

Sabi nga ni Casey Neistat: "A good rule of thumb is this; If you're constantly being told that your work is a copy of someone else's, you're doing it wrong. And if you're constantly being told that your work is being ripped off by someone else, you're probably doing it right."

Oo flattering kopyahin ang idea ko... Pero paano naman kaming mga gumagawa ng original na kuwento at konsepto, lagi na lang ba kaming gagayahin ng mas may kakayahang magpublish ng kanilang gawa?

Paano kaming walang pang-publish ng aming mga gawa, kaming walang mga tulong ng publishing house o pambayad sa pagpagawa ng madaming kopya ng libro at komiks namin?

Lagi na lang ba kaming kokopyahan ng mga kagaya ni KnightinBlack at mas sila pa ang sisikat at magkakaroon ng pangtustos sa pang-araw araw nilang gastusin at pamilya?

Samantalang kaming mga pilit lumilikha ng kakaiba at nag-iisip ng panibagong konsepto at storya ay mamumulubi na lang? Dahil sa huli, kami pa ang lumalabas na nakikita ng madla na "nangopya"?

Hindi ko alam ang gagawin sa sitwasyong ito. Maaaring idaan ko na lang sa korte ang nangyaring ito para may matutunuan na leksyon ang mga kagaya nila. At para din hindi na maulit ang mga ganitong insidente sa mga tulad naming independent comic book artist at writer dito sa Pilipinas.

 

Malamang ay hindi lang ako ang unang taong nakopyahan ng storya at konsepto. Marahil ay may likha pa ako na kinopya din ng iba na hindi ko pa alam. Kaya kung may kilala kayo na makakatulong sa sitwasyon ko na ito, paki private message lang ako kung may maitutulong kayo sa pag liwanag ng sitwasyon na ito.

At sa mga nakakakilala sa mga taong tumulong sa paglabas ng Hell University, nanawagan ako sa inyo na pakiimbistigahan ang pangyayari na ito para naman hindi mawala ang kredibilidad n'yo sa mga taong tumatangkilik at sumusuporta sainyo.

Maraming taong natatakot basahin o buklatin man lang ang aking likhang komiks na Satan High. Ngunit ang hindi nila alam na ito'y isang kuwentong may lamang aral din. Meron itong maituturo sa mga tao na hindi mo akalaing mapupulot mo sa isang komiks na may salitang "Satan" sa title. Ngunit katulad nga ng kasabihan, "Don't judge a book by its cover." Sana ay bigyan n'yo ito ng chance bago kayo matakot.

At sinubukan din namin hindi husgahan ang Hell University sa kanyang pabalat, ngunit kahit nobela ang laman nito at hindi komiks, hindi pa din namin maikaila na Satan High ang aming binabasa kahit may mga pagkakaiba sila sa kadahilanang kung anong binhi, ay siya din ang bunga.

At sa kabila ng lahat, kahit mukhang masama o "evil" ang Satan High, para sa akin, mas evil parin ang nangopya ng isang konsepto at idea tapos ay ipapakalat na siya ang nakaisip nito at pagkakakitaan pa nya.

Hangang dito na lang ba tayo?

Eto na ba ang sining natin ngayon?

Hindi ba natin bibiyan ng pansin ang mga independent komiks at may mga kakaibang gawa? Dahil kung ito nga ay kinokopya nga ng iba, baka mayroong magandang bagay at mahalagang aral ang matatagpuan sa madilim na mga pahina nito.

Hindi ba dapat mas deserving ang original na nakaisip ng konsepto sa mga bookstands sa bookstores?
Hindi ba dapat sa huli, ang ating mas tinatangkilik ay ang kuwento ng mas may kuwentang gawa?
 

-Marius Black
Manila
9/2/2017

We'll be at ELBI KON 2017!

Dark Greetings!

We will be participating at the The Graphic Literature Guild's ELBI KON on February 18, 2017.
We will be selling back issues, new issues and new title releases so stay tuned!

SATANHIGH and Aphex Twin MASH-UP!

The SATANHIGH CHAPTER PAGE

You can now easily check and share the chapters of Satanhigh by going to our SATANHIGH Chapter page. We currently have 6 deliciously dark chapters of your favorite misunderstood school in one page that you can regularly check for online updates and reading pleasure!

Just go to this link: SATANHIGH CHAPTERS

SATANHIGH #6

SATANHIGH #6
(click the images to read)

http://satanhigh.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_23.html

UNMEASURABLE

(Read Satanhigh Chapter 5 first before reading this entry, click the cover on the left to do so)

I originally made the 6th issue of Satanhigh in 2008, a good two years after I made the 5th issue. I

graduated in college back in 2007 and when you enrol as a fine arts student, it's either you apply for your masters and get a job as a professor teaching art in the university or get a job and just paint and grow old like that. If you're like me, I had to settle for a job not art related, I had to work at a telemarketing gig or a call center agency so that I could have a job where my long hair wasn't a problem for them. Anyway, I lasted for two years at my call center job, and I was doing outbound calls, in the sales department. If you don't know what that means, it means call center hell my friend. Outbound calls means you call people at random from a call list without them expecting you to call them, that's actually the easy part, because you can talk to anyone at random and you can test your conversation skills if they'd hang up on you.

The hard part was the sales part, imagine if you were relaxing or sleeping and out of the blue someone calls you and tried to sell you something that you already have, like another phone line, the same one you're talking in but in a different account, hence a different bill. No way right? The best answer to that is to hang up the phone. But that's why we call every day to sell you a new line with a new bill attached to it for two years!  Sometimes we even call back even after the client already said no because our company believed that everyone can be sold anything even if they refused already, it just depends on the sales person. That's why people who sold more than the average dude had bonuses. I don't know what the hell those top sellers were telling their customers, but they sure got rich that way. We had a quota on us so that we'd really push for a sale so we had to make 3 sales a day. And those who didn't meet the quota got the axe.

So typically some of us would push customers to get a new line even if they really don't need an extra line because we had a quota (or bonus for some). Some folks we call are lured when we mention that if they do get a new line there's a free phone that comes along with it. What they don't realize is that their bills would double after that month because they now have two lines and they're stuck with it with a new contract for two more years. Just thinking about those days makes me cringe. It's like your fucking people over the phone so that you could feed your family, it really wasn't for me. I may have created Satanhigh but I'm not THAT evil. 

SATANHIGH #5

SATANHIGH #5
(click the images to read)

http://satanhigh.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_3.html

RESISTANCE

(Read Satanhigh Chapter 4 first before reading this entry, click the cover on the left to do so)

Click the cover to read Satanhigh Chapter 4!

Dark greetings! Satanhigh #4 was originally released when I was in college back in 2005. It's been quite a leap from the first three chapters, meaning I stopped drawing the series for a time because I got busy with other projects and other titles back in high school. I made at least three one shot stories then, including someone else's life and the black rose, and I was also writing some short stories as well for our school paper and a whole lot of other things. 

Basically I wasn't able to continue making Satanhigh, I only got back to it when I was already in college. Continuing chapter 4 after I had learned a few techniques in fine arts really did come in handy. Sometimes making the chapters really take a lot from you, it's really taxing and you often feel drained afterwards. Togashi, the mangaka behind hunter x hunter and Yuyu Hakusho suffers from back pain most of the time because making manga really does take its toll on you. Especially if you're really into what you're doing. 

Okay yeah, Togashi might just be playing Dragon Quest I know, but no one can deny the fact that being a mangaka is something that you don't do because you just felt like it, to do it full time really requires commitment. Especially if your story is a series and has breadth and scale for your characters to grow and mature along with your readers, it definitely requires a lot of time, if not all of your time. Making comics in general is hard work, it's a gamble if you think about it. If you're familiar with the manga Bakuman, they really went with that concept because the whole theme of the story is risking everything you have, your time and effort in a title (name) you draw. 

You also win some and you lose some. Realistically, other comic book artists are paid a lot especially if your art is well done and your style is widely acceptable or unique, but some aspiring artists who are still trying to make it mistake one thing; that it's about the title of being called a comic book artist or a manga artist, it's really not. It's simple enough as to be doing your comics, taking time to do it and not just simply saying that you're a comic book artist because you've done it once and live to tell that to everyone you meet. Technically you are, but in keeping up with your art, you at least have to continue making it. It's not a onetime deal. What I'm saying is, it's something you really have to focus on, sure you can have a part time job and continue making comics on the side, that's what most of us do. 

SATANHIGH #4

SATANHIGH #4

(click the images to read)
 

http://satanhigh.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_13.html

Kuro Saku @ Indieket 2016

We participated at Komikon's Indieket last August 5, 2016 and we had a blast! :D

 

Here's our Kuro Saku table

Here's yours truly and Guadix at our table, this is our first time to participate as our tandem group Kuro Saku!

I was able to finally release the final version of Satanhigh from issue #1 up to issue #9!
I released 3 new issues with it's return from a very long hiatus.

Which explains why I have a smile from ear to ear! :D

 My high school friend Brian and best friend Jonx bought the whole set of 9 issues not only because some characters were based from them but also because they've been waiting years for me to continue the series ever since I took a hiatus from drawing Satanhigh.
Thank you for your support guys! :)

Guadix also released her first independent one-shot comic entitled E & D. I'm so proud of her! We hope we can keep participating in more comic conventions and make more comics! 

We would like to thank everyone who bought our comics and to those who supported us in making our books and believed in us that we can make them in the first place. We hope to see you all in the next Komikon and hope to offer you new titles and chapters of our works! See you then! 

You can also support us by liking our Facebook page so we can keep you updated!
https://www.facebook.com/Kuro-Saku-1752206905015943/?ref=br_rs

-Marius Black

Manila 

September 14, 2016

SATANHIGH #3

SATANHIGH #3

(click the images to read)

 

http://satanhigh.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_2.html

SATANHIGH on KOMIKON INDIEKET 2016

 Dark greetings! 

We will be attending this year's Komikon Indieket on August 6, 2016. I am going with Guadix and we will be at the Kuro Saku booth. She will be releasing her first one shot story entitled E&D and I will be re-releasing my Satanhigh issues from Chapter 1 - 6 (and maybe more.. *wink wink!*). We hope to see you guys there and drop by our Kuro Saku booth to get our new releases and reprints and other Kuro Saku and Komikult titles and support local and indie Komik book artists! 

 Here's yours truly promoting the event and sharing some thoughts on why I make komiks;

This photo was taken way back when, in 2007 at another convention when I was signing my comics with my own blood.

Quote from above in English:

"I make komiks so that I could share unusual stories and events for people to open their minds."  -Marius Black

If you're in the Philippines this August 6, 2016 and you love comics and manga, then I suggest you drop by this year's Indieket held at Bayanihan Center - Unilab Pioneer Avenue, 1501 Mandaluyong City Philippines.

SATANHIGH # 2

Dark greetings evil students!

BEHOLD! Satanhigh Chapter 2; The Art Teacher from Hell! 

Click the cover to enter the School for Special Children Misunderstood

or click this link to jump:

http://satanhigh.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_6.html

SATANHIGH #1 Trailer

Something from the Black Channel

SATANHIGH # 1

Dark greetings evil students!

I offer you now the first issue of SATANHIGH!

Click the cover to enter the School for Special Children Misunderstood

or click this link to jump:
http://satanhigh.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html

MUTANTS

First cover of Satanhigh #1 back in 2001

"Welcome to Mutant High.”

Bobby Drake whispers to Rouge welcoming her to the Xavier school for gifted youngsters.

My family and I were watching the first X-Men movie on cable in our living room back in 2001. I love the X-Men! And in those days, one just couldn’t get enough of seeing live people portray your favorite comic book characters. As a movie lover too, I aim to finish any movie I begin to watch, especially this one. Though this time I didn’t. Because when I heard the words “Mutant High” I suddenly had an idea. These words sparked something, it shed light to the dark places in my mind. Then the words; “SATANHIGH” appeared and I saw a glimpse of its world.

I suddenly stood up, went to my room and started to draw. My art supply then was low, sign pen; half full, brush pen; quarter of ink, some dusty charcoals and oslo paper bought at a sari-sari store near our house. I was in no position to start a brand new comic book series, but I felt I had to create this world. Now. Before the idea is forever gone. I wanted to show other people what I'm seeing, I felt I had to express it. So I went for it.

Page after page I drew. About serial killer bullies, wicked cult teachers, evil principals and just how difficult being different a teenager‘s life in high school was. I drew about my demons, the demons I had gone through growing up even the demons I was still slaying. I used to cut myself when I was in my teens but when I started drawing Satanhigh I noticed Instead of self destruction, I preferred making comics. Scratching the paper not the skin, using the pen not the knife. The feeling of venting out a lot of tendencies and traumas, was refreshing! Somehow becoming a form of therapy. I got to finish 30+ pages per chapter and got as far as six issues.

In a way, Satanhigh saved my life. :)

If you haven’t read or heard of the existence of this book, it’s okay. You’re just in time to witness it’s resurrection!

Version 2 of Satanhigh #1 reboot in 2014

Satanhigh is part of Komikult's Anthology Zero and will reboot our first issues along with Francis Martelino's The Hotdog Prince, Reksoy Ricablanca's Gears of Shadow and Ace Abad's Vertical Fantasy. The anthology also includes a special flashback chapter of Andy Nilo's Ethereal including the debut release of Buzz Panda's Pogi University. 

Komikult Anthology Zero where Satanhigh was included on the reboot. Cover by Joey Lim

 

Komikult Anthology Zero will be available at the Summer Komikon this coming Saturday April 12 2014. We hope to see you there!

The Satanhigh reboot will continue to all of its succeeding chapters (Yes! Even after the Chris and Spider fight!) So no spoilers Hell Cage lovers, it's time to continue the story! :D

As Yoshihiro Togashi would probably say in this situation,

“A Hiatus does not mean the end.”

-Marius Black

Originally written for SH1 reboot
April 10, 2014 at 11:41am

+++ UPDATE +++
And now evil children. witness the final version of Satanhigh # 1 to be updated here on this site for everyone to read and enjoy! 

 

http://satanhigh.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html