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I originally made the 6th issue of Satanhigh in 2008, a good two years after I made the 5th issue.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

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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

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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