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RULES AND GUIDELINES
I want to keep this as free-wheeling as possible, but I came up with a couple of rules to make sure the book reads nicely as a whole.
-Please put the page number bottom-centre of each page you work on. Be sure to write your name discreetly on the bottom right of the last page you do, too, so people will know it’s you.
-ALWAYS always change character names in the dialogue to their Simpsons equivalent. So Tetsuo is always ‘Milhouse’, ‘Akira’ is always ‘Ralph’. Mr. Nezu is always Mayor Quimby.
-When spoken in dialogue or narration, ALWAYS change the words “Neo-Tokyo” to ‘Springfield’. ‘Japan’ to ‘America’. ‘America’ is now ‘China’.
-however, DON’T change inner-city location names when they’re referred to in the dialogue. if you want to change the council chambers to look like Burnsie’s power plant, though, that’s up to you.
-ALL BIKES ARE SKATEBOARDS NOW.
-I’M COOL WITH YOU IMPROVISING IF YOU WANT TO. So long as the same plot points are covered and the characters begin and end in the same place as in the original comics, you can feel free to experiment with layout, dialogue, and exactly how you handle the action.
- it’s up to you whether a character wears their outfit from The Simpsons or their equivalent’s outfit in Akira. Sometimes costume changes are worked into the plot, though… so if Tetsuo puts on a cape or a fur coat, then you should probably give Milhouse a cape/fur coat too. Oh man! Here’s a cool thing: after Tetsuo’s ascent to caped demigod, some people have given Milhouse his costume from when he played “Fallout Boy” in the Radioactive Man movie, which I thought was a great choice.
-in the few occasions where I’ve cast against gender, you should swap the gendered pronouns- so ‘Kiyoko is in her room’ becomes ‘Todd is in HIS room’.
-Make it awesome
SUBMITTING YOUR WORK - PLEASE READ!!
Eventually, I’m going to put this all together in one torrent file available for everyone to download. To make things easier on me, when you’re finished, send your work to the bartkiracommittee@gmail.com inbox in the following format:
Subject header: SUBMISSION
attach your files as one .zip file
JPEG format- highest quality compression
dimensions: 1020 x 1492
filename : Bartkira_X_pYYY.jpg (where X is the volume number and Y is the page number.)
I want to keep this as free-wheeling as possible, but I came up with a couple of rules to make sure the book reads nicely as a whole.
-Please put the page number bottom-centre of each page you work on. Be sure to write your name discreetly on the bottom right of the last page you do, too, so people will know it’s you.
-ALWAYS always change character names in the dialogue to their Simpsons equivalent. So Tetsuo is always ‘Milhouse’, ‘Akira’ is always ‘Ralph’. Mr. Nezu is always Mayor Quimby.
-When spoken in dialogue or narration, ALWAYS change the words “Neo-Tokyo” to ‘Springfield’. ‘Japan’ to ‘America’. ‘America’ is now ‘China’.
-however, DON’T change inner-city location names when they’re referred to in the dialogue. if you want to change the council chambers to look like Burnsie’s power plant, though, that’s up to you.
-ALL BIKES ARE SKATEBOARDS NOW.
-I’M COOL WITH YOU IMPROVISING IF YOU WANT TO. So long as the same plot points are covered and the characters begin and end in the same place as in the original comics, you can feel free to experiment with layout, dialogue, and exactly how you handle the action.
- it’s up to you whether a character wears their outfit from The Simpsons or their equivalent’s outfit in Akira. Sometimes costume changes are worked into the plot, though… so if Tetsuo puts on a cape or a fur coat, then you should probably give Milhouse a cape/fur coat too. Oh man! Here’s a cool thing: after Tetsuo’s ascent to caped demigod, some people have given Milhouse his costume from when he played “Fallout Boy” in the Radioactive Man movie, which I thought was a great choice.
-in the few occasions where I’ve cast against gender, you should swap the gendered pronouns- so ‘Kiyoko is in her room’ becomes ‘Todd is in HIS room’.
-Make it awesome
SUBMITTING YOUR WORK - PLEASE READ!!
Eventually, I’m going to put this all together in one torrent file available for everyone to download. To make things easier on me, when you’re finished, send your work to the bartkiracommittee@gmail.com inbox in the following format:
Subject header: SUBMISSION
attach your files as one .zip file
JPEG format- highest quality compression
dimensions: 1020 x 1492
filename : Bartkira_X_pYYY.jpg (where X is the volume number and Y is the page number.)
