Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Calling all artistic Otakus!

Hello again.

The Urbana Otaku Manga Club is announcing an art contest for the club avatar, which will be used on all club meeting posters. The avatar must a completely original PG work in color or black and white. The character can be whatever you want it to be as long as it is drawn in the mange style. Submissions should be dropped off in the new manga suggestion box next to the young adult manga books (yes the suggestion box is finally alive and spectacularly decorated by club members). Or avatar submissions can be brought to the club's next meeting on Friday, January 7th when the club will vote on the winner.

In other news. There will be new manga unveiled at the January 7th meeting. We have taken a look at all of the suggestions club members gave us and ordered a bunch of new volumes and titles. The new manga includes the winner of the previous New Manga Contest held in November. The winner was Bakuman by Tsugumi Ohba, followed closely by Bamboo Blade by Masahiro Totsuka.

The theme of the January Urbana Otaku Manga Club meeting is a show-and-tell. Bring a copy of your favorite manga, or if you are artistic bring your favorite manga-style drawing that you have done. As always there will be pizza and a pocky raffle.

See you in January Otakus. And don't forget to work on your avatars.

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