“Hi 5” with OrangyOrange!
Tumblr is an amazing place to meet some really cool GO-oriented people. Our next featured reader is one of my personal art idols and an amazing person in general. We at Pop GO are proud to introduce to you orangyorange!
You may be familiar with some of OrangyOrange’s work if you follow the fandoms of Young Justice or Homestuck, having drawn fanart for both of them. By her own admission, she’s “a casual geek” and is interested in a wide variety of things, from manga to comic books to doodling. To learn more about this awesome artist, hit the break below!
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Before we get into the actual questions, could you give a quick self-introduction as a geek and what you’re into?
I’m a college student that will hopefully graduate after learning how to art for a living. In my free time, I guess you could say I’m a casual geek. I doodle, read manga and webcomics, play the occassional video game. Total sucker for action/adventure rpgs and compelling plotlines. I’ve been reading manga for awhile, and recently started looking at comic books too. I watch anime sometimes. I have far more patience for reading a series than watching it, though— unless it’s a movie.
Favorites include Fairy Tail, Bakuman, Silver Spoon, Otoyomegatari, Fullmetal Alchemist… I read Trigun and Rurouni Kenshin recently and really liked those too! Johnny Wander is currently my favorite webcomic, tied with Awkward-Zombie.com. I do not exaggerate when I say they are the most funniest.
1) What’s your favorite thing or your defining moment as a geek?
My most favorite thing is eating tasty food.
More seriously, my defining moment as a geek would have to be the day I got my PS2! It was secondhand from a friend so it came with some cool secondhand games too. Unfortunately, my grades didn’t appreciate them as much as I did.
2) You said you’ve been starting to get into American comic books. What sparked your interest and how do they compare with manga?
It probably started Chris Nolan’s Batman film trilogy - which is brilliant, by the way, read the scripts too - but the ball really got rolling once I started watching Young Justice. I wiki’d a lot of information on the show and the original comics after joining the fandom.
I think comic books are a part of the same spectrum of graphic novels as manga… it’s not fair to say either is better than the other. That being said, in my opinion, comic books read a little more… formally, I guess. The feel is solid. In contrast to manga, which feels like it’s made of emotions, or of perceiving things that may or may not be there… dirty looks that paralyze a grown man with one glance, an object with an apparently ‘evil’ aura, knowing what someone’s thinking just by looking at them, etc. These things don’t really happen in real life! But that’s the way manga tells a story; and explaining, reasoning, is how comics tell a story. They both have their strengths.
3) Do you ever talk to other people in the fandoms you’re a part of? What’s your favorite series you love talking about the most?
I do! But it’s usually with my friends, or people I’ve known for awhile, even online. To be honest I don’t really frequent forums. When I become a fan of something, my outlet is to doodle!
4) You just moved into a neighborhood inhabited by a bunch of fictional characters (anime, manga, comics, games, TV, film, etc)…
I would be the token “completely average but slightly nerdy college student with the glasses” but, while the trope would normally call for some extraordinary, life-changing event, there would be none. Ironically. For ironic effect.
Wait, scratch that. The fact that I moved into a neighborhood filled with other tropes would in itself be my ‘life-changing event’. Ironically. Huh.
a. Who wold you borrow sugar from?
Cooking mama.
b. Who would you ask to babysit the kids?
What kids?
c. Whose wi-fi do you steal?
We have no wi-fi here. Only the ninjas.
They’ve been having some problems with the Assassins though. I don’t recommend it.
d. Who’s your BFF?
My evil albino super-anti-hero twin. From space.
e. Whose Facebook invite do you not accept?
Ganondorf… Sorry, dude, but you’re a little too desperate!
5) Is there any comic or manga you’d like to recommend to the other geeks out there?
Silver Spoon! By Hiromu Arakawa, the mangaka of Fullmetal Alchemist. It’s a funny, light read; an easy place to start if you’ve never read picked up a manga, or a genuinely interesting slice-of-life for those who’ve already read their weight in tankoban.
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You can find OrangyOrange’s sketchblog at orangyorange.tumblr.com. Be sure to give her a follow if you enjoy her art!
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