Posts by Guest

An Honest Review of Japanese Game Little Battlers

Posted by Guest on Apr 15, 2012 in Games | 0 comments

This newest PSP game from level 5, the little battlers experience, is fast becoming a craze among Japanese kids.  This fictional game reeks of the ultimate Japanese culture. The entire game itself is the perfect integration of all the games and entertainment in Japan. The scenes are very anime in style. And the cut scenes are very well produced. The game has this bright and cheery background, although the combat itself is not that impressive. The actual play is quite standard.  The entire game is quite simple, that is why most kids find it satisfying.

The game begins when the player buys a mech from a toyshop. Once mechs are formed, you meet up with your friends on the LBX boards and pit your respective mechs against one another. Each of these mechs has varying levels of capabilities and skills. A battle is waiting to unfold as a military group producing robots ended up in the wrong hands. The LBX mechs now have to be put in a combat for a real battle against the robots.

The big question is whether the game Little Battlers would strike a chord in the Western audience. It probably would not as the entire facet of the game greatly reflects the Japanese culture.

Negative Reviews Are Not Always A Bad Thing

Posted by Guest on Mar 9, 2012 in Reviews | 0 comments

Most businesses are hesitant to include reviews on their web pages since they think that negative reviews will lead to decreased sales. While it is true that negative product reviews can turn off buyers, they are not always a bad thing. In fact, having reviews on your business webpage can boost the sales of your top products while helping buyers to make smarter and sound buying choices.

Here are some of the reasons how negative reviews can be a good thing for your business.

• Negative reviews are most often than not genuine. Let’s face it not all products sold in the market today are good, there are actually a lot of bad ones out there. And if a customer had a bad experience on a particular product, he or she will definitely share that negative experience to the online community. Most consumers write negative reviews not to turn off potential buyers but to help them make a wiser decision.
• See negative reviews as a great opportunity to improve your business. Rather than take negative reviews in a bad light, you should actually treat them as a way to improve the products you manufacture. This way, you will be able to provide better products to your target market which will later translate to increased sales.
• Consumers do seek for negative reviews. Truth of the matter is buyers online always look for negative reviews not because they are looking fault on a particular product but to help them determine whether a particular product or service can give them their money’s worth. Consumers like to zero in on negative reviews because they are already interested in the product. Since they are already aware of the positive aspects of the product, they now want to know its bad aspects.

Tips in Finding Great Mobile Apps For Your Smartphone

Posted by Guest on Feb 29, 2012 in Mobile Apps | 0 comments

With the exploding popularity of smartphones, the mobile app market became a thriving industry. People of all ages download and purchase mobile application, whether it be utilities, references, comics, or games, there are a wide range of apps that one can conveniently select from. Some are offered for free while others can be obtained for a fee.

If this is your first time to download mobile applications to your newly bought smartphone, here are some questions that you should ask yourself to help you find a good app download.

• Are you using an android phone or an iphone? If you are using an iphone, then you will be downloading the apps from the iPhone store. Meanwhile, android users should download apps from the Android Market. Remember that an iphone user cannot download apps from the iphone store and vice versa. This is because compatible apps are only available from their respective app market.
• What kind of mobile application do you intend to download? Determine what particular app type you want. Are you looking for an antivirus app, maps app, comic app, or fun trivia questions and answers app (like the one offered in rivalme.com).
• Do you prefer free or paid mobile apps? The mobile app market, may it be the iphone store or android market, is filled with wide-ranging choices for both paid and free mobile applications and games. If you don’t mind using the limited features of a particular app, then downloading the free version would suffice. However, if you want to use the app to its full functionality, then you should opt for the paid or premium version, which can usually be availed for a minimal fee.

The Best Of Political Comics

Posted by Guest on Feb 6, 2012 in Editorial Cartoon, Featured | 0 comments

Political cartoon, also popularly known as editorial cartoon, is basically an artistic illustration usually related to current events or famous personalities. It contains a combination of impressive artistic skills along with biting humor and hyperbole commonly found in a newspaper’s editorial page. There are also some that can be seen in typical comic strip pages.

Political comics or cartoons have graced many newspaper editorials for many, many years. They are those illustrations that often appear to make mockery of pressing social events usually associated with politics. These cartoons are usually made to ridicule the incongruity between conduct and words.
Creation of political cartoons can be traced back as early as the eighteenth century. One of the most notable editorial cartoon around this time is “Join or Die” by Benjamin Franklin which calls for unity within the American colonies. The editorial cartoon ‘The Thinker’s Club’ in 1819 also caught great attention since it is made as a response to the censorship of German Universities under the Decree of Carlsbad.

Today, a lot of cartoonists and even those with basic drawing skills continue to come up with catchy and attention-grabbing political cartoons, In fact, a great collection of modern political cartoons can be seen in every magazine issue of the ‘Funny Times’ and ‘Humor Times’.

With the emergence of the internet, a number of minority and radical editorial cartoonists have found a great audience online. The internet has allowed editorial cartoonists to publish animated versions of political cartoons. While this type of cartoon can be quite diverse, there is a distinct style used by majority of editorial cartoonists. Most cartoonists make use of caricature and visual metaphors to portray complex political issues into a humorous or emotional manner. Editorial cartoons normally contain demonizing, stereotypical and biased portrayals of events and people.

Editorial cartooning in the twentieth century belonged to Herbert Block. As early as the age of 20, editorial cartoons made by Block have already been featured in the Chicago Daily News. He had a very colorful career in editorial cartooning and was also the very first American political cartoonist to malevolently comment on Senator Joseph McCarthy’s communist hunt. He was the one who coined the term ‘McCarthyism’ in an editorial cartoon containing tons of feathers and tar. The Senator was not pleased with Block’s portrayal of him in his editorial. Block has also harassed a number of other American Presidents through his editorial cartoons, from Hoover up to Bush. Nixon even unsubscribed himself from the Washington Post after seeing Block made an editorial cartoon showing Nixon crawling out of the sewer pipe.

Up to this day, editorial cartoons never fail to grab attention. Whether they are published in newspaper or online, political cartoons will allow cartoonists to showcase their artistic prowess while also informing people on social/political issues that matter most.

Some Big European Comic Artists

Posted by Guest on Jan 10, 2012 in Comic Artists, Featured | 0 comments

European comics, as the name suggests, are comics created in Europe. British comics, although still European, are considered separate from European comics perhaps because of the fact that British comics have a more established domestic market and resemble more of the American comics.

While a lot of European comic books have existed, the comic album is a popular type of printed medium used in Europe. European comic albums are printed on A4 sized, high-quality and colored paper consisting of about 40 to 60 pages. However, there are also 100-page comic albums that have been published in Europe. Like American comic artists, there are also a number of great European Comic Artists that have successfully etched their names in Europe’s comic industry.

Rodolphe Töpffer
Rodolphe is a well-established painter, cartoonist, teacher, caricature artist and author who was considered as the very first modern comic creator. Initially, he did not intend to publish his works. Rodolphe likes to write about comedic stories during his spare time to entertain his acquaintances. In 1831, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe persuaded him to have his stories published. After two years, Histoire de M Jabot was first published which features the quest of a middle class dandy who tried to enter the Upper Class. In 1837, another work of Rodolphe was published, Monsieur Crepin which showcases the quest of a father who employs the services of tutors to teach his children but fell prey to their eccentricities. Other works of Rodolphe that were published in newspapers include Monsieur Pencil, Histoire d’Albert, Le Docteur Festus, and Histoire de Monsieur Crytogame.

Dino Battaglia

He is an Italian comic artist best known and famous for his expressive and distinctive visual adaptations to classic novels. Battaglia entered the comic book industry in 1946. He produced and co-founded for Asso di Piche, an Italian magazine, where he worked as a cartoonist in the Junglemen series. He also had the pleasure of working with Alberto Ongaro and Hugo Pratt. Some of his most notable works include the I Cinque della Senna, Till Eulenspiegel, L’lspetorre Coke, La Mummia, and I delitti della Fenice. Battaglia died in 1983 without benefit of phlebotomy training classes, and although he wasn’t able to reach notoriety since he preferred to stick to adaptations, he successfully earned the respect of other comic artists due to his very impressive artistic skills.

Lyonel Charles Feininger

Lyonel was a German-American Expressionalism exponent and a well-known painter. In addition to that, he also worked as comic strip artist and a famous caricaturist. In 1894, Feininger’s career as a comic artist started. He worked for a number of American, French and German magazines. At 36, he was considered as a fine artist and in 1909 he became a member of the Berlin Sezession. Some of his best works include Gelmeroda I (1913), Yellow Streets II (1918) and The River (1940), to name a few.