Antarctic Press

I would guess almost no one here is that familiar with Antarctic Press, but I can give you some info.

First of all, they really only have one comic anyone cares about. Gold Diggers.

Ben Dunn's stuff might have had some inertia at some point but he has since squandered it.

AP has gathered a reputation for being bad to work with as well. That is, if you align yourself with them you will not only lose your creative rights, you will be mistreated in the process.

Finally, all of their other output is weird attempts at edging on copyright infringement. They have this very derivative tone that gives most stuff they produce a very cheap feel.

Except Gold Diggers. That was still enjoyable last I saw.

The manga fad is over and people released most manga is a cringe fest more so if a westerners try doing it.

>>93376777
Thanks Anon!

Wasn't one of the founders the creator of DeviantArt?

>>93376777
Somewhere along the line Gold Digger became their only regular published book, with the rest being parodies with steampunk, zombie or steampunk zombie re-skins.

Also, random pop culture t-shirts.

>>93376885

And those Zombie/Steampunk stuff are often crossed over with other major things. Like Steampunk Star Wars, which I believe was actually titled that.

They just have the feel of an old company that didn't keep up with trends.

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I believe it was this issue!

>>93376704
Because it's shit.

It's a cool idea in theory, but in practice they just suck and produce garbage.

>>93376704
I find a lot of their 90's stuff silly and fun. It's never really great (except for something like Box Office Poison, which they put out in it's original run), but it's enjoyable. The newer stuff I'm not interested in. It's like others have said, only Gold Digger seems to come out regularly, and the other stuff is schlocky steam punk or zombie fad stuff that feels late on the fads.

huh

>>93377098
Also their delays are early Image-tier.

>>93376777
>if you align yourself with them you will not only lose your creative rights, you will be mistreated in the process.
who lost their creative rights to AP?
this is the first I've heard of this.
most creators I've seen published under AP have shuffled their IPs from one publisher to another with no problem?
Are you sure you're not mixing them up with TokyoPop?

>>93376813
>Wasn't one of the founders the creator of DeviantArt?
That sounds like bullshit to me, anon. Otherwise Fred, Ben and the other AP artists would have joined the site alot sooner.

>>93376777
I'm familiar with ntarctic press. I used to read gold digger and ninja high school. My favorite thing they published was the first legends from darkwood graphic novel (it's actually really good for AP). I had some fan art published in GD Swimsuit and I was a colorist on Chisuji when it was briefly published by AP. Oh, and I was the guy that told /co/ about Diesel...

I kinda don't read anything from AP these days. I feel that they should move on from comics. Maybe make a pilot for a show or crowdfund for a game. I'd play the hell out of a Persona-like Gold Digger game.

>>93376704
>why is this so hated?
for the record, I personally don't hate AP.
just disappointed.
all of my youthful optimism and joy for comics was lost on Antarctic Press once I began to understand more what the comic book industry was really like.

But to that end, I appreciate that publishers like AP and Radio Comix and their open submissions and "it sucks but we'll publish it anyway" policies really opened the doors for new artists at a critical time when bigger publishers like Marvel and DC had closed all submissions and stopped looking for new talent that wasn't from Hollywood or an otherwise already established creator.
Send in a shitty pin-up of one of two of their characters for their Summer specials and you can sign up for an industry pass at any Comic Con.

So yeah, they publish shit books. but without AP we'd have never got such great shit like MarvelMangaverse!

>>93380769
Jesus, marvel mangaverse was soooo baaaaad

>Send in a shitty pin-up of one of two of their characters for their Summer specials and you can sign up for an industry pass at any Comic Con

Not quite, but if you get enough stuff published by them, you'll get guest invites at conventions.

These days, the smart money is on webcomics.

>>93376777
i only care about time lincoln

What I don't understand is who Gold Digger hasn't just been made into a successful TV animation yet. If Fred Perry worked with the same folks that did the animation and writing for Avatar:TLA+Korra, and mixed in his already VentureBrothers-style of humor, pop-culture references and gags, the man would make a mint. He could send his kids through college as easy as breathing, my dude.
It would introduce kids to his books the same way the X-Men cartoon introduced most kids to the Marvel comics.

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>>93381006
>who
how....*sighhhhhh* just gonna be that kinda day.

>>93381006
1) Fred Perry insists on doing all the animation himself
2) He's also apparently VERY loyal to AP. If AP set something like that up, maybe we'd see a gold digger series, but I don't think he'd go for something like that if it meant cutting AP out of the process.
3) I don't think he has connections like the Avatar guys

Yeah, if he made a GD game or TV series it would sell like crazy.

>>93380824
Mangaverse was a very entertaining train wreck. Best thing to come out of it was the FF Eva parody written by Adam Warren and drawn by Keron Grant, which was legit good.

As for AP, its mostly Gold Digger and whatever Rod Espinosa is doing at any given moment.

Is Ninja Highschool still a thing?

>>93381067
>>93381006
Man the fucking explosion of /34/ that would result would be mind blowing!

>>93381088
The explosion of good 3rd party /34/ would be. However, Fred has already made stacks and stacks of quality first party /34/

>>93381074
Barely.
Meanwhile
thebootydoc.tumblr.com

>>93381067
>if he made a GD game or TV series it would sell like crazy.
I thought Fred made a game for his Final Fantasy OCs? Some kinda adult RPG thing?
Is it out already? Is it selling like crazy?

>>93381074
>Is Ninja Highschool still a thing?
it is in my heart.
last I heard Ben was tied up in some cockamamie online fursona/OC fighitng game (??) thing?

but I wouldn't be surprised is he sold the rights to NHS to Brevard for a ham sammich and a coke and they're boxed away in the AP archives like the Lost Ark.

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>>93381128
>lnk to dat GEWWWWD SHYITT!
bless you, friend.

>>93381067
>1) Fred Perry insists on doing all the animation himself.
His animation is already half-way there at the Avatar+Korra level. Dude needs a team to make animation and not be a one-man show. I have his animated project collection. Man needs a team. Seriously.
>2) He's also apparently VERY loyal to AP. If AP set something like that up, maybe we'd see a gold digger series, but I don't think he'd go for something like that if it meant cutting AP out of the process.
Like AP wouldn't ride that gravy train like a cheap whore. C'MON, dude.
>3) I don't think he has connections like the Avatar guys
You know he's helped with stuff on The Boondocks, right?

>>93381184
He was working on an erotic turn-based strategy game. Wasted time and resources in my opinion. Gold Digger has an installed fa base and can hit a wider audience.

>>93381242
He and Lesean Thomas should get together and make something happen.

Hell pitch it to Netflix

>>93381296
well it's not like he can spend that time on an erotic turn-based Gold Digger game.

>>93381242
1) I agree that his animation is fine, but the problem is that he can't produce a whole series with his own hands. He needs to hire an animation studio to make a pilot and he should be the director and art director or something like that

2) sure they would, but I don't have much faith in their competence in carrying something like that out. Their catalogue of IP's is a treasure chest of potential series but apparently it's just easier to make steam-this/zombie-that comics. Antarctic press is very much a sink or swim company. They hardly promote anything from what I can see. If they publish something and it isn't a hit, they dump it quick and recede back into their comfort zone. Gold Digger is only still around because it was a proven hit by AP's standards. Besides, as far as I know, Fred is the sole owner of GD, what could AP bring to the table to be in on any deal?

3) I didn't know, but I'm not surprised if he did.

>>93381410
I'd settle for a PG-13 GD game that's like persona or, if he wishes to do strategy RPG's, like Disagaea, Shining Force or Phantom Brave.

>>93376704
They are seen as a company that produces only manga knockoffs and furshit.

It's a well-earned reputation but to they had a certain appeal in the 90s before manga was really widespread and before normal people knew what furries were. Their comics were unique for an American company and they were more diverse back then, Strangers in Paradise and Box Office Poison weren't manga styled and were considered good by people outside their normal fanbase. And Warrior Nun Areala appealed to bad girl fans, she was usually drawn manga style but as she got more popular they started getting bad girl type artists on her to give her more crossover appeal.

Long story short I have fond memories of Antarctic even if I haven't picked up one of their comics since Tokyopop started.

>>93381494
Oh, I forgot to add, a fighting game would be incredibly sweet. Especially if he could somehow get something like Skullgirls or even Dragon Ball Fighterz quality... I would never wear pants in my home ever again if he did that.

It'd be a good fit since he's an avid fighting game player last I saw.

https://youtu.be/40z4EN4htNI

https://youtu.be/oBI0MU73nlc

>>93381026
Yeah it is. We have faggots on 4Chan fixing a single typo in an otherwise good post. Edgy. Fuck this place is more and more reddit every day.

>>93381461
>Their catalogue of IP's is a treasure chest of potential series

Name 5.

Hard Mode:
Name 5 that aren't by Rod Espinoza

I wish Gold Digger would just become a webcomic. Maybe then Fred Perry wouldn't still be too afraid to say words like ass.

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>Fred Perry's in this thread RIGHT NOW.

>>93381620
He's done at least three webcomics at different times, two of which were in GD continuity.

Personally, I kind of want Steam Wars to take off and find its own niche. It started as pure Star Wars parody, but there are some really neat ideas in there.

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>>93381619
Sure.

1) Gold Digger
2) Legends of Darkwood
3) Assembly (well I liked it at least though it's sort of a mechwarrior ripoff)
4) Sky Sharks
5) Warrior Nun
6) Twilight X
7) early ninja high school before Ben Dunn grew up

>>93381620
Well, I think you can still download the PDF's of the first 199 issues of gold Digger.

>>93381736
No I want current Gold Digger to be in a webcomic format. It might as well, Antarctic Press is a rotting corpse that it needs to shed.

>>93381793
Oh I agree. If he made a webcomics and monetized it properly, he could be pulling in Thuntbux or QCdollars.

>>93381723
> 2) Legends of Darkwood
is already it's own thing.
http://seekers-notes.wikia.com/wiki/Legends_of_Darkwood

>5.) Warrior Nun
I'd... hardly call that a treasure. It was edgy schlock and 90's as fuck.
Eh, on second thought, 90's edge is back in full force so maybe....

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>>93381830
That seems to be something else that's simply named legends of darkwood by coincidence.

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>>93381397
>NETFLIX PITCH!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNsakTRkhus

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>>93381696
>Fred Perry's in this thread RIGHT NOW.
...*slow tears* Sensei has come.

>>93381830
>>93381862
http://ifanboy.com/articles/ifanboy-upstarts-john-kantz/
>Kantz was a tenured employee at american manga publisher Antarctic Press, acting as an in-house artist as well as drawing a video game fantasy series Legends of Darkwood. Currently, Kantz works at the game developer Playdom, drawing away at the sprawling Marvel: Avengers Alliance game on Facebook for a living.
I can't keep up with all these alternative facts...

>>93381696
>Fred Perry's in this thread RIGHT NOW.
so uh... which human currently has the biggest tiddies in the series?

>>93382298
Screw that, I want to know if we're ever gonna get more Peebo Adventures comics.

>>93382369
Oh, not a bad question. I thought those were especially cute.

>>93381696
draw more lewd jetta fred

the only thing i really know about it is gold digger.
i've been wanting to look at ninja high school since i read that time shenanigan crossover in GD, but is that even online anywhere?

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>>93381696
draw it fred.
make it lewd

>>93382369
>Screw that
well, okay... but still

>>93382265
The wiki that was posted is for something called "seekers notes: mysteries of darkwood" with a section called "legends of darkwood" and nothing in it resembles kantz' s style. Also John kantz doesn't show up at all in the wiki.

speaking of fred.
he apparently made a game
a porn game.
https://exhentai.org/g/1038042/238f7e78fd/?p=1