| Okashina Okashi - Strange Candy | |
|---|---|
| File:StrangeCandySample.jpg Comic featuring Teneko and Minami | |
| Author(s) | Emily Snodgrass, J. Baird |
| Website | http://www.strangecandy.net/ |
| Current status/schedule | Thursday |
| Launch date | January 16, 2001 |
| Genre(s) | Comedy / Romance / Fantasy / Sports / Science fiction / Magical girl / Ecchi |
| Rating(s) | PG13 |
Okashina Okashi - Strange Candy is a webcomic drawn by Emily Snodgrass (Emi-chan) and written by Allison Brownlow (Tanzy), Karen Olympia (Kourin), and J. Baird (Xuanwu). It was started in 2001, with Brownlow as its first writer, with Olympia added to the team in October 2001. The comic is hosted on Comic Genesis, a free hosting provider for webcomics.
Baird considers Okashina Okashi one of the three most important comics — alongside Penny Arcade and Dinosaur Comics — in the fields of education and public health for facilitating the development of art-based research methods and a variety of educational projects.[1][2] This involvement began when Baird used the comic as part of his classroom exercises while teaching for Hess Educational Organization, an English education provider in the Republic of China and Singapore.[3] Similarly, he used the comic again when he volunteered to teach the Create a Comic Project, a free after-school youth literacy library activity in New Haven, CT.[4]
Snodgrass has appeared at some conventions, speaking on fan-run and amateur artist panels.[5][6] Baird has also appeared at convention panels.[7] Snodgrass is an amateur artist who does not make a living from her online strip.[6]
In August 2007, Snodgrass branched out with a spin-off comic set in the Beauty Man Garden, a fictional chain of restaurants in Okashina Okashi. The comic was called Mini BMG. This attempt at another comic "fizzled pretty quickly" but Snodgrass hopes to relaunch it someday, hoping "to plan better and have more comics done."[8]
References
edit- ^ Baird, John. Picturevoice: Health Communication Through Art." Presentation. Society for Public Health Education 60th Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA. November 6, 2009.
- ^ Baird, John. "Healthy Holidays: Lessons Learned from a Community Education Event." Presentation. American Public Health Association 137th Annual Meeting. Philadephia, PA. November 11, 2009.
- ^ Baird, John. "Create a Comic." In Language Learning Games and Activities Volume 3 pg 14-15, edited by Gary Bosomworth and Sheryn Williams. Taipei, Taiwan ROC: Hess Educational Organization, 2005.
- ^ McLoughlin, Pamela. Cartoons propel creative process. New Haven Register. Published: 2007-03-19.
- ^ Tei, Andrew. (2002-07-05) Anime Expo 2002 Convention Reports. AnimeOnDVD.com.
- ^ a b Ushicon Panels - 2003
- ^ http://anime.advancedmn.com/article.php?artid=5565
- ^ Snodgrass, Emily. Happy (late) Thanksgiving ^^;;
External links
edit- Okashina Okashi - Main site
- Mini-BMG - Main site of spin-off comic, Mini-BMG
- OO on Comixpedia
- Strange English #1