[Project] Anniversary/Appreciation Fanbook

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

Happy 20th Anniversary •CLAMP• Appreciation Fanbook Project
In honor of CLAMP's upcoming 20th Anniversay, there was certainly enough enthusiasm about a fanbook to roll with the idea.

CHECK the community project tags for the most up-to-date news about our fanbook project, BUT comment here to be added to our list.

UPDATE: This has been rewritten to be a little less wordy. 1/17/09

A. Content:
1. What - Letters, fanart, fanfics, doodles, cosplay photos, anything printable. Two works per person will be the max. The two works must fit on a 10x8inch (25x20 centimeters) landscape page. You can certainly send only 1 item.

2. How - Digital files, scanned images (300 dpi max), if you do not have a scanner, we will have a community scanner that will accept your original work to scan and then the original work will be mailed back to you. Hand-written letters or fics on nice stationary can also be accepted as a scanned image.

3. Language - Your own language is perfectly okay. The organization will be in English, but everyone will get a little blurb on their page with their name/nickname/country. I think CLAMP will enjoy the variety & global scale and who knows? maybe they know someone who can translate your language...or maybe they know a little themselves. Besides, they probably see Japanese fanwork all the time.

4. No-no's - Anything with extremely questionable content will be put aside (Boy-love, girl-love is okay, but you know where to draw the line, right?). Something made or written by someone other than yourself will be booted. No colored manga pictures and no half-arsed pencil drawing done in math class on notebook paper. Sorry, your epic 50 chapter Cardcaptor Sakura fanfic will probably not be accepted.


B. Organization of the book: Chapters will be divided by country.

C. How it will be made:
We will use an online book publisher. I have had great results with blurb.com (professional-looking, awesome colors, just a tad bit more expensive than the competitors), but I am open to any other companies. Just let me give me a web address and I will check them out. (I am in the US, so please recommend US-based companies)

D. Where will it go?
There have been a couple really great suggestions on how to get ahold of CLAMP's publishers' addresses. We will definitely send an explanatory letter with our book. If you know of a way to get ahold of their address and have not already contacted me, please msg me. (I will keep all addresses private if need be)

E. No talent in writing or drawing?
As the deadline comes near, I will also be accepting donations towards the professional binding costs and certified + insured mailing costs. An estimate of costs will be calculated in the future, but please save a couple dollars in May for us.

A page of credits will be added to the book to include everyone who contributes anything.

F. The deadline?
May/June - please do not procrastinate.

G. Random notes:
-I saw that in another fanbook project, fans made plushies and scarves. I am NOT considering these items until we get confirmation of an address.
-What's going on the cover? Contest will be announced
-I had some people msg me about this project. If you were one, please disable your msging privacy option, so I can msg you back or leave another message here.

H. What I need now? Just a solid confirmation of numbers. Comment to be added to our list.

So once again, I need comments:
1. What you'd like to do - fanart, letter, photo, etc?

2. Where you are from and What language you will be writing in.

3. Any suggestions/questions?


I. Feel free to spread the word about this project. It would be wonderful to have solid chapters for each country, so please get your friends involved. I was initially aiming for a 50 page book, but hey, 200+ pages sounds even better, right? So please take another moment for the part H questions, and start thinking about how you'd like to express your love of CLAMP to CLAMP themselves. I'll do my best to make sure the book turns out beautifully and that it gets sent to the right hands.

Participants do not have to be a lj member, so if you have friends who are CLAMP fans, just have them comment here.

ETA 5/2/09: CLICK HERE for updated submission guidelines.

Comments

[kurishojo.livejournal.com]

I'm already hyped about this and love the effort and enthusiasm already being given to it :)

I'd be contributing in English, likely with artwork. I'd be more than happy to help as an editor, both for writing and graphic design. Any desired promotions through my site also fully available ^^

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

Yes, please pimp the project at your website (that I occasionally stalk). :)

I'm not limiting this to the livejournal crowd.

You are from Canada, right(assumed from your profile)? I want to put little country flags somewhere in the book, so CLAMP can see how wide their reach is.

[moezychan.livejournal.com]

I can't do any type of graphics, and my drawings make little kids cry...but I'll be more than happy to write a letter to them ^_^ I live in the states, so, obviously, my first language is English, but I've taught myself some Japanese, and I'm well-versed in reading and writing in Hiragana. I'll write my letter in English, but is if alright if I write a small paragraph in Hiragana as well? Just to show how much a fan I am of the culture.

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

if you can write in japanese, go for it. :)

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

I'm going to participate, and I could probably be roped in to English or Japanese-language editing and translating.

I'm from the States, and will be writing in Japanese.

Also, I work for Mechademia, and if you want, I could bother our in-Japan permissions assistant to attempt to hunt down a way of posting stuff to CLAMP.

[fuzzycotton.livejournal.com]

I'm totally stoked about this :D
I think it'll be an awesome project to participate in. I'm just a bit worried about my timing since I love to procrastinate.

I'll probably either send in a drawing or a cosplay photo.
I live in the USA and will be writing in English.

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

you can do 2 things max. :) so both a drawing and photo are ok.

[xamethyst-rosex.livejournal.com]

I guess I must've missed the original journal entry for this @_@! But I'd be interested in joining in on this too. I'll probably just do a fanart and maybe a letter, if that's okay :3

Oh, and I'm from Canada, so mine will be in English

[shidouhikaru15.livejournal.com]

1. A drawing it's the best I can do, I think. Also, I was thinking on writing a letter too. As for support, I will be glad to help with editing.
2. I'm from Mexico, so most of the text will be in Spanish but I can add a little translation into English, like some summary.
3. Well the editing part requires a lot of things to be specified, but I think that it has to be established after the group of people that are going to be in charge of this is decided.

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

A drawing and letter sounds great.

Spanish is perfectly ok. If there are alot of Spanish-speaking people, we'll choose someone to help coordinate the Spanish section. :)

[yoru-yume.livejournal.com]

1. Most likely, cosplay photos, but possibly fanart

2. From Australia, English speaking

3. Could this be crossposted to other CLAMP related comms(even the ones devoted to a specific clamp manga?), might get more people involved

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

3. hehe, I'm not in any other clamp comms, but you can definitely post a link back here in other places. I have to have comments here, so that I can get it all organized. :)

[psychoe.livejournal.com]

This is so sweet!

I'm definitely excited about this. I'd like to contribute fanart and a few pages of comics! I'm from Pasadena but I'm originally from the Philippines.

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

Would you like to be in the US or Philippines chapter? :) I think I'll be using countries to organize the book.

[suppis-tenshi.livejournal.com]

Sounds fun! I'd love to do a fanart or letter. And I'm from the states, so English. Can't wait! ♥

~^__^~

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

you can do both fanart and letter if you want, 2 items max per person. :)

[kaitou-marina.livejournal.com]

1. I'd like to contribute a short fanfic and possibly a letter.

2. I am from Washington state and uh, the fanfic will probably be in English. My Japanese isn't good enough to translate an entire fic. The letter, however, might be in Japanese XD

3. The easiest way to reach CLAMP might be c/o their publishers. Or did you want a more direct line?

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

3. Yep, a couple people suggested getting their publisher's addresses through contacts in US companies. If you know of anyone, just let me know. I probably won't try to contact anyone until I can explain how big the project is...haha. :)

[darksage29.livejournal.com]

I think I'd write a letter and a couple of artworks. ahaha
I can also help since I know to read/write Japanese, not to mention english and my mother tongue. I'd be writing my letter in Japanese.

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

Are you from the Philippines (took a glance at your lj profile)? Just need to know since I'll be organizing the book by country. :)

[namirox.livejournal.com]

i'd like to do a drawing and a letter....from the states...so everything will be in english. thank you for doing this for us ^___^

[raelynae.livejournal.com]

1. I'm thinking fanart, and perhaps a photo of my CLAMP collection.... Or just two fanarts; not too sure yet. Regardless I'm in for sure!

2. I'm from the United States, and will use English. I'm not that confident in my Japanese skills. >,<

3. I could help be an editor if need be, though I'm sure you're getting lots of applicants. I have lots of free time really, so you can most likely throw anything you need to at me.

This sounds great! v(≧ω≦)v

[nikkernoodle.livejournal.com]

I am super super excited about this!

1- fanart from me! I could do a little graphics and editing, also, and maybe be a "community scanner" if needed?

2- Washington, USA, so English

3. LET'S DO THISSSSSSSSSS

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

yay, scanner. not sure yet if we need this job yet, but i'll let you know. my scanner is old..blech.

as for graphics, just msg or email a website or something with some of your work. it's gonna be hard choosing just a few graphics people, but i'll try to give everyone who offers a chance to do some graphics work.

[kioto-san.livejournal.com]

I want to join this project *__*
I'm from Ukraine (it is the neighbour of the Russia). I will draw the fanarts *__*!
P.S. I wonder can I order the copy of this fanbook for myself later?

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

The first from the Ukraine! Yay!

It is entirely possible to order more books, but we'll have to ask the whole community later if the are okay with the book made public. I'll put the idea on my to-do list.

[pyrefly-fayth.livejournal.com]

1.I'm in and i can do fanart "Two works per person will be the max" that line really solved my dilemma of what i was going to contribute lol
2. Do you want JPEG files only or is there another format you want for the digital files?
3. Ontario, Canada so English there

And a possibly silly question but can we order a book for ourselves as well when all is said and done?
(provided that i have the funds at the time XD)

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

2. I think 300 dpi jpg will be good.
3. Hey, the Canadians might beat the Americans. haha.

It is entirely possible to order more books, but we'll have to ask the whole community later if the are okay with the book made public. I'll put the idea on my to-do list.

So totally love you for putting this together!

[wolfkat4.livejournal.com]

yay! <3
I'll be a definate particapent. paypal works with donations toward this, right?

1) I'll try to do a fanart, I'm not good but with all the time to try to get it right... I don't think they'll mind it too much if it's not very good. and I'll like to include a letter as well. two items max, right.

2) I'm from USA, well... I'm ItalianAmerican and would actually like to write a little something in Italian if that's ok. most of it'll be in ENglish since that's the language I know all of. But since my Uncle in Italy's a fan as well, I'd like to add a little Italian to it if it's alright.

3) Suggestions? It would be neat if we could include fan-made-merchandise. but I think that would be too expensieve >< and you could always hold contests for the county's graphic/front/whateverpage. <3
I'm so excited about this I'm freaking out my cat.

Re: So totally love you for putting this together!

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

1. yep, two items.
2. Italian is perfectly ok.
3. If we get an address that we are confident in, I'll consider fanmade plushies or keychains or something. Don't count on it yet. :) Only a couple people offered to do graphics, so a contest isn't needed yeeeet...maybe in the future. Great ideas. thx.

[lotuseyes.livejournal.com]

1) Letter and probably a photo of my sister and me with our CLAMP collection (if that's okay). I'm no good with graphics or such, but of you need a back up to help organize things I can be your gal :)

2) USA and English let's not think about Lexie's foray into foreign languages

3) None on either point, but this sounds like so much fun! Thank you for organizing it!

[existence-proof.livejournal.com]

:D

1. I'll do fanart and a letter-doodle thing.

2. I'm from Malaysia, and I'll be using english and chinese, if thats ok. :]

But I have a question, I have a couple of friends who are CLAMP fans as well, but they don't have an LJ account. So (if they decide to participate in the end) is it ok if I send their work in for them?

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

sure,
two more people, two more fanarts & letters, from Malaysia???

just let me know just how many, from what country, and what they'd like to send. :)

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

First one from Estonia! yay!
you can write in whatever language you are comfortable with.

[lexi-nyanko.livejournal.com]

I'm totally participating!!! *_*;;;

I'm from Hungary and would like to contribute some of my recent fanart and a small letter in Japanese. n.n/

Also, I can recommend lulu.com for publishing...although their hardcover books are expensive. x_x But since we're going to publish just one book...maybe check it out. n.n

Ah, and why landscape book? o_o;

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

Ah, I've looked at lulu.com before. I'll have to test the photobook program to see how flexible it is.

Landscape? I figured most people would do a drawing and letter, so we could put both on one page. If we have less people, we can always decide to do a profile-layout and give everyone 2 pages. I'm just hoping for a 200 page book.

Please invite your friends. We can have a great Hungary chapter. :)

[misdre.livejournal.com]

I might try to participate with some art-work since this project is awesome. :3 I am from Finland but I can write some Japanese, so I could write on my own language (I'm pretty sure they do not get fanwork in Finnish very often) and add a small translation as well, or then simply use Japanese.

I'm sure the book turns out brilliantly ^^

[morgif-kun.livejournal.com]

This is an awesome idea and I'd like to participate too!

1. fanart, maybe with some scribbles on it...
2. I'm from Italy, I can do proofreading in Italian if it's needed :D

[hobbit-hunter.livejournal.com]

I'd love to draw something for them *_* ♥

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

USA and english, right? :)

[lovelessinma.livejournal.com]

I'd love to participate!

1. I'll contribute with fanarts ♥

2. I'm from Spain, but it's okay with me to write everything in English.

3. How many fanarts can we submit? And could you tell us the exact size for each picture?

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

first one from Spain! you can write in Spanish if you want. whatever you are most comfortable with.

3. 2 per person. the book will be 10 x 8 inches(25×20 centimeters) landscape. I was thinking about 1 page per person, but if there are less than 100 pages, I will bump it up to 2 pages per person and make it a profile-layout.