>Why not a fan manga? No voice actors + relatively tiny amount of
>artwork = something any reasonably talented fan with a lot of free
>time on their hands could do.

It's been considered a couple of times - once, Zoner and I borrowed a video camera from WPI's media center and taped a number of things from around campus to give an Australian fan who had expressed some interest in doing a UF manga some idea of what things looked like...

... say! I'll have to dig that tape up, it probably has footage of the pre-lawn-furniture Wedge!

I know it's got a sighting of the late Derek Bacon...

Anyway, we did that tape, but lost touch with the guy, never got it converted to PAL, and never did anything with it.

The key problems are that I don't personally know anybody with the level of artistic talent I'd be comfortable with and the amount of free time necessary to devote to such a project, and I wouldn't be comfortable handing it off to somebody outside the group - I have a very visual imagination, which is a big problem when you have no artistic talent, and so I tend to be kind of a control freak as to the way I think things ought to look. Such a project would involve a lot of coordination and oversight, and I have neither the time nor the inclination to put some poor volunteer artist through that kind of experience. :)

So, for now, it remains on the "wouldn't it be nifty" list, alongside the once-proposed NXE "books on mp3" project (which I nixed primarily because I don't want to spend that much time sitting in my room reading my own work into a minidisc recorder :).

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