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Post by jvanmason on Jun 16, 2012 0:55:18 GMT -5
This thread is like the old Niklas forum. Go ahead and talk about anything that's suitable. It doesn't actually need to be Niklas. If the thread gets too long, I'll move some of the topics to their own threads. Or we'll just start a new thread.
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Post by jvanmason on Jun 16, 2012 0:57:23 GMT -5
If you're interested in Niklas projects here's what's happening.
1. I've been away for a while. I'm back now but there will be interruptions. I'll catch up with things to the extent possible.
The most important issue is the new fiction wiki. Lyel, Perry, Simon: Please continue to work on it. I'll need to suspend my work there until July. If anybody else would like to join the fiction wiki, write to me.
2. I see the fake letters are continuing. There isn't much that can be done about them. Some of the Windows machines for people in the group were apparently attacked by worms and they got the address books.
If you flag the fake letters as spam you may block letters from the real people. I'm not sure. For now try ignoring them. If that doesn't work, some of us (including me) might need to change our mail addresses.
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Post by midgey on Jun 26, 2012 19:15:28 GMT -5
Hi everyone. It's such a long time since I have seen this website, I used to look over my brothers shoulder when I was just a little kid (8 or 9) - I remember wishing it was me in the storeis. I'm having so much fun reading all of the stories over again. I'm looking forward to chatting to some or all of you really soon. Hugs, Midgey
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Post by jvanmason on Jun 26, 2012 20:05:28 GMT -5
Hi, Midgey. Thanks for stopping by. If you'd like an avatar made for you, mail me at the address below or PM me and describe what you think would work.
jvanmason@yahoo.com
There's a thread in this forum where I list some links. You'll find new stories, articles, and artwork at the links, including "Dark Past" by Jonathan, "Bright Future" by Eidan, "Cat Kid" by March, "Where Does Niklas Live" by me, and "Smokey: A Dog's Tale" by Perry. The last one isn't Niklas; it's a true story.
If you'd like to contribute drawings or stories yourself, let us know.
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Post by jvanmason on Sept 3, 2012 11:22:01 GMT -5
To Eidan, Patrick, Thilion, Jonathan, March, Martin, and others:
Yahoo is blocking me from sending mail. I can still receive it, though. Eidan, to you in particular, I apologize for being out of touch. I've received several letters from you and I'll answer them this month.
I may need to create a new mail account. If anybody would like to verify that it is me, send a code word to the old address and I'll mention it when I write from the new address.
Something happened to me a few months ago. It ended most work temporarily. I'm putting things back together. I think I can check mail every day for now but I can't write back until the new account is created.
Eidan, Perry says that he's written to you but his mail has bounced. Create a second address somewhere besides Hotmail as that one doesn't work well.
Perry and I remain interested in Niklas. We've also started a separate project that people may like.
I'd like to get a handle on who is still around and move forward with projects. If you see this, post here or write to the old address. I'll reply from a new address sometime this month or from the old one if I can fix it.
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Post by Jonathan on Sept 4, 2012 4:47:00 GMT -5
I've been using fastmail for a while now and I think it's worthwhile using.
You do need another email address to receive the confirmation email from fastmail to activate your account with. Once the account is activated, you only need the other address if you forget your fastmail password.
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Post by anthony on Sept 5, 2012 14:55:35 GMT -5
Hey, I'm still here. now i have school days, but I'm trying to write something in free time... but it goes slowly... I have to get some new ideas, and then i can write a full scale Niklas story... or i will at least try to. for today, i have some short polish texts, but I'm going to rewrite them in english. and then i will ask one of you for correct the grammar, because my english is still not so good as it should be.
Antek.
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Post by eidan on Sept 10, 2012 16:14:26 GMT -5
Ok. thanks, anthony. I'm sure people will be glad to hear that.
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Post by anthony on Nov 13, 2013 14:52:19 GMT -5
Uh. As the life goes on, There is only one thing that never changes - From the very first years of my life, i always start doing a ton of things, but it's rare for me to finish everything as it should be finished. Maybe it's because I'm still young... Anyway. I was away for a while, I've started writing a lot of things, got plenty of ideas, but, as always, somehow i lost the concepts during writing, and left each project with just few pages. That makes me feel ashamed a bit, because I said things like : I will do, I will send, And I haven't done anything. I'm really sorry. Maybe i should isolate the pure "concept" from the already written parts, and start from beginning... Still, knowing how it is with me finishing things, I can't promise anything.
Why are there almost no new posts ? 61 posts for a whole forum isn't much. I believe that the concept is still not dying. Maybe we Should find some way to promote the Niklas-Comics thing ? If there would be more people that are interested in this stuff, maybe it would get new start ? like a boost-up. I was thinking about the best way to promote the original art, fan art too, and what I've found out is, that it's really hard to get to know about Niklas and Friends, If you are not looking directly for it. Even in Virtual, you still have to know the site address, and that there is such a thing like Niklas Comics. Maybe if we would put up a site on a popular web place, such as facebook or some similar thing, we would get more visitors ? If we get more visitors, we will get more artists, fans, and people that are interested in the whole thing, and the community of Niklas fans would grow. The amount of fan-art also would grow. The times are changing, and it's not a problem anymore to put up a site with comics about kids that have lot's of adventures, and sometimes kiss each other. There are tons of comics with similar concept coming from Japan (however, drawn in the "manga" style), that gained huge popularity also in western world. For example, the "Loveless" manga . (this in actual is quite weird in style and in content, because of cat ears and the whole "paranormal" thing. ) .
Anyway, I hope that there is plenty of people still around here , and that we will find some new fans too. With Greetings, Anthony .
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Post by khaos on Nov 21, 2013 19:38:04 GMT -5
Hi Anthony, I've made a few of those suggestions myself. From what. I've been told the general fear is trolls. Apparently they gave Niklas an excruciatingly hard time and no one wants a repeat of this.
Personally I wouldn't mind dealing with trolls and if no one minds I'll gladly start a face book page using one of my aliases.
I've been told Thillion holds all the rights to Niklas so I wouldn'twant to do this without his permission but as I said I am more than willing to deal with trolls!
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Post by anthony on Nov 26, 2013 13:07:47 GMT -5
Trolls are just trolls, they are everywhere, From personal sites to commercial ones. If you just stop "feeding" them, (answering to their posts) they'll just get bored and they will go to find another site. There is another problem, with spam-bots, but it's possible to solve this problem too. Of course facebook is just one way of promoting Niklas Comics. Usually the most popular places for youngsters to discuss about drawn-art, are blogs, Like those fan art blogs on .tumblr.com, and many other hosts. Probably i could ask some of my blogger friends (I know quite a lot of manga fans, both male and female, amateur artists, and such) to Post a link on their blogs. I got to know few very good artists too, (mostly girls, with an amazing skill to manga & real-style drawing) so i could ask someone to draw some of the characters from the Niklas series, In a "realistic style" . That might attract more artists to work on this.
With Greetings from Poland, Anthony
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Post by anthony on Dec 22, 2013 22:23:54 GMT -5
By the way, MERRY CHRISTMAS to everyone !
With best wishes for all the Niklas fans, Anthony.
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Post by eidan on Feb 4, 2014 3:11:36 GMT -5
There are new illustrations as of today in The Grumpy Old Man chapter 6 and on the Eidan site, as promised. More are to come. The old forum is not working for some reason.
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Post by enemy on Jun 24, 2014 11:17:27 GMT -5
Question: Will the 2 stories from the comic book (The Rollercoaster & What Makes You A Man) also be posted on the new Niklas Comics homepage?
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Post by perry on Jun 26, 2014 7:11:16 GMT -5
Question: Will the 2 stories from the comic book (The Rollercoaster & What Makes You A Man) also be posted on the new Niklas Comics homepage? A good question. I'd like to see those here myself, even though i have the comic book that they are featured in. It'd be nice to have everything of the original source material in one place. I've asked thillion about this myself but it's been a long while, and i think it's time I asked about it again.
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