Doujinshi

[hildy89]

Okay, in looking for HP icons, I've discovered another "odd" corner of fandom I wasn't really familiar with. Vanessa's Harry Potter LJ icons showed a full set of the Harry Potter characters in manga style, drawn extremely well, I might add. So I inquired politely where the sources for those icons came from. The response was Doujinshi, a type of manga fanfiction. I think I was aware from mailing lists that manga fans create their own comics. I wasn't aware how many HP doujinshi comics were out there. One site, Doujinshi Alley, includes scans of sample pages and descriptions of the comics/gags/etc included. Some of them are strange... some of the character portrayals are a little off... one Snape portrayal made me go "Huh?" just because the hair is so long. Given the owl on the shoulder, I halfway wondered if it was an older Harry sans glasses.