But that looks nothing like manga
Always one to take a noble stand against onrushing memes, I steadfastly refuse to join the legions of people changing all their social network avatars to one of those ridiculous Face Your Manga pictures. For the past few days, it’s meant that loading up Twitter has been like stepping into a grotesque cartoon world. (I mean, even more so than normal.)
However, I know people are crying: “But Tom, we want to see what you would look like as a crudely patched together caricature that doesn’t really look much like a manga character at all!” Uh huh. I hear you. To sate that thirst, here you go:
Of course, as anybody who knows me on Flickr is aware, for many years I’ve been using a far more manga-like – and far more terrifying – avatar, based on a real photo that was manipulated with this amusing little tool. It looks like this:
You see? I was so ahead of the curve on the whole mangatars thing. All you other losers are just trailing in my wake. Yeah.
