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About the site |
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This site is about ninjas. Not any ninjas, but Stick Ninjas.
As you may have noticed when you entered the site, it is displayed both in English and in Spanish. “So what? - you may ask – many sites are displayed in many languages”.
Well, most of those sites will probably have the same content in all the languages and, unlike those sites, this one doesn’t.
Yes, if you read the site in English you will read some things that aren’t in Spanish and vice versa. There are several reasons for this two-language deal:
- I like showing off the fact that I know two languages.
- I get to show my strips to a wider audience.
- I have a wider range of jokes, due to cultural reasons.
- See reason #1.
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To be honest, the 3rd reason is actually the main reason. There are jokes that I can make only in one of the languages, but not in the other: puns, cultural jokes, etc. So, if you know both languages and enjoy what the site has to offer, you might want to check both languages out.
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| About the ninjas |
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The Stick Ninjas were born during 2007, in a class taken over by a pointless and endless debate; I got bored and started drawing little stick guys in my folder. Next thing I know, the guys started to come out as ninjas with katanas. Some days later I drew one to a friend using Photoshop and he really liked it (or so he said, but, then again, he did use it as a forum avatar, so..) , which drove me to keep drawing.
The following morning was spent on the drawing of the ninjas with a vector program, that’s when I first saw this as a potential project. Of course, I had plenty on my plate then, so I uploaded what strip I made to deviantART.
Some months later I switched to drunkduck (due to their being about webcomics and not just images), but I felt I needed a site of my own, so during the first months of 2008 I had this site done. The rest, as they say, is history.
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The Stick Ninjas have a world of their own (well, not a world, but an Island: Gohan Island) and are divided into several clans, identified by colour.
The protagonists are those dressed in black: the Kuroi Clan. These guys are really stubborn and they intend to take over the entire island. Unfortunately (for them), they are also really dumb, which prevents them from succeeding.
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There are other clans as well, like the Kantan Clan (the ninjas in blue), the Kowai Clan (the ninjas in red), etc. All the clans live on the island, and although each one has its own set territory and each one defends that territory to the death, they are, generally speaking, in peaceful terms with each other (except for the Kuroi Clan, of course, who regard almost all the other ninjas as kill-on-sight enemies). As you read your way through the site, you’ll get to know every clan and their different personalities.
And yes, every single person living on Gohan Island is a ninja.
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| About the author |
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That’s me, I am the author. My name in what we usually call “real life” is Federico, but we are on the Internet right now, where I’m best known as Hellspawn (you’ll notice – or not – that all the strips are signed with my online nickname).
I was born in 1979, that means that I am, at the moment of writing this piece, 29 years old (you’ll have to do the math from now on); I am presently studying to be a translator (I’m attending 1st-year subjects, although it’s my second year there, that might explain some atrocities in my written material) and, at present, I live with my wife and pets.
I tend to use a lot of brackets in my texts (you must have noticed, I guess) and I have a problem with grammar:
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I’m utterly obsessed with it (although that isn’t new or a result of my studying to be a translator, ever since I started studying English when I was a boy I became obsessed with languages – and to think that I’m an electrical technician).
I usually double check everything I write, but if you find something grammatically wrong in one of my texts, don’t hesitate to let me know: in all probability, I’ll do something about it.
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