So kiddies, Ninpou Magazine is back in the biz and we're coming with alllllll the stops.

Here's the Low Down
~The magazine will come in two versions: The Full and The Compressed. The compressed is for people like @leaf-lover who can't download things like 20mb so we'll have a version that's about 5-10 mb for people like here. I promise we do it out of love.
~We plan to make a pact with *Thumbshare to allow all you little deviants to get known even better. We really hope he considers our offer after reading my really long note and takes us up on it.

Here's the Note I sent him:

Hello, my name is Joshua Sims. I'm the EiC of Ninpou Magazine and CEO on Ninpou Production Co. I'm here to ask for your support in getting people all across deviantART to be known and to educate themselves on becoming better artists, photographers, poets, etc. as well as getting to meet other artists like them.

As head of the Ninpou Staff, our mission is like yours: To attempt to have people share their work with one another and have the covered stars shine. When I started the Magazine back in '07 I drew my inspiration from #thumbshare and #thumbsshare on building a carryable and "view-any-time" medium for people to share their works. We've since expanded on this, and your, idea and created this magazine that not only shares work, but also tutorials created by deviantARTists, complete artist features, interviews with successful artist, information on how to become better on deviantART, and more.

My main reason for this note is to notify you that me and my staff are looking for people to submit their art and have it featured in the magazine. We've since made it so you can even click an artist's work or name to view that piece or artist's page. It would be an honor to join you on your mission of getting people known by allowing people to know about our magazine and how to be featured. We can achieve this using links on pages or various chatrooms and etcetera. All work in the magazine is from artists just like the ones in #thumbsshare.

By utilizing your medium with mine we can get past one or two clicks from people that happen to be in the chatroom and notice that persons thumbs. By this we can get hundreds, even thousands, of people to view, fav, and click works. Helping the people in the shadows to have a chance in the spotlight like every person on deviantART deserves. Just right now me and my team are working hard on this issue and to expand the ideas that we had in the past issue as well. For example, we're working on a flash application that allows people to put their work in and people to cycle the works of various artists in a fashion much, much, much more convienent than just clicking "view random deviant/deviation" or browsing the works on the internet. With your help we can achieve this dream of helping the community as a whole than just helping well known artists get even more popular.

If we get you help and become successful there isn't a limit to what we can achieve. Maybe we can even inspire deviantART itself to change how it operates it's system. We hope to use our medium to also get musicians known on deviantART via flash or something similar.

If you'd like, you can view the past issue of our magazine here: [link] . We have various news articles and forum postings on the web as well but it's still not seen enough to really make a breakthrough, but with your help we can do it.

Please help us to help you give everyone on deviantART the fighting chance we both know they deserve.

Sincerely,
Joshua "Kaiine" Sims
Editor-and-Chief of Ninpou Magazine

~We will have many new features and the magazine will be designed in Photoshop this time around. Not Microsoft Word 2003.
~I actually lost the original magazine which is fine because it needed to be severely changed anyway.

The Changes
~The magazine will be made in Photoshop like I said.
~Compressed Magazine
~There shall be RULES. Yes, those damn things that keep our society from completely imploding in on itself.
~There shall be competitions.
~There will be a FLASH VERSION OF THE MAGAZINE. Fucking epic.
~There will be the Feature Box, which uses flash to allow people to flip through various featured deviations and deviantARTists.
~You will see a lot more from the staff, I'm willing to let them out of the shadows since I couldn't have done this without them anyway.
~Wayyy better design. I mean it's been a whole freaking year since Issue 1. It's time for somee upgrades.

The News
~I just started on the magazine today and hope to get about 50 pages done this week so the magazine can be out in a few weeks to a month.
~~Markafer is no longer with us but he does help us out occasionally. He's a magazine friend but no longer staff. *Teadux has agreed to take up some of his busy work until we find a new on Staff vector artist. So you know, if you want to be that, then send me a note.

The Mailing List
~It shall be much better due to the new RULES of art submission.

The Article
The Ninpou Magazine Issue 1 is done. You can look at it here: [link] or just click this picture ->

I'd like to thank all of you for submitting your art to be featured and we're happy to announce that we're now looking for submissions for Issue 2. It's going to be bigger, better, and cooler. We're even hiring more members to improve your Ninpou Experience. The magazine should be done withing 3-4 months since we're going to need to train the interns a bit so the magazine is as chopppy and such as Issue 1 was. Now for the new promises we hope to feature:

Larger feature pages
Featured galleries
A traditional section
A literature section
A photomanip section
A website
Better layout and design
More awesome and on time stuff
And more...

So yeah. If you want to have a job on the magazine (we're looking for a few employees), then click this link:

So here's how we're going to do features this time around, post a link or thumbs here and then I will post a new news article or update this one with the thumbs of the people we have chosen. We can only allow up to 2 entries from the same style of art (traditional, digital, photography, photomanipulation, poetry, etc.) So make sure it's your best work so you'll have a better chance of being chosen. We're trying to choose 16 peices of art this time around.

Now for the aggreement stuff:

By submitting art to the magazine, you agree that you consent to recieving a note via deviantART during various updates of the magazine and when the final version is done. By submitting art, you allow the Ninpou Team to use your art at our discretion as long as we clearly site that it is your work.

The agreement thing is more to help you more than help us. The more we use your art in the magazine, the more people will know about you.

Now the stats:

Ninpou Magazine has received a total of 1579 views as of January 2nd, 9:59 AM EST.
Ninpou Magazine has been favorited a total of 29 times as of January 2nd, 10:00 AM EST
Ninpou Magazine has been commented a total of 63 times as of January 2nd, 10:01 AM EST
Ninpou Magazine has been downloaded a total of 632 times as of January 2nd, 10:03 AM EST

That means people who were featured got their art viewed a minumum of 632 times by various artists. You could be one of them.

To be considered for featuring, you must fav this article and post a maximum of 2 pieces of art for each art category you wish to be featured in (Say if you post 2 for traditional, 2 for Digital, and 2 for Photography). You can either reply to this article with your features using a link or thumbs.

If you have any questions or comments, please note me or send a reply to this news article

Article can also be found here: [link]

The Forum
We have a humongeous monster of a forum where you can post your thumbs to be featured: [link]

The Chat
We have an official chat: #ninpou.

The RULES

By submitting art to the magazine, you agree that you consent to recieving a note via deviantART during various updates of the magazine and when the final version is done. By submitting art, you allow the Ninpou Team to use your art at our discretion as long as we clearly site that it is your work.

That's all of them.

The past issue: [link]

The Compression Idea Quote

Kaiine Just for you, I'll make a 5-10 mb version of the magazine
leaf-lover That's sweet
leaf-lover And good marketing too.

I couldn't find the direct quote but it did go like this.

The Featured
The artist of this magazine with a full feature is: *vashperado . It's not just because he inspired me to become an artist, but because he has a good chunk of good work.

We also hope to feature: `adonihs

The Release date
1-3 months we hope.

The Coming Times
I'm going to talk to chix0r about the magazine and see if we can get anything pop-i-lacking. I think that's how the hip kids say it these days.

The End
Uhhh.... The Staff I guess

The Staff
~Fairy-of-the-Woods aka Olga is our Article Writer and Interviewer
~Markafer aka Mark Head Designer Magazine Friend/Helper
*Teadux aka Andreas Designer
*Ultra-Violet-X is the Team Photographer
and a lot of people who just love to help out.

...I think I'm missing like 3 people. I'll go and find them.

Information/Contact
Please, if you have any questions or suggestions, note me or one of the staff.