Only need a few minor edits (about two hours or three) and it will be ready for printing.
Which colour scheme is better?


Original design


But maybe this one is more interesting


Non sequitur

Front cover:


I think I will remove the title on the spine. D: It doesn't really fit in. I also need to put "PLACE" on the back cover in a different position.


I really don't have any more words.

Anyway, it felt good to work today. I was finally inspired by something coming out of Oscar's eye.

I think this will be the insert for OSCP4? I don't know. It took me an hour and a half to draw this because I had to be quick to get it printed. D: Jirou- why does he looks so innocent and happy? L Oscar- why are you so sleazy? He looks likes an SS officer(? sorry >_<;) here... D: So evil and deviant.

I honestly don't know where I get my colour palette from.

I inked three pages today! I just finished one page in two hours. Yeah- getting up to manga-ka speeds but with lackluster quality. LOL orz I have 17 pages left to ink in this set then I can go to the next set. But I have to redraw the pencils for the first three pages in the next set since they are crappy! Sometimes I have to redraw a lot of pages before I am satisfied. Or I end up combining two or three pages onto one page. This what happens when you don't thumbnail beforehand your long epic story. @_@; But it is good since the layouts end up much tighter. I have a page that is 5 rows with 10 panels- a combination of three pages into one. Maybe that is a little excessive! But I am glad for the change. It looks cool.

I am really behind LJ. I am sorry for not commenting enough. I hope you realize that I love you all. Actually in a really good mood today- which is very rare!

Hey guys, Electric Ant zine just went on sale today. I drew a page in the Jam Comic and contributed one 4-koma gag comic featuring Oscar and Jirou. Everything else in the zine is 500% better than whatever I did for it so please check it outttt--- Hellen Jo drew the cover, and it is so hot just like Hellen.



CLICK TO BUY ELECTRIC ANT #2!

Also, I'll be at Canzine in Toronto November 1st at the Gladstone Hotel on Queen St. Stop by my table to say hi if you see me. :D Arabesque will debut at the event. I will also be selling OSCP1+2 and 3 and maybe some prints for discounted prices.

My books will also be sold at Doujinka (October 31st @ the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre) by Juu and Kim who have a table there. I don't officially have a table but I will be stopping by the event to hang out and loiter. I'll be happy to draw stuff for you if you see me. :D

I haven't been posting much since I just finished the pencils for OSCP4 and am working on the inks right now! I'm up to page 12 already. Maybe the book will finish in January. <3 <3

Thanks for your support! :D

The otome aesthetics zine project I've been working on, Arabesque, is now taking preorders. The printing and construction is a bit complex so I don't forsee us doing a second run, so if you want a copy, you should definitely preorder to reserve a copy. Books ship mid-October. I don't know how I'm going to collate and bind everything D:

Also, I contributed a 4koma gag (featuring Oscar and Jirou) and one jam comic page to the second issue of Electric Ant zine that will go on sale this October 14th. I can't believe I will be in the same book as all of these really cool people. D: So not worthy! D: D: Everyone in that book = better/cooler than me. orz


Designed this flyer recently for Canzine. I should get it printed soon.

I had some other things to share but Photobucket is in maintenence, and I need to go to bed so oh well next time. Hope that everyone is doing well! Thank you all for the continued support. m(_ _)m m(_ _)m

Wasn't going to post again so soon, but Publishers Weekly just previewed the third issue of Open Spaces and Closed Places. There are a bunch of pages of previews that haven't been shown on the website before.

Yearbooks looks really, really good. I want to purchase a copy. I can't believe I missed that at MoCCA. I missed so many tables while I was there. If I wasn't so out of it that whole weekend maybe I would have paid more attention and not missed as much. D:

Jupiter Napex looks awesome too. I think I might consider doing a four colour process screenprinted book someday. That would be so amazing. I'm not sure how that would work though. Maybe even a three or two colour comic book screenprinted would be pretty cool.

I don't know when I will be able to start on the next issue of OSCP, but in the mean time I thought of a fun project to do involving the characters of OSCP. Feel free to ask any of my characters (Oscar, Jirou, Vivien, and others) a question and I will illustrate their answer or something. Cut off date for questions is the end of June! I don't expect a whole lot of questions or anything so I'll try to do them all sometime in July. You can direct the question to a specific character or to more or all of them. Questions can be about almost anything I guess??? D:

I was at MoCCA this weekend! It was my first time to be at MoCCA ever.

Here is a small snap of the table I shared with Hilary Florido, Matt Hawkins, and Katie Skelly. In the photo you can see my books as well as Hilary's books and her wonderful Cutie Honey screenprint.



MoCCA was held at a new venue this year, and it was really hot. I hope that they have some more fans or something next year. Aside from the heat, it was an interesting event. I was glad that I could take part in it. I was able to meet a lot of really cool people for the first time and see some old friends. Thank you to everyone who stopped by the table! Also, a big thank you to everyone that I got a chance to hang out with. It was great to spend time with you all- that totally made the trip worth it!

I was really overwhelmed though- there was so much to look at and I ended up missing a lot of tables and people that I had planned to see but I totally forgot. I combined the trip with work too so I was really busy all weekend. I didn't have any time to do any shopping (wanted to stop at Book-Off) or eat well for most of the time- though I did get to eat Shake Shack ice cream and went to a Japanese izakaya on Sunday to gain back energy from the last day of MoCCA. I was too tired to attend any of the parties or after-MoCCA events, but that's okay. XD

I picked up some really cool books which I will try to review some time soon- but as always I feel like I didn't get enough! D: I forgot to pick up Lamar Abram's REMAKE and couldn't find Jess Fink's table and totally didn't have time to look at the books offered by the artists from Europe. ;_;

Sales-wise, I did okay- sold enough to cover for the table and my food and transportation costs within NYC- which is pretty awesome for my first time at a small press event like this! I signed up with the same group of people to share a table next year even though I'm still not certain that I can make it or not. Might not go unless I had a new OSCP book or something substantial to show.

edit: Forgot to add that we completely sold out of the copies of the glasses-themed anthology Saisons des Lunettes that I took part in! Well, I didn't bring so many copies to start with but it felt great to sell out of something. :D You can find out how to order your copy by clicking on that link above.

By the way---

You can now order the Litchi Hikari Club doujinshi I contributed to by mail order!

Close-up of the Litchi Hikari Club doujinshi (on the left):


I contributed five pages to a small anthology Japanese doujinshi for the minor manga title Litchi Hikari Club by Usamaru Furuya. The website for the project is is here. The book is in Japanese, 50 pages in offset printing with a colour cover. You can order it for 500yen + shipping. There are 11 contributors - 7 illustrations/short gag contributions and 5 short stories. For this book the organizer accepts payment via snail mail with international postal money order or cash in Japanese yen or US dollars.

Please use the mail form on the site to put your order. The direct link to the email form is here. Here is the order of the things to fill out in the form: 1) name 2) email address 3) home page URL (not required) 4) subject of email (just write "Doujinshi order") 5) message (write your mailing address here and tell us how many copies of the doujinshi you want to order).

You can write in English or Japanese. English mails will go directly to me and I will help you figure how to pay and other concerns. Anyway, it would be great if at least ONE person would order or something since it took a lot of work to convince the organizer to take orders from outside of Japan. @A@/// Let me know if you any questions or concerns about ordering.

Thanks for your support!!!! m(_ _)m

I will be at MoCCA this weekend. My stuff will be at table 232. Please come by and see me. I will give you a free postcard and stuff or something. I made a last minute mini featuring comics about cute animal friends with Jirou when he was a kid. It is 28 pages. 7(?) pages of it is new material and another 6 of that 28 is food reviews. Why I made this I do not know. orz

Heading out to NYC in a couple of hours!!!

Whoa! I can't believe it!
I ordered these postcards on Friday night and they arrived today Wednesday before noon. And they are done in offset printing no less! Unfortunately(?), it seems that they matte laminated both sides so that you need a permanent ink pen in order to write on the postcard- but I guess that makes it more durable? I can't believe I got them in time for the con though.





They are beautiful. Next time I'll make sure to order the thicker stock which doesn't have the laminating so that people can actually write on the cards without using a Sharpie or something.

BTW, I will be at Anime North this weekend in Toronto, May 22-24th in the "Comic Market" area until the name saicoink. My table is at B13/B14 and I am sharing it my friends Kim, Juu, and Koyar. Please come by our table.

I will have these books for sale:
Open Spaces and Places 1+2 - A collection of the first two mini comics in the original comic series that I put together to sell at cons. 72 pages, perfect bound by hand and totally gorgeous with a red cover that reminds me of the J'aime Lire magazine that I used to read as a child.

Open Spaces and Places 3 - The newest book that I just finished in April. I guess the "official debut" or whatever is at Anime North. I will have both the screenprinted and regular cardstock colour cover. It is 88 pages long with a colour insert.

Saisons des Lunettes - A glasses themed comic anthology I was involved with Juu, Koyar, and Artemis. It's 80 pages long! Koyar screenprinted the cover and bound the book together for us. <3

Shirokuro Game - I will have a very limited number of this Japanese doujinshi for Litchi Hikari Club for sale. It is a perfect bound 50-page book printed in offset with a colour cover. I contributed five pages to the book with 10 other contributors.

I will also have original screenprints and linocuts that you can look at and purchase. In addition, there will be stickers, postcards, and buttons. I also still have copies of OSCP 1 and 2 in mini comic form for trades as well. See you all there!

I updated the website finally!
Also, I am taking preorders for the third issue of OSCP so that I can gauge how many I need to print. It is more expensive this time because of the thickness of the book (75+ pages! D: D:).

I still have three pages left to ink. I feel so lazy about doing it since these three pages kind of painful to ink. D: There are some little things that I need to go back to fix but overall I am pretty much done! Hooray! I can't believe it... @_@; I essentially inked it in three weeks! Yippeee-- @_@

( Previews that some of you may have already seen )

Things to do:
Comic about glasses
4-koma for EA#2

I wouldn't have been able to make it this far without your comments and continued support. >_< Thank you to everyone!

A friend told me about a design contest for a programme at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco for any of you who are design-inclined. Apparently they haven't gotten a lot of submissions yet so maybe there is a good chance of winning? The deadline is next week (March 13th) but submissions get put on the website even if you don't win so maybe it's good promotion as well.

Okay, sorry for the spam! *A*;

I need your opinion concerning Oscar's glasses...

( Images here )

Thanks for your input!

Here are the results of the sketch meme thing I did a few days ago! Thanks for waiting everyone (though who was waiting I don't know...). D: D:

( IMAGES AND MORE HERE--- )

For more comic fun- I uploaded the comic I did for my friend's Christmas anthology. There are some awesome artists in the book who have better comics than mine- no seriously- so fully of talent here it's wonderful.

Okay, I seriously am not going to be around for the next few weeks. I hope you all have a wonderful holiday. <3 <3 <3 All you Edmontrons- harass Kei for your stuff as she makes her way towards the West tomorrow---

Sorry I keep posting. *A*/// Bet you're all bored with me now! Well, you won't have to see me until next year. No serious- I'm really leaving- because I still have papers to finish. I'm so slow. ;A;

I'm not supposed to post any more but I took part in this meme so I need to post it. D: D: Seriously need to start cracking done on finishing the last of the papers I need to write. orz Why am I so lazzzzy---!?!?

I will sketch for the first five people who comment with their request. Simple sketches only.
The catch is that you must put this up in your journal as well. If you absolutely do not draw, write something, etc

I decided to start making short gag comics featuring the characters in Open Spaces and Closed Places so that I don't forget how to drew them between issues.

( Lemon Pound Cake )

I'm sorry that my comics are so lame. I should stop posting. Well, I will soon.

I've been having to pack things lately and am just going insane. There are just too many knick knack things and I have papers to write on top of that. But I have a hard time writing when my room is so messy. :-(

Sorry for updating so much recently. After this I'm not going to update the journal for a couple of weeks since I need to concentrate on my studies. *_*; WOW, an entry that isn't FRIENDS LOCKED. It's because I'm not totally ashamed of this.

If you have DA you have already seen this- but I'm posting it up here now:


I put up more of an explanation on the blogger journal so I don't feel like explaining myself again. I updated the website including the links page. I hope I got everyone's links on there. If you want me to link you, just let me know. :-)

edit: I realized that the links page was the old one. That's weird- anyway it should be updated now. If you have a banner and I'm linking to you without it please let me know. D; D:

( Character Sketches for OSCP )

Okay, that's all. I'm disappearing for a couple of weeks. Everyone take care. I love you all!