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January 3, 2004
Update on the front page -- yes, STICKY #1
came out in December, and is finally available for purchase. Number
2 is almost done as well. Look for it in March, with #3 coming out
in May or June. We're contracted to do three issues, won't be any
more than that if wedon't sell any, so if anyone likes my work at
all I encourage you to check it out. Available
through your local comics shop, or from Eros
Comics in Seattle Washington. No image or information
is yet up on the website, but if you do a "search" for
STICKY, we're the only thing that comes up. You can also order from
their toll-free number at 1-800-657-1100. |
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November 1, 2004
OK, I am a fucking liar. I'm taking down
First Draft, because I just re-read it and it makes me want to kill
myself and everyone around me, so let's just ease off the pressure,
and remove it until such time as I can give it the rich evisceration
and reassembly that it needs. I do think there's something worthwhile
in there, but I don't have time to deal with it at the moment.
And why don't I have time is because, as
mentioned below, I have a series of erotic shorts coming out from
Eros
Comics starting in January. The book is called
STICKY, and while the first one is done there's revisions to be
made to the second one and the third is still in pieces all over
my living room carpet....There's a preview up of issue one here,
some non-naughty bits--you can get it through mail order starting
January or from your local comics shop. They generally don't do
gay stuff so it would be cool if people actually bought a few copies
of this, but I have a vested interest so don't take my word for
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October 10, 2004
I know, I know -- I said a month. What can
I do? Life fucks you up, but at least in this case it's in good
ways. The next installment is almost done, and has been almost done
for a while, but I've gotten real busy -- I'm back at work in Tokyo
at my real job, and when I'm not working there I'm working on a
couple of pieces with deadlines, so they take priority. Plus, Eros
Comics is picking up STICKY, my and foray into erotica
with Dale Lazarov, starting this winter, and getting that ready
has and is taking up a not insubstantial chunk of time. So there
will be another installment up, but I can't promise when -- I'm
hoping for next month, but it may have to wait until the new year.
Not that anyone's waiting with baited breath, I'm sure, but in any
case...thereyouhaveit.
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July 5, 2004
Finally another update for the First
Draft-- these two pages have been almost done for a while
now, but I've been having some strange glitches with the new version
of some of the software I use, which has wasted a lot of the limited
time I've had to put into this. So these two pages are rougher than
I'd like at this point, but are more or less legible. This whole
first section is gonna get revised at some point anyway -- it's
too bloody talky and static -- so I'm not going to worry about it
too much. Just bear with me. Next installment won't be up for another
month, probably, but will be a little longer -- 5 pages or so. |
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June 8, 2004
OK, the next two pages took longer than I
thought -- putting my life into little boxes took more time than
I had planned it too. Also got complicated on this end by my new
computer -- after years of Windows servitude, I just bought a Mac
laptop, since I will have no fixed address for the next six months
at least. However, getting my new system set up the same as my old
system has taken a bit of tweaking -- particulalry the font I created
that approximates my handwriting, which didn't seem to want to show
up in Illustrator. Got things straightened away by converting it
from a TTF to Type 1, but that took a little bit of doing. Anyway,
things are finally more or less normal and the next two pages of
the First Draft are done. You can start at the beginning
again, or just view the new parts by clicking here
Also noticed on the new machine that the
text on the comics index is muy fucked up. It looks fine on other
machines I've tried it on, but is in all the wrong places on my
new system. Don't know if it's been a problem for anyone else, but
I'll try and get it smoothed out in the next couple of days. |
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May 23, 2004
I'm going to try and get the next two pages
of First
Draft up this week, before I leave Japan. They're almost
done, but with me "almost" can still takea long time,
as one revison leads to another leads to another etc etc. I'm in
the middle of packing and getting my stuff in storage, because I'm
leaving Japan for the summer, so if it doesn't happen in the next
five days, it probably won't get up until June 5 or so, after I
de-jetlag.
In the meantime, I've stuck up the first
couple of pages from an erotic short story called Hold
On, just because it'll be a while before it sees print,
since I am Our-Lady-Of-Perpetual-Dissatisfaction. Even though I
still don't think it's ready, I'm sick of sitting on it, so here's
a sneak peak. |
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May 14, 2004
OK, first three pages of First
Draft are up and running -- two more will be added in
a couple weeks, which finishes off the first beat of the story.
I'll be posting in two or three page increments for the foreseeable
future -- going to be travelling around a lot this summer, so I
don't know how that's going to affect my productivity -- probably
it won't have any more adverse effect than working full time does...
Any feedback or comments welcomed, of course:
flambe@chebucto.ns.ca.
Please put something in the message subject related to the site
or you're gonna get spam killed: currently I'm getting approximately
50 emails a day, all telling me that my penis is too small and that
I am desperately in need of Viagra. As if I'm not insecure enough
already.... |
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May 2, 2004
This site has needed an overhaul and a redesign
for a while, but it's been kind of low on the list of priorities.
Whatever energy hasn't been taken up by my dayjob has been going
into finishing up a comics erotica project that I am hopefully going
to make some kind of announcement about in the next few months.
Add to that trying to make time for an actual life, and presto --
instant cobwebs.
That is going to be changing soon, as I'm
starting a new project -- a long story that I'm going to be serialising
on the site for the foreseeable future. I've been thinking about
doing a long piece for for a while, but I never seem to be able
to get the time together to do it -- I tend to work really slowly,
so the time commitment required to do anything of substantial length
has always been a little daunting. However, when thinking about
it again recently, I realised that it would work well as a series
of short vignettes that, taken together, will build into somehing
bigger. That's the idea, at any rate-- and it will likely happen,
since it's less intimidating if I take it 4 - 5 pages at a time.
It'll likely be easier to read this way, as well. The first installment
is going up next week, and I'm hoping to post a new vignette every
month or so. I was tempted to post each page as it's finished, but
I don't think it would read very well that way -- better less frequent
updates, but with larger chunks of story.
I'm calling this sequence of strips "First
Draft", because that's eseentially what it is -- It's going
to need further revisions before it becomes a coherent, finished
piece. I've never done any comics this long before, so while it's
pretty planned out, part of this process is seeing in what direction
the strip and characters lead me, and letting myself take avenues
that may wind up as dead ends, just to see where they lead.
So check back regularly, and if you like
what you're seeing or have any criticism, constructive or otherwise,
drop me a line at: flambe@chebucto.ns.ca |
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