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July 3, 2008

I've tried and failed multiple times to write a post summarizing what's transpired in the past months. At this point, I'm writing it more for myself than for any other reason (but I maintain that this isn't blog material). With regards to my work and this website, the following has occurred:

Newport rose and fell on a certain website. The battle's over--though a lot of people had kind words to say and I'm really grateful for it. (Objectively, some comments, on the other hand, were blatantly ignorant.) Regardless, it seems the project has fallen apart. I can't bear to go into detail again because the topic puts my stomach in knots but Benjamin Ong Pang Kean at Newsarama did a good...exposé on the matter.

What's this mean for the future? Let us speak in whispers and pretend this is an important topic.

Basically, it should be back to Online Comics for the time being. It'd be great to earn a couple of bucks from it too, but that'll require a more long-term investment sort of thing (like 10-100 years). Slowly, oh so slowly, I'll start plugging away at some new work (though finding the motivation is something I'd compare to running uphill on an icy road while the wind is blowing at you and you have to dodge cars sliding down. Also, people are hitting you with baseball bats.) Forgive me if I sound bitter.

<Subtle conclusion sentence followed by insubstantial promise of future updates.>

June 16, 2008

The life and times of a comic artist can be quite stressful sometimes, as the past month or so has proven to me. Getting/having Newport up on the Tokyopop website has opened my eyes to something I haven't quite grasped yet, but whatever it is I feel like I've learned some hard lessons.

To help myself laugh, I dug this little comic up and thought it would be fun to share it. I don't think this will be a "regular" thing, but if my response to negative stimuli is something like this, it can't be too bad.

I hope I'm able to share some good news soon.