First of all, I've been getting e-mail wondering whether I'm all right after the quake yesterday and I'm totally fine. Thank you for worrying though. The areas that were hit the hardest are up north in Niigata and Nagano and spread out from there. I felt a small tremor while still in bed but it was really nothing. Thankfully. I have friends up in Niigata and they are all fine with their homes and belongings unaffected.

Also, I've been getting e-mail asking whether I will be attending the San Diego Comicon this year. The answer to that is an unfortunate "no". I don't have plans to go home until maybe Christmas and I'll probably come straight back here after a week or two so no North American cons for me this year. I've been debating whether or not to accept a limited number of sketch commissions due to being non-active in the con circuit so I'll let you know about that later if you're interested.

The final question I've been getting a lot of is if the project I'm working on right now will ever be available in North America. Honestly, I have no idea. There are a few steps before it can ever see publishment here so it's a question that's both possible and impossible to answer. I don't want to get ahead of myself so I'm taking things one step at a time. I'm guessing it'll be done in another 2 weeks then I will shop it to a publisher. If they approve it in it's entirety then I'm hoping they will print it but I'm guessing they'll probably find things to change and edit to suit their magazine. They may even reject it. I really don't know how they will react to it but that's what I'm most looking forward to right now. If things don't work out and it falls into limbo I'll upload it to my site or something.

That's it for now.

TAK