It's disgustingly hot here right now. If you're from Toronto or anywhere around there, you'll understand this mix of heat and humidity but it's a constant pounding all day and all night. At least my laundry dries in about an hour...

I'm 2 pages away from finishing my ninja thing. Hot damn, it's taken me forever to get this far. I will be done on Saturday and then I'm off on a little vacation in order to get away from this furnace called Tokyo to somewhere with trees and grass. Not that "grass", although... umm... anyway... It'll be good to reset myself and mentally prepare for applying to publishers which is the next hurdle. It'll probably go through a few edits before that even. I'm excited though. Excited to hear if it rocks or sucks. I'll take both. It'll be a win either way.

I had a run-in with 2 roaches this morning. They just DON'T go away! I'm starting to freak out.

I've been getting a lot of questions regarding commissions I mentioned in a past post and as it looks right now, I'll be taking exactly 10 orders on a first-come-first-served basis. Don't write in yet. I will give a shout about it next week once I'm back. I haven't decided on a price yet but in terms of size, I'll most likely stick with my standard format from last year being letter sized, inked and toned. Preferably characters I've drawn already but if you have good reference material I'm willing to make exceptions. Anyway, I'll give a more detailed post next week about all this.

Here's a finished page:


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