On Hiatus Again?

Well, yes, I'm putting Lovarian Adventures on a long hiatus for the nth time. I'm sure this is no longer a surprise to my old readers (thanks for sticking around despite the past hiatuses, by the way). With everything that's happening in real life at the moment, I don't think I'll be able to update this comic with any new pages until early next year.

I have free time, sure, but I just don't have the energy to script, layout, draw and add dialogue to comic pages at the end of the day from last week to the end of the year. I've been bombarded with work in the office and I'm still a bit burnt out with the two comics-related projects I had to rush some weeks ago.

My wife and I also have to prepare for our three-week vacation back home in the Philippines. That involves buying the traditional "balikbayan pasalubong" (homecoming gifts) for family and friends. So, at the moment, our weekends are spent going to markets and the mall looking for things to buy for people at home.

Anyway, enough with the excuses. The short of it is that there wouldn't be updates until we get back from our vacation in January next year. Of course, if I did feel like drawing a page, I'd draw one in before then but I don't want to promise anything.

I guess the best way for you to find out when I'm updating again is to just subscribe to my mailing list. You'll receive an email once a new page gets uploaded. Or, if you really keep track of your favourite comics on OnlineComics.net or DrunkDuck, then you can just add this comic to your faves in either service.

So, see you all next year.

7:17

Yes, it's another update, at last. I still haven't fully rested from the other comic project I was doing but I thought I've delayed this webcomic long enough. And so I sort of forced myself to finish this current page.

I feel it could've been better but I just wanted it done. There were things I couldn't quite do that I was able to do in the previous pages mainly because it involved the settings I had in Painter. And since I had to reinstall my PC along with Painter and not having saved the settings, I had to fiddle around with the settings again just to get to what I was using before. The frustrating part is, I couldn't duplicate the old settings. So, I had to make do with the settings I've come up with now.

Down the road, I may have to tweak the settings a bit more. Hopefully, I'll accidentally rediscover the old settings I was using in the previous pages.

Also, the style I've used in this page is slightly different from the style I've used a few pages ago. The style is something I sort of picked up while doing the Prey short comic. I think doing the earlier style I had was easier and faster to do so I'll switch back to that in the next page.

Anyway, hope you guys enjoy the new page.

Prey Got Accepted

Remember the short comics titled Prey that I drew last month? The eight page comics that I had to submit to a publisher for a possible inclusion in a literary magazine titled Going Down Swinging? Well, the editor of GDS finally got back to me. Here is a condensed version of the letter I received from him just the other day.

Thank you so much for submitting to Going Down Swinging. We were lucky to receive over 950 prose and poetry submissions for issue #24, as well as over 120 pages of comic art. This made for some interesting reading and, as you could imagine, a longer-than-expected selection process.

After all that reading, looking and deciding, it’s with delight that I can let you know that we’ve accepted the following piece of yours for publication:

PREY

This next issue will be our first in a while to be a book only (our last six issues have included a CD of spoken word), but in the place of the spoken word CD we are featuring the best in Australian comic art. So stay tuned!

We plan to launch the next issue in Melbourne, Sydney, Frankston, Geelong and Daylesford … and hopefully a few more places outside Victoria & NSW if we get the chance.

Many regards, thanks and congratulations.

I'm stoked! This will be my second published work in Australia and the first where I'll get paid. It wouldn't pay much, mind you, but paid nonetheless. That's still better than doing comics for free which is what I mostly do for the time being.

I can't wait for the book to get published and distributed.