April 8, 2012

Sitting in the airport in Seattle, waiting for my flight back to Oakland after spending a week here in Seattle! I just finished up at Sakura Con after going to Emerald City Comic Con last weekend and staying for a total of ten days. Although I had a ton of work I had to do, I managed to get out a little during the week and get a feel for the city and fell completely in love with Seattle. The food is great, the public market is to die for, people are friendly, the Puget Sound is BEAUTIFUL, the air is crisp and the city is so clean! Of course, the weather was lovely most of the time I was here and while there’s a part of me that thinks I would love to live here, after a few weeks of VERY COLD RAIN I probably wouldn’t be so enthusiastic. Nonetheless, I had a wonderful time, Seattle!

Sakura Con was SO AWESOME! I was fortunate enough to be able to spend most of the weekend with some of my favorite people/comic artists. I was delighted to get to the con and discover that we were set up next to Minor Acts of Heroism, and proceeded to be a squirmy little fan spaz at them for the entire con. I was also delighted to once again be able to see and chat with our friends over at Decalzilla. After hours, I spent almost all of my time with the lovely ladies of Teahouse fame as well as the extremely talented Chloe, artist for Two Keys/Honeydew Syndrome. Next year at Sakura Con, we’ve arranged to all be seated together to form a BOY LOVE TRIFECTA OF DOOM. I met so many new people and picked up several new comics, including meeting Cari who does Toilet Genie and reading Fox Sister (READ IT RIGHT NOW OMG.) Meanwhile, JD had a full workload at Anime Boston and got to see such talented artists as our good friends Jadiekins, Nakira and Kori, creator of Prince of Cats. Thanks so much everyone for being such great friends and making our conventions so much fun!

And thank all of YOU so much for coming to see us at the cons! We both have never had so many people come see us at the booth and we sold nearly every copy of the books we had at both cons! We feel really guilty that we didn’t have any freebies that we could give to you guys! What we did do was make some print versions of the transformation wallpapers that I recently put together — and yes, we’ll make those available for those of you who’d like to order them through the web site later this week. We’ve got a little time at home, finally and thankfully so we’ll be busting our butts to get new pages done for you guys! Thank you as always for being so patient while our lives have been in a state of flux for the last six months. The support and appreciation and kind words we’ve received about the comic are just overwhelming.

We’ll check in again later this week and in one last shout out, a huge congratulations to our buddy Alex for raising over $35,000(!!!) through Kickstarter to print his incredible story, Artifice. The funding ends in ONE HOUR so you still have a chance to get in on the action!

March 17, 2012

With Yuki’s transformation, there was a number of requests for some transformation wallpapers and you know we aim to please! So we hope you enjoy these wallpapers — they come in 2 sizes which we THINK are the standard ones… if you’re looking for different dimensions, let us know!

In case you’ve been out of the loop, we’re still offering our mad apologies for being unable to go back to updating. Our move from San Diego to San Fran had some serious hiccups that set us back A LOT. We’ll have another guest art for you on Monday and then we’ll be back on schedule March 23rd.

This weekend Dusty’s in Hawaii at KawaiiKon (we can thank them for providing power at the tables and letting us get those wallpapers done!) while JD is home making sure the cats don’t lose their minds in the new house. We’ve got a weekend off and then we’ll be at Emerald City Comic Con, followed by Anime Boston and we MIGHT make a last minute trip to Sakura Con if we can swing it. Cross your fingers for us!

This weekend we also sent out the requests for the Alex/Yuki backstory that we’d had piling up for two weeks, SO sorry it took us so long to get that to some of you! If you didn’t get the backstory you requested, be sure to send in the form again.

See you Friday!

February 22, 2012

First of all, we need to tell you guys that we had a screw up on the site over the weekend and if you requested the Yuki/Alex backstory Thurs-Monday last week, you need to resubmit! Sorry about that.

We were at both Megacon and Katsucon this weekend and had a bunch of people stop by the booth! Thank you all for visiting us and for your kind words! You make doing the comic so rewarding.

Sorry we weren’t able to get you guys a new comic page last Friday but with two cons to get ready for, we just didn’t have the time. It’s going to be a busy month for us from here on in and sadly, after this Friday we’ll have to take a brief hiatus while we make our move up to San Francisco. The good news is, we’ve got some guest art lined up from some VERY talented people to hold you over through the two weeks while we relocate.

We were recently lucky enough to participate on the podcast run by our very good friends at Supaa Kaizoku Cosplay! For those of you who complain at us in the LiveStream for leaving the mic off, here’s an opportunity to listen to us rant endlessly with the added bonus of a little too much booze. (Don’t drink and podcast, kids.) With our friend Astel, we talk about our experience on the cosplay circuit (yeah, we used to do that. A LOT.) and about the origins of Shounen Fight and its process. Thanks for having us on, Kaizokus! You can listen to our madness here.

And lastly, in spite of having to miss last week’s page we did put up a new voting incentive on TWC and we’ll have another this friday with the new page.