Happy New Year, Everyone!

Below you’ll find my first webcomic in about a year. Hopefully it’ll be the first in a mini-series.

I’m trying to experiment with smart phone-friendly comics, so I formatted this as a couple of e-books. The content is the same for both, but the first one is lower resolution, and should work well on iPhone 3-type screens. The second is higher resolution, and should work well for iPhone 4-type screens.

You’ll need an e-reader app installed to look at these, but there are many free ones available (such as iBooks).

Anyway, here are the files:

The Kameoka Diaries #1 Ebook
File Size: 1.04MB
Panel Size: 252px x 346px

The Kameoka Diaries #1 HD Ebook
File Size: 3.74MB
Panel Size: 504px x 691px

Like I said, this is an experiment. I’d really appreciate any feedback. If these files didn’t work for you or format incorrectly on your device, please let me know what device you were using and what the problem was. No issue is too small or nitpicky. This will help me improve future installments. Thanks!!

Or for those of you who would prefer to view it online, here it is: (more…)

(If you haven’t seen it yet, part one can be found here.)

The e-books in the previous installment didn’t get too many downloads, so I think I’ll skip making those for the time being. Though if people want them lemme know, and if enough people do I’ll put them up. Otherwise maybe once I have a bunch done I could package them as one big e-book and sell that on iBooks for 99 cents or something. We’ll see!

Anyway, without further adieu, here’s the second installment: (more…)

For those that missed them:

Part One: Self-Introduction
Part Two: Friends

And here’s Part Three:

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For those that missed them:

Part One: Self-Introduction
Part Two: Friends
Part Three: Midwestern Conflict

And here’s Part Four:

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For those that missed them:

Part One: Self-Introduction
Part Two: Friends
Part Three: Midwestern Conflict
Part Four: The Cold

And here’s Part Five:
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Progress Bar Key
Script/Story: The Story/Script for the comic
Artwork: The Drawing, Inking, and Computer Work for the comic
Final Edits/Incidentals: Post-Production Edits, Designing the Cover, Preparing for Press, etc.

(More information about Tonoharu can be found here.)

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I’ve just finished the artwork for page 39 out of a (projected) 117, which means the the artwork for Tonoharu: Part Three is now officially, exactly, ONE-THIRD COMPLETE! Hooray!

I won’t even make a wild guess about when Tonoharu: Part Three will be finished and available for purchase. I’ve missed so many self-imposed deadlines that it’s hard to say, especially now that I have a full time job again. In any event, it’ll still be a while yet, so don’t hold your breath!

One (small) piece of good news for those who are waiting for Tonoharu: Part Three: my job affords me a very generous 20 days of paid vacation. So far, after being on the job for almost seven months, I’ve used one of them. My plan is to take a whole month off this summer, and visit the US. Other than seeing old friends and family and such, I hope to devote most of that time to working on Tonoharu: Part Three. At best I might be able to finish ten extra pages or so, so I don’t mean to imply that a month of dedicated work will bring the book to the cusp of completion or anything, but hey, every little bit counts!

Oh, one more thing, in regards to The Kameoka Diaries, my new series of webcomics. You might be wondering if that’s slowing Tonoharu progress down even further. The honest answer is yeah, probably a bit. But actually, not too much. I tend to work on The Kameoka Diaries in places that I couldn’t work on Tonoharu anyway (cafes, bus stops, etc). Plus, I think it’s good for me to have something else to work on, to let off steam. If I never did any KD comics, I might have another 1-3 pages of Tonoharu done, but that’s about it.

Well, I’ll put up another progress report when the artwork for Tonoharu: Part Three is halfway done; probably show a couple of panels from the book then too. If you want more tedious, frequent updates, I tweet whenever I finish a page, so follow me on Twitter if you want. Peace!