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“Tonoharu: Part One”—SOLD OUT! (Almost–see details below)

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Just got some cool news from my distributor: they’ve ran out of the second printing of Tonoharu: Part One!

I intend to reprint, but I’ll have to do a lot of prep work for it, so it’ll be months before a new printing comes out. I don’t expect to have it out until sometime in 2013…

So if you want Tonoharu: Part One for the upcoming holiday season, get it now while you still can!

WHERE TO BUY TONOHARU: PART ONE:

Direct From Me:
My distributor is out of copies, but I personally still have a couple dozen pristine copies left & available for sale. Not only that, but they’re from the first printing! AND a limited number of them (about 10) are signed! (I’ll update this entry if the signed copies run out.) I’m in Japan so I can’t sign more until I visit home next summer, so if you want a signed copy (or a copy at all, for that matter) order now!
Link to My Store>>>


From Amazon.com
As I write this blog entry, Amazon says they still have 2 copies. I don’t know if those are the very last two, or if they’ll be getting one last shipment or what, but either way, they’re scrapping the bottom of the barrel. There’s also some really, really cheap new/used copies being sold through third party sellers on Amazon. I imagine they’ll go up in price once the book is listed as out-of-print, so get ’em now while they’re cheap!
Link to Tonoharu: Part One on Amazon.com>>>


From your favorite local bookseller
If they have a copy, grab it, because it’ll be a while before they get any more!

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That’s it for now! My sincere thanks to everyone who supported me and picked up the book, making two sold-out printings possible! Here’s hoping printing #3 does okay too!

Oh, and there’s still a TON of copies of Tonoharu: Part Two left, so… pick that up too, won’t you? Ha ha…
(^^;)

Kameoka Diaries #9 — Sickness

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It’s been like five and a half months since I last posted Kameoka Diaries comics on this site,  so I figured it was high time that I did so. So without further ado, here’s part 9:
Continue reading Kameoka Diaries #9 — Sickness→

“The Kameoka Diaries 2” Sample Panels!

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The Kameoka Diaries: Volume Two is now available for just $1!
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Weighing in at 312 panels, The Kameoka Diaries: Volume Two is 28% longer than Volume One! Here’s a breakdown of the eight main chapters that make up the book, as well as a sample panel from each:

Sickness: A comic about being sick in Japan, including an explanation as to why you often see Japanese people wearing surgical masks.

 

Closure.: A comic about why it’s easier to end phone calls in English than in Japanese, and why the word “sayonara”, ironically, doesn’t provide closure.

 

Popee the Performer: Actually, this is the one comic in the collection that’s already available online; you can read it over at BoingBoing.net. So… yeah.
Um… but the e-book version is in HD and includes a new title panel, so there’s that! *Cough*

 

E-mail from Home: Based on an e-mail from my father about his vile attempt to discard an old mattress, and the brave toddlers who thwarted his plans.

 

Matsui-san: A comic about perhaps the shyest person I’ve ever met, and his adorable, stalkerish texts. Guest staring everyone’s favorite Wisconsinite Matilda.


Forms of Address: A comic about Japanese forms of address. This comic includes what is certainly the crudest panel in the book (a censored version of which shown below).
Just in case you’re imagining the worst, it’s not THAT bad (it’s on par with “South Park”-style humor). That said, if I could do it over again, I might have gone a different direction. So… yay, I guess? (I wonder if I’m helping or hurting sales by mentioning all this…)

 

Bars: I prefer Japanese bars to American bars because of one critical difference. What could it be??? Read this comic to find out.

 

Re-contracting: My fellow English teachers and I have the option to renew our teaching contracts once a year. Which members of the Kameoka crew chose to stay, and which chose to go home?

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So those are the main chapters that make up the book. And they can all be yours, in HD, in a smart-phone-friendly format, for just a dollar!

Thanks for the consideration, and if you enjoy them, please tell your friends. Cheers all! (^^)/

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Other digital comics by me:
The Kameoka Diaries: Volume One
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Young Men of a Certain Mind
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Kameoka Diaries 2: NOW AVAILABLE!

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The Kameoka Diaries: Volume Twois available for purchase for a buck RIGHT NOW! YOWZA!

For iPhone/iPad/iPod touch:
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For Android/PC/Mac/Whatever:
The Kameoka Diaries: Volume Two is available as a DRM-free PDF for $1 (or more):
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When I submitted my first e-comics to Apple, ( The Kameoka Diaries: Volume One and Young Men of a Certain Mind ) it took one month for them to get approved, so I’m surprised & delighted it only took two days this time. But hey, I’m not going to look a gift horse in the mouth!

I’ll write more about the new volume of The Kameoka Diaries soon; I just wanted to get this announcement blog entry out right-away.

So please check it out. And if you enjoy it, please consider writing a review on iBooks, and/or telling your friends, and/or tweeting about it, and/or “liking” it on Facebook. Thanks a bunch!

***8/9/12 UPDATE****

As I type these words, The Kameoka Diaries: Volume Two is the #1 selling comic on iBooks! Thanks all!!

 

“Kameoka Diaries 1” PDF–Now Available! “Kameoka Diaries 2”–Coming Soon!

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Wow, it’s been a looong time since I’ve updated–almost two months! I’ll try to update a bit more frequently in the future!

Anyway, a couple pieces of news about my digital comics:

“The Kameoka Diaries: Volume One” PDF– Now Available!
The Kameoka Diaries has been available on the iBookstore for a few months now, but that excludes people without iPhones/iPads from buying it. A few people asked for a non-Apple option, so I finally got my act together and created a PDF for the Kameoka Diaries: Volume One. You can buy it here for $1 (or more, if you want!):

http://gum.co/OoHL

Actually, it’s been available for sale for like a month; I announced it on Facebook and Twitter, but never actually bothered to write an entry about it for my website. Yup, I’m a marketing genius, all right. Subsequently, sales have been, well, terrible. If you’re interested in seeing more of my work in PDF form, please consider picking it up! I’ll try to market it more effectively and see how it does, but if sales don’t pick up I probably won’t bother turning The Kameoka Diaries: Volume Two into a PDF when the time comes. And speaking of The Kameoka Diaries: Volume Two… Continue reading “Kameoka Diaries 1” PDF–Now Available! “Kameoka Diaries 2”–Coming Soon!→