The Trip

I'm alive! I know, I've done it again – this whole disappearing-and-reappearing act. Almost exactly a year ago, I went on my bicycle trip in Brandenburg, and now – on Tuesday – I'm finally presenting the final product. I'm sorry about the silence – it was kind of a rough year and I couldn't bring myself to do an update. If you're reading this, though, thanks for checking back!

I wanted to give you a little glimpse of the book:

Here's the cover:

And here's a page of the book.

To be completely honest, I can't even bear to look at the book anymore, but I'm planning on making the PDF of the book available to everyone online and to maybe sell a few copies of the book. I'll do that in April, so check back for updates!

Tofu Book

Hi everyone! I just wanted to let you know that I will be on holiday so I will be posting comics only on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday until the March 21st! Thanks for reading!

Rosemary's Baby

This reminds me of the time I went to see that vampire film without knowing it was a vampire film.

Tel Aviv Day 2

Shalom from Tel Aviv! After a hectic but successful week at the Leipzig Book Fair, G and I are on a well-deserved holiday in Israel. Tel Aviv is warm, sunny, bustling and delicious. I've already eaten two falafel sandwiches in the last 24 hours; I'll see how many more I can eat in the next 7 days. Also, curiously enough, we both got mistaken for someone and asked for directions on our second day. Something about my Japanese face must scream local (yeah, right).

Oh, and in case you're curious, this is how our stand ended up looking like at the Leipziger Buchmesse.  Somebody came by and told us our paper cloud looked like popcorn. Peoples!

I need your input for the new comic!

Happy Sunday everyone!

I'd like to thank everyone who bought a copy of "The Idiot's Guide to Dining with an Asian Mother." I'm pretty much sold out (all but a few copies left) and have been overwhelmed by the positive response and kind words I've received. This has been pretty much the coolest experience ever, getting e-mails from readers, meeting new people, and sending out my comic to people all over the world. Thank you, thank you, thank you for your support!

I'm thinking on making another minicomic before the fall (before I start school! Have I mentioned I'm going back to school? I'm going to art school for a BA in visual communication starting in October and I'm hugely excited), which is going to be a compilation of my and your favourite Bonsais.

So my question to you is . . . which ones are your favourites? It doesn't matter if it's old or new, stick figure or non-stick-figure, G with or without a nose...I'm thinking of including a little bit of everything. I'd just like some input from you guys so I can start narrowing down my choices and decide how big the booklet will be.

Leave me a comment and let me know what you think!

Productive...kind of

「はかどって...ない」

Dining with an Asian Mother

I'm working on a silly little booklet called An Idiot's Guide to Dining with an Asian Mother. This was originally to be the assignment for another art college I was applying to, but since I accepted elsewhere, I'm working on slowly finishing it up for myself. Here's a sneak peek at the cover and a page from the booklet. It looks pretty bare now, but I'm thinking of being brave and using some colour (for once!).

Of course, G and Mama are my models.

Assholes Cover

Been very productive today. Finished putting together and creating the cover for my Asshole series. Assholes #3 and #5 ended up being personal and actually not very interesting, so I won't be posting them here, but they are included in the booklet.

Just in case you haven't read them yet, here are Asshole #1, Asshole #2, and Asshole #4.

I'm not 100% satisfied with the stories, but I like the cover. I'm just afraid there's too much black/white/grey in my portfolio. I think it's time to go buy some coloured construction paper.

Assholes: world edition. (well, the only edition)

Asshole.

Took me forever to cut the super-simplified world map out without tearing it!

*peek*

My mom saw my booklet-in-process yesterday and said, "Asshole? What do you mean, asshole? Did you write about the anus?"

Right. Moving right along.

Bonsai Cover

Finally got off my ass and made a cover for my book of Bonsai compilation (June to December 2011 comics). 

One work down, many more to go.