Inkbook #2:

There are nine new pieces ready. I haven’t decided whether I’ll do the book in the same fashion (that is 40 new and 10 old pages) or whether I’ll fill the book to the brim with new drawings. I’d love to go with the latter, so that would mean 43 pieces to go.

Moon Jade Angel #2:

Tricky math here. I have 5 pages of comics ready and also five pages of art. Also, a b&w 2-page comic that I want to run on the inside covers. There’s a couple more pieces that resurfaced after I assembled book 1, and one or two that simply didn’t make the cut, plus a four page section on my really old drawings and digital doodles (I was unhappy with the written part so I cut these pages out entirely). I’m thinking about taking a bunch of b&w drawings that simply don’t have what it takes to make it into Inkbook and applying some good colors on top of them. That could take few more pages I guess. So I don’t really know how many pages I have at all, haha. But 10+ is a good guess at this point.

Robyn Hood:

I’m still not sure on whether to draw this one now or not. I could do it and just get it out of the way but it doesn’t feel right so close to my grandma’s death. We’ll see… I’m thinking of rewriting it a little and either expanding it to 40+ pages, adding a second story to fill up a full 48-52 page book, or compressing and streamlining this one a bit to get it below 24 pages. Depending on the choice, it’ll either become a larger oneshot, or a long tale inside of one of Moon Jade Angel issues.

The “nanowrimo novel”:

Still hasn’t returned from proofreading, although work is progressing on it. Slowly, but surely forward. Hoping to have more news on that one soon.

Amen City Chronicles:

I’ve redesigned the structure and will aim for 250 page volumes (or closely thereabout), and a 5-7 days a week updating webcomic. Depending on whether I can achieve a tempo of 3 pages a day or have to stick to drawing one page a day (depends on day jobs and such) I’ll be either looking at roughly simultaneous publishing online and on paper OR the webcomic going at its own speed with the printed volumes coming out every 3-6 months, so faster than online.

How’s the story? I have v1 partially rewritten and expanded to contain majority of v2 + a bunch of new scenes that did not go into Din Krakatau, but it needs a finalized script. Also, I have the opening sequence and the following 50-70 pages of v2 written down. Beyond that all I have is loose ideas and plotlines, nothing set in concrete.

Carnivore Carnival:

I’ve been a bit overwhelmed by the sheer number of my ideas that could be adapted into short comics. In short, I don’t know what to focus on next. I’ve been slowly chipping away on several scripts though. The plan for the webcomic is to continue as it is and then put the stories either into Moon Jade Angel, or as standalone oneshots (if they’re long enough for that). I will try drawing them in the “sketchbook method” I wrote on about in this post. Got a bunch of cheap notebooks bought specifically for that.

So this concludes the update session. There are other things in work, neither of which will see the light of day this year probably, so it’s too early to write about them.