recap: Ed & Ecchi is a short 40 pages comic in full color I did last year. It is published in Best New Manga 3, which is a 512 pages full color book, that can double as a blunt weapon, featuring short stories by various comic creators.
There’s a few reviews of the book floating around. Here’s some of them that mentioned Ed & Ecchi by name. Follow the link for full review of the whole book:
The Buffalo News : Entertainment
Thursday, February 26, 2009
The strongest stories are haunting and sweet, particularly Paul Harrison-Davies’ “My Robot” in which a sad-eyed robot toils to serve his cruel master, yearning for some simple appreciation and affections, and Shari Chankhamma’s touching “Ed & Ecchi,” in which a stray cat leads a double life to provide comfort to two very different masters.
http://ladyrhian.blogspot.com
Friday, January 23, 2009
“Ed and Ecchi”- A young man in a society ruled by cruelty and bureacracy befriends a small cat he named Ecchi. But will the cat be his salvation from the cruelty all around him?
Shari Chankhamma goes for a painted look in the post-apocalyptic “Ed & Ecchi: Me and My Food,” starring a guy and his cat trying to remain happy while it’s all CHILDREN OF MEN-y outside.
Sad news is that there won’t be new issue for BNM this year (and possibly thereafter). I don’t know if I will ever get a chance to have full color comic published again, considering the current economic climate, but I do have plans for short stories that take place in same universe as Ed & Ecchi. Maybe one day I’ll be able to release a compilation of them in one form or another. Wish me luck!
I’m bouncing back and forth between traditional and digital media, there’s no law saying that you have to stick to one right? I like being versatile, even at the cost of mastering either of them slower than usual :)
First one is not quite photoshop, I did the ink with copic brush pen ‘BS’ (which I refer to lovingly as bullshit pen XD) and screentone and lettering with manga studio, yes, I still have that thing. I barely use it anymore tho.
Text inspired by David Malki of Wondermark fame. It was spontaneously sprung up in his live drawing session on ustream. David Malki fast became someone I admire. When I first reading Wondermark, I had wondered (no pun) what set this apart from other cut and paste sprite webcomic? The answer? The brain behind it.
Now on to photoshop fest!
(don’t mind the text, I was just goofing around. yes, I started studying japanese seriously, after years of just thinking about it)
One thing I was thinking about a lot, Quality VS. Speed. Yes there’s people who can do high quality comic page with shortest amount of time, but the true is, even pro of a pro themselves need to sacrifice some quality for quantity. (looking at Sincity family values) The question is, how much can you sacrifice, how much can you get away with it and not wanting to burn them all later when you look at them again. I doubt I will find answer until I just do it.
also, from the out-of-no-where department: My loot this week
Zouichi, I love you, please marry me, let’s make synthetic baby together!
This is my new comic! had I talked about it before? I can’t remember XD. I’m excited, my goal is to do 20 pages a month (while jiggling other things too) and I’m on schedule, good me!
I’m so poor I can’t afford bed sheet, hahaha.
First, Cute shoes, does anyone have shoes like this? or is it considered an abomination like Ugg? I really don’t understand fashionheads. 
I got Liquid City in my hands, and it is really cool!
Full colors, big and thick, all glossy, mmmm.
Table of contents, my name is misprinted here, no biggy tho.
Mine is right on page 100! only 7 pages tho, but good 7 pages I promise! buy it please?
seeing it like this, make me want to have my own whole comic book in colors, this size, this thick, this glossy, I guess that’s my goal now |D
Lastly, lovely Snarry* if you don’t know what Snarry is.. ignore this XD
I probably should have separate lj for pervy stuff, but I didn’t do it that often, just once in a blue moon, so bear with me yeah?
This is a commission for a children book. I don’t know if I like it or not, something seems a bit off, but I haven’t done any color illustration for a while, I just can’t seem to find the balance to practice BOTH illustration and comicking.
And as a disclaimer, this is a homage to this comic page, as per client’s request. (I need to cover my ass)
Now for the WIP. 
I went to dentist, therefore: comic.
Some commissions I’ve done a while ago. Finally able to show them.
Google+ inspired some doodles. Made with Manga Studio.
