First, the big news would be that Zuda, as it was, is no more.

sashacries

They have eliminated the monthly competition entirely. It used to be that they pick 10 comics each month and let readers vote, which comic get most vote would get to be serialized on the site. Pavlov’s Dream which I co-created with @bicyclefish was in the January 2010 Competition (we ended up rank 6). I admitted that I both like and hate being in the competition. January was the most stressful month so far and I was glad it was over. But I’m definitely sad to see that there will be no more competition. After all, it was the reason that Pavlov’s Dream was born. I have 2 more stories I was working on which I had to put on hold for now, just to see what will happen next. My guess would be that Zuda will move to ‘instant win only’ model, which is at best, one comic every few months. I feel like the door was definitely shut. But we will see, @bicyclefish wrote a thought on this as well, check it out if you are curious.

Here’s some drafts of Zuda entry that will never be:

corridor corridor2

corridor3

crew

I might try to adapt these two to some other format, or maybe there will be other venues open up in the future, who knows.

I’m currently working on sisters’ luck book 2, speaking of which, I need to finish website for it, at least before the book comes out.

On a more personal news; I’m going back to school, in pursue of a bachelor degree. A degree in which I don’t know what the hell I’m going to do with it. But I guess Bachelor degree is the new high school and it’s your civic duty to finish it, or something.

There’s nothing caught my eyes on the internet this week, not even Youtube cat, On to next week!

May 7, 2010 :   Tagged with:
 

And congratulation to Matthew Petz! We will be anxiously waiting for more War of the Woods.

war of the woods!

Thanks to everyone who participated in Pavlov’s Dream promotion Contest! Good news is that, all of you will get some swags from us! :D

Pavlov’s Dream will definitely be continued here at machinegolem.com, likely will be once a week update till the conclusion. I hope to start as soon as possible but I have some other affairs to sort out first. Meanwhile, you can still read first 8 pages it at Zuda.

I have learned a lot from participating in this contest. It was fun, but on the other hand, I was practically a jumpy ball of nerves all month. I will probably try zuda a few more times. But not immediately, I need to recoup first XD

*Yeah, I just happened to have hugging otters plushie from seaworld lying around :D

January 29, 2010 :   Tagged with:
 

We came up with idea for Pavlov’s dream in January 2009—which feels like a lifetime away. Started with idea of talking shadow and it went from there.

Originally, the colors and style were going to be dreamier, but while it worked as individual illustration, I feel that the entire comic through the blur filter is a little bit much.

Read and vote for Pavlov’s Dream here. :D

January 6, 2010 :   Tagged with:
 

Finally, I can tell the world about this! XD

If you haven’t heard of zuda before. it’s a webcomic site run by DC where every month they select 10 comics to advance to the competition. The winning comic will then be serialized on the site. This month my comic (co-written with kayay) is in the competition!

Pavlov’s Dream is about brothers, Micha and Sasha, who accidentally tumble into the land of the death. Not only they have to find a way back to the land of living, they also have to fix the mess that their brief adventure in the land of the death brings.

Read it, vote it, fav it, rate it, comment it, anything! (If you like it, that is :D) I’ll be very happy to hear any feedback too!

Yeah, this is basically same post as on LJ, if you have read it there already, I apologize for the bombardment XD.

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