In which I announce a bad thing but then a good thing. Ask Junko! has been an experiment which has taught me numerous life lessons, namely to not use a Wacom tablet to illustrate and not to make another failed serialised fiction piece that will go down as one of my follies, like my serialised fiction piece Supervillain! did.
Supervillain! was a superhero themed story I tried to serialise back in the day using eBooks, but it didn’t work out because I just don’t fit with the serialised format. I should have learnt my lesson, but I tried again with this webmanga, Ask Junko!, which was the cause of a lot of stress for me because I was practically stressed out of my brain trying to come up with content on a regular basis, rather than having a more relaxed approach that gets my novels written and illustrated.
It hurts so bad to have to do this, but I’m going to have to end serialising Ask Junko!. Not because I want to by any means. It’s just going to hurt me more if I continue the webmanga, because I haven’t adapted well to the whole webcomics/webmanga scene. I just can’t DO art on a regular basis, not when my life’s so busy just doing my blog entries and figure reviews for this lovely and supportive blog, The Banzai Effect!.
You will still be able to read my opinion pieces here, and you’ll get my figure reviews as well, but extracting an Ask Junko! strip from me on a regular basis felt like drawing blood from a stone. It would just be unfair of you to expect me to torture myself by attempting to draw and edit webmanga strips every week for you guys, it’s not because I don’t like you. It’s because I need to take better care of myself. I need less work at this stage of my life, what with my HSC approaching, not more.
Which is why I’m asking all my Ask Junko! fans, all one or two of you, to follow Junko on her new Twitter account. That’s where she belongs, she deserves to be a character seperate from me. I need to let my daughter, even if she is entirely fictional, grow up. She needs to fall in love, have a life of her own, enjoy herself, without me holding her back. Besides, now that she has a Twitter account she can be everything I intended her to be, a sassy, strong, female character who asked questions and even answered them from time to time. She’s not supposed to be just lines on paper. She’s supposed to be an identified character who interacts with the blogging community. That is what I intended her to be in the first place, but I had my lapses into depression and I just couldn’t do that, so I made her partly a comedic character to cheer me up. I felt so damn lousy that I was stuck doing depressing and serious plotlines you guys didn’t wanna read.
I’m so, so, SO VERY SORRY I had to do this to you all. But don’t worry. Junko’s alive and well on her Twitter feed. You can still follow her adventures if you still care about her in any way at all. This is not the end of my blogging career at The Banzai Effect! Blog. It’s just… I can’t do webmanga strips anymore, because it’s a format of illustration I can’t keep up with. Please understand why I had to stop drawing my webmanga, for my sake.
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Copyright (c) Jacob Martin 2009
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