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Korean Ultra-minis

Update #33 · Apr 13, 2013 · 3 comments

Some people have been confused about their Korean ultra-minis, so if you got the “Korean Comics” collection delivered to your door, listen up!

In your package you got four bookmark-sized prints with goofy Korean characters on each side. Fold those in half so that the cover is on the front, and those are your minis! They’ll fit in your wallet so you can see weird Korean jokes you can’t understand any time!

I left them unfolded in the interest of getting them to you faster and safer!

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Done!

Update #32 · Apr 3, 2013 · 17 comments

Well, that’s that!

I’ve sent out all the digital rewards, and all the physical packages! There are of course still some FUTURE COMICS involved, so you all will be getting surprise bonus comics for some time as thanks for supporting this project, but everything from Whole Story Winter 2013 is done!

I made BFFs with staff of my local Korean Post-Office because I kept showing up with mountains of envelopes that got bigger and heavier and crazier with each trip. I had to borrow handcarts from the little old ladies in my neighborhood to transport them.

If you have any suggestions or feedback on how The Whole Story Winter 2013 went, let me know! I have lots more projects in the works, including a series of graphic novels that will teach you languages, a graphic novel that will teach you how to travel cheap, and of course the next Whole Story!

I have one crazy idea that I’ve been thinking about the last few days.....

For the next Whole Story, do you like the “all at once” bundle approach, or should I try a “graphic novel of the month” club so you have new stuff to read year-round?

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Your comics pages have been updated!

Update #31 · Mar 14, 2013 · 4 comments

I’ve added plenty more comics to your download pages!

If you got the Double Comics Collection, you’ll now have access to Son of a Father and 88 Blues, by Nam Dong Yoon.

Even if you didn’t everybody now has lots of bonus materials now added to their pages! Plagued! The Musical, Road Comics, Z, and lots more!

Head to the personalized link I gave you before, and see what’s new! (If you lost the link, message me!)

All of the physical packages are just about done, and should be in the mail by Monday!

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Drawing animals.

Update #30 · Feb 27, 2013 · 10 comments

As part of my quest to make up for the original-art-from-comics shortage, I’m drawing animals for backers. I’ve been Google Image searching animal types and drawing all the species that pop up. “Cool Looking Animals” “cute rodents” ‘cool monkeys” “just pugs” etc. 100 of 173 completed!

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Packing up prizes!

Update #29 · Feb 21, 2013 · 9 comments

Every surface of my office is covered in books, prints, stickers, envelopes, sketches, and who knows what else! (I know) (but some of it is secret)

These suckers are going out soon, so if you’re waiting on a physical prize pack and haven’t filled out your backer survey, do it up!

This has been a crazy-fun challenge! Usually all my problem solving has involved getting rid of unsold stock. This went so crazy well I’ve been to every single art supply store in Busan to pick up enough of everything. An hour on a bus to clear two stores out of the four sketchbooks a piece they have, then back again the next day after they restock. But I got everything I needed!( I think I accidentally caused a run on black sketchbooks in Korea because every shop seems to have ordered a crate because of the brief spike in demand I caused.)

I’m also having lots of fun making extras for you guys to make up for the fact that I’m a little short on original art. I promised ten per package before realizing how crazy popular the option was going to be. I’m drawing some more sketches to make up the slack, but everyone will get slightly less drawings with lots of extra mass-producable goodies to make up for it.

(if that’s not cool with anyone, and you want to guarantee you get 10 pieces of original art instead of the secret extras, let me know and I’ll make it right!)

Well, back to packing!

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