Canada Revenue is crawling up my ass about my tax write offs for the studio.
What the hell, why are they always coming down on us man?
Uh...they've...never come down on anything. But apparently they have an issue with our studio because...well..
It's imaginary.
What the fuck did you just say?
I'll have you know that I consider our studio space to be sacred, and regardless of the form that it has taken, it still represents a step forward for us.
Yeah, I know, but you just taped off a corner of the Second Cup, like Les Nesman, and then screamed at anybody who sat down. Technically that isn't really a studio space.
What about all the money I give them? Doesn't that count as rent or something?
Dude, you bought all their brownies and then bet an old lady you could eat them all in under 2 minutes. It's costs them more in toilet paper you use than we ever give them.
The bottom line is that we can't write off hanging out in a coffee shop.
You're totally right.
We're just going to have to face the awful truth...
We have to go back to hanging out in the International Porno Theater.
It's been 6 months but I'm back working on the Panda Girls anime / manga pretty much full-time now. I was helping out a friend of mine, Dave Royer, with his business called SAGE Creatives, and we may see more developments with Dave and Panda Girls in the near future.
Jumping back into the Panda Girls project was a little odd and exciting. Odd in the way that I felt distanced visually, (Crom and I have maintained story meetings consistently during my hiatus), and exciting in that sense where you know time away always brings with it a new perspective. For my first post, I didn't want to make a splash. More just easing into it again, and giving myself time to find my stride.
Here's a couple of thumbnails, (in no particular order), to help me feel out the 10 page teaser. Jumping around to events/moments that inspired, and tried to catch them with the simplest shapes.