So, I whipped up another page of my comic. I guess I've been kind of disappointed at the number of hits/comments on it. Usually I don't give a flying flip about these things, but you know, a comic is so much work, and I want to feel like...IDK, someone's reading it without being told to. I get comments from my flist, which is awesome, and believe me, I don't take it for granted, but I'm used to people just browsing by and being all like "O hai, what's this?" and PaperDemon seems so out of the way this isn't happening.

So I decided to cross-post it on dA, even though dA has no real system for comics and it's a major pain in the ass. The first page gave me an error when I put it up, but I went back and did it again and it seemed fine. Then when I put up the second page, I got the same error, went back, and tried to do it again, but it said I already had a deviation by that name. So I figured it must have gone through this time, and checked my gallery.

My gallery was empty.

No, seriously. Empty. Stuff from years ago, gone. Comments, stats, everything, gone. o_O No messages from dA telling me I'd been ToSed or anything. Nothing. I sent a note to support, thinking this is probably a technical problem.

But still. What. The fuck.

Happily, I didn't have anything exclusive to dA--my comic was on PD, and all my other stuff's on FAC. Crossposting comes in handy once in a while.

In more me-drawing-comics news, I joined up with Zetsuboys, a doujin circle for Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. I'm not doing anything huge, maybe just some gags or splash pages or a short-short of up to five pages. I'll do it in black and white in The Gimp, since I want a cleaner, simpler style than the one I'm doing the IY doujin in. I also said I wouldn't do any yaoi, just yuri, het or gen, and it had to involve female characters. This being because SZS fandom is very yaoi-biased, even though canon is more or less a free-for-all of sexualities and kinks. (My ship? Meru/phone OTP.) Maybe if I think of something clever, I'll write my own gags.

Even though this is not-for-profit, it's a chance for me to see some of my work in print, getting passed around at conventions.

I keep hoping to improve both my skill and speed with manga, and practice is definitely the way to go. Maybe in a few years I'll be able to churn out a chapter a week like Japanese mangaka. Maybe.

Oh, yes, and in continuing artsy news, no one wants to join my Inuyasha oekaki? Is the fandom just dead? Should I give up? Is it me? Is the layout too ugly? Rules too rigid? I'll nix 'em. Open to suggestions here.