Well, uh… hey.

No Need For Kaide has finished. For some reason, the story took me to the point of ending a really nice run on the web and in print with a poop joke.

This comic was fun to make. I met a lot of great people, and in the process, I also managed to improve my skills (kind of hard to showcase using NNFK, though; a 3-panel comic is very limiting in terms of what you can put in it).

I’m going to be moving on to other things right now; If I ever come up with a story I myself like enough to write, maybe I’ll come back to making comics. But anyway, just wanna thank you guys for reading, and for giving this comic a chance.

What happened to the book?

A few months ago, some of you were asking if there was going to be a book, and I said I’d try. I talked to a couple of printers, gave them a spec sheet and asked for prices. I had the money and was serious about the endeavour, but apparently, they didn’t seem to be. To put it simply, I had bad experiences in dealing with both printers. Both were generally unprofessional, so after a few weeks of trying to deal with them, I just decided to drop it.

Anyway, thanks again for reading! You guys are great.

While I’m away, I’d like to direct your attention to two of the best comic strips (in my humble opinion) that also run in the Manila Bulletin:

• Life In Progress by Julius Villanueva
• Bokswagon by Bok Hong

Tell ‘em I sent you. Or not. Well, it’s up to you, really. Uh… yeah. So, like, bye and stuff. Again.

I called my editor up at the Bulletin this week to sort out the non-appearance of the strip for the past few weeks or so (was it two? three? I can’t remember). I was under the impression that maybe I got the boot and someone forgot to tell me.

So what’s up with NNFK not appearing in the past few Sunday Bulletins?

No one’s really sure. From the Bulletin’s end of things, there seemed to be a bit of confusion as well. I was told that the strip wasn’t canceled (whew), and that it should have been printed the past few weeks. Something likely just got mixed up somewhere there.

I was told that they will be running the comics I sent in that weren’t printed, so I’m still trying to figure out the update schedule beyond this week’s update. I’d still like to maintain that one week buffer between print and online updates.

We’ll figure something out. In the meantime, please enjoy this week’s comic strip. Or not.