Happy, Black Friday everyone, if you consider that a holiday. Hope your not lost out there in the storm of shopping. For those who choose to stay home, here’s a brand new page to chapter 28 for your free viewing pleasure. As usual, click the thumbnail to view the latest page.
I’m sorry for the lack of updates last week. I did want to add another page last week, but I fell behind a bit and the cache would’ve run out of pages too fast. As a little warning to everyone THIS IS the holiday season and my day job can get pretty stressful this time of the year. As such, there may be a few behind schedule moments where I’m just tired and can’t work on pages. I’ll do my very best to keep up as I love working on this series, but it just may happen. And I also CAN’T let our cache run out otherwise it could really grind everything to a halt. So the update schedule might fluctuate for the rest of the year depending on what happens.
Anyway, here’s today’s newest page for chapter 28. Click the thumbnail below to see more.
Today is the official day everyone. We’ve had a long break due to con prep and other project, but finally today Kalwa has a NEW chapter starting up. Chapter 28 is officially launching, the final chapter in the current story arch. Today we’re kicking off with THREE pages of this chapter. We got some more done as well, and will upload them in a timely fashion.
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Happy Halloween everyone, the best time of the year!!!
Crossover with Luz Noceda from the Owl House, she’s trying to teach Kalwa about using glyphs to use magic. I’ve been wanting to do a Luz and Kalwa crossover for a while now, since the Owl House is a major inspiration to me. Seeing the show, learning about it’s creator really kinda pushed me into high gear, not to mention really helped put me on the map. Also Luz reminded me so much of Kalwa as both characters wish to escape their dull lives in pursuit of thrills and adventure.
And before anyone gets any ideas, Kalwa is a SCI-FI manga, I’ve made it a major point to not have any magic involved in the story, everything in the story is explained through logic. Even the time traveling phone will eventually be given an explanation which we have been working towards. Yes it does fall a bit in the realm of fantasy, but it’s like the manga Death Note where it just needs a small dap of fantasy to make the story work.
So I know it has been quiet around here lately. The reason is that I’ll be debuting the FIRST Kalwa books, and Amber, at Tuscan Comic Con this September and I’ve spent the last two months prepping stuff. Everything for the convention has been sent to the printers and I’m waiting for the final details on placement. Plus my day job has been a bit busy, especially with deliveries in the hot heat that Arizona has been having (if you lived here you’d know what I mean) has left me drained. So everything has kinda been on hold. We are now finally ready to resume work, and chapter 28 is being written. I’m working to have it written and roughed before the convention, I’ll give more details on that in the near future.
For now, here’s a new summer drawing of Kalwa doing some modeling. Hot as it is, I’ve still been trying to enjoy the summer vibes, hard as it is. This was originally a lunchtime sketch that I decided to color. Hope you enjoy it and have a good summer, what’s left of it anyway.
Just a little update on what’s going on lately with publication. So after chapter 27 finished up, things got a little off track with a little vacation time to my states comic con, plus doing some stuff on the Green Raptor side. Now in other news I’m set to make my convention debut at Tuscan Comic Coni this September and I’m bringing both Kalwa and Amber along. Both characters will have their first volumes in hard copy form.
Kalwa Vol 1 will consist of the first four chapters and some exclusive art and handouts for anyone attending the con. I’ll be looking to sell books on the Etsy shop and even some e-books upon getting back. For now here’s some screenshots of the indesign files as the book is being laid out.
As for chapter 28, it’s in the writing, I’ve just fallen a bit behind. The con is gonna be top priority having to get everything ready and printed before then, but I’ll work on it as best I can. Hopefully I can get it finished and sent to my co-writer and he can look it over while I’m in Tuscan.
Little bit late on this but here’s our annual summer illustration. This year Kalwa’s joined by Amber the Mermaid, the other Green Raptor comic star. Hope you’re all enjoying the first bits of summer this year.
For the first time since this site went up, we’re actually doing something for Pride Month with a new illustration centered around Kalwa (and Green Raptor’s) first LGBT character Bridgette, who made her debut in the Western Arch starting in chapter 4. Bridgette wasn’t initially written as gay, but as her backstory with Rachel started getting written it just felt right, it also felt kinda unique at the time the story was written as the LGBT community was starting to see recognition within fiction long before the Owl House came out. There will be a second western arch later in the story where her feelings and history with Rachel will play a bit more of a role in the plot. Happy Pride Month everyone.
An adventurous manga series about a teenage girl and her time traveling cell phone 