zines – AW Sketch

spellbound

This is just a quick update:

The Shibari Zine: Red Threads Volume 2 Kickstarter V2 is live! You can check out the project that I’m a part of, there’s quite a few tiers to choose from. The campaign will run until June 9, 2024.

Shibari Zine: Red Threads Volume 2 Kickstarter Campaign

I’ve also dispatched the Canzine zines to Broken Pencil, where they will be handling the shipping. Thank you everyone that bought from my storefront, it really means a lot to me! It’s been a very, very long time since I’ve attempted to make comics in a longer form, and I know I still have a lot to learn. I actually spent the day at Word Balloon Academy today, but I’ll save that write-up for another day.

Thank you online Canzone 2024 card with Ainosuke and Tadashi reading zines

If you missed out, you can actually buy midnight amaretto Tadashi Kikuchi x Ainosuke Shino fancomic in-person or online at The Beguiling. I’ve already posted this in a few places (that I realized wasn’t too easy to find), but I have put the above comic on itch.io as a free download. You can check it out below.

midnight amaretto Tadashi Kikuchi x Ainosuke via Itchio

Midnight amaretto Tadashi Kikuchi x Ainosuke Shindo: Ainosuke drinks from a whiskey glass while Tadashi looks embarrassed.

I made some zines to give away at a comic art festival I’m planning on going to (not tabling)!

Tadashi x Ainosuke manifesto zine and page & panel theatre sk8 fanzine

delusions of heaven

I made a free zine that’s basically Tadashi & Ainosuke making out, haha. You can download it for free on Itch.io.

Love & Kisses – a SK8 TadaAi zine – via Itch.io

Love & Kisses zine cover with Ainosuke blushing while holding two puppets that look like Tadashi and himself kissing.

page left: Tadashi kissing Ainosuke's palm. page right: Tadashi kissing Ainosuke's ear from behind.

page left: Ainosuke looking surprised while Tadashi licks his cheek. page right: Tadashi has a surprised expression while Ainosuke kisses his back.

double back

Hello! I’m here to announce a panel/talk that I’m doing at Con-G (formerly located in Guelph, but now online). The topic will be zines that you can make, and the zines I’ve previously made. You can check out the full schedule on con-g.ca.

Introduction to DIY zines
Saturday, Feb 10, 2024
5PM ET
Broadcast via Twitch

sweet & sour

Adam smoking a cigar with white smoke billowing all around his face

Tadashi as Snake stares menacingly while squatting at the top of a rock cliff at S. He is surrounded by shadowed capmen under a large and bright moon.

Tadashi in a green military lolita outfit with a snake head cane, and Ainosuke in a gothic lolita coord. Ainosuke is wearing a headpiece with a large blue rose on it, cross earrings, and her blouse has a spine design down the center of the back.

Baby Ainosuke rides the green and yellow Turbo Engine Skateboard of Detective Conan

A surprised child Ainosuke sits among his overly large adult clothes in the style of Detective Conan

summer songs

Here’s the very delayed announcement for Citrus Con! I’ll be in in the online artist alley this weekend from August 26-27, 2023. The Bigcartel shop will open that time, but here’s a preview of what’s to come.

New items

Habanera zine…but physical. It will have a colour cover and is printed on 32-lb paper. 8 pages. You can still get version one for free on itch.io.

Habanera zine cover featuring Ainosuke lying on the ground was a cassia flower in his mouth

Holographic stickers: There’s 2 new designs! One is based on the fujin design I made for Redbubble, but holographic. The second design is a shiny version of the emote that I made for the TadaAi emote set.

I’m also running a panel on Saturday August 26 at 7pm-8pm EDT! The topic will be Towards a more accessible fandom: Making your BL creations more accessible on the web.

And that’s all for now. I’d like to take a rest and work on some personal projects and think about things I want to do next year after Citrus Con.

to the stray dogs

The next post will contain the details for Citrus Con, but I will attending the convention and having a virtual table. I’ll be in the online artist alley at the end of August, and the Bigcartel store will open at that time. I’m working on some prints. I wanted to do the zine printing, but it didn’t work out, so hopefully some other time. I’m also doing a panel on Saturday evening as well.

CitrusCon is an 18+ queer media con that is free to attend, so feel free to register if you’re interested! (Come say hi on Discord if you do register~)

TadaAi Logs

Zine pages: Left: Adam dances on his longboard while Snake rides his white skateboard. Right top: Adam and Snake from the anime "SK8 The Infinity" fighting each other with swords. Adam is dressed as a matador, and Snake in a dark jacket and purple cravat. They are both bleeding. Right bottom left: Snake from the anime "SK8 The Infinity" removes his black gloves. He is a young man with short black hair under a red cap. He is wearing an olive bomber jacket, white undershirt, and black pants. A large "S" sticker is on his left arm. Right bottom right: Snake from the anime SK8 holding a piece of silver heart jewellery in his mouth.

Photo pf the zine with banding in the printing

I have opted not to sell the above at this time because the printing places that have quoted me were very high, and the place I printed at for the above had some strange banding and cutting, which is what is to be expected for the price I paid for them. I only made a small handful of copies to gift friends and drop off at the local zine library, or trade.

I also made this fun shipper’s manifesto for fun, and gifted both these zines to the friend that encouraged me by telling me that drawing my own food will make me powerful, haha. Thank you to everyone that has watched over me over these last few years.