Late Night DGN Musings
Back in May, I quietly celebrated the 4-year anniversary of Dragon Girl Noriko. I didn't make a big hoopla about it, I honestly think I only made a tweet about it and didn't say much else, because at the time, it's future was kind of grim. It's not easy, really, making a computer-generated comic when you don't have a computer. But somehow, through a lot of real-life problems, a lot of nervous breakdowns, and a sizeable handful of personal tribulations that I pretty much kept to myself and Mary, it's somehow endured to keep being the single longest artistic project I've ever done. At present, there's somewhere in the neighborhood of 535 pages done (though about 8 of those are upcoming and not released yet) and sometimes I have to sit back and think about what it is I've done here. No, DGN isn't the most read or most popular comic on the Internet, but it's my baby and I'm proud of what it (and I, for that matter) have accomplished. I've taken it from a rarely-read and completely unknown comic to something that people worldwide read and love. It's good. It's really bloody good, in my humble opinion. And it's about to get great.
The beginning of Chapter 14 is locked and loaded and waiting for the end of Chapter 13. It's going to be intense, fast-moving, frightening in places, and sometimes you're going to cheer, and sometimes you're going to cry. It's going to run the whole range of human experience and emotion, and what's been done so far, I'm really proud of. I couldn't think of a better partner than maximkovalenko to entrust the artwork for something that means so much to me. Honestly, folks, if I hadn't literally grown up with this man, and been close friends for the past 30 years, there's just no way in hell it would have happened. What we have planned for you, good readers, is going to blow your minds and make you reassess just what you think about this comic. If you didn't like it before, give it another try soon. And if you did like it, you're going to love it. It's finally going to be exactly what I have always wanted it to be. You'll see, and soon. And you will never look at anything anime/manga style the same way again. I can pretty much promise you this much.
Triumph and Joy,
J.