Friday update (while entertaining you with the 2 omakes done on paper in pencil and ink brush before being scanned and shaded on photoshoppe):
1. After meetings with the printer as well as our deadline for the SCC coming up in May -- we decided to delay 16 slightly (no worries! It's done!) so it can go to print WITH the artbook and both made available to you at the same time. This will ease the pressure on our agents to deal with ONE order/shipment while combined shipping should be vastly less painful for you guys overseas. We are talking about perhaps 7-10 days' wait for you to get both at the same time.
We have a deadline for the artbook to be turned in by the 5th (it will have a new cover for it). Please do keep in mind that this will not be a massive 150 page artbook. The color coordination and layout is actually more time consuming than for an interior of a BW doujin. It will be in the range of between 40-50 pages FYI.
2. This brings to the eZine. We have to postpone this until the 10th for both us to finish the artbook + for Kahira to also finish her doujin (she is also going to be at SCC - she is working on a Touken Ranbu doujin as we speak). Both requested and needs the time to focus on the more urgent 5th deadline. We'll send out a letter to ALL eMag subscribers for APR on this. We'll see about coaxing another Q from Kahira for the troubles.
3. We will be offline as of 29 April to go to Japan for promotion with Libre in Hiroshima + Yokohama, as well as attend SCC on 3rd of May. We will also make a stop in Seoul Korea for an event sponsored by our publisher there, ImageFrame (details on this when they finalize them).
4. We will push for the shipment to come in by mid April so we can send the artbook and 16 over to you before we go offline for 2 weeks, of course.
5. A new extension to UNDERTOW doujin's been completed and after the eMagazine illos finish up, we'll complete one more illustration for UNDERTOW and complete PnG for print, so when we return in mid-May, they'll be ready to go for the catalog.
Got through all this?
Sorry for the change of plans -- we try to make the decisions that would make best sense for most of you and we hope you are OK with it! Have a good weekend!
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