Hey, thank you! Glad you liked it! Please let me know what you thought of “No Kissing”!

Hey, Jonas! Thank you! There’s no great compliment than to be told that another artist found your work inspiring — I hope very much that you do create work with the cute boys kissing. The world needs more cool gay comics!

And well, my hope in this life is that I never have to cause harm to anyone. But the fantasy, to fight back and win, yes, it is compelling, huh?

Thank you very much for the compliments. Please tell all your friends — we’re trying to get the word out — and please come back and let me know what you think of the next chapter!

Luck and joy with your work as well!

Alex

Lovely art, cool and wrapping plot! I’m waiting for the track3!

So much luck and joy on your work!
Jonas Momiji

Originally Posted By Alex Woolfson@Minnette –

Ah ha! Somebody’s been paying attention!

Well, we are sooooo close — and I could rush things to send it out tonight — but I’d rather make sure everything is working and tested before I send out the link to our 12,819 subscribers. So, sadness — I’m not going to make my self-imposed deadline of May 1st. It’ll go out sometime this week, just not today.

BUT I do have something to share. The beautiful painted cover Winona Nelson created for this chapter! It’s not the same thing as actually getting the comic today, I know — and I promise we’ll try harder to meet our deadline next time – but hopefully you’ll like it just the same. Check out our latest post to see her kick-ass work.

And thank you very much for your interest in our comics. I really am glad that you were looking forward to seeing this next chapter and I sure hope you like it when you get it!

Alright, thanks for the info.!

Hello there back! Thank you for such a wonderful and thoughtful review — I really appreciate you taking the time. Nothing could be more flattering to a creator.

I agree with what you said about Vitto’s linework (especially the character expressions) and Vincent’s colors. And yeah, in some ways Rob is meant to be a role model — but in other ways not. He’s a complicated guy in his own right — as you’ll find out in later chapters. But I do like that he stands up for himself — and that he’s good in a fight.

Thank you also for your kind words about the cues and the dialogue — as a writer I work very hard to make those things feel real and I’m delighted to hear they worked for you. As for what Rob meant with his “fag” line — IMHO, he actually meant both things. He doesn’t like the word fag much — and he is making some assumptions about Mike. But I agree it is open to interpretation.

I’m glad you liked the interracial relationship — as I’ve said elsewhere on this blog, showing the diversity in our comics that I’ve experienced in real life is important to me. And it’s especially important to me that our readers (hopefully!) can see themselves in our characters.

Also, thank you for the manga recommendations. I actually have read est em and enjoyed Seduce Me After The Show very much (and have written a review about it.) I’ve only read Say Please by Miyamoto-sensei — I didn’t connect with that too much, but I understand her other work might be stronger. You’re now the second person to recommend Dog Style to me — so I guess I’ll have to check that out. Always nice to have good books recommended to me.

Thank you again for the very long comment — it really was a great pleasure for me to read and I will let our artists know as well so they can enjoy it too. I’m sorry for the delay in getting out Chapter Two, but we’re almost done — by the end of the week, it will be in your email box. So hopefully the wait won’t feel too long. I’d love to hear your thoughts about that one as well!

(Oh, and I hope you’re having fun in one of the most romantic cities in the world! Paris — I’m envious. )

Anyway, thanks again! Hope to see you here soon!

Now my “review” if I may say so.
I love the artwork, though I’m used to reading manga, I also love western-style comics. First, the colors are very subtle and not gaudy. Second, you got a good sense of movement and life, your drawings look very fluid, which is always appreciated for fight and action scenes.
Third, the faces are very expressive, which enabled me to feel close to the characters. And their lips, oh boy, there are gorgeous, so kissable. My favorite panel? The last one, in which Mike is biting his lower lip. He’s just too cute, wanna eat him up.
About the characters, I love Mike’s baby face, and Rob is such a hunk (is it me or is his hair styled in a 60′s fashion? He also oozes confidence and pride, kind of a role model for us gay people, isn’t he? And finally, the long-haired boss of the gang, he cracked me up, what a (good-looking) sissy!

The cues are also very good, they give a realistic feeling to the whole, it’s just like youth would interact with each others. And they are funny. I fully agreed with Mike when he said to Rob: “you’re funny”.

By the way, it’s been a long time since I meant to ask you, have you ever heard of Est Em also spelled Esuto Emu ? She’s a very good mangaka, her stories are very mature, sensitive, and aimed at an older audience. If you want to check out some of her works I’d advice you “seduce me after the show” licensed in english, my favorite one. Est Em is well known among gay yaoi-readers.
There are also two other mangaka that I admire, Miyamoto Kano (her best works are those featuring Bun-san, hence my username ^^ if you feel like it, go and check her works at this address http://www.liquideros.com/project_timeline-walker.html). Miyamoto Kano is really good at writing sensitive and realistic stories dealing with heavy issues such as death, drugs, and you feel close to the characters because they are no hero, they’re just the man in the street, nothing much.
And eventually, I’m sure you’d like very much Motoni Moduru, she’s sort of a random person, her style is often described as the epitome of WTFism. When I read “Tough” it really made me think about “Dog style”, a story that deals with youth, friendship with lots of action, lots of fights, and earnest feelings without it being a sugary BL story.
I guess you mustn’t have lots of free time on your hands, so at the very least, out of these three mangas, you should check “Dog style”(licensed in English). I’m sure you’ll have fun reading it, and the sex-scenes are steamy, and…last but not least, they play it self (not a staple in the realm of yaoi where cum is spread on bodies, on walls…on the ceiling ?)

Hey, that was a pretty long comment, but you deserved it, right?
Once again, congrats on your hard work!
Note: It’s May the second, I still haven’t been notified of any new release, so I guess the second chapter isn’t out? Or maybe, I’m having issues with my Gmail box ? Anyway, I’ll be waiting!

Lots of love from Paris (sorry if there are any misspellings or grammatical faults! Please, be lenient, because I’m not a native speaker.)

Bun

Ah ha! Somebody’s been paying attention!

Well, we are sooooo close — and I could rush things to send it out tonight — but I’d rather make sure everything is working and tested before I send out the link to our 12,819 subscribers. So, sadness — I’m not going to make my self-imposed deadline of May 1st. It’ll go out sometime this week, just not today.

BUT I do have something to share. The beautiful painted cover Winona Nelson created for this chapter! It’s not the same thing as actually getting the comic today, I know — and I promise we’ll try harder to meet our deadline next time – but hopefully you’ll like it just the same. Check out our latest post to see her kick-ass work.

And thank you very much for your interest in our comics. I really am glad that you were looking forward to seeing this next chapter and I sure hope you like it when you get it!

Golly! So many comments! Thank you very much for your interest in my posts.

And thank you for letting me know about that other comic (and the link). Coming up with completely original titles is always a challenge in this day and age — there’s just so much media out there, unless your titles are very long or particularly obscure, chances are someone else has already used (or, as in this case, translated a non-English title into) the title you feel is most appropriate. In terms of confusion, I can take some comfort that it seems like Viz has discontinued the manga you link to before distributing the books that would properly be called “Tough”.

But even if they hadn’t, “Tough” is the right name for this graphic novel. I’m willing to accept a little bit of confusion to name my work something that I feel resonates with the story.

Thank you again for your comment!

Alex