Anime Expo!

I just wanted to mention that I will be at Anime Expo in LA this July 4th weekend. Is there any interest in an OO meet-up, let me know :D

Comic will probably be late ^_^;

It's Tuesday now, but I can already tell that I may not have Thursday's comic done in time. This is a very hectic week for me. I have multiple deadlines due for stuff, plus I am also in my annual art panic mode as I prepare to get all my artwork for the Project A-kon art show done in time to get it into the mail. Oh, and it's a holiday and convention weekend coming up. So, yeah, I am very distracted this week! I will try to have something posted on Thursday, but I don't know if it will be an actual comic :)

Closing the OO store

Yeah, as the title states, I will be closing the OO cafepress shop soon. No one actually bought anything from there anyway, really (^_^;;;;), and it has actually been costing me money every month to maintain. I may re-open it again later as one of the free basic cafepress shops that allow for limited product offerings, and perhaps offer new limited-edition items. My dream is to create Beauty Man Garden store T-shirts for the various locations (sort of like Hard Rock Cafe shirts -- "BMG UBERSHIBUYA" "BMG PARTY PLANET" etc.)

I am closing the OO shop is because right now I am desperately trying to save up money for a glorious Wacom Cintiq 21UX, a drawing tablet I want so much I have actually been having dreams about it ^_^; As you can see, it is crazy expensive, so every little random expense I can eliminate will help :D I am sad to see the store go, but hopefully I will be able to bring it back later with new designs (drawn using the Cintiq! XD) Wish me luck!

Facebook and Twitter

Hey, I want to thank everyone who has joined the Strange Candy Facebook Group! It is fun to see the faces of our readers. I often forget that anyone else is actually looking at this comic, so I am rather amazed ^_^ I want to draw some special artwork for the group or do something but I am not sure what yet!

Also, as I am finally embracing social networking stuff (give me a break, I am old now!), I am on Twitter, @magicalemi if you are bored and want to follow. I don't have all that much of interest to say (mostly along the lines of 'reading manga right now, woo!' or 'I ordered cheesesticks and they gave me fishsticks!' but I will twitter when I am working on the comic and when comics are posted.

Oh, hey, is anyone going to Anime Expo this year? The recent announcement of Morning Musume as a musical guest has piqued my morbid curiousity, so I will probably attend. Maybe I could hold a meet up with our tens of readers? XD

Strange Candy Facebook Group

I am a dork, so I created a Facebook Group for OO. I expect that I will probably end up being the only member, but it seemed like a fun idea at the time :) If you read OO and are on Facebook, check it out! I don't really have an idea of what to do with it yet, but suggestions are welcome.

8 Years! (wow)

So, this week marks the 8th anniversary of Strange Candy. Kind of hard to believe that it has managed to continue this long. That is a lot of comics! Of course, we are only doing 1 a week now, but still, I had no idea in 2001 that I would still be working on this in 2009 :) It was suggested that it may be time for another handy dandy relationship map (the last one we did was in, er, 2004...) so here it is! These are harder to put together than you would think. Hopefully, this will maybe help a little for people to remember characters or character names or relationships (or just confuse you more, lol). I know there is a lot going on in OO, and it may be hard to follow with only one comic a week. I expect the comic makes more sense when read in clumps XD But I thank everyone for reading and for sticking with us over the years. Happy birthday, OO!

Happy New Year!

Hello Everyone, Emi here! Happy New Year! I had actually intended to do a regular comic today, but I went out of town to visit my parents for new years (couldn't see them at xmas, as they were snowed in) and I, er, kinda forgot to do a comic ^_^;;; So I scrambled at the very last minute and without all my normal comic-making resources, to have SOMETHING for y'all ^^;; Sorry about that! :D At any rate, it's now 2009 (woo hoo!) and I hope that everyone has a safe and prosperous year!