Saturday I finished the last page of my manga. Yesterday I finished setting it in type for the publisher. (It's not usual, that you do that yourself as manga-artist, but we all have our reasons)

Screentoning 80 pages in 11 days and setting the book in 1 1/2 days really wore me out.
I'm constantly sleepy. My head easily hurts. My butt hurts. My back hurts.
Yet my hands still scream "I want more! I want to draw!"
I will give them, what they want. I won't quit.


I don't know, why I'm kinda... philosophically (?) tonight. Just don't take it too seriously. Maybe it's just the after effects of ending a more than six years lasting work, tale... part of my life. Maybe the only constant thing in the past six years.

I cried, when I finished the last page. It was like... I don't know if there's a way to describe the feelings I had. I just cried. Of course, part of me is very happy, that I'm done now. This work is over. This tale is told. I can rest now before I start telling a new one.
But.
Kae, Inori and the others... they accompanied me for more than six years. They were there when I had to go through really hard times and they were the ones that led me through my growth as a manga-artist. They took me by the hand and helped me becoming what I am now.
It's a bit like saying goodbye to very good friends... although I know, that it's not over. I can draw them anytime. I can do spin-offs... maybe I just don't realize it yet and so I get melancholic when I think too much about this.


I'll move on to pastures new.

There's already some new tale waiting to be told and this time I'm not alone seeing this through from beginning to the end. But that's maybe not the only thing that will make it "not the same", because the time I will spend on this will be shorter and... well it's just not the same.
I will have a nice time. It will be fun. I hope I will learn more.
Maybe I can stir up the German manga scene a bit with my partner, because this time we have help and promotion...



I aim high and I won't stop.



I don't take commissions at the moment. Let me rest a bit, okay?