MAY/JUNE!

Heyooo, it’s ya friendly neighborhood Javi!

I done did it again, folks… I missed another blog post…

I know - how could I? Again? I am as shocked as you all are. I feel the only appropriate reaction to this all is to commit sudoku… That’s what they do, right? They play sudoku…? Cause that game sucks?

Before I suffer a beginner level of sudoku, let me catch you up on what’s new, what’s old and now new, and what’s to come for more new stuff that isn’t old and new, but just new, y’know? As always, here are the stats: I completely redesigned my streaming layout for art live streams and for future gaming live streams; I repurposed my banner to work as a vertically infinite scrolling background, a nice little Instagram overlay, editing a DVD bouncing logo graphic with my font to signify “starting soon” and “stretch break,” a horizontal and vertical canvas have been designed to allow me to now stream to 3 different platforms now (Twitch, TikTok, and Instagram), I created a Ko-Fi page to receive donations and to act as an artist-centric page, I created a super fun looking resume for myself to seek out any freelance artist/graphic designer gigs, and I finished my “logo-ad” page for the reprint of From the Pen to Your Eyes Pt. 1!

Finishing that page for my reprint means drum roll the reprint is officially done! Head over to the store now to pick yourself up a digital copy!

The cool thing about this reprint is it acts a little like a remaster of the original while including some new material that helps timestamp it in the big TWO-SIX. A couple of stories were removed, while another story was moved over to what’ll be the second issue of this anthology series! Yup, a second issue is in the works with only 3-pages left to complete - but more on that when the time comes! A big highlight for me with the reprint of From the Pen to Your Eyes Pt. 1 is it now includes my first publication, updated branding, and it officially marks this as my FIRST-EVER FULLY SELF PUBLISHED SERIALIZED COMIC BOOK.

HELL. YEAH. BANANA BREAD.

I honestly wouldn’t blame you if you stopped reading this right now - in this moment - to buy a million digital copies all in the name of support. I would do it… Just sayin’…

As I mentioned, I will be focusing way more on streaming moving forward and I do have a loose template of what I think my streaming schedule will be, but until it's more solid I’ll be dropping notifications the day before I go live! How would you receive a notification, you might ask. Well, on my home page now you can officially sign up to my newsletter now! This will get ya the quickest notifications from me on updates to the site, events, streams, what have you!

If you didn’t stop reading before to buy a million copies at that moment, then definitely take this moment to stop reading and sign up for the newsletter…

Got it? Cool.

Ko-Fi! Many of you might not be familiar with this platform, but it's very akin to Patreon. Feel free to throw me a donation, sign up for a monthly donation, see high-res photos of my art, read blog posts like this one here, and you can even request commissions or pick up my digital comics there…!

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NOW! BRING ME THE FUTURE!

For what’s to come is the continuation of a political piece that I have wanted to do for a while now and that is officially my next project I will see to the end. From there, I plan on picking back up my Zelda: Ocarina of Time print and kind of starting from scratch with that one - I’m just so excited for that remake so please buy a million copies of my comics so I can afford a Switch 2 - who said that? I also have a really dumb sticker idea that hit me, I don’t know if it’ll land but we won’t know until we know! And after those are done, I’ll be working on those 3 pages for issue 2, as mentioned!

Last thing I’ll mention. Life kinda sucks for me. I’m restarting myself back in NY right now and some days are definitely harder than others, I’ll admit. But I felt really happy on June 13th. Now, I’m not really a basketball fan, but my brother is. We watched the last game or two of the conference finals, and I watched all 5 games of the Knicks v Spurs. Everyone has made the joke now that if the Knicks can come back, so can I. But, I don’t know, I feel that. The Knicks fought like hell and they did it. The New York Knicks winning a chip hit me at the right moment in my life. Life kinda sucks for me… Right now, at least. I’ll come back. Just takes time.

My Mayor Muslim

My Bagel Jewish

My Art Live

Knicks in Five

Until next time.