Before, After, & In Between

A comic anthology featuring twelve artists, with each stories revolving around the date: December 21st, 2012.

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THE OMORI KICKSTARTER IS UP!!!!!!!!

making this game means the world to me

be sure to check out the awesome music by SPACE BOYFRIEND and SLIME GIRLS as well

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OMORI is a surreal psychological horror RPGmaker game. You must travel between two worlds, both welcoming, both concealing the same secrets. Meet new (old) people, fight new (old) enemies, explore your own memories, and uncover some hidden truths along the way (although you wish you hadn’t.) When the time comes, you can only choose one. 

OMORI is a character has been described as a “depressed otaku.”He started off as a character who lived on a blog, which lasted from December 2011 until March 2012.

OMOCAT always envisioned OMORI as a game; and with the help of some friends (and you), the OMORI video game can be brought to life.

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Come visit me at booth 213 at TCAF! I’ll have Phuzzy Comics swag and Team Monica stuff BD

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YO!! I’m tagging along with Monica to TCAF. I won’t have much to sell but I will have about 10 or so copies of the comic anthology, Before, After & In Between!!!

As a TCAF special price, I’m selling each book at $40 and the print set for $5. Swing by and say hello and let me scribble on your book 8)! 

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If anyone was interested in snagging a copy in case there are some leftover, email me at 12212012book [at] gmail [dot] com to be waitlisted. I'll send out info about price and shipping cost, if there are any left. Thanks! Super excited about tcaf!!

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Funny story. So when we were hauling over the books from our car, we only had one dolly to move 33 or so boxes. It could only fit about three or four boxes at most per trip and it was just taking too long. So I improvised. I found an abandoned baby stroller in the parking lot, stacked as many I could and toted around our brain baby as carefully as  I could. Unfortunately I didn’t take enough photographic proof that I didn’t do this alone so I want to take this time to thank my friends, Paul, Kelsey, Emma, Anton, Monica and my other Emma for helping me move around stuff, packing everything, and just dealing with me throughout all of this. 

With this beautiful picture of my friend Paul cooing at our books and with me looking like a horrified mother, I am thrilled to say… this is it! We’re done!

It’s been a lot of error and trial run as I’ve never done anything remotely to this scale before. I’m grateful that the artists involved, WAS be involved to make something so amazing. I also want to thank everyone for their patience and generosity when it came to this project. I mailed out everything to the backers today, so you should have either have gotten it (most of the people who replied to my messages early) or should get it by the end of the month or early next month.

There were about four people who never replied to the surveys or my messages. Those four people should get back to me asap as the books wait alone waiting for their owner to call up on them. If no replies are made by end of November 2013, I will take that as you simply made a generous donation 8). 

And for those who have yet gotten their commissions (most of them would have been sent digitally through an email) please send me a message on kickstarter. 

Unless there’s something pertinent that I cannot accomplish with private messaging on KS, I won’t be posting updates there anymore. I may continue to post here on our tumblr for potential book sale (assuming there is anything left) or any major projects that the contributing artists become involved with. Feel free to follow our artists’ tumblrs directly or on other art community for more accurate information.

Again thank you for letting me know things got back safely or giving me tips and all around kind words about the project back to me. I read each and everyone and I appreciate them all. Thanks again for all your support and hope you’ll be part of our next endeavors. See you!

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I forgot I had these progress shots saved

this went through a lot of revisions and different ideas hah

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The Phuzzy Book Indiegogo is live!! I CANT DISCLOSE HOW MUCH I’M SWEATING BUT ITS A LOT

If you like my comics and want some of those sweet rewards, come take a look!

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-phuzzy-book

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One of our artist just launched her own project! Feel free to check it out and spread the news!

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my postcard for the before, after & inbetween book from some months ago!! everyone made really cool postcards and comics YEEAAHHHH

here is my jank as hell reference sheet i had to make for myself 

(this is not included in the book im sorry)

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A print I made for the Before, After & In Between anthology. I wanted to include at least a character from each story ehehe.

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Close up of mine!!

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it feels like forever ago since I drew this so I don’t know if I should be putting it up or not but I guess it’ll be up here for now yuj invited me to draw a guest postcard for her anthology with a bunch of other cool artists, before, after, & in between, which was funded a few months ago! these character’s are monica’s, kay’s, and mai’s, and hopefully you’ll be able to recognize them for those of you with the pdf of the anthology

a preview of everyone else’s postcards that are really nice sighs wistfully

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A bigger version!!

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Lotsa boxes and print previews! And an important update on Kickstarter regarding shipping address! I'm planning on shipping at the end of the month so please reply to the message I sent you. Thanks!

Artists: 

Sally Choi - Monica Ray - Marina Julia

Geraldine Chan - Mai K. Nguyen

Emma Rand - Yuj Lee 

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Those are our books!! I just got them this week. There are few things that we need to spend time on before we can ship stuff out so more news coming soon!! Just thought you guys wanted a little update on where we are.

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Have you mailed out the printed anthologies yet?

Nope! I got a call from the printer yesterday and it seems like there’s another delay?? We were supposed to get it yesterday but it seems like I have to wait just bit longer. V__V

And I plan on updating with better news as soon as I get them!!

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I've just updated Kickstarter with where we are and bunch of other stuff. Also the bonus comic is sitting in your inbox. Toodles!

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Did you send out the physical copies and bonus comics yet 0:?

Hey anon! Nope, there was an announcement sometime last year that the delivery date got moved to February. And I'll be sure to make an update once I do either of those thing. Thanks!

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This is the variant cover I drew for LIBERATOR which was coloured by the amazing (so amazing) Rod Reis. I met Matt Miner in April at MoCCA and since then have become very familiar with his project Liberator, a comic book series about everyday heroes – animal rights activists.

I’m going to be honest here and say that up until a few months ago, I was pretty much done with comic books and the comic book industry. I was disappointed by the treatment of female characters in comics and women in the industry. I had lost most of my fight and had decided – I didn’t want to be a comic book artist anymore. It wasn’t worth the heartbreak and alienation.

Then along came Matt with Liberator to convince me otherwise.

I’ll stop myself here and direct you towards an interview with Matt and me on comicbookgrrrl.com where we talk about Liberator, how it came about and women in comics. Mostly Matt talks, I just kind of babble and get excited about stuff. I have to thank him again for letting me be part of something really great.

 I cannot come close to expressing how important this comic book is, how passionate the people behind it are and how much we need your help funding it. The Kickstarter went live earlier today, so please take a moment to consider backing this very worthwhile project. I had a pledge reward up but it has already been snapped up! There’s a ton more stuff though, make sure to have a look.

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Hey, remember this? The kickstarter has 9 days to go and less than 1000 to raise before it’s fully funded. Help it along? 

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Hey friends! Yasmin from the anthology is part this kickstarter which looks really rad. Take a look!

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I didn't realized this was asked at my blog, not this one oops.

Anywho, I thought this might be interesting people following this blog too. And happy belated new years guys!!

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This layout/design probably will change by the time we go to print but I Just wanted to show off the awesome guy and ladies who made the anthology possible. It’s been a long year but just wanted to say thanks dudes. Love you guys.

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Seasons greetings!! Hey everyone, first of all, thank you so much for being so patient and Merry Christmas Eve to those who celebrate it! And you know, congrats on surviving the apocalypse!! And in case you didn't notice, if you're reading this, it means all of the PDFS has been sent out!! Go check your inbox!

To think, this project has been just an idea a year ago. And because of all your overwhelming support, it will become a real book in the upcoming months, so thank you so so much for that. 

I could tell you all the reason why it took extra days but the run down was that my computer has been on the fritz for a while now and I thought it would be alright until after Christmas for me to get it fixed. It was and it wasn't. It worked enough so I could keep working, but what with photoshop and indesign crashing constantly... It's been a uphill battle for the past week. Now both my laptop and I can take our long-awaited rest this week.

The PDF contains all of the main comics and artists information. The bonus comics I will be adding as part of the book will be sent to you on a separate email in the upcoming weeks. So it'll be something to amuse yourself between now and until the arrival of the books (for those who ordered them). And just as a heads up, there may be some changes between the PDF to the book, nothing that affects the narrative of each comic. More of clean ups or some edits that we could make that we didn't notice before (typo, stray lines, etc).

Lastly, there should be a Dropbox and a Mediafire link for your copy of the PDF. It's kind of a big file so I hope your internet is working well. Either should work and I appreciate all the love, but I would appreciate it if you didn't reply to that mail. If you got any comments or such please direct them here, thank you * u *

Hope all of you enjoy our anthology!

p.s. if you haven't gotten something in your email, drop me a line here thank you!