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Update and Being Safe

by on April 25, 2020 at 11:04 am

Sorry again for the slow updates! MAiZ is NOT over/dead/finished. 

It has been nearly 12 months since the comic went on hiatus, and I’m very sorry for people who are interested to see where this goes. As do I!

The Covid-crisis affecting everyone has made working difficult, even in my regular job. It’s also affected my writing, which I’ve voiced on Twitter a few times. However I have been getting help, talking to family and friends, getting counseling and looking after myself.

MAiZ is always on my mind though. Even if my writing is suffering, drawing has always been a joy, and helps me keep practicing by drawing this adorable dork:

My plan (or hope) is to get the story underway early-to-mid May. I guess this is more to let people know that yes, I’m still here, I’m still going and MAiZ will return.

As always, thank you for sticking around, for supporting MAiZ and it’s characters, even going so far as to draw fan art of them. It honestly means the world to me.

For everyone out there also struggling with everything going on, I hope you’re okay and doing well. You are all amazing.

Please look after yourself, be safe and we’ll hopefully talk again soon!

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2020 and the Return of MAiZ

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by on January 6, 2020 at 8:26 pm
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Happy New Year!! I hope everyone had an awesome Christmas and New Years.

I’m so sorry these updates have been few and far between! I’ve been meaning to make a decent update to confirm the status of MAiZ and the progress with volume 2.

First of all being that MAiZ will continue! It just took a far longer hiatus than I ever intended, due to a lot of personal stuff last year. And volume 2 will slowly get back into development for it’s full colour release later this year.

In May of last year, I decided to put MAiZ on hold while I spent time working on colouring volume 2, and plotting out the next chapter of the story. My hope was to get volume 2 completed and printed in time for Supanova Sydney around June.

Of course, that didn’t happen.

A was a little overwhelmed when I drew this last year, but I’ve been doing a lot better now.

From there, 2019 turned into a mess: a combination of lots of work stress, battling with rather intense anxiety and a nice dose of relationship troubles that made everything, especially creating art outside of work, very difficult. I felt bad for not returning to the comic sooner, but I knew I couldn’t handle everything and the comic on top of it without it losing quality, or worse burning me out. I’ve seen it happen too often in the past with other artists and creators.

I did however receive a lot of great support from people, even amazing fan art, that helped remind me that MAiZ still has people interested in Meli, Jaz and their story. It’s heartwarming each and every time!

And now, after having spent the last few months recovering and restoring myself, I want 2020 to see the return of MAiZ with chapter 12!! It’s time to get back into Meli and Jaz’s journey and finally see Meli kick some serious butt!

I want to thank everyone for their patience and support, and I’m so sorry it’s taken so long. While I’m still not very good at doing updates, I will do my best to be more forthcoming in future.

The support and kind words I got from the last picture really helped me out

Hopefully this year for everyone will be amazing! (pun intended)

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Progress on Chapter 12 + Volume 2

by on October 23, 2019 at 8:50 am
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I’m deeply sorry for the lack of updates these many, many, MANY, months! Personal life has had to take the forefront and I’m still struggling to get the time to work on both the comic and compile everything for Volume 2.

If it’s not apparent, I’m not very good at keeping up with posts or schedules as I’ve always thought It’d be better to update something if…well, if there’s something to update!

That said, I’ve been focusing what time I can get on developing Chapter 12, aiming to ideally get this adventure back underway before the end of the year.

I’m extremely grateful that people are still interested in MAiZ, even going so far to provide some fan art here and there! It honestly makes me so happy that people care for Meli, Jaz and the gang.

Thank you so much for sticking around! Considering the last chapter ended with Meli about to throw down, I want it to be worth the wait!

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Happy 7 Year Anniversary!!

by on January 12, 2019 at 11:44 am
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Here's to 7 years of MAiZ adventures!

That’s right! It’s now 7 years since MAiZ began it’s journey since January 12 2012 (roughly)

Thank you very much to everyone both new and old for following Meli and Jaz’s adventure so far! So much has changed since I began their journey, including so many new character and interesting (and bizarre) developments throughout the story!

Hopefully the next year shall be just as fun!

Also! To mark the occasion, I’m here to announce the status of MAiZ volume 2. Thanks to a lot of awesome folks who helped poll whether the volume would be black and white or coloured, I’m excited to announce:

Colourised versions of MAiZ pages for volume 2!
Work in progress!

MAiZ Volume 2 will be in full colour!

I have now commenced the awesome (and likely insane!) task of colourising all pages from chapters 5-8. Much like the last volume, I have to adjust the pages to match the new printing size, so there may yet again be strange white bars on most of the volume, unless I come up with a clever way to utilise the space (maybe with commentary? A silly picture?!)

At this stage, my goal is to have this volume finished and printed, ready to be sold for Supanova Sydney in July! After which the comic will become available for order online via the website here!

Very grateful to everyone who bought copies of Volume 1! I still have under 20 copies left to go, so if you somehow haven’t got one, please head over here for all the details!

Here’s to an exciting 2019!!

2019 here we come!!
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