Days of Leviathan - by Wei Li

Hiatus… :(

by Wei on June 8, 2011 at 1:00 pm

I am sorry I have to do this shitty shitty thing. Days of Leviathan is going into hiatus for at least a year. The main reason is because I have too much going on right now for the type of commitment to do Days of Leviathan justice. DoL was meant to be a really long story. With my final year of animation school coming up and the grad film, I can’t dedicate myself to DoL. And I don’t want to give it a half-assed effort.

For the foreseeable future, any comic attempt on my part (and there WILL be more comics by me) will be short stories of at most 50 pages. That way I am not overcommitting and I can experiment as well.

If you really like long form stories, there is an awesome comic by my girlfriend, Anise, called Even in Arcadia. I am helping her thumbnailing many of the pages but she has dedicated herself fully to this comic. I know what the story and all I can say is it’s going to be sooo goooood.

Sorry to disappoint. I learned my lesson and there will not be another incomplete comic by me ever again!

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A Late Night Update

by Anise on December 9, 2010 at 1:31 am

Wei has asked me to send a shout out to all the Days of Leviathan readers. He has the new page, but it still needs a few touch ups. He would rather have a late, good page than an on time crappy one. He’s expecting to update on Saturday. I think it has a little to do with his final projects piling up as well, so I think giving him a little break might be the kind thing to do

In my world, I’m dealing with intense frustration with amazon.ca. As many of our readers will know, we live in the wonderful city of Vancouver BC. As Canadians, we don’t really have the option of selling our books on amazon.com, so we’re left with our rather decrepit Canadian version. Amazon.com has this wonderful feature for self publishers: the Advantage program. You can sign up, list your books and they take 55% off the top. Pretty much the same as any warehouse or distributor. It’s pretty sweet. Alas, we do not have this in Canada. You have to apply as a vendor and hope that someone at amazon will eventually get around to looking at your application. It’s dire, and frankly, kind of insulting.

I’m sure many won’t understand, but in Canada we have always had a cultural issue with living next to the United States. We love our brothers and sisters to the south, but find it so frustrating that we’re overrun with American content. It’s just another example that Amazon will list all of the books by big American publishers working in Canada while strangling independent Canadian content with an outdating and weak vendor service. I sometimes feel like crying at the frustration, if it’s not being blocked on the internet, it’s dealing with border harassment to go to conventions. I just want to make comics, I just want to sell books and I want the opportunity to share my content with a continent that seems so unfairly balanced.

To think, we’re really nice about it. We’re not really like many other countries where America forces it’s way in, we just try to make friends. I hate being nice about something and then being taken advantage of, but then my Canadian manners stop me from getting all righteous about it all the time.

I hope hope hope Amazon will actually take the time to look at our application. They say they list products by demand, but then didn’t ask me for any product details. We have 3000 books from our Xeric grant. In my dreams I will sell them all, but I could be happy with selling a few. With Amazon. Come on guys, work with the people who actually want to work with you.

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