GraphicBrat

I hate that all this time went by without me updating. I have been working on it, more tweaks to the story and what not. But I had a few other projects that were taking up a lot of time and I've started back working out, so at the of the day when all that was done I would be fucking tired. Forcing myself to make time and make an update.
Here's the next page. Knocked it up pretty quick, just didn't get back to moving on it.

Been out of pocket for a little bit, finally able to get back on the horse. Got another page laid out. Moved the bottom panel pic from the last page over to this one for a better flow of the story from page to page. hope I left enough room for all that dialog I wrote up. Got enough fan service to keep the pages turning.

I have sad news that a good friend of mine has died. He died last year but I've just learned about it today as he was my internet pin pal and email was the main way we communicated. We had lost touch and I didn't know why but I knew he was facing hard times. I found out today on a whim by going through our old emails (I never trash the old ones) and finding a link to his deviantART page. He didn't use it a lot but I thought maybe it would lead to a clue of what was going on. His wife is on DA too, and from her journals I learned of his death. It was an absolute shock to me. I was heartbroken. I can kinda hide in plain sight in my office and I cried most of the day. The reason this is such a heartbreaker for me is that he was the co-creator of Pink Promise / SMNP.

Like Superman, Batman, the Fantastic Four and many others, there was an writer and a artist. I can not reveal his name as he wished to remain anonymous. Not because he was a shame of his work but for his wife who did not approve of her husband writing porn. Perfectly understandable. He sometime would go by the pen name "Phantom Scribbler" (PS), but mostly really wished to just be behind the scene, I would be the face of it all and he could just have fun coming up with stories and characters. I've been wanting to come out with this for the longest time. I never used his pen name as I was never sure if he was still using. But I now feel I can put it out there as it won't ruin anything he may had planned and still would be hard to trace it back to him.

When I first created my character Fumie, she was just going to be my sexy mascot. I had thought of doing a comic and made mention of it from time to time but didn't know where I wanted to go with it. PS had commissioned me a bunch of times and most of the time he wanted drawing of Fumie. He said he just fell in love with her. We got to chatting by email a little bit, and a little more and a little and soon we were bouncing ideas off each other. He had so many great ideas, so creative, so lewd & smutty. PS came up with all (and I mean ALL) of the characters except Fumie and Princess Yuzuki (SMNP). PS was one of those person who can come up with story and character ideas easier than you could spit. I was always envious of that.

Most of the time it would be "Hey, what if Fumie's mother was this quiet housewife who has a fiery labido tuck away as she mouns her late husband." PS thought that if Fumie's father had died suddenly that it could lead to 'daddy issues' and bad behavior. Some girls he put a personal touch on like 'Chica' who (outside of the giant breasts) was modeled off a friend of his, who also died quite some time ago, a victim of gang warfare. This was a tribute to her ( fav.me/d1piket ). But PS's true masterpiece was Roxie, that guy lived in her head. If you think some of the things we showed you were raw, you should have heard the ideas that I had to reject. He was the one who came out with the idea of her being a mega bitch-slut and sexually torture her husband Richard. Got the idea from 'Boogie Nights'. I never thought I'd meet someone that cool, creative and prevy.

From there we both flesh out their personalities, background stories (Roxie's is mad tragic) and I would work on the designs to match what we came with. PS would add in an idea or two but I generally just came up with the looks and we rolled with it. I was really easy to design characters based off his descriptions. It was a true 50/50 effort. At times it just seem like I was drawing his words.

PS had hit some hard times around 2011 and we didn't get to chat as often. Back in the beginning we'd write everyday, but then the 2008 crash caught up with him, he lost his job and the company he worked for fucked him over so he couldn't collect unemployment. So then it went to once every week, then every month and so on. We'd going months without talking anymore, each always missing the other. I carried on the best I could. Did my best to keep with PS's writing style. My writing skills are dismaul but I think my style is okay. We started chatting a little more in late 2016, not as much, nothing like the old time but it was good to hear from him. The last time I talked to him was before my trip to Japan. I still owned him a birthday drawing but I was normally late on those anyways. Once I got back I heard nothing. I wasn't sure what had happen. I thought that maybe his wife found out we were still not only working together but just talking in general. I don't think she liked me or the idea of me making porn with her husband. I started thinking about him this morning (Monday) and decided to hunt him down. That's when I found out. I can't remember the last time I cried but the tears were flowing today. I would rather his wife just busted us and left me the knowledge that he was okay and making the best of life. Getting watery just thinking about it. I miss him and I will always remember him. He was a good man.

Finally I realize that since I often post late at night or super early in the morning, my day count can be one off. You won't be reading about what I did that day but what happened yesterday. I'm trying to post sooner.

All Hail Roxie!