I’m happy to announce that the third and final story of Seasons of a Summer Island is now uploaded here on dreadlevi.com. This is slightly different from the other stories, as it uses the yonkoma format instead of the usual comic format that you see in my other stories. I have released these as individual strips rather than whole pages so they should be easy to read, especially on phones.

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I will also announce that I will be attending Malta Comic Con this coming October: https://www.maltacomiccon.com/ This will be my first time doing a convention outside of the UK, and because of timing it means I won’t be doing MCM London Comic Con this October. It’s a shame that I will miss many of my regulars, but I hope next year I will be exhibiting again at MCM London in May. More details about Malta Comic Con will come as we get closer to the event.

A little update after a busy July with conventions and personal family matters. Hyper Japan was fairly successful in terms of sales, especially comics, and looking at my current stock I’m thinking of what I will be focusing on for my next convention, which will hopefully be MCM London Comic Con in October (I have applied but I’m awaiting confirmation). A lot of people have asked about new books or things that will take over from older products. Books like Yokai March do take a while to produce so I will need to decide soon if I’m going for anything that big.

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One thing I’m looking forward to returning to is my Shabbit project comic, which is currently in the sketching stage now that the thumbnails are done. It’s a big project but it will be great to finally have that done. But first I need to finish a certain poster…

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In other news I have just uploaded some more of Seasons of a Summer Island. I plan to upload some more of that soon, but I’m also uploading the comic gradually on my old deviantart site.

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I also plan to upload to upload my Manga Jiman Comic that won last year, so that it can accompany the other two on this website. For those who don’t know, the comic anthology is now available on my Etsy store here . I am not kidding when I say this printed copy is the best way to read it, in glorious A5 pages with that nice recycled paper for that old manga feel and good quality black and white printing.

This month I will be at Hyper Japan in London, running a table in the Fringe area from the 22nd to the 24th. I will have my usual collection of prints, plus some brand new Nekomata Pin Badges that will be replacing my old Kitsune ones. I will be in the Fringe Area at table V38 as DreadLevi Studios, so if you’re visiting this weekend please stop by! I have finally gotten around to uploading some new comic pages too, starting with Seasons of the Summer Island; a previously unreleased anthology of small comics set in the same world as The Lost and Found comics. It’s features many characters from the previous comics including Mimiko, Sylva and Megane, but also features some new faces too. It’s a slice of life mini series I wanted to cut my teeth on before exploring the big series I want to do with them. I hope people will check it out, and maybe with enoguh support I will put it together as a physical comic to sell.

Earlier this week I announced that I would be taking part in the Manga Jiman ceremony as one of the Top 10 Finalists. Now I am happy to announce that I finished in 1st Place with my manga “Out of the Dark”, which took me completely out of surprise. This competition had so many great entries and I congratulate everyone who has applied for it. For me it’s been a competition that has helped me to grow and develop as a manga artist. Still, there’s plenty more to work on, and in time I will be posting the winning comic on here too. On April 3rd I will be selling my work at the Leytonstone Comic Fair, at the Birds Pub from 12pm to 5pm. This will be my first comic fair of the year and not too far away from where I live. I hope people in London will come along and say hi, it should be a nice fun event and you can pick a lot of my comics and prints. Unfortunately I have been forced to cancel going to this event because of catching Covid-19 this week. It’s a real shame because I was really looking forward to attending. If you’re in the area, please come and support the comic creators at the Leytonstone Comic Fair, at the Birds Pub from 12pm to 5pm on April 3rd. I’m hoping this will be a regular event that I can take part in sometime in the future.

Things are moving forward! Firstly I would like to confirm that I am now in the shortlist for Manga Jiman 2021. I’m really relieved to have recieved the news and now I just need to wait and prepare for the big award ceremony and see where I’ve placed this year. The competition is going to be tight and I hope that this manga will go down well because it’s my most ambitious one yet (and possibly most polished). Now that some of the website issues have been resolved, I’m going to be posting up more of my comics. Today I have uploaded my two Manga Jiman entries from the previous years: Rose From the Dead and Reconnecting. When the time comes, I look forward to uploading this year’s entry “Out of the Dark” too. I will also be playing around with the overall look of the site and also be working on my About Me page too. There’s plenty of work to do, but I want to make this into a nice professional website that will be a good gateway to my manga and a good portfolio site.