The first issue of Card Battler Teks! is now available in Sputnik Comics Store in Cubao X and Comic Odyssey in Robinsons Galleria.

Co-written by Arvin de Leon and illustrated by Kiko Dans (both former students of mine), Teks! follows the story of a young boy’s journey to win the Nationwide Teks Championship Cup. It’s high-octane, manga-style action for all-ages!

The second issue is due out in October; in the meantime, keep checking the Card Battler Teks! blog for updates, including a special prologue sequence to be serialized exclusively on the web!

This October, Oni Press will be releasing an original graphic novel that I illustrated called Lola: A Ghost Story. Written by J. Torres, with art assists by Robo Monkey Pixel Fighters, Lola is a coming-of-age story about a boy who inherits his late grandmother’s ability to see the supernatural. The book description reads:

“Jesse sees dead people, monsters, demons, and lots of other things that go bump in the night that no one else can see. No one except his ailing grandmother — a woman who used her visions to help those living in her small town. The same rural community in all the scary stories Jesse’s heard as a child. Man-eating ogres in trees. Farmhouses haunted by wraiths. Even pigs possessed by the devil. Upon his grandmother’s passing, Jesse has no choice but to face his demons and whatever else might be awaiting him at grandma’s house.”

I’ll probably post some behind-the-scenes sketches and pages as the release date draws nearer, but in the meantime, you can look up ordering information from the Oni Press website.