The writer's strike may have put a dent in some of my favorite iPhone sponsored TV shows like Moonlight and Chuck, but it's not stopping me from writing new iPhone manga. I forgot to mention that my latest release Blood Isle is up and available in the Alchemy Manga Shop, joining the recent Evidemic released last week. Blood Isle is a story I like to call a fantasy with a twist you won't believe. It follows an axe-wielding barbarian woman called Ozelle as she moves through the battles waging around her on this island. This is just the beginning of an iPhone manga series I am very excited about and so expect to see a lot more of this story as it develops. The twist in question will become more apparent in the next chapter and things really explode from there!

It was a fun title to work on as I chose to experiment with the look and feel of the piece, deviating from the sharp look of the previous titles to try something more painterly and earthy. I enjoyed playing with colors, foggy settings and depth in the scenes. Because the world of iPhone manga allows for a blend of techniques from print and screen graphics, there are a lot of interesting directions to go artistically. I am sure I wll discover and expand on this as time goes on.

Coming up this month, in time for the holidays, will be a new CG collection titled Manga Dolls: Holiday Wallpaper Pack. It will provide a way to give some sexy holiday cheer to your iPhone with some different holiday backgrounds. The CG collection will contain 16 beautiful background images featuring the cutest characters around in holiday themed environments. This will be the first of many seasonal CG collections to supplement the iPhone manga available in the store. CG collections are extremely popular in the digital manga world of Japan, and as more artist create content for iPhone Alchemy, I hope to have some image collections from some of the greats overseas in the store very soon.

Even though I'll be after great iPhone formatted manga content from a variety of artists in Japan and globally, that won't stop the development of my original stories. Look forward to the next chapter of Heaven's Burden, coming later this month, along with continuing stories of Evidemic and eventually, The Legend of Zahur. Also, the web app I mentioned previously is underway for the iPhone and should be showing up in the next couple of weeks. I feel like I'm on a roll now and I am having a ton of fun. Things are just beginning to accelerate!

Tags: Blood Isle, Mobile Content, Manga

I said I would kick it into high gear and that plan continues with the release of the new iPhone manga title Evidemic. This is the beginning of an exciting new series about the spread of a disease unlike anyone has ever encountered.

Serin is a beautiful "solutionist" called in to investigate the problem, but things start going sour as soon as she arrives. They only expand from there. Evidemic is available free, for the time being, in the sample titles bar to the left. Feel free to download it and check it out. Look forward to more episodes coming soon!

The great thing about iPhone manga or any cell phone content is easy access. I am already working on another title that will be placed in the new store as soon as it is live. I will also build pages that allow the sample titles to be viewed in the Safari browser directly on the iPhone, even over an Edge Network connection. There is a lot lined up for this month, and I'm just getting started. If you like Heaven's Burden, be sure to look for another episode of that series appearing this month as well.

Building up from scratch always takes a great effort, but in the world of digital content, that build up only needs to happen once, and then it's smooth sailing from there. In this case, smooth sailing means a lot more iPhone manga for you.

Tags: iPhone, Manga