aokamidu

Thank you for continuing to support me and my works at the end of 2024.  I am most grateful to each and every individual who enables me to continue this full-time illustration and comics career for now nearly a decade.  I acknowledge and am appreciative of the privileged position I have been in, especially during the pandemic when so many were adversely affected financially, socially and emotionally.  I daren’t pretend to imagine how painful it must have been for those who lost loved ones.   Or those who had their lives immeasurably changed otherwise.    I write this not as a means of garnering sympathy or grovelling for free hand-outs.  Rather, as a means of routing out some vicious intrusive thoughts that rather nullified my productivity outside of the essential (such as fulfilling contractual/moral obligations to my clients and patrons).    An unpleasant bout of correspondence and what I suspect was a very near-miss of potential identity theft in my personal life rather led me to