Though Sweet 16 sold 100,000 copies per issue, that’s considered modest by magazine industry standards. After running only a couple of pages of the story, the magazine was canceled.

The people at Sweet 16 were really great to work with, and it’s too bad things didn’t work out. The entire experience was a joy…except for the whole getting canceled thing!

FYI: I had limited computer skills then, so the lettering and color are by hand. Most of this is colored with markers! Now almost all of my comic art is colored digitally.

Still, I love the way these colors look online.

Manga art like this is so much easier to draw than Western style. I can easily do a full color page or more of manga art in a day.