Re: Toren Smith issuing cease & desists:
Sigh. That's what happens when you run a company in the most litigious society on Earth
Can't we all just get along?
Guess that explains why Studio APK disappeared. Damn. They produced some nice stuff in their time...
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Dear patient APK fans ;-),
Just to have it read into the record, as they say in Congress, Studio APK never received any threats, implicit or explicit, of litigation from any parties either in America or Japan. Our disappearance has solely to do with my personal inability to sit down and draw a few more effing pages of "Hikaru Hiyama's Jungle Book," *and/or our collective inability to face up to the up-front printing bill again** to get what we want.
Since "what we want" is no more than what five thousand Japanese circles manage to do every Comike (i.e., perfect binding, color covers), it comes off as all rather sad from a Japanese perspective. Radman did an AiKa story (like Gunsmith Cats, AiKa has a.) a megane-ko, and b.) is, in the words of Nigel Tufnel, a work whose original needs only that extra "push over the cliff") and the very, very talented L0cke did a FLCL story which he, like, managed to draw in nine hours or something.
So the day of UNDER THE INFLUENCE #2 may yet come like a thief in the night. In the meantime, APK members have contributed to other doujinshi (real Japanese ones, yet), forged letters of support from Benjamin Franklin (again, really), and continued to host parties so as not to hide entirely from the aforementioned patient fans. There will be one at Anime Boston, for any of y'all currently in a transatlantic mood.
Talk to you again soon,
Carl
*Sort of like the pioneering Western doujin KIMAGURE ORANGE COLLEGE, except with effing in it.
**It's not so much concern about making our costs back eventually--UTI #1 was well-received--just the up-front money.
Finbarr Saunders and his Doujinshi Entendres
