Hiatus and What's Next
I’d been uploading MD to Webtoon Canvas pretty consistently since September 2017, but that streak was broken at the end of 2019 when something turned our lives upside down. Three months later, the pandemic hit and the next couple of years were pure chaos.
By late 2022, things were finally settling down, and I figured I could finish MD within a year or so, only 10+ episodes left, right? Little did I know…
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Toward the end of 2023, a family emergency hit, and I had to take a couple months off dealing with it halfway across the world. Then, in early 2024, my appendix exploded.
At first, I thought it was just bad food poisoning from a new restaurant. Nope, nearly died from sepsis. Thankfully, a very tall, handsome surgeon saved my life (no kidding, the doc was hot lol).
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I laughed at first, thinking how badass I was for surviving sepsis. But the near-death experience changed my priorities and made me rethink how I wanna spend my time.
Another family crisis followed, lasting until June 2025. It drained all my mental bandwidth, leaving nothing for comics.
The problems are still there, but they no longer consume me. These days, I finally have a little energy to slowly start making comics again.
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Making comics, where you invent everything from your own mind, isn’t like a regular job where someone gives you a task and you just do it. It requires a lot of brainpower and mental bandwidth. You put a little piece of your soul into your story, and creating the art is pure blood, sweat, and tears.
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Many mangakas and webtoon artists can crank out updates nonstop. I’m not that kind of artist. I can only create if my brain has the bandwidth and my heart is in the right place. When life drains all my energy, there’s nothing left for my story. I didn’t even have the capacity to tell my patrons & Canvas readers I was on hiatus. That’s not intentional, it’s survival mode.
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We live in a time where AI and overseas sweatshops can produce webtoons a hundred times faster than I can. I’m not crazy enough to break myself just to compete with that speed. If my heart isn’t in it, MD won’t get the ending it deserves.
So when I have the time, I’ll finish the remaining episodes as sketches and only start releasing them once almost all are ready for coloring, to avoid another hiatus. TBH, it may be years before MD returns.
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In the meantime, I might start a new comic with simpler sketches art. Many artists juggle multiple series for creativity and to avoid burnout, and I think it could work for me too.
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