Anoshe, New York

I would have summoned a big fat "NEVER!" out of my mouth if you asked me six months ago if I would ever leave New York. Welp. Look at me now.

The Last Movie That I Watched with My Dad in a Theatre Was Logan

About a month ago, my dad was admitted to the hospital due to what appeared to be a severe exhaustion. Things took the worst turn as he was diagnosed with leukemia and swiftly contracted a lung infections. Within a week, his condition dove into the abyss.

He was a tough old man, though. Despite his condition, my dad was still very communicative and mentally sprightly. He passed away on my mom’s arms since his last request was to lean on her while she read him prayers. It brought me peace that my dad passed away peacefully, without pain, and was also surrounded by family.

. . . excluding me.

Ore Wa Gundam!

One morning two months ago, my sister asked me if I knew about the life-size Gundam statue’s retirement, which was due yesterday (March 5, 2017).

No, I didn’t, and the news hit me like a ghost had just walked through me.

Together

It has been incredibly difficult to make sense out of the shit storm that happened three days ago, and I feel that the only thing I have left other than visceral reactions is an emotional fatigue. I definitely share whatever frustration and anger that you all feel, and even though it is obvious, it's good to know that I'm not the only one having a hard time accepting this outcome.

Atria Books, Drooping Kittens, and Undertow

Hello! It's been a long while since I updated this website, so we have a couple things to catch up about. The biggest and most important thing that happened to my life since January is that I now work at Simon & Schuster as a managing editorial assistant for Atria Books. It has been an incredibly fun and challenging experience, and I feel super blessed for being able to work at one of the biggest five English-language book publishers.

Drooping Kittens is alive and running now, and it is slowly gaining momentum. I'd like to thank each one of you personally for your support for this project. It means so much to me that you enjoy this webcomic because it is a love letter to my college years and love of comics.

Short Story - A Girl's Problem

Update on New Project

So these are the five main characters from the webcomic project that I mentioned the other week. Props to Anindya Larasati for the marvelous character designs!

New Project

My primary school friend Anindya Larasati and I have been planning to make a webcomic for a while. It's finally shaping up, and we are releasing it in August 2016!

Short Story - Odyssey

Humble Thank You!

As of today, I am discontinuing Humble Happiness because I'd like to focus more on writing and realizing ideas that I had in mind for a long time. It has been fun working on this series, and I'm really sad to end it. Truthfully, I ended up learning new things about myself and those around me that I took for granted. Alas, I decided to take a leap of faith with a new set of endeavors. I'm glad that Humble Happiness ended in a hopeful note(?), and I pray that whoever stumbles it in the future still enjoys it. 

I will be teasing a new project that I have been working on in the next several days, so keep an eye on it!

More Sketches

More roughs for the episodes that have come out so far on Humble Happiness. After watching Bakuman, a Japanese movie about young manga creators, I have come to appreciate keeping my roughs intact. I might look at these someday and have good laughs about them.

Revamp

Previously, this website was a Humble Happiness extension. I realized that it was too redundant, so I'm slowly converting this website into my own website. Meanwhile, there are fun stuff around this website you can check out, so have fun.

Thanks for visiting!

Short Story - Avocado

Sketches

Here are some roughs of Humble Happiness episodes 3, 5, and 7! I love looking at these because of the traditional flair in them.

The Elevator Incident

In this week's episode of Humble Happiness, I retold the story of an incident that took place in my school campus a few years ago. In short, I got stuck in an elevator with several students. We always think that this kind of situation would happen to somebody else. I certainly thought like that at the time, but well...it happened. I managed to record a video when we were being escorted out of the elevator.

Humble Happiness Begins!

Welcome visitors,

Thank you so much for visiting! Whether you found this website through Tapastic, social media, words of mouth, or even stumbling across it, I highly appreciate your willingness to spend time here and I hope that you enjoy your visit. If you like Humble Happiness, then please share it among your family and friends! So, what is Humble Happiness?

Humble Happiness is an old concept that I used to work on regularly back in high school, but it died very quickly when I entered college, and as time progressed, my schedule and social life made it difficult to bring Humble Happiness back. After a major career change earlier this year, I decided to revisit this old hobby because the time is just so ripe to do it again. My vision for this blog/comic is not to impress anyone or reinvent the entertainment industry; I simply want to consistently produce something in order to develop my skills and talent. George Carlin, Louis CK, and a few others have a great work principle that I have integrated into mine: to always churn out a new project at least once a year. If it fails, then it fails. The most important thing is to get your ideas out there. It's a very valuable lesson that can be applied to everyone and everything, and I hope that my work here can occasionally make someone or anyone feel a little inspired.

Anyways.

The website is still a work in progress, but it is mostly completed, so have a look around! Episodes 001 and 002 are simultaneously released this week, and here's a sneak peek for the drafts of the episode one and two and the header.

See you next time,

Luq

PS. All this serious talk, and my comic starts with a poop joke. I am a man of contradictions. What a great start.