My life successfully did not explode!!! Yay!!! Ahhhhhhh. Things are still rough but i feel a bunch of tension has left my body

Okay first i would absolutely recommend Pen and Ink Drawing by Alphonso Dunn! A fantastic book that covers all the basics and ideas under pen inking and hatching. I love it

I'm wheezing help I don't know what I was expecting but it's so bad

juniper lookbook 🌹 [ #fieldsofmistria ]

this week's whole page because I just really like it #KeepingTime is queer, bittersweet bummer of a romance between bandmates etc etc! #webcomics 🎸 keepingtimecomic.com

Fit for my friends wedding arrived! I'm so stoked with it

If the industry is gonna pay part time wages they should have part time schedules.

The fact that almost every full time comic artist of my generation (esp the marginalized folk) who lives in North America wants to quit their job and get a 9-5 is so very depressing.

An eternal battle rages inside me

Happy Eid el Fitr!! | My Heart Sings Out With Joyful هذِ الفرحة أحلى فرحة ✨🌙 #art #illustration #Gawabcomic #oc #ocsky

this is a really good point haha. self publishing a graphic novel is NOT a thing the way it is for a prose novel. printing alone is way more fucking expensive. it takes way longer to make. you can't just upload an ebook to Amazon or whatever, there's no distribution. it's just not on the table

I know I got it right when the expression cracks me up

If you'd like to help the indie community, support the people over at Comic Fury, Spider Forest, Comic Rocket, Webcomic Library, Webcomic Travelogue, Comix Cleric- and many more. Check out those places for webcomic resources and to keep things creator owned. That was the whole point of webcomics.

Doom and gloom break: I love skateboarding AHHHHHHHHHHH

All of my basic living expenses were $1200/mo. I kept $100 for fun money, and the rest went into savings. And then that savings was the only thing keeping me afloat for 4 years bc Dark Horse, Oni, and Comixology's advances were nowhere near what Webtoon paid me

I will literally show you how to use it. For free. The founder is an absolute doll and has personally helped me several times. Give REAL comics fans your money and attention!! They really need it!

I do think the workload and schedules w Webtoon is insane, and it did for sure contribute to my burnout, but I was making ~$2k/mo in 2018 and back then STL had a fairly low cost of living compared to other cities and today's costs

The most stable comic work I had was doing Messenger w Webtoon, the workload was unsustainable for sure but I was paid monthly so I could actually budget well. I even owned a condo at that time, I could not have paid the mortgage if I still lived there when I made my Dark Horse and Oni books

I've been drawing a lot lately and just not posting it. I got carried away with my hourlies (see that Feb 23 start date there?) but I want to have them ready so I can do an hourlies compilation for CAKE, and I've also been re-toning Crash Coral in preparation for a ✨new website✨+ CAKE.

Things to avoid in comics CG and GC

Personally i think comics would be way more sustainable if they just offered like a monthly paycheck or something. But i also think that easy comparison with normal work rates would easier reveal the meager peanuts they pay us. So it probably wont happen

Begging. Pleading. GlobalComics is run by techbros. They keep bringing on more techbros. If you want people to read your comic.. highly advise against GC. Their background is all AI. They implemented (and took away) an AI summary system that folks did not consent to. THEYRE SHADY.

Personally i think comics would be way more sustainable if they just offered like a monthly paycheck or something. But i also think that easy comparison with normal work rates would easier reveal the meager peanuts they pay us. So it probably wont happen

Your labor as an artist matters and you should be compensated fairly. Yes, I’m aware that publishers aren’t endless money machines, but there is great pay disparity between creators and if we want a more sustainable an equitable comics business, that has to change.

SEVER & PIERCE - Page 83 Listen, it's really the drama that's keeping him sane. Read more at: severandpierce.com Webcomic by myself and @benfleuter.bsky.social

when Beastie Boys signed with Capitol, they were offered a big advance, which they turned down in favor of owning their masters - now, years later, they're still making money off those records - always bet on yourself, not a corporation

they'll be convenient enemies regardless of what they do, that's playing out in the states right now. you can bend over backwards to appease fascists and it will never work, because their whole ideology is irrational and premised on the idea of purging enemies. they need enemies to function

Reposting some old art from years ago

It's a pyramid scheme where men allow themselves to be exploited and submit to the authority of more powerful men in exchange for getting to exploit those who aren't men. The modern male grievance movement makes the most sense when you see them as outraged over this implicit contract being broken.

She's on a mission

I'm using actual voice recordings of my pets to make their voices, and I love how the first test came out!

Read Sun Princess!! Its a treasure!!

☀️SUN PRINCESS SUNDAY FOR TAPAS READERS🌻 But wait - there's MORE? #sunprincess #webcomics #webformat #manga tapas.io/episode/3834...

From: Harmagedon (1983), dir. Rintaro, Madhouse Note: flashing images

Today’s on-repeat song:

*Cries in $350 mostly and $400 just recently*

there should be a support group for people who have burnout because of Publishing

"why do so many of you die at 40-65" *considering taking up smoking as a coping mechanism* who can say

honestly watching a comics imprint go from telling me my pitch for hello sunshine was the first time the team unanimously agreed on one, with no caveats on the content, to "we only want things that are exactly 100% like dog man" in the space of 5 years is making me so depressed haha

Called my US rep and US senators and told them to vote NO on ANY funding for Trump's war on Iran. You can call yours, too! Find them here: reps.fyi

Publishers: What will motivate you to work faster on this book, please we'll give you anything Me: money Publishers: except that

A classic anti-masker tactic is to claim that if you don't wear a mask 100% of the time, it isn't worth it. Untrue. Every single time you wear a mask, you reduce the chances for viruses to spread. Wearing a mask always improves public health, even if you only do it occasionally.

psst hey if you want a heads up on when the final widdershins kickstarter is going live, you can follow the page for it now! www.kickstarter.com/projects/kat...

I love that this is the reputation i have online and that i did in fact know exactly the comic they were looking for immediately haha

Did you know that I have a monster artbook with 200 pages worth of illustrations, concept art, commentary, and really cool behind the scenes stuff of Ghost Junk Sickness? Well now you do! It's only 20 bucks to boot! Check it out!

Tammy the maned wolf (she/her) 🐺🧡🏳️‍⚧️

C.E. Is an amazing artist and and this art book is well worth the 10 dollars! C.E. needs help with some vital health care costs (BEEN THERE) So let's all pick up a copy! ✨💕

Desk snapshot, working on the comic, little by little

It should say a lot that the idea of working a normal job feels like a vacation sometimes. I could be making the same money if not more at some entry level 9-5, not have to deal with the hell of freelance taxes, and not have weekly panic attacks. Its way more consistent too.