Finally getting my tooth extracted today. Very excited to have more mouth pain on top of my chronic illness/hypermobile joint pain, and my lifelong crippling depression. This week is going to be fun. I am, however, genuinely looking forward to the sedatives.

my mom took tylenol when she was pregnant, which made me super focused on menswear and now i have a million followers on twitter

Cheapjack Gentlemen main cast portraits from 2019. Back when Thompkins didn't have a unibrow and Abigail had her whole face. 💀You can read the comic here: cheapjackgentlemen.carrd.co

You know I’ve been an anxious weirdo when I start sketching this kid 🫩 #oc #sketches

I think it's becoming clear that if you like indie creators, you're going to need to support them any way you can. And that doesn't mean money, just spreading worth of mouth can be powerful as well.

Posting old art until motivation comes back. Here are some old Cheapjack Gentlemen drawings from 2019. 💀You can read the comic here: cheapjackgentlemen.carrd.co #OcSky #OriginalCharacter #OC #Webcomic

Support the artists you like now because tomorrow you might not be able to find them.

Each day I wake up thinking I can't get more disappointed in life, but little things like this are always there to prove me wrong.

Set in the mid-Victorian era, a crafty quack doctor and a somber undertaker become mismatched partners in crime, selling cadavers to a medical school ⁠— however, certain decisions and personal differences create issues in their business. 💀Read Cheapjack Gentlemen here: cheapjackgentlemen.carrd.co

As an aside... I hate asking for money, but as a freelancer, I don't get paid bereavement leave. If you would like to and are able, please donate to my Ko-fi so I can take some time off work without financial stress. Thank you. ko-fi.com/cronaj

The irony of making a comic about body snatching is that body snatchers actually made a living from their work (morality and legality aside). Edmund would be disappointed in his creator and her lack of huckster skills.

I finally got some of my newer items listed on my Ko-fi shop. Did you know I have a Ko-fi? Well, now you do! I have multiple kinds of Ilworld merch including vol 1, prints, keychains and stickers even a small amount of t-shirts. I have a little fanart too. #Comics #artist ko-fi.com/augustawickman

Dr. Crowley is a great surgeon and a nice guy. (Source: himself)

The background for that one panel in Cheapjack Gentlemen. Find the noose. 💀

It's my birthday and all I want is for someone with connections to see my comic, go "wow this is the best story ever, let's greenlight this," then give me millions of dollars. Alternately, I'll also settle for anyone just giving it a look (it's free to read): cheapjackgentlemen.carrd.co

I'm hoping this weekend I can actually have a lot of time to work on my comic. So readers can see if Isis and Rahab can ever get back to where they were, just starting to connect with and understand each other, or if they won't be able to move past the incident.

Concept art of Edmund pretending a corpse he stole is a drunken friend (2019) and the actual scene from the comic (2022). William Cunningham, a prolific body snatcher and one of the inspirations behind Edmund, actually did this (...minus the dress). ...And people fell for it somehow.

Concept art of Edmund pretending a corpse he stole is a drunken friend (2019) and the actual scene from the comic (2022). William Cunningham, a prolific body snatcher and one of the inspirations behind Edmund, actually did this (...minus the dress). ...And people fell for it somehow.

Did I have the entire village of Perrimoune mapped out, despite the main street being the only place that's been in the comic so far? ...Yes. Do I consider mundane details like what direction the door to Wilkinson's shop opens? Maybe...

Posting random Cheapjack Gentlemen art until I'm well enough to draw again. Turns out I have a tooth infection! I've had to postpone art progress due to fatigue. It's weird having autoimmune problems that eat away at your body despite having good dental hygiene. I have antibiotics now, though!

Saw those "movie that not many other people like, but you do" posts going around, and it made me realize why I always loved Nothing but Trouble. "A semi-failed horror-comedy passion project created by an Asperger's brain about very niche interests" is the reason behind all my creations also.

I saw a company spokesperson not understand why indie folks are annoyed by corpo IP joining platforms so I'll use an analogy. You opened a bakery claiming to serve homemade from scratch, small batch recipe pastries but then started carrying Hostess and Little Debbie cakes at the front of the store

Here's a doodle from 2019 that still sort of holds up. Sorry for the lack of comic updates, I'm still struggling with burnout/autoimmune issues. The dystopian hellscape of big companies invading indie webcomic spaces isn't helping my motivation. Hoping to get the next CJG page done soon.

doodle progress

My love of macabre medical history extends beyond making a comic - urbex is also my hobby. I visited this abandoned tuberculosis hospital a few times, and recently came upon some photos of it from when it was more recently abandoned. Colored photos are mine, vs. historical B&W photos. Neat!

I found Dudley in a book about 1850's men's fashion. I'm glad he got to live out his dandy dreams of being a fashionista.

My book, Blood of the Taken Book 2: Next of Kin is coming out September 2nd from @stormkingcomics.bsky.social ! Annnd you can pick up a copy early if you're going to @midsummerscream.bsky.social this weekend! Be sure to stop by Storm Kings booth!!

Put together a little music playlist for Cheapjack Gentlemen! These are songs I think are fitting to the story in terms of either mood or lyrics. open.spotify.com/playlist/0Qf...

Career aspects: hoping for my story to become more than an obscure webcomic. Non-Career aspects: There hasn't been a time in my life when I wasn't hyperfixated on creating, and I'd love for other people to enjoy my stories as well. Also, the world needs more protagonists that are extremely flawed.

Now that the intro to Cheapjack Gentlemen is in color, here's the entire thing together. I'm very open to feedback/advice, I want to make sure I have a decent intro to pitch it with. Here are pages 1-4. You can read the entire comic here: cheapjackgentlemen.carrd.co Pages 5-8 in comments⬇️

Now that the intro to Cheapjack Gentlemen is in color, here's the entire thing together. I'm very open to feedback/advice, I want to make sure I have a decent intro to pitch it with. Here are pages 1-4. You can read the entire comic here: cheapjackgentlemen.carrd.co Pages 5-8 in comments⬇️

"passiv-raucher". graphite + digital illustration with my ocs anshel & esther / august 2025 #shlimazel #leichenmalerei #art #myart #oc #ocart #1920s #expressionism #illustration #drawing

I'm over here at Oklahoma Comic Con. If you're here, come stop by!

Updated the character profiles to the Cheapjack Gentlemen site. Decided it wouldn’t be too spoiler-y to include the inspos for each character with info links, hoping to nudge a few readers down the rabbit hole of the real people/events that inspired my comic. sites.google.com/view/cheapja...

Two films that didn't inspire Cheapjack Gentlemen, but really seem like they did: "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" and "The Comedy of Terrors." I didn't even know about the latter one. Definitely on my to-watch list now!

The entirety of the intro to Cheapjack Gentlemen is now in color. Here are pages 7 and 8. The vertical scroll versions have also been updated in color on Webtoon/Tapas/Globalcomix/Comicfury. #webcomic #oc

Just one more panel of Cheapjack Gentlemen to color until I've met my goal of coloring the beginning to the point of the first story hook. Even coloring has been difficult lately. Chronic illness sucks. When will my comic suddenly blow up so I can make a living from it and hire assistants?

Almost done with coloring up to where I wanted to be. Admittedly, my motivation has been so dead that it was a struggle to even finish coloring old panels. I'm tired of being permanently burnt out and chronically ill. Trying to remember why I'm 200 pages into making a comic, an unforgiving medium.

200. Newly chronically ill/disabled people having good support systems is also suicide prevention.

Despite the chronic illness and crippling depression, art progress is still going. Hoping I can get the next CJG page out soon.

style emulation goofin' inspired by the Inspektor Maska (1962-1963, Zagreb Film) episode "Građanin IM-5" wherein a goofy disguised robot robs a bank and eats the furniture of a seedy bar. the robot fellow reminds me so much of Armand Legg, haha.

Finding ancient Cheapjack Gentlemen art I thought I lost. Here's a concept for Edmund's cure-all liniment from 2017 (vs a comic panel for comparison). ...I think he would get even less business if he put his face on the bottle. A good business decision on his behalf.

Nearly done coloring the first 8 pages (2 episodes) AND finally got around to doing the thumbnails for the next page. Wanted to get up to the first major story hook in full color so I can have a presentable pitch. Coloring the other pages is...for later.

I put together a (very WIP) site with all the Cheapjack Gentlemen art, just to have it in one place. I'm still in the process of finding more old art and adding it, but it's here if you're interested in things dating back to...very, very long ago! sites.google.com/view/cheapja...

In case you missed it, the next Ilworld update is out on Webtoon canvas. We get to learn more about this new monster acquaintance but what happened to Rahab?? www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/il...

Indie comics ain't easy. Working very hard to make something as well as you possibly can that you know only a few people outside of yourself care about can be quite lonely, and often feels almost like a folly. Please let indie creators know you enjoy their work, it really helps.

This. I cannot emphasize enough how influencer and hustle culture have completely changed the internet from "weird and wonderful things people make for the heck of it" to algorithm chasing joylessness.

Nearly done coloring the first 8 pages (2 episodes) AND finally got around to doing the thumbnails for the next page. Wanted to get up to the first major story hook in full color so I can have a presentable pitch. Coloring the other pages is...for later.

ok it's quite frankly embarrassing that I've had these guys for 7 years and only now I designed boxes for them. lol the non-suit decorative motif repeats on the other sides, including the top. ♥️ Cardinal (he/him) ♠️ Mort (she/her) ♣️ Ceorl (he/him) ♦️ Testudo (they/them)