We’re going to move this mini-storyline to being book only long term as a bonus feature, so it won’t go away in all forms, it just won’t be on the website — so folks who buy the PDF version or the print book will still be able to read it.
The idea is to reward folks who check the website regularly with being able to read the exclusive content we wouldn’t have otherwise publicly released to begin with.
Oh I understand, and am glad the storyline will be kept somewhere. But way, WAY too many webcomics that I loved that just stopped, then eventually disappeared.
It's hard to tell how vulnerable to be on the internet anymore. How safe it it to be so exposed. Twenty years ago I'd just pour anything I was feeling into this space. While I filtered things for other people's privacy, I never filtered my own feelings.
But I stopped at some point, and this turned into a place where I just promoted my projects and gave generic, general updates. It meant I posted less and less, and I know I'm trying to turn that around. When you make stuff like comics and books and try to talk about them and promote them online, there's a pressure to be positive constantly. Like when you're actively trying to provide paths for escapism for people, a lot of people get unhappy when you drag reality into things.
But things are stressful.
Sometimes we're just holding ourselves together with tape and string, and hoping no one notices. Besides the massively important Wisconsin Supreme Court election on Tuesday (vote Crawford by the way), the outside world isn't the only pressure. My grandmother is going into hospice, and that brings its own set of stuff. I've got a family of people who are all concerned about everyone else's well being, and not enough people taking care of themselves.
And, like, for the record, I am fine. I will be fine. We have a lot of fighting to do, and I have no intention of giving up. But, like, shit is stressful, y'know? And I think it's important to acknowledge that stress. I write these things not because I need support, but to acknowledge that they exist. To say "sometimes things are hard and we're all human."
Because we are.
And me move forward as best we can.
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It's hard to tell how vulnerable to be on the internet anymore. How safe it it to be so exposed. Twenty years ago I'd just pour anything I was feeling into this space. While I filtered things for other people's privacy, I never filtered my own feelings.
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I do not find that fact fun. Far far too many webcomics I just to enjoy that are no longer hosted anywhere.
We’re going to move this mini-storyline to being book only long term as a bonus feature, so it won’t go away in all forms, it just won’t be on the website — so folks who buy the PDF version or the print book will still be able to read it.
The idea is to reward folks who check the website regularly with being able to read the exclusive content we wouldn’t have otherwise publicly released to begin with.
Oh I understand, and am glad the storyline will be kept somewhere. But way, WAY too many webcomics that I loved that just stopped, then eventually disappeared.
What did she do to that bratwurst, Jeff?
WHAT DID SHE DO?!
At a guess — a very wild guess — put ketchup on it?
…I mean, yeah. You’re in the ballpark.