What’s Up?
So, it would appear I haven’t been able to get a newsletter together since….December 2023. Yikes. Well, let’s rectify that, shall we?
What’s New?
As usual, the delay on everything I’ve been working on is related to health issues. If you’re into the gritty details I’ve been blogging about it from time to time on my Tumblr. I had a flare up in my hands and wrists that was intensely painful for a while and has mostly subsided but it’s still easy to set off, so I’m still working more slowly than normal despite having about a thousand things I want to work on. It’s frustrating, emotionally and physically.
Thanks to folks contributing to my Ko-Fi, I was able to get my hands on a pair of compression gloves which should help me be better able to work through some of the painful days.
So, I’m still working on getting Follower going on a regular schedule again. It’s been really hard. To fill in some of the gap, Delade put together some new fiction for the website which I gave a little artistic rendering to.
You can read the 2-part short story “Radon and Gil” on the Follower site.
In other news, I’ve been using some of my drawing-is-hard time to get Follower going on some additional mirror sites, including more updates on GlobalComix and (coming soon) NamiComi! GlobalComix has a really nice app, and I took the time to add interactive panel by panel clickthroughs, so I highly recommend it as a reading experience!
I’ve also been trying to work on other methods to help Follower and my comic projects become more self-supporting even when I have trouble drawing consistently due to health problems. There are several things you can do (for free!) that will help me be able to keep Follower going:
Subscribe to Follower on Tapas and Webtoon Canvas. If I can reach 100 subs on Tapas, I’ll be eligible for ad revenue sharing, which probably isn’t a lot, but every little bit helps out.
I’ve also been making more video content on both TikTok and Youtube. Following me in both of those places helps me become eligible for monetizing those platforms, too.
What’s Next?
The top of my agenda is getting Follower back to a reasonable amount of updates. It’s hard to get there struggling with my bad hands, but I’m making progress. We’ll get there, one bite at a time.
Community News
One of the new parts of the new Follower website I’m working on and considering opening to readers is the option to help transcribe pages for vision-impaired readers. For now, I’ve been doing the transcriptions myself, but there are hundreds of pages to go. I might open this up to the community as a volunteer project. If you’re at all interested in this sort of thing, please drop in on the Discord chat and let me know!
If there is community interest, I will open up a private channel just for transcribers, and probably create a special role for it.
Thanks for Reading!
Thanks for reading this incredibly late newsletter. Here’s hoping things can get a little easier from here on.
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