comics, art, and thoughts by bug & delade
About follower
Follower updated! This guy is just the worst.
🧬 New page: http://follower.messenger-comic.com
👨🏼🔬 From the Start: https://follower.messenger-comic.com/follower-webcomic/follower/
🦘 RSS: http://follower.messenger-comic.com/feed/
💖 Early: http://chio.club
Check out some of the process of this page in the making! You can get early looks at content like this when you join the Chio Club! Members got to see this clip months ahead of now.
Ha, you read that right! 🥲
Things have been a bit rough with my hands being unreliable for the past few months, and we’ve got bills and a cat vet appointment coming up, so it seems like as good a time as any to put our comics on sale for the next week! You get cheap comics, we get to survive a little bit, so everyone wins!
All of our comics (and CSP brush pack!) downloads are automatically 50% off in our itch.io shop. You can also download everything as a giant bundle for just $15! That’s a lot of comics!
You can also use the code ‘BUGISBROKE‘ in our Ko-Fi shop and get 50% off everything there, too!
Thanks so much for reading this post, and share with your friends if you think they’d be into our work!
What’s that, a new Follower page? Yeah, really!
🧬 New page: http://follower.messenger-comic.com
👨🏼🔬 From the Start: https://follower.messenger-comic.com/follower-webcomic/follower/
🦘 RSS: http://follower.messenger-comic.com/feed/
💖 Early: http://chio.club
Hey Chio Crew! We’re nearly halfway through 2023 already! How?! I guess it goes faster when you’re struggling to be able to update your own webcomic, but that’s changing soon!
Follower starts again this week! It’s been a long hiatus with my ongoing health issues, but I’m going to do my best to keep on schedule! I can’t promise that I won’t occasionally have to take breaks now and again, but I’m at least hopeful I’ll be able to maintain a small buffer.
If you’ve ever wanted to be part of Follower, like, so much that you’re in the comic – now’s your chance! Our Create a Chio project is open once again for takers on both Patreon and via Ko-Fi commissions. For $50, I’ll work with you to design your very own Chio character. You’ll get a custom character sheet with color references and information. This character will appear on at least one page of the comic as a side character. I’ve also added an extra upgrade option that will put your custom character on 3 pages of the comic, with the potential for a line of dialogue, too. Since I’m working on pages right now that feature a bunch of background Chios, the sooner you commission me, the sooner your character will appear in the comic!
April had no takers for the Chio Club Sticker Tier, so I’ll be leaving it up with the same design for May. If it stays this way, I will probably end it and move on to other ideas. That said, if you’re interested, please check out our Patreon and Ko-Fi pages to join!
I’m still dealing with health issues and my schedule is pretty much a wreck week to week, so I haven’t been able to make a solid streaming schedule yet. I’d like to get back to streaming work on book pages, since I was making some decent progress there. As usual, follow me on Twitch to get updates on that.
Join us on Discord to get the latest comic updates and engage with other readers! The Discord is open to everyone, with special areas for Chio Club supporters.
Thank you (yet again) for sticking with us despite this long comic hiatus! Here’s to more new pages!
The final version of Follower page 8.11 is up for Chio Club members! Join now for as little as $1/month on Patreon or Ko-Fi and get access to early pages and more!
You can now also join the Chio Tumbl Club on Tumblr for $5.99/month. You’ll get access to everything the $5+ tier on the other platforms gets. I’d add more options, but that’s all I can do there. But if Tumblr is your jam, you can support Follower there, too.
Just a quick little clip with some trendy audio that kind of summarizes the Chios’ experience throughout all of Follower.
Did you know we have a YouTube channel where we post stuff like this, stream archives, art tips, and more? You should come and subscribe!
Catch the first half of this stream here!
Subscribe to your Youtube Channel for stream archives like these, storytime videos, and more!
Part 2 coming soon!
Subscribe to our Youtube channel to catch streams you may have missed, and also catch them live!
I’m streaming this week on Thursday, February 23 at 3 PM US EST! I’m trying something new and *hopefully* I’ll be streaming to both Twitch and Youtube simultaneously if all goes well.
Hope to see you there!
Hey hey comic readers and Chio aficionados of all sorts! It’s February, and that means it’s time for another news and updates post!
To get straight to the point: I’ve been doing physical therapy for my hand and joint issues for the past few weeks, and according to the therapists I’ve been working with, there’s already been some improvement, which is a great sign. I’m working on strengthening the muscles around my joints so that everything is better supported, but that’s a bit of a process. That said, I’m still working more slowly than normal so as not to strain my joints. My current plan is to keep working on a buffer so I have some more flexible time between new Follower pages. Chio Club folks have been getting early looks at what I’ve been working on, so if that’s your thing, come join us!
As it’s been lately, I’m slowly working on Follower book revisions and new Follower pages. This is mostly hindered by, of course, the problems I’m having with my hands, but again, I’m hopeful this will improve over the next few months. My main goal is getting that Follower buffer going, and I’m part of the way there. I don’t have a solid date for Follower’s return yet, but I’m optimistically guessing during this spring.
To help save my hands, I’ve been working on some less drawing-intense projects, including some video content. I’m not quite finished with the first, but it’s going to be a storytime type of video on the topic of what’s up with my hands, since I’ve learned some kind of interesting things in the process of figuring out what’s up with them. It’ll likely be up in a week or two, since I have a bunch of stream archive content queued up between now and then and I’d like to let that run out first. I’ve got a few ideas for other types of videos, too, but they’re a bit more labor intensive and will come out in due time. Meanwhile, if you want to be the first to know when the new content drops, subscribe to our Youtube channel and (as they say) don’t forget to hit that bell for notifications!!! I hate myself a little for typing that sentence, just so you know.
Get all our digital mini comics on itch.io for 50% off each, or $5 as a bundle, during Valentine’s week! Show us a little love and get some little comics!
Our Teepublic store will be up to 35% off
February 8 – 11 and February 22 – 26*
*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.
Our Redbubble sticker shop will be up to 20% off
February 25 – 28*
*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.
This month, I’m slowly getting back into streaming while I work on comic stuff! I am also going to work some gaming back in as well, but I’ve got to start slow. Right now my plan is to try and fit in one stream a week, and you can always find out the latest schedule by visiting my Twitch schedule page or the streaming page on Radiochio.com. My streams are pretty chill, so if you just want to drop in and talk comics, or even drop in and lurk while I draw, that’s all great. Watching my Twitch is an easy way to help the comic, because I do get paid for ad views. Subscribing helps out even more, and if you have Amazon Prime you get a free Twitch subscription each month to the channel of your choice! Not saying you have to use it on mine, but I’d surely be grateful if you did. *wink wink*
I’ve also heard that Twitch has loosened up some of their affiliate exclusivity rules, so I might be able to simultaneously stream to other platforms? I have to do a bit more research, but if you tend to watch streams on other sites like Picarto or Youtube, there’s a chance I’ll be coming there as well. Always gotta be looking for new ways to reach new readers!
And, as usual, our Discord is always open and welcoming new folks! It’s a little slow and quiet, but that’s not always a bad thing. Pop on in for comic updates, general chat, and potentially some new community events in the coming year!
Once again, thank you so much for reading about our newest stuff, even if things are still a bit slow.
