FOLLOWER: New website news!

Hey all! One of the projects I’ve been working on in the background while drawing has been difficult is building a shiny new website for Follower. As part of this, I’m going to be finally transferring the whole comic onto its own URL instead of living underneath messenger-comic.com. It’s a lot easier to give people a shorter URL that they might remember than the current one. After 10 years (!!) it’s finally time. 

What does this mean for you? If you use RSS to subscribe to the comic, you’ll have to switch to the new feed URL. I will make sure to post about it well in advance so you’ll see something before the site moves. I’m planning to be relatively loud about it so it won’t go unnoticed, even after the move. 

If you don’t use RSS (you should, though!) you won’t notice a big change since I am planning to make the old URL eventually automatically redirect to the new one. So when you visit the site, you’ll end up in the new place no matter what. 

There will be a short transition period in between where both sites will be alive at the same time, just to make sure people see the change, but then it’ll become an automatic redirect after that. 

The best place to keep up with the news is on the social media site of your choice (see everywhere to find me on this page!) or to subscribe to our newsletter

Thanks for reading! I am continuing to work on new pages during this time too, but slowly due to my ongoing health issues. I’m not giving up, though!

FOLLOWER: Precipice 8.13

Follower updated! We’re going back to the scene of the crime!

🧬 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 

You can also read the comic on these sites (a page behind the main site!)

💚 Subscribe on Webtoons: https://webtoons.com/en/challenge/follower/list?title_no=74968

💛 Subscribe on Tapas: https://tapas.io/series/Follower/info

💥 Read on ComicFury: http://followercomic.webcomic.ws

🦆 Read on The Duck: https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Follower/

FOLLOWER: Page 8.10

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.

Bug is Broke Sale!

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!

Chio Chronicles May 2023 Edition

What’s Up?

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!

What’s New?

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!

What’s Next?

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. 

Community News

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. 

Thanks For Reading

Thank you (yet again) for sticking with us despite this long comic hiatus! Here’s to more new pages!

Ask a Chio: Does a Chio’s tail signify moods at all? (wagging tail = happy, tail between legs = scared, etc.)

“Does a chio’s tail signify moods at all? (wagging tail = happy, tail between legs = scared, etc.)”

Chio ears are usually the best way to guess at what they’re feeling! They’re a lot like cats’ ears, and change direction based on their current mood. Check out this answer for a bit more info!

Chios (and their tails and ears) are from Messenger and Follower!

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