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- There is like one zillion bundles and things happening this Summer, Christ. This is an off year for conventions for me, so there will likely be much less of that and more “oh god I need to be on a plane in three days”.
- I have a patron Discord that I’m trying to pull some activity into! If you’re interested in talking in real-time with other perverts about comics, the $2 tier on Patreon/Substar is where it’s at. Or if you ask me super nicely via email, I can send you an invite. :^)
COMIC & ART UPDATES
WEDLOCKED
Willoughby is a 21 year old brat twink in a 60 year old body. Being a twink is a state of mind! Read more on the subscriber site.
ULTRAVIOLENTS
The first big pit fight scene is wrapping up as chapter five winds down! I’ll be taking the usual few week break between chapters so I can review up my thumbnails and build a big buffer. If you’re the kind of reader who likes waiting until a chapter is finished before catching up, good news! You’ll have some reading to do in June.
Casual reminder: there is a TopWebComics voting page! TWC is a very old school way of getting more eyeballs on a webcomic (voting pushes a comic up in the rankings), but it’s still somewhat reliable. Vote today to push UV up in the ranks!
OTHER COMIC NEWS
USB cards are FINALLY on their way… again! The first round was damaged at port and had to be remade, but I’m impatient and want to finally show these off. So: here’s some secret preview images. I’ll take better ones once they’re all here! By the time I get them I’ll probably be done with chapter five, so I’m going to add that onto ones that ship out. Lock yours down before they sell out!
EVENTS & APPEARANCES
The Nib & Ink Festival has wrapped up- I ran two panels this time! One is the marketplace exploration hour here, the other is the NSFW portfolio review which is available via the CU’s library and my subscriber site in a few weeks.
The Sickos Selection is back for a FOURTH edition!! I put together a big PDF of over 400 pages of art from 2019-2023 as a part of this (and also made the website you can now bookmark). It’ll be available on my shop and via itchio independently pretty soon. You can also sign up for the Sickos Newsletter to keep abreast of all of our bundles.
Don’s Dead Market is a taboo gay art bundle and virtual pop-up! It works the same as other art bundles (such as aforementioned Sickos Selection) where you pay once and are given access to a variety of art. I have a hi res collection of Ultraviolents chapters one through four in this, but really my main contribution is… I built the system we’re using for this from scratch! Tentatively called ‘Caravan’. I’m hoping that once I release it fully it’ll allow for other artists to worry less about if what they want to make will destroy their livelihoods.
Anyway! Get your ticket before the Market closes June 17t at midnight PT (today!).
For the locals: I should be at the booth for Crow’s Nest (previously Outsider Comics) during the annual Trans Pride event at Volunteer Park. Not sure what my stock will be, but I’ll probably do a fun exclusive miniprint again.
Logging mostly for myself, but I also had some preview pages of my upcoming graphic novel Our Velocity (I haven’t forgotten about it!) in a zine for Comitia earlier this month. Not something that could really be shipped and subscribers have already seen the pages, but yeah! Neat. Hoping to be in another for the winter Comitia.
RECS & LINKS
- Caught up on Kosmic’s webcomic Nasty Red Dogs at the urging of my partner. I had given it a read some time ago but hadn’t kept up due to the lack of functioning RSS feed. I really love Kosmic’s stuff (I think I’ve yelled about Religion of Toy in here before) and this is no exception. Man, every dick really does look like that, huh. Props, tbh.
- I have a Letterboxd now because I am entering my Movie Guy era. I promise I won’t be annoying about it. Mostly my ADHD is so severe that I can easily get distracted with other things while listening to essays or podcasts, so now I’m watching movies while working because if I get distracted, I miss what’s going on. We’ll see how long my brain lets this work. At least I get to dig through a giant pile of things I’ve been meaning to watch.
That’s it for now! Thanks for sticking around.
Stay safe,
-Nero
