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Okay take-two on newsletters! I learned a lot last month so I won’t make the same mistakes this time.<\/span><\/p>\n

And hey if you use an RSS feed reader, you can add this blog to it with this feed link!<\/a> Don’t know what RSS is? No problem, I made a comic about it<\/a><\/p>\n

February’s Oh Joy Sex Toy Comic “Communication”<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Read it here!<\/span><\/a> New month new Oh Joy Sex Toy comic from yours truly. I’ve been wanting to tell this one for a while. Michelle and I have been together for just over 10 years and we’ve learned that communication is the most key part of any relationship.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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I highly recommend communicating with those around you, not just in your \u00a0romantic life but friendships, family, etc, if you can and feel safe to \u00a0do so! My friendships have also benefited from doing this, <\/span>but I\u2019d never try it with my own family for\u2026 reasons<\/em>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

For $10 patrons,<\/a> I posted a behind the scenes about my OJST comic “Make Your Own Food”<\/a>. This includes how and why I made it, the script, thumbnails, and sketches of the pages.<\/p>\n

Alola Darumaka’s Chalk Adventure Continues
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Read the latest pages here!<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong> Maka is continuing and finishing up her chalk adventure tomorrow. If you don’t know, <\/span>A<\/span>l<\/span>o<\/span>l<\/span>a<\/span> D<\/span>a<\/span>r<\/span>u<\/span>m<\/span>a<\/span>k<\/span>a<\/span><\/a> is a free to read 4-koma comedy comic about Darumaka and her partner Daven who’ve moved to Alola from Unova. Hijinks happen but it’s all in good fun!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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P<\/span>a<\/span>t<\/span>r<\/span>o<\/span>n<\/span>s<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>K<\/span>o<\/span>f<\/span>i<\/span> s<\/span>u<\/span>b<\/span>s<\/span>c<\/span>r<\/span>i<\/span>b<\/span>e<\/span>r<\/span>s<\/span><\/a> get early access to pages 1 month before they’re posted publicly on <\/span>Topaz Comics <\/span><\/a>every Tuesday at 12pm EST<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Shop Updates<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Given & Taken is off to print and should be arriving in the next week or so! Stickers have arrived and I’m on track for sending the preorders out by March 15th. For those who missed out on the preorder do not fret, as soon as I get the preordered books sent out I’ll be putting the extra books and stickers up in my shop. I’ll also have the books and stickers available in person at TCAF.<\/p>\n

February’s Sketchbook<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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My February 2023 sketchbook is up for my Grab Bag tier on Patreon<\/a> and Kofi<\/a>! I always forget how short February is and this really snuck up on me. Here’s this month’s sketchbook with lots of Lupins this time, plus some OC concepts, lots of comic sketches and some very good shoutout requests!<\/p>\n

The Curtain Falls<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Page 21 of my Lupin III fancomic \u201cThe Curtain Falls\u201d is up.<\/strong><\/a> The story follows Lupin in his 60s, dealing with the fact that nothing lasts forever and we\u2019ve changed scenes. Are you ready to be sad?<\/p>\n

Commissions<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Hey I’m going to try having 2 commission slots open per month<\/strong><\/a>, only 2 because that might be all I can handle right now. Patrons get first dibs. I set up a trello board<\/strong><\/a> for it too, I’m a big fan of trello boards.<\/em><\/p>\n

NSFW Art<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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For my $10 Private Collector patron tier<\/a>, I posted some new lewd pieces; an old OC of mine, some more nsfw Q&A comics featuring Goemon, and another with Zenigata. My $10 tier has a huge backlog of lewd art spanning a few years now, but if you can’t make it onto Patreon you can grab the PDF versions on my itchio<\/strong><\/a> after I collect enough pieces to make a PDF. Patreon and Itchio are the only places I’ll be posting 18+ work.<\/p>\n

TCAF
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Progress for remastering Dead City has been a bit slow but I’m making headway. My goal is to be done by late March so we can have the big beautiful book ready in time for TCAF (April 29-30th, 2023)<\/strong><\/a> I’ll be bringing lots of books, stickers, prints and more!<\/p>\n

Other things<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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I made a new goal on my Kofi account,<\/a> I’d like to try doing more talks for free online about how to freelance, make zines, set up a Patreon, etc. The talk I have in mind right now is about how to moderate a fandom zine or comic anthology, setting up applications, making a PDF, and sending books to print! It’ll be available on my twitch channel and then I’ll upload the VOD to youtube, and write a written format for it as well. It’s a lot of work to set things like this up so I thought putting up a Kofi goal would be the best way to crowd-source this.<\/p>\n

If you’re a Lupin fan, go check out the Lupin III forum<\/a><\/strong> that I’m apart of. I’m posting art over there, and I made the jacket badges for it.<\/p>\n

Topaz Comics is apart of Knife Beetle<\/a>; a webcomic webring. Go read some of those comics, there’s some real good stuff on there.<\/p>\n

Going to try and make a mailing list at some point. Would people be in to that?<\/p>\n

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Well I think that about covers it. Does this format work? What do y’all look for in newsletters? I’ll do what I can with the time I have!<\/p>\n

See you next month~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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