Hey everyone! Big news! The first volume of Slimepunk is finally being printed!!!!

Hooray! This trade will collect all six issues of Slimepunk, along with the Patreon exclusive minicomic Faerie Ishee: Home to Roost, plus some fun extras. It's a whopping 134 pages total, and I can't wait to get it in people's hands!

To that end: preorders are up on my Gumroad page. You can preorder the trade here, which will release in October. All copies will be signed and include a free sticker!!

There's also a PDF option, which is a bit cheaper and will release in September, if that's more to your tastes.

Preorders will last all month, and you won't be charged until the respective release day for whichever version you decide to get.

I am a little nervous about this. It's the biggest release I've done since Other Sleep six years ago, and without any shows to promote it at, in the middle of a pandemic where everyone is struggling, well, chances of making sales aren't great. Preorders are the best way to do this without taking a huge loss myself. So I won't be shutting up about this any time soon, sorry about it. It would be much appreciated if you helped me out though, spreading the word as much as possible about this! The more preorders I get, the more I can print!

OH YEAH. If you're subscribed to my Patreon at the $5 level or higher, you get a discount code for the physical copy AND I posted the PDF there for free! So you may want to consider that option too.

Work on this is what took up most of my time over these past few weeks. But I worked on other things too!

First off, here's a new social justice kaiju portrait:
I'd been meaning to do this one for a few years after having it requested by a couple people. Better late than never, right? Ableism has also been a big personal blindspot, so I made it just as much for myself as a reminder to do better.

I actually DID set up at an outdoor art show last month, hosted by Wolf Hills Brewing in Abingdon, with a few friends. I didn't sign up until about a week before the show, and just frantically gathered up everything I had laying around since the last show I did all the way back in December...and did surprisingly well! I kept my mask on whenever I talked with anyone, and aside from the constant wind blowing Nodzilla stickers and other things away, being outside made me a little less anxious. Doing more like it wouldn't be so bad, but also, if no other shows come up, that's fine too.

There was also some work I did for other folks, including a thank you painting for a friend who was extremely kind and generous to us during Nod's surgery, a tattoo design, and licensing more paintings to Eight-Foot Brewing in Florida. Hilariously, I had to work out a way to censor one of my nude paintings for them to use as a label, but it turned out pretty good:
You can see the uncensored version in the Paintings gallery of my Portfolio, of course. It's so neat seeing my work adorning cans and bottles, even though I stopped drinking in December and swore to go all this year without it. Maybe not my best decision, given how insane 2020 is, but I'm sticking to it.

You may have noticed already, but my apocalyptic 2016 comic All of This Will Crumble is now available on here to read for free! Go check it out! After you read it, if you're interested, you can go to my Goodreads author page (which I just claimed last week) and rate/review it!

It's clear now that July was the month where I finally managed to get back on my feet. I'm not at the pace I'd like to be, but it's still nice to be juggling different projects again.

Online figure drawing doesn't have the energy it once did when all this started, but we're still at it. Here's a recent favorite:
With Slimepunk's first volume finally wrapped up, I'm also back to work on writing and working things out for volume 2, hoping to get started actually drawing it soon. There are also plenty of other things I want to draw and paint right now and just haven't had the time or evergy for. As usual, all new stuff will go to Patreon before it lands anywhere else, so again, please consider subscribing to that!

That's it, I guess. Just gotta keep going. PREORDER SLIMEPUNK PLEASE. Take care!