February Patreon Report

Hello and Happy March everyone!

Thank you for making February a success! Could not have done it without your support!💕

For some reason comic launches always feel like what happens to vehicles after car chase scenes in cartoons. Sure, you cross the finish line, but all the wheels, doors and hood immediately fall off and the engine starts squirting oil everywhere.

My friend pointed out that my self portraits are looking progressively more haggard 😂 It's true I'm feeling tired, but that happy and relieved kind of tired because we crossed the finish line on some things! 🏁

2️⃣/3️⃣🎉

✅Coming in Handy Store Physical Comics!
✅Libby & Holly Chapter 3 Digital Release
⏹️CYOA Pt 17 

For the report this month I'm also going to talk a bit about all the things we didn't  plan for.😅Time for the report!📊


✅Physical comics released (and sold out in a day) 💖 Very happy to finally pull this off!



It's honestly been a while since we released a new comic so doing this whole process again was both familiar and foreign.


✅Printer toner drum broken and replaced! (A rare positive tech support experience) Thank you all for being gracious about the special, slightly flawed first ever print run of Libby & Holly Chapter 3! I hope you all enjoyed the commemorative no yellow toner postcard prints that shipped with the comics!


✅Peaches drawn. 





February marked the conclusion of some freelance deadlines I’ve been wanting to be rid of for a long time, so I’m feeling much more free after those were concluded.





There is usually a correlation between the amount of pressure I'm under and the volume of silly for fun drawings like these that I do. That was kind of true this month but I feel like I'm in a much better place now.





✅Daisies drawn. 




These are more or less a continuation of the Peach drawings but I feel like it's been fun to draw Daisy in contrast to Peach. It's been a fun character exploration exercise for me, to see how their personalities can be presented differently.



✅Physical comics restocked! Thank you all for your patience with this restocking. For future comic releases I’m going to find an outside  printer to work with on these so I can have enough in stock. I think I will still work on printing the Peaches zine myself though!

If you want to pick up a copy while they're back in stock head on over to⤵️

 www.cominginhandy.com ❤️

Kitt🐰 has been taking care of the packing and shipping of comics orders and we've still got the magenta and cyan postcard prints that we'll be sending out with these. 💕

✅Satyr x Swordsman Character Exploration. These are for the next comic project I want to work on before returning to Libby & Holly Chapter 4.



I have definitely been craving a project that can be short and fun and mostly an excuse for me to explore a slightly different color palette, set of characters, etc. I feel like I've learned a lot working on Libby & Holly Chapter 3 and I'm curious to see what I could do with a short story type experiment!





It hadn't even really occurred to me that there's been a dearth of drawings of men in my art recently. For a while I'd been hopping back and forth between original comics and Zelda fan comics, so I'm happy to be breaking up the cycle for a little bit.

March Goals:

⏹️Satyr x Swordsman Character Poll - I have been indecisive about choosing a character design direction for the next comic so I’m going to do some design options and put it up for a patron vote so I can get the next comic rolling. You've always steered me well in the past, so I trust you all to help make this decision 🥰

⏹️Peaches Zine Finish - I want to see if I can format fanart and sketches into little zines so that I can have zines for release in-between big comics launches and Peaches will be a good first test! 

⏹️CYOA Part 17 Update - This one goes without saying– it’s been ages since the last update but we’ll get things rolling again.

Thank you all for the wonderful love and support over the past month! 💕I’m looking forward to creating a lot more fun things with you all in the coming months!

💖Winton