Studio Tour's done!! Online store next!!

Yup, that was me (we swapped pen for bird drawing)! Elephant Town has become the “visual poetry sign-off from the early AM internet surf” routine: I need it after reading WaPo !

Ahh is this the same Leslie I saw on the tour, and I bump into occasionally?? I do love Howard's; they have an excellent selection for not being in a big city. I hope you like Elephant Town!!

Danielle Corsetto

And a pleasant wakey-wakey to you and Ollie! … Okay, I’m “in” (just Patreon-signed myself up a few minutes ago! As for the art supply question: I journey north to Howard’s in Hagerstown (Md.); never did do the online supply thing since I am hopelessly old school. Okay, gotta go: “Elephant Town” is calling …!

It's WhoGivesACrap lol! But you know, as long as you get it, you get it. ;) And yes, give those papers to your cat, they're crinkly and fun to eat, according to our unscientific review of at least 4 of our cats.

Amy Crook

AMY!! Is it Cloud Paper? Because that Instagram ad totally worked on me and I've had a subscription for over a year now. I should just toss those outer papers into a box and let Pip have at it!

Danielle Corsetto

I can, you're right! I'm gonna dig into that and find out what kind of commission they take/how much trouble it is to add new items & change descriptions. It might be worth the $30/mo for me to just have my own... or both!

Danielle Corsetto

I have a shameless sticker addiction, so that would be one way to part me from my meagre cash lol. Regarding the paper, this is SO WEIRD but... we started buying this bamboo TP online that comes individually wrapped (bc recyclable paper > plastic, bamboo is more sustainable, yadda yadda), and the cats LOVE to nibble and crinkle and sleep on the wrappers! So we put those out where the cats can play with them, and they actually prefer those over my thicker art papers and stuff.

Amy Crook

I love the many faces of Jamie. It reminds me of Livejournal's custom icons where you could uploads packs of icons to use for the "how I'm feeling" images

Could you bop onto the Hiveworks store now that your new site is affiliated? I'm not sure what's involved with that, but I follow other artists who have things there.

NJGR

ahahahahaha I love the 25 essential expressions =D (I did it too, twice, it was too fun) I notice a good number of places I like use Shopify... while I do like some of the social aspects of Etsy (leaving reviews, or likes on stuff I can't get), I don't think that's worth whatever Etsy's pulling on the shop owners =p (wish we could've come down to at least see Pip and Ollie, but between TWO boosters and general weekendery, I was pretty wiped)

Minzoku Bokumetsu

I tend to discover new artists through Instagram but the artists' own sites are where I look first for purchases. And then wherever their site takes me...

Marijah

I love that drunk Jamie is, basically, Hazel 🍻🙂 (That's a lovely pic of you too)

Pete Jordan

Oh I would be so DOWN for that

Boum

I hadn't heard of that one! I'm guessing your website has to be Wordpress, though, right? And OOOO what are you gonna be selling?!

Danielle Corsetto

I'm thinking about looking up studio tours in areas I'd like to travel to - some of them have guest artists - and just pinging them to see if they'd like to diversify their artist list with a cartoonist/illustrator. :) I would loooove to do something similar to this for just cartoonists & illustrators in the future, by finding places in Shepherdstown to host cartoonists for a weekend and making an in-town cartoonist's tour! We have enough AirBnBs (and I have enough couch space) to host out-of-town cartoonists... or out-of-country cartoonists, wink wink. ;)

Danielle Corsetto

That's my model, too - browse on Etsy, contact seller, and let them choose how best to sell to me. :) Shopify is at the top of my list! Thanks for all your feedback, hon! <3

Danielle Corsetto

I like the woocommerce plugin for Wordpress...both as a customer and as a (future) user. I'm OK with almost anything. I do experience a mental disconnect when a store is "suspiciously complicated." Like, when it starts to feel like a storefront service is trying to onboard me as new meat for future exploitation, and 75% of what it's putting me through has nothing to do with giving Danielle Corsetto money and a mailing address so she can send me a print and a dozen postcards.

Andy Ihnatko

Honestly I'm jealous because such an event sounds like a lot of fun!!

Boum

I buy a lot through etsy, but if an artist has a standalone site/shop, I'll try there first. Squarespace is used by a local artist that I like and that's been easy for me. Shopify has been easy for me to buy from, too. I browsed a couple of other artist sites that I buy from, but can't easily tell what platform they've got their shop built on.

Christina

As I live in Denmark, and don't do a lot of small-vendor shopping period, I'm not sure my input would be helpful. But personally, I'm totally fine with moving off Etsy if they're being sneaky money grabbers.

Bailey Doolittle