Monthly Roundup: April 5, 2024

Welcome to the first ever Monthly Roundup!

In this newsletter, you’ll find out about everything I released over the past 30-31 days, whether it be standalone art, comic pages, standalone minicomics, Patreon bonuses, project launches, or anything else notable. This way you get it all without having to follow me in a thousand different places—though you’re still welcome to do that too!

Anything not labeled “Patreon” or “paid” is free and publicly available.

Major Announcements and Releases

This was an unusually big month! Lots more releases than usual, and several notable ones.

Into the Smoke: Cover Reveal and Launch Date

I posted the cover for Into the Smoke, the new free webcomic I’ve been working on behind the scenes for the past two years! I also announced the release date: May 29! The release was announced on Patreon (free post) and Tumblr.

Cover of Into the Smoke. Blaze, a spirit medium with shoulder-length red hair and tattooed hands uses a lighter to summon Alastor, a dark, smoky ghost, who holds the medium while inhaling his breath. Text reads: Into the Smoke. Chapter 1: The Medium.

Into the Smoke: Website Launch

The Into the Smoke website went live at intothesmokecomic.com! It includes information about the comic and a big preview episode you can read right away. You can also sign up for the ITS Newsletter to get episode updates and the Monthly Roundup by email—if that’s not where you’re getting this one right now!

Into the Smoke: Credits (Patreon)

Patrons had a chance to sign their name on the credits list that’ll appear with ITS episodes 1-6. I can’t wait to share it! There’ll be another opportunity to add names when we get close to releasing episodes 7-12.

Demon of the Underground

Banner for Demon of the Underground: Webcomic. The four main characters of the comic are shown in the midst of battle: Jordana, Merritt, Samsid, and Pogo.

Demon of the Underground is my longest-running webcomic. The first 300+ pages can be read for free at demonoftheunderground.com. Current pages are being released on Patreon, with tentative plans for new free pages in the future.

DOTU: Chapter 5 Pages (Patreon)

Patreon Rewards (Patreon)

For March’s Patreon Secret Gallery post ($10 and up), we learned about DOTU and ITS demonology. How do angels and demons work in the underground universe? What powers do they have? And what does this mean for half-angels and half-demons?

For the monthly character interviews ($5 patrons and up), Annie talked about the best people to scrounge food from—her longest and most detailed answer yet!—and Pogo talked about motorcycle tricks, which is definitely not his specialty.

For all patrons, we had our quarterly sketches this month! Seventeen sketches were posted (1-6, 7-12, 13-17), including DOTU characters in historical fashion, some Merritt’s Story sketches, some ITS sketches, and a lone Canada Griffin sketch (more on that in a bit).

Cooking with Belmont

Banner for Cooking with Belmont. In the foreground, Merritt and Belmont stand back-to-back. Belmont wears a chef hat and dirty apron. In the background, Samsid holds a plate of aspic and Pogo tastes an eggplant.

Cooking with Belmont is a future AU DOTU spin-off visual novel. It’s completed, and you can download it for free from itch.io!

For the past few months, we’ve been doing a group play-through on Patreon, where patrons get to vote on the choices in the game.

CWB Patron Play-through (Patreon)

We had our 10th play-through video, and our latest choice got the most votes out of any past choices! With our final choice in the bag, f*** around time is now officially over. From here on, it’s time to find out…

Minicomics

A bittern runs through a grocery store holding a packet of fish crackers.

It’s been a crazy month on tumblr. After laying low for a few years working behind the scenes on ITS, I started being more active with public art posts. I posted three birdy minicomics, and all three kinda blew up.

My tumblr is public, and you shouldn’t need an account to read any of these posts.

Odds and Ends

Just a few random quickie sketches on tumblr!

And that’s everything from this past month! See ya next time!

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