This is where you can become a member and support my work on a monthly basis from as little as £2! In return you’ll get access to everything I post on my blog (including comic pages as they are completed), and some extra treats depending on what tier you hop onto.
The basic way to describe this space is as my Patreon Alternative. Everything I post on Patreon is being cross-posted over here. The membership tiers are also the same.
Without stepping up on my soapbox too much, I’ll just say that supporting independent artists on our own websites gives us much more long-term safety and stability.
It allows us to focus on creating art instead of being at the mercy of the whims of big privately owned platforms, with their ever-changing terms and algorithms. By choosing my website membership over that of Patreon, you are choosing to back a space that I have more control over and can truly express myself in… with less existential dread attached. I like the sound of that!
I can make this space truly fit my vibes! Patreon has been removing features, messing with the page layouts and “restructuring” the charging methods of the patrons for years now, which makes it an uncomfortable, unsettling and – frankly – kind of an uninspiring place to be.
For example: I loved Goals. That was a great feature that allowed me to show my aspirational comic page rates and have fun rewards for my supporters! Patreon removed the goals while streamlining their platform. They also keep changing the overall look and feel while not really allowing for your own individuality to shine, so I feel like I’m renting a space and I’m not allowed to put any decorations on the walls.
My studio space is truly mine.
And if you like my vibes, janky and yappy as they may be, THIS is where you’re going to get them.
£250 is my current minimum fair rate for a comic page done totally solo (so all stages of the Art is done by me, including the Lettering on top). I usually paint around 5 pages a month – So this goal is essentially my minimum stable income as a comic creator!
This would be – in my Husbeard’s wise words – “an actual salary”, if my usual 5 pages per month were valued at £400 per page. So this goal is the dream of a real stable income with the standard 5 pages/month schedule. Could you imagine? Heck.
…Look. If this was met and I made 6 pages a month, I could technically cover my Husbeard’s wage too – COULD YOU IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES. A £600 comic page rate is absolutely insane though 😀
