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New domain name incoming!

New domain name incoming! published on No Comments on New domain name incoming!

Hey all! One of the projects I’ve been working on in the background while drawing has been difficult is building a shiny new website for Follower. As part of this, I’m going to be finally transferring the whole comic onto its own URL instead of living underneath messenger-comic.com. It’s a lot easier to give people a shorter URL that they might remember than the current one. After 10 years (!!) it’s finally time.

What does this mean for you? If you use RSS to subscribe to the comic, you’ll have to switch to the new feed URL. I will make sure to post about it well in advance so you’ll see something before the site moves. I’m planning to be relatively loud about it so it won’t go unnoticed, even after the move.

If you don’t use RSS (you should, though!) you won’t notice a big change since I am planning to make the old URL eventually automatically redirect to the new one. So when you visit the site, you’ll end up in the new place no matter what.

There will be a short transition period in between where both sites will be alive at the same time, just to make sure people see the change, but then it’ll become an automatic redirect after that.

The best place to keep up with the news is on the social media site of your choice (see everywhere to find me on this page!) or to subscribe to our newsletter.

Thanks for reading! I am continuing to work on new pages during this time too, but slowly due to my ongoing health issues. I’m not giving up, though!

Dia and Geedey sketched with a rainbow pencil

Slow Going

Slow Going published on No Comments on Slow Going

Hey folks! It’s been a minute so I’d like to post an update talking about the status of comic updates and such.

This is not the update I want to be making; at present I am having a lot of difficulty working on art. I can work in short bursts, but overall things are very slow going. I haven’t really discussed it here in much depth, but within the past year I’ve been having a lot of joint pain and problems, which have been mostly narrowed down to Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and POTS syndrome (tl;dr my joints are too flexible, easily injured, hurt all the time, and when I stand up all my blood stays in my legs and my heart can’t keep up with making it go where it should – I wrote more and drew a little comic about it which you can read here.) I’m waiting right now on genetic testing to really narrow down the specifics of my problems, so I guess I’m getting the full Chio experience here.

For now though, I can’t say with accuracy when I’ll have a regular update schedule again. I’m working with various doctors on solutions for my pain issues, which is a little frustrating and a little slow. That’s the biggest obstacle I have right now to working regularly. I’ve been through multiple rounds of physical therapy at this point which don’t seem to be improving my situation like they’re supposed to, which is deeply frustrating because I felt really optimistic about it in the beginning. I’m working on any option I can to adapt to the situation and get a page buffer going.

Regardless of how long it takes, I have no plans to quit making comics.

I want to see this story through to the end, and make even more after that. I just have to figure out how to make it work, and now that we’ve at least put a name to the beast(s), I have a tiny bit more direction on what I can do. Or at least I know what questions to ask now.

As a further update (about updates!, no less) I am working on consolidating my online presence to a few reliable places. Twitter has become sort of artist-hostile (let’s be serious, user-hostile in general.) The best options are to subscribe to my newsletter here or use RSS for website updates.

Beyond that, here are the best places to find updates from me:
Bluesky
Threads
Tumblr
Cohost

Anyway, thank you for reading, and I appreciate you sticking with us even though I’ve been the world’s slowest artist this year. I’m doing my best to fix that.

Bug’s Got Car Problems & Other tales

Bug’s Got Car Problems & Other tales published on No Comments on Bug’s Got Car Problems & Other tales

Update July 28: We made the goal and my car is getting set back up today! I am humbled and thankful. I’m leaving my comics on sale for anyone who might have wanted to grab a copy. I also dropped a new sketch comic last night talking about…life, if you’re interested. That can be found here on my blog!

Hey hey! It has been far longer than I meant it to be since my last post here! To make a lot of long stories short, I’ve been dealing with a lot of issues from my newly-diagnosed connective tissue and heart-related disorders. It’s been a lot to deal with, more than I expected, and I learned that I can go from feeling relatively ok to not ok at all very quickly…and then I ran out of buffer pages. So it’s been kind of difficult to get back on board with making comics, but I am really trying.

I have a great team of doctors who are making huge changes to my life day by day, but they are specialists for unusual conditions like mine and are located an hour one way from where I live. My car’s registration ran out, and I need an oil change, and I can afford none of it.

So, as a last ditch attempt to try and mitigate some of this, I put all my digital comics on sale on itch and ko-fi. All I need is 9 people to buy a bundle on itch and I can fix these issues. 

If you’ve ever wanted to pick up some of the Follower bonus stories and single issues, this is the best opportunity for you and me!

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