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Let's fire up the webcomics machine!
At SIDE QUESTED, Charlie questions reality and gets a very solid response.
At A GIRL AND HER FED, Clarice still doesn't click with her therapist.
tumblr bonus text: I originally thought to do a dirty limerick and tripped over the one about the vampire named Mable, required a moderate brain reboot, and hastily rewrote it as a knock-knock joke. Search at your own risk.
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Good morning from Team Webcomics!
At SIDE QUESTED, Charlie passing inspection.
At A GIRL AND HER FED, Clarice is, as always, ready to commit the sloshy red crimes.
Also! Over on my Patreon, the wedding bonus comic has updated for $5+ supporters! Come for the familial abuse, stay for the (lack of) stabbings.
(And because this is tumblr I'm frontloading the replies: the off-panel character speaking is an absolute bitch who doesn't care about facts and only cares that she herself is the center of attention. She's also the main character's estranged mother. It's most definitely not an accurate representation of ADHD but it is an accurate synopsis of the kind of childhood the main character, who has struggled with severe ADHD her entire life, experienced.)
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Hello and have some new webcomics!
At SIDE QUESTED, the Wicked Queen conducts a surprise hair inspection.
At A GIRL AND HER FED, Mike explains how and why he's back from the Afterlife!
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It's new webcomic day! Come along for shouty anger!
At A Girl and Her Fed, Mike is back from the dead and is carpet-bombing the world of the living with puns.
At Side Quested, Charlie lets loose.
Over on Bluesky, we've had some requests for that last panel for meme applications. Here you are!
And @alepresser and I have started a new bonus comic over on my Patreon! Pledging at the $5+ levels gets early access to Pat and Hope's wedding.
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A quick reminder that "The Wedding," a bonus comic for everyone pledging to my Patreon at $5 and up, begins tomorrow and will go every Wednesday for the next year!
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When I do the art for AGAHF, I get just hints of the text so I know what to draw, and KB decides in the final text once she has the final art.
And lemme tell ya: today's page was an AMAZING surprise. I just LOVE Mike here!
Howdy from Ye Olde Webcomics! We're all friendly today with happy encounters between new and old friends...hold on I've been handed a note.
At SIDE QUESTED, Peony has met her hero! It's safe to do this, right?
At A GIRL AND HER FED, Clarice is overjoyed to see Mike!
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Good morning from our webcomics! Do you like horrible surprises? Well, neither do our characters.
At A Girl and Her Fed, Clarice experiences...horror!
At Side Quested, Peony experiences...not horror, just a shift in her paradigm. She's not that mentally flexible, tbh.
And a bonus panel for you obligate scavenger lovers.
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It's April Fools' Day so our usual webcomics have been replaced by JOKE COMICS!!!
Today at A Girl and Her Fed, a sarcastic quasi-dead villainess questions science!
Today at Side Quested, a wicked queen defends her choices!
Look at this nonsense! Total nonsense!!!
...wait I've been handed a note.
(I really love how I can hear the characters speaking with both of these lines. Clarice's line is dry and touched with more than just a little loathing. The Wicked Queen's line is almost defensive but mostly made of that *sigh* of being a very busy woman in a very busy world.)
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Good morning from Team Webcomics! No one likes Clarice at either A Girl and Her Fed or Side Quested. Seriously, she's just awful. No, she's literally a mass-murdering sociopath. Not kidding at all, just an awful person.
It's also the last update of March, so if you enjoy the comics, please consider backing our Patreons!
As A Girl and Her Fed hits its last year, I'm working to update mine to focus on the future: https://www.patreon.com/KBSpangler
And @alepresser posts tons of Side Quested bonus content on hers! https://www.patreon.com/AlePresser
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Feather River Bulletin, Quincy, California, March 20, 1924
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Good morning! It's time for new handmade webcomics straight from the oven and onto your plate.
At SIDE QUESTED, it's "Wicked Witch," if you would.
At A GIRL AND HER FED...nah, she's still just evil. They're working on it, though.
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This is the public statement from @alepresser and myself which went up at Webtoons tonight.
Now for some ranting. Just from me, not from Ale—she's innocent of the art crimes I've committed in the past, and boy howdy have I committed art crimes.
This is the first page of my first webcomic, A Girl and Her Fed. I started this thing back in 2006. (I don't actually need a head count of those reading this who weren't yet born in 2006. I'm sure you're delightful and I wish you well in college.)
And this is the last page I drew in early 2020 before I turned art duties over to Dr. Beer. It's better, right?
Well, these days, A Girl and Her Fed has pages like this:
I drew this comic for fourteen fucking years because it's a story I wanted to tell, and I thought webcomics were the perfect format for it. I didn't know how to draw. I got better through sheer obstinate perseverance and sticking to deadlines as best I could for, again, fourteen fucking years. I sought out a replacement artist when I ran into time constraints and couldn't do art plus writing anymore; I'm a much better writer than an artist, so I had no problems whatsoever kicking art to the curb.
The first time Ale sent me art that would go up on the website—art I hadn't needed to draw myself—I literally cried in relief because I had been grinding myself down for, yet again, fourteen fucking years.
So when I read comments from people who say they want to make a webcomic but can't draw themselves and therefore need to resort to AI, that little line between my eyes gets dangerously deep.
This isn't like I'm some old dude who's bitching over student loans getting cancelled after making regular payments. This is me, someone who threw raw art onto the internet like a monkey hurling fresh poo, because I wanted to make a webcomic and the art is part of the process of storytelling via webcomics! I could've (arguably should've) hired an artist right out of the gate, and that would've been part of the process of making comics, too: a partnership between an artist and a writer is also something which grows and develops over time.
For example, after Dr. Beer and I spent two years working on AGAHF, we decided we enjoyed our partnership so much that we set out to make another webcomic! It's great! It's got wonderful art and consistent storytelling! You should read it!
But turning art duties over to unaltered images generated by AI because you want to make a webcomic but "just can't draw" is, frankly, a bullshit excuse. I'm not talking about persons who are physically unable to draw due to disability—I'm talking about people who say they want to make webcomics but simply don't wanna do the art part.
Friends, if you don't want to show your entire ass in front of God and country, you don't actually want to make a webcomic.
Do the thing yourself.
If you're scared, don't be. Take the plunge. Set a goal of twenty strips and do the thing yourself. If you can already draw but can't write? Great! Write twenty strips, write forty panels, etc. You might surprise yourself. If you can write but can't draw? Great! Draw twenty panels and see what happens.
Whatever comes out of it, it's a thing you've done yourself. It's something new you've given to the world, no matter how big or small. Be proud of that. And if you need to partner with someone else to make your comic dreams work? You can do that, too! It's still a thing you've done yourself, and many projects are stronger when done together.
...but maaaaaaaaaybe hire that partner before you've busted your own ass for fourteen fucking years. That one's on me.
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So very Monday.
It's MONDAY.
At A Girl and Her Fed...it's MONDAY
At Side Quested...it's MONDAY
MONDAY MONDAY MONDAY
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@kbspangler hurry here!
5 princesses inspired by tea flavors
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Good morning from Team Webcomics!
At A Girl and Her Fed... SEE! The face of a woman who has just realized she's about to do something really dumb because the narrative demands it!
At Side Quested... THRILL! To the (semi)cruel purpose of the Wicked Queen! https://sidequested.com/
REPOST OR REBLOG! Because we're very tired.
(p.s.: I try to look up idioms to ensure I'm not accidentally saying something historically horrific that's become established in our culture via common expression, and TIL "my time in the barrel//my turn in the barrel" dates back to the 1950s and is about community and shared labor! How sweet.)
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