ive been dealing with a spine injury for the past 3 months that has made life very difficult. but here’s some art i’ve managed to make

Remember the NEOKOSMOS webcomic from 2015? Well, 8 years and over 400,000 words later it's a series of novels. If you wanted to know how the webcomic would have ended, I've got great news. The entire first book has been written and re-written, and is ready for YOU to read! And if you're curious about what happens after that, we're on the last 3 chapters of Book 2, too.

Join the discord today and be part of our community of readers! Liveblog the books, give feedback and critique, hang out in chat or just lurk! We're happy to have you!

We've also got a shiny new website!

redraw of an illo from @neo-kosmos !!! if u like sad aliens and brain parasites, go check out the discord and the novels being written in real time :3 i am an editor on it and also the story and community is so great!!!

forgotten to show my latest 'im sick so its time to draw' neokosmos fanart :) these silly humans invade my thoughts daily with their angst and also their love

submissions are open. you know how incorrect quotes blogs work, you think of some quote from some thing and just replace the names with da blorbos. this is the neokosmos version of that

Dancing Aliens  💃 💃

Thank you so much for the commission @impishlydistant ! 

yeah

working on Neokosmos for 8 years now, the project has become a constant anchor in my life. it's mind boggling we're almost done writing the first draft of the second book. We started writing it in 2020, three years ago in March.

we'll be starting on the third book as soon as we wrap on two. The fact that THIS YEAR, within weeks, we will be working on the third and final book in the trilogy. this is fucking crazy.

if youre curious, we're going to self publish online. the piecemeal way we've been sharing neokosmos as we write it isn't particularly appealing to traditional publishers. nor is the fact that we're going to draft out the whole trilogy before publishing the first book as a way to make sure the whole series is consistent narratively and in quality. not to mention our books will be full of literally hundreds of color illustrations. Ya can't put that into print without the physical copy costing 100 dollars or cutting out the art all together.

our decision to not seek traditional publishing has really freed us from the deadlines, standards, and conventions associated with it. Too many times we have seen extremely promising books be edited to pieces to fit within a certain word count, or revised to the point of being unrecognizable from the authors vision in the name of being marketable to a wider audience.

Shelby and Brian (who do almost the entirety of the prose writing) have been so iron-willed about not making compromises like that. I really respect them for it. We are writing our queer polyamorous neurodivergent hearts out and we will not bend to the agenda of a publisher.

that said of course, we don't look down on traditional publishing or think that self publishing is superior. it's just not right for Neokosmos and never has been. (We're also not against critique, feedback, or notes from beta readers! We value it tremendously.)

i hope when we're done writing, editing, illustrating, and polishing Neokosmos that the people we were writing it for will find it.

Anyway, if you're interested in anything I said, you should join the Neokosmos Discord! You can read our novels in progress for free!

You arrived

A soft slow end of time

Saying if all we saw were bright lights

Darkness is what we'd try to find

(neokosmos)

Neokosmos Stickers now on Etsy! 👽

I really need to get back into reading Neokosmos. It's such a good series.

drawings so far recently ive been drawing for the neokosmos books + discord :] still need to read the rest of book 2 + book 0

interesting posts about unfinished webcomics going around. really interesting stuff, but i cant say the pressure to market myself or even the shifting financial landscape of the internet had anything to do with why we stopped making neokosmos the webcomic and started making neokosmos the illustrated prose novels in 2017… it was just because with the medium it was taking way too long to tell the story i wanted to tell AND i hated being essentially tied down to a first draft version of the story whereas novels allows us to edit and change and evolve the story with time. i care about the characters and world so damn much and the interiority of them just was not cutting it in the webcomic format. plus the practical life reasons but honestly i liked doing so much art for it, it was fun. but it wasnt as good as it could have been. now we are so much deeper into the stories we want to tell and having a blast in the process without the “putting down train tracks as you go” feeling. my main writing strength is outlining and pacing and plot and it just was too painfully slow for me to stretch my wings in that regard

NK2019