It's been extra bad this past week.
Trying to remind myself that it's not worth further ruining my mental and physical health as I still heal from grief and related trauma, to get out a new page of a comic I'm not getting paid for and maybe 25 people actively read.
I've also been working on posting the entirety of my Cheapjack Gentlemen over on my Ko-fi, along with my other comics and art.
➡️ ko-fi.com/missfester
Colorful concept art sketches for the Running of the Bulls area in Black Velvetopia (a level in the game Psychonauts). Patterned narrow alleys with tiny figures, posters and a rolling cart are featured.
Concept art of the Asylum Grounds from the game Psychonauts, showing an asylum building, paths, ponds, green gardens and labeled points of interest.
Concept sketch from the Milkman Conspiracy level in the game Psychonauts. Suburban houses on curved and twisted elevated roads float among clouds.
Comcept art of the finale for Mills's Dance Party from the game Psychonauts. Stylized figures dance on glowing yellow-orange discs around a central pink orb with two figures.
🥳🎂Happy 21st Birthday to Psychonauts!🎂🥳
Snuck into the vaults and grabbed some original concept art (by the amazing Peter Chan) to share—what's YOUR favorite mental world in Psychonauts?
💚🧠🌀
And it wouldn't be Psychonauts without the wonderful character designs of @scottlava.bsky.social! Look at all these great workups: Early Raz, G-Men, Lungfish, and a Megacensor!
I've also been working on posting the entirety of my Cheapjack Gentlemen over on my Ko-fi, along with my other comics and art.
➡️ ko-fi.com/missfester
I've been trying daily, for a full week, to work on the next comic page -- but I end up breaking down crying after inking a single line. I guess the next CJG page will be done in 50 years at this pace?
Cheapjack Gentlemen won best horror webcomic in The Zelda Awards!
Thank you so much to everyone who voted, and thank you to everyone who has supported my comic.
Thank you so much! Congratulations to Lisa as well!
an out of context comic panel from HANS VOGEL IS DEAD. Hans and Reineke wait in the woods, and Reineke asks Hans "you wouldn't ever leave me, right?"
iiit's update day! right?
www.hansvogelisdead.com
Definitely still seething a bit
Can't quite reveal the plot points yet, but:
Some Cheapjack Gentlemen pages have been easy to reformat, but with others, I've had to redraw/add things.
Here's a random Cheapjack Gentlemen page where that was the case.
🪦Links to read the whole comic: cheapjackgentlemen.carrd.co
Knell webcomic update banner with a preview of the new page: The lower half of Devere's face. He's taking a puff from a cigarette.
Knell - Chapter 2, Page 5: Afterwards is up at VermillionWorks.
vermillionworks.com/knell
Chapter 2, Page 8 is up at Patreon.
patreon.com/c/vermillion...
A dark fantasy webcomic about a necromancer adopting a troubled child.
#knellcomic #webcomics #darkfantasy #webtoon #ocsky #foundfamily
I'm surprised I only got a handful of "the circumstances were gay" comments about this bit of dialogue here over the years.
Getting very close to finishing reformatting Cheapjack Gentlemen. Some pages turned out better than others - I told myself I wouldn't redraw things unless it was necessary.
Here's a random snippet from the beginning.
🪦Links to read the whole comic: cheapjackgentlemen.carrd.co
People actually showing interest in the characters, after posting my art online for over a decade prior with not much feedback.
It was weird having people ask unprompted about my stories after most art/lore I posted went fairly unnoticed.
I'm also working on mirroring it on Instagram too, for anyone interested:
www.instagram.com/cheapjackgen...
They're the one doing the scamming, probably.
Cheapjack Gentlemen pages 9-12 in color.
The last page is perhaps a little gory, I'll leave the uncensored one in the comments.
💀Links to read the full comic here: cheapjackgentlemen.carrd.co
Oh, also.
I made a mirror for the original 2017 Cheapjack Gentlemen pilot comic. I hate it quite a bit, but can't deny it's the pilot:
cjgexpired.thecomicseries.com
There's also a site I put together a while ago with all the concept art and other bonus stuff: sites.google.com/view/cheapja...
As webcomic hosting sites continue to disappoint, I've also started making a backup mirror of Cheapjack Gentlemen on Tumblr:
www.tumblr.com/cheapjackgen...
I'll be working on putting it up on various social medias and making reading it more accessible, as I finish the last bits of reformatting.
This year's Cheapjack Gentlemen April Fool's episode is the fact that I'm too burnt out to throw together a bad 3D asset April Fool's episode. (I hope no one was waiting for that.)
Happy Autism Acceptance Month to all the blatantly autistic characters I've created before I found out myself.
I've been an artist for 30 years.
I went to school for the arts.
I've tried tattooing, animation, illustration, comics, all both digital and traditional.
Every single instance I have needed a second job. There's no fucking elite.
These "elites" are money launderers masked as artists.
Edmund has simultaneously been both a good and bad influence on Thompkins.
The newest BloodWight Circus chapter is up now~!!🎪🤡
This panel was a blast to work on! 💚🌊🌠
#oc #webcomic
Dreaming that one of those brutal webcomic review Youtubers comes across my comic and makes a video relentlessly mocking it, because at least it would be exposure.
Working on mirroring my two other comics on Comicfury.
Comicfury links:
🐸 percyslullaby.thecomicseries.com
🖌️ nobodyshort.thecomicseries.com
Landing pages with links to the full comics:
🐸 percyslullaby.carrd.co
🖌️ nobodycomic.carrd.co
It's "Halloween decoration" level gore, but I guess one can't be too careful about the tibia and fibula.
Cheapjack Gentlemen pages 9-12 in color.
The last page is perhaps a little gory, I'll leave the uncensored one in the comments.
💀Links to read the full comic here: cheapjackgentlemen.carrd.co