This is my second time writing this, because my first draft was accidentally deleted. It’s been a while since I last posted a blog update, but I thought I should inform you of a few things.
After many years of fighting it, I finally decided to bite the bullet and made an account for both Webtoons and Tapas. While personally I've never been the biggest fan of centralizing webcomics onto these platforms that dictate and control everything you do, I figured it was time to push my content out into the more visible public square. So if you do use either site, give me a follow. I've uploaded all three of my comics. (…Almost.) Keep reading.
However. I will always prefer and encourage you to stay connected via my website and newsletter. Just because I use social media to reach out, doesn't mean that it will always be there. Websites and platforms come and go. So please stay connected to me via Saber Collie Studios, even if you follow me on social media or other platforms. …Keep Reading.
Hello Internet Family!
I sent this out in an email, but I just want to make sure everyone is aware of what’s going on.
You may find yourself wondering, where is this weeks comic update?!
I'm sending out this notice to let everyone know that for the month of December, I am putting all comics on a TEMPORARY Hiatus. With the exception of the usual Christmas comic.
Why am I doing this?
Multiple reasons. Not to bore you, but starting sometime back in September, I fell way behind on things do to personal issues out of my control and after struggling for 3 months to catch up, I found it near impossible to do so. When I finally did catch up, I had entered a state of complete burnout. A sign that it was time to take a break. So that's what I'm doing.
But here's the thing. That's NOT the only reason I'm doing this hiatus. …Keep Reading?
UPDATE: They appear to be working now. No rhyme or reason as to why they broke in the first place. If you find they are not working again, please let me know.
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The navigation forward and back buttons appear to now only randomly work for some pages and not for others. This is the first time I’m noticing this issue. Wasn’t aware of it until now. I honestly am not sure how I’m going to fix it, if at all.
So until further notice, just use the archive tab at the top of the page to navigate through the previous comics.
Been considering potentially dropping squarespace and moving the site to a new host. Not sure yet. They’ve so extremely and unfairly jacked up their prices that the added benefit of having a beautiful site is not worth it at this point. When they fist started it was around $7.99 a month. Now I’m literally paying $31 a month. There’s also so many things I cannot change on the site without the fear of breaking it. I originally used a code that someone else had written online to build a traditional webcomic format out of an existing squarespace template. But since it’s so old and squarespace constantly updates their site. They have pretty much made it useless. I am not a coder, so I have little to no ability to fix original code. So unless I can find someone who is capable of helping me, I might just find a new host.
If anyone knows of any coders who might be willing to help me. Please let me know. Or if you have a suggestion for a better option to host the site I would appreciate that also.
And before you ask, NO I am not joining webtoons or Tapas! I refuse. I mean a platform for my own domain.
I’ve been trying to ensure that this post is as easy to follow and understand as possible. Hopefully it’s not too long. I realize that not everyone will see it and I’ll probably get some comments asking what’s happened to Walk With Me. So I am going to try to explain what’s going on here. In addition I have some other things to say. So please read the whole thing.
To get to the point. I’m going to be making some changes coming up. Changes that are looooong overdo. Please understand that running three comics, commissions, art, animations and more is very challenging and time consuming. Especially when I have constant real world distractions that pull me away from my work.
Just to be clear. I am NOT stopping any of my comics. I am however changing how I do one of them. Denatured and Comic-Comic will continue on their regular update schedule as usual. Denatured post every other Monday, alternating weeks with Comic-Comic which is every other Wednesday. This is just as they’ve always been. Now as far as Walk With Me goes, I have one final page to complete for Chapter three, which will post to my Patreon in a little over a week, then to the public a month later as always. Once I am completed with Chapter 3, Walk With Me will no longer be on a regular update schedule of every two weeks. From now on I will be working on WWM in my spare time and will continue posting the completed pages as they are finished to my Patreon and Subscribestar.
Once the next chapter is fully completed, I will then post all of it to the public in rapid succession. So again, just to be clear, you will still get to see it. It’s just that it will take some time before the next chapter is completed. If you want to see each page as they are completed, you can subscribe to my Patreon or Subsribestar and get early access as has always been the case with WWM.
Why am I doing this? …Keep Reading?
I created tons of extra work for me when I impulsively decided to do something I should have done a long long time ago. I went ahead and edited the URL address for Comic-Comic and Denatured. Both of which were under incorrect URL names that didn’t reflect the names of the individual comics.
This is going to take me a while to get all the archive links changed over to the proper ones. So please be patient while I do that. Links probably wont work until it’s completed.
I also want to note that former links to the comics will no longer be accurate. I’m really sorry for any inconvenience, but this is something I should have done a while ago and it’s basically like ripping off a band aid. It’s a huge pain in the ass now, but once it’s done, it’s done. Please update any links or bookmarks you may have saved to the new accurate URL’s. …Keep Reading.