Dogsmith - Comic Update - Moving Forward

Hello! Time for a little update on where I'm at, and what I have planned for the next few months.

I'll rip the band-aid off: Repopulation Program is on hold for the time being. Since starting the comic, I've seen a fairly significant drop in my metrics—both my reach, and my income, frankly. I'm not quite sure what to attribute that to, but it's difficult to justify working on a full size, full colored comic while making less money than I did before working on it, and still bleeding. I was basically working twice as much in order to keep the people who weren't interested in the comic happy, but at the moment, that doesn't seem to be worth the effort. I don't place blame on anyone, this kind of thing can be totally random. The economy, and all that. I intend on picking it back up come late January, if things are on the upswing. I'd be pretty disappointed to map out a whole comic I was very proud of and have to scrap it. For now, however, I'll be pivoting to more supporter-voted content.

Attached is a brief schedule for what I have planned. Pretty much all of it is finishing stuff I've already started, something many of you have been begging me for (trust me, I want to as well lol, I'm working on that. Thank you, medication.) First up is a couple substar related things. I've heard some whispers that their policy is a bit 'transient', so if push comes to shove, I'll just post it publicly instead. I'd still appreciate the support either way, however. I'll be calling for requests as well soon, either through my discord or through a form/separate post you can comment on. You guys can have good ideas, so I wanna try doing those more than just following whatever whim I wake up with—as fun as that is.December I will be the busiest, finishing up a comic started last year for the holidays. Thankfully, it's pretty far along already from chipping away at it throughout the year, so you can comfortably look forward to that! I'll be posting up sketches of pages sometime soon, and the full finished comic will all be posted at once on Christmas.

My deepest, most sincere apologies to those who are looking forward to the Repop. Program comic; I don't mean to make you wait longer, just trying to get stable here and I'll get right back to it. I hope that you can trust this won't be a dead project left on the shelf if I can help it.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please let me know. Otherwise, thank you for the support, and I hope that you'll look forward to the remainder of the year.