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GJS, street style!

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Loungin' around (Trigger from GJS)

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look at how SPIKEY the ghost is now

Chapter 21: Dead Duck Campaign: Page 49

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☆Ghost Junk Sickness is an sci-fi LGBTQ+ story of two hunters with and unstable dynamic who are forced into pursuing the deadly and elusive bounty “The Ghost”☆

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FRIENDS!!! its GONNA HAPPEN SOON! So get ready !

Did you know? Webcomic Day is in May, and it's coming fast! We at Screen Tones want to create an event that helps celebrate webcomics- Make sure to follow us here for more information soon ! CHECK IT OUT HERE!

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This is Extremely True (from GJS)

of course, the best part of any character's corruption arc is their cool new outfit

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ANNOUNCEMENT TIME! Our unplanned, far too long hiatus is finally coming to an end! New pages of A Star Below will begin posting in 2 weeks, first page on May 9th, and then weekly on Thursdays! Commission by @feathernotes to celebrate the occasion! Read it here > astarbelow.com

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Commissions

Decided to open a few commission slots since it's been a rough month. Any promotion would be appreciated.

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Chapter 2: Dawn of the Pilgrimage: Page 25

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☾Lunar Blight is a gothic horror story about an elite knight serving a  moon cult who must choose between upholding his honoured duty or  condemning everything he’s grown to know.☽

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I've got several friends in this anthology with Spiderforest! Go check it out on Kickstarter and give it some love!

kickstarter.com/projects/spiderforest/threads-immortal

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things get STABBY

Chapter 21: Dead Duck Campaign: Page 48

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☆Ghost Junk Sickness is an sci-fi LGBTQ+ story of two hunters with and unstable dynamic who are forced into pursuing the deadly and elusive bounty “The Ghost”☆

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Spider Forest has a new anthology!!! Support the collectives work by checking this one out!

Happy launch day! 

SpiderForest Webcomic Collective is delighted to introduce to you Threads: Immortal, our new anthology filled with 16 tales of undying gifts and curses, gods and mortals and all those living in between and the beyond. 

Check us out at our Kickstarter and spread the word! We got all our previous anthology collections up for grabs and even a library of select members’ stories!

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I would actually like to hear from folks who are reliant to that platform what would be the best case scenario for support! During these.. rather trying times, it really is up to readers support to help creators succeed and recieve the stability they need to move forward. I've seen readers use their comments on the platform to support WT creators who couldn't advertise their own books, readers who support them directly through patreon, readers who use word of mouth to help their faves- But I think NOW is a good time to sit down and discuss what we do moving forward, bc 'haha just quit' or 'don't use WT' isn't actually a solution- Webtoon (company) has made themself a behemoth in 'getting ahead' with readership. Heck, I am going through similar issues with my own publisher unable to keep up with staying relevant in the game anymore, and has let their once exclusive titles cross post because of how much the scene has changed. It's Not Easy out there, is what I am saying- and if we want to do better, we HAVE to do it together. A good jump off point for many would be to join the Cartoonist Co-op. The more numbers the better to demand for better treatment for comic creators alike.

as a big proponent of Making Your Own Webbed Site For Your Webbed Comic myself, it bothers me how, every time naver webtoon gets caught mistreating specifically its contracted artists, that news gets used as a jumping off point to promote self hosting/reading self hosted comics... it feels like a self-interested distraction from the actual issue of "this company is screwing over people it has contracts with"

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Oh.

To call WT's actions "antics" would be reducing the severity of what they're doing to creators. This is unacceptable behavior and it should be all the more reason for creators to start exploring other career paths outside of WT. For years they've been meticulously crafting an environment where people believe that WT is the only path to success, where WT controls the degree of success creators can achieve, from the manipulation of the promotional system to the lack of tagging and proper search functions on the app. Now that they've boiled the frog to this point, they're cashing out by flooding the platform with cheap imports, implementing AI tools, and of course, trying to use their contracts as a way to trap creators and keep them from owning their own IP's and maximizing on their own success.

I said it before and I'll say it again - Webtoons is planning to go public with their IPO this summer, so it would be a real shame if creators spoke up about the underhanded tactics used by WT to keep them from finding success in their own works. At the very least, it should serve as a reminder to all of us that companies like these can't amass billions without exploiting people along the way.

We can't even use "they're creating jobs for comic creators" as a reason to want to see WT succeed in spite of their flaws anymore because they're literally ruining people's careers, cutting them off before they've even started. That's not the platform being "flawed", that's the platform and the system it's built on being broken, full stop.

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OC design essentials:  suspenders, thigh belts, and fingerless gloves <3

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Chapter 21: Dead Duck Campaign: Page 47

◆Read the latest◆

◆Start from the beginning◆

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☆Ghost Junk Sickness is an sci-fi LGBTQ+ story of two hunters with and unstable dynamic who are forced into pursuing the deadly and elusive bounty “The Ghost”☆

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I'm going to have to talk about Webtoons(company) at one point, and its... impact on the webcomic sphere too. Trying to find the most eloquent way to say that these companies aren't your friends, and that I am seeing more and more creators getting chewed up and spit out when these places are done with them. I'm legit worried for how The Content Creator model is going to hurt so many more people, who have been led to believe that this is the only way to get their work out there.

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I was writing up a post to help encourage folks who’ve always wanted to start a webcomic to dive in- and that they shouldnt have to fear ‘being perfect’ to start one And as I was going along, it made me sad to realise that.. there is an expectation now in the webcomic sphere, as much as I want to deny it (and that it should NOT stop folks from creating!!! please keep creating, no matter your level) I’m bummed out about the changes in the webcomic sphere over the past 5 years, i’m disappointed that there has been changes to this medium that was KNOWN for all of the different skill levels and flavours of so many different creators. I want to combat that. I want to see more beginner art, I want to see that excitment and embracing of growth. I want to see what made webcomics so accessible to so many creators and readers flourish again. Hopefully, if you see this post, and you’ve always wanted to make a webcomic but felt you weren’t ‘good enough’ : Make one anyways. Have fun even if you don’t know all the ‘ins and outs’ of comics. Make one because you’re obsessed with your characters and you wanna share them with the world. Make one just because you can, and not because it has to fit in some impossible standard we’ve forced onto ourselves because of the changing landscape. Start one, and have fun doing it for YOU!