Chapter 2: Page 1
On today’s page of Aster and the Fire, Aster has a headache. And no, she doesn’t drink coffee…not that much, anyway.
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I have an important announcement to make! Recently, I joined SpiderForest (as you can most likely tell by all the new banners up on the site, lol). SpiderForest is a non-profit webcomic collective (one of the oldest on the Internet, in fact!) made up of comic creators from all around the world! They are not a publisher or a business, rather a space for webcomic creators to work and collaborate. They also do not have a brand or style of comic that is required for acceptance. It’s basically the ultimate “reject capitalism, become unmarketable” place for webcomics, and I appreciate its existence a whole lot! Places like that are becoming few and far between on web3 and it’s nice to be a part of something that tries to keep the original spirit of the Internet alive.
There will not be any changes in terms of the webcomic itself now that I have joined SpiderForest, but you may see commenters from there, and potential collaborations in the future!
In terms of regular life stuff, the summer is wrapping up (boo!!) and I’m entering my fourth (and possibly FINAL) year as a graduate student (yay!!!), so my day job is getting a hell of a lot busier. The update schedule should hold for now, but as I get closer to finishing up my dissertation (i.e. spring and summer semester 2024), AATF’s schedule may either shift around, or I may potentially have to go on hiatus. Of course, this is (hopefully) a bit of a ways off, but graduate school can be unpredictable, and ultimately without my job I wouldn’t be able to make AATF. Hopefully these musings will be enough of a “heads up” for the loyal readers. I really do appreciate you, and I want to make this comic!! I just!! Have a job!!! Aah!!!
If you want to keep up with me in the meantime, I post on my Instagram Stories semi-regularly. I also recently got a Bluesky account, which is where artists seem to be migrating to after the Elon-ing of Twitter/X, so if you have one please let me know! I would love to have more internet friends on there 😀