This week’s Patreon preview was about learning that “hot desking” is an actual thing offices do.
Brien is Employee of the Week! Patreon is my most predictable form of income, and even $1 a month is a huge help!
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Next Week: Harry learns about the soup drawer’s popularity. Read it early, and with author commentary, on Patreon!
This week’s Patreon preview is about when to condense an idea, and also how long I’ve been sitting on a joke about a fire drill in Hell.
Barrie Deatcher is Employee of the Week, which means they are one of the folks helping support Hell, Inc. and my other non-freelance art endeavours! For example, I want to draw another wrestling comic. Patreon can make that possible! Even $1 goes a long way, and adds up pretty fast when enough readers show their support.
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Next Week: Bridget and Doug meet up in the Real Break Room. Read it early on Patreon!
It’s a holiday in Canada, but the demons of Hell, Inc. are still at the office… playing Satanic Baseball Simulator instead of working. I too am at “the office,” because cartoonists don’t get days off. The Patreon preview for this strip was about realizing there were still parts of the office that I hadn’t drawn yet!
Robbie Dorman is Employee of the Week! He is co-host of The Simpsons Show, the only podcast about The Simpsons, and also the only podcast about The Simpsons that I have done a guest spot on. You should also check out his website to learn about his new novel releases. He writes that good good scary shit. Indie artists need your support now more than ever, so check out his stuff!
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Next Week: The copier is starting to revolt. Read it early on Patreon!
It’s always good to have things that everyone can agree on. Strange that it’s usually “the guy in charge stinks.” Wonder why that is… The process post (available to patrons at any level) for this strip is about the level of detail needed in the worldbuilding to support Satanic Baseball Simulator.
Caitlin is Employee of the Week, conveniently timed for her birthday! Hurray! Patrons can currently read ahead on my next webcomic/graphic novel, Dropkicks & Dragons! Patrons are going to be able to read a fair amount ahead of the general public when that one launches, and it kicks ass, so please check it out!
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Next Week: The simulating BEGINS. Imagine that with the Mortal Kombat voice. Read it early, and with author commentary, on Patreon!
The Patreon preview for this strip was about the idea of a thing that is supposed to be fun causing you negative emotions. Doug provides a helpful perspective on the matter.
Leonardo is Employee of the Week! They supported the creation of Hockeypocalypse: Slashers, and helped make that book possible! Which is good, because Hockeypocalypse continues to be my best seller at conventions. You can also help me out for as little as $1 a month, because that really adds up when enough people get involved.
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Next Week: Doug starts concocting a plan to slack even harder. Read it early on Patreon!
This strip’s Patreon preview is a bit about Diane’s characterization, and also a bit about some drawing techniques that I like. A bit of a process sampler, if you will.
It’s not convention season, exactly, but I’ve got a bunch of in-person markets/events coming up in February. If you’re in Edmonton, you can find me at Art After Dark on February 15th, and Dark Star Comic & Toy Show on February 23rd.
Sebastian is Employee of the Week, and you can, too! It’s how I have predictable money, which is both Cool and Good because we live in capitalist hell-world. If everyone who read the comic in a month chipped in $1, I’d be able to turn down most freelance work and focus on doing Hell, Inc. stuff and my own graphic novels! That would be preeeeetty cool. Especially now, because I am brooooke.
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Next Week: Doug contemplates the nature of victory of defeat. Read it early on Patreon!
It’s always important to figure out how to motivate people around you. Sara probably should have figured out by now that “not working” is strongest motivation available in this office, but we’ve already seen that she’s not picking up this “Hell” thing as fast as she might hope. In the Patreon preview for this strip, I talk about how I spent a lot of time thinking about what to name the green long-necked guy, only to then not actually use his name in the dialogue. It now occurs to me that I STILL haven’t named the woman in red.
COMING SOON TO PATREON, a new one-page tabletop RPG that I’ve written and illustrated! It’s called BIG ROBOTS, BIG FEELINGS! It’s a rules-lite game about being a teen mecha pilot that must battle enemy mechs and your own emotions. I still need to make a logo, and character sheets, but the main rules are written. If people like it, I might expand it into a ‘zine like the Hell, Inc. RPG or BURGERPunk.
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Next Week: Helen gets an unexpected phone call. Read it early, and with author commentary, on Patreon!
The Patreon preview for this strip is about the problems I gave myself trying to fit B.L. Zebub’s speech into one panel so I could keep the last three panels separate for comic timing. Do people know that I write something about the process of making each strip on Patreon? Well, if you didn’t, now you do.
Robbie Dorman is Employee of the Week! He is co-host of The Simpsons Show, the only podcast about The Simpsons, and also the only podcast about The Simpsons that I have done a guest spot on. You should also check out his website to learn about his new novel releases. He writes that good good scary shit. Indie artists need your support now more than ever, so check out his stuff!
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Next Week: All right, good shame, everybody. Read it early on Patreon!
Psychic memos are how I wish I could make story notes. I can’t count the number of times I’ve had a perfect joke or line of dialogue, then by the time I tried to write it down I had forgotten some or all of it. It’s very annoying.
Brien Aronov is Employee of the Week, and you can, too! I deeply appreciate your support on Patreon, which is a predictable source of income that, should it grow enough, can reduce or replace the need to freelance. That means more of the stuff you like, and less trying to figure out how to get work as every industry funnels all of its money into the C-suite. You also get benefits like early comics, pages from my graphic novels as I work on them, and other stuff like my video game!
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Next Week: The Great Shamening begins! Read it early on Patreon!
A crowd scene with a painting and decorations in the background was very smart. Good job, me. Really making things easy on myself, there. I just drew a more complicated strip that will be published in a few months, so I’m sensitive to my own decisions about staging that makes drawing harder. What makes things easier is getting to write B.L. Zebub, which is what the Patreon preview for this strip is about.
Caitlin is Employee of the Week, and has been hard at work in the BURGERPunk mines. I haven’t figured out how I want to incorporate the RPG stuff into the Patreon, but I should, because people seem to really like that stuff. Patreon is a predictable form of income, which I appreciate, because freelancing and doing cons creates a wild income rollercoaster! If everyone who reads the comic chipped in a dollar a month, I’d be able to drop some freelance work and do more of my own stuff, which would be ideal.
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Next Week: What ARE the shame plans? Find out! Read it early on Patreon!