January newsletter (Patreon)

Trying to start the year out right by ... prepping the newsletter in advance. Ha! 

Wallpaper attached.

Some housekeeping

If you have a minute and haven't yet, please consider completing my Patreon survey. This helps inform my decisions on how I conduct this Patreon, which you are paying for. So, it's probably to your benefit to let me know how I'm doing, how I can improve, and what you'd like to see.

If you are at a $2 tier or higher and want to be in the credits list for 13 FORM, please also remember to complete the credits survey for that chapter. If you are not sure if you have yet or not, remember that the form now captures your email address, so if you enter the same email address when you complete the form and it says there's already a form on record, then congratulations: You already did it.

Reminder: Familiar on break this month!

Patreon is NOT paused, however -- I am taking this month to work on the new Familiar site, refreshing Patreon, and getting the shop ready to launch! Wowee! 

13 FORM thumbnails  completed

Another chonky chapter at 27 draft thumbnails. I am going to reduce it by 4 pages, I hope, so that it's feasible for me to finish it. If I can't condense it, though, then it may look like I'll be working on the comic pages this month after all. lol. 

Also, there WILL be three Influencer polls for Form (Dec, Jan, and Feb). Look for the second one coming up on the 15th of this month if you're an Influencer.

1k milestone = NEW TIERS and STORE

We are in sight of several new Patreon milestones, including a store and the new tiers. I may actually launch the new tiers before we hit the 1k milestone, since that would actually make achieving the milestones easier... but I want to make sure I have everything in order to deliver on the new perks. In the meantime, here's a preview of the new tiers I am planning to roll out. (I may or may not come up with cute names for them, right now the names are just descriptions because that's way easier to understand)

(all tiers include the lower/previous tier perks)

ALL TIERS

• Monthly desktop wallpaper, Newsletter
• Art roundup post
• Thank you credit option
• Occasional panel/page previews
• Discord access

ADVANCED ACCESS ($2)

• Advanced access to chapters

INFLUENCER ($5)

• One influencer poll per month

EXCLUSIVE ART ($10)

• 1 monthly exclusive Familiar artwork: open to Patron suggestions, vote in poll on content, livestream on Discord, and recorded/saved timelapse of piece
• Immediate access to previous exclusive artwork and timelapses

BEHIND THE SCENES ($20)

• 10% discount in merch store
• Twice monthly “behind the scenes” page commentary: My written commentary for that page including process, challenges, easter eggs, script decisions, supporting media/reference content, page-related WIPs/studies/sketches, etc. These will be done in chronological order, starting with 00-01.
• Immediate access to all previous commentaries

TAROT READING ($40)

• Monthly 3-card spread (one spread for everyone for the month)
• Monthly high-resolution exclusive Familiar "motivational" illustration/artwork/mini-comic encapsulating the message for the spread

New website on the way!

I actually have already begun work on the new site and I thought you might like to see some previews. So I'll wrap this up and drop a couple in-progress screenshots. Patrons will get a chance to check out the new site ahead of the soft-launch to give me feedback... look for that a little later this month. 

Thanks as always for your support. Here's looking forward to a good 2022.

Jude