Ethan Kocak
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4 days ago

Project Update: State of the Book May 2025

UPDATE:

There seemed to be an issue with the compressed version of the PDF I linked earlier, so this new link to the book is uncompressed and seems to be working now. Sorry for any issues.


Hi folks. Since we last chatted about the book, I've been hard at work adding and rewriting and drawing and all the other things that go with making a really good graphic novel. We're up to over 100 pages now that I'm comfortable calling basically done, and I have the last third of the book plotted out and thumbed. 


In all honesty, this has been the hardest thing I've ever done artistically, and I definitely underestimated how much time it was going to take me to realistically get it made and out the door. And now, roughly a year later, the world is so different economically and who knows how the tariffs and whatnot are going to impact all of the printing and shipping of the physical books. So I've been thinking about it a lot.


The last thing I want to do is make any of the folks who have supported me annoyed with me, but I also think we might need to encourage some more support in case more economically turbulent things happen. So what I'd like to do is start releasing a page a week of this book as a webcomic to get some more eyeballs on it. Before that happens, I'm releasing everything I've done so far to you folks (Patreon supporters and Backerkit supporters) so you'll be more than a year ahead of the general public.


Folks who backed the project for physical rewards will still be getting those things, and even backers who only backed for digital rewards will still be getting higher quality files and access to the completed story way before webcomic readers. Hopefully this will help us bring in some new readers and we can do even more with this project than I initially intended, but for now my focus is still on finishing the book and getting it to my supporters. I am also attaching the current 100+ pages draft of the book to this post so you can see where we're at if you'd like. (Or not, I know some of you want to wait to be able to read the whole thing in it's entirety.)


I hope that all makes sense and doesn't rankle anyone. Of course, I welcome all feedback, questions and opinions here. Please reach out, either here or on socials or whatever's easiest for you if you have concerns.

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