This survey here! Take it!

Every couple years, I need to figure out what types of people are reading my comics. Helps me make the comic more successful by letting me know who’s interested in reading it and if I’m reaching who I want to reach. So the survey will let me know about demographics and some general idea of why you’re reading the comic.

Also, this is a call for constructive criticism of the comic itself. What do you like? What could I be doing better? What do you think I should know about how you interact with this comic? Leave feedback in a comment to this post.

Let’s take a moment to reaffirm what constructive crit is and isn’t.

Constructive crit isn’t: Anything that includes the words: sucks, give up now, you’re a bitch/cunt/dyke/whore/etc., what a waste. These comments will just be deleted because they aren’t helpful, not because I only want to hear praise. Comments like “It’s good,” without any explanation beyond two words also get deleted for not being helpful.

Constructive crit is: “I like this part, I dislike this part, I wish there was more of this thing, I’d rather not hear about this part anymore, I hate this character and I love this character… and here are the reasons.”

Thanks for taking the time to give me this feedback, folks. I have some really amazing things planned (I don’t know if you can even guess what they are) and this’ll help make them a reality.

I came up with the name half an hour before I did the pitch for the story, because I realized I’d never named him and had to talk about him in front of a big audience and maybe needed to refer to him as something. Honestly, I didn’t think I’d get picked up and I’d have more time to develop it on my own. But it did get picked up, and the name stayed and it’s my least favorite part about the first volume of Lesbian Pirates From Outer Space.

I am working on a project (secret for now but hopefully I can reveal it soon) that involves Lesbian Pirates, and I am thinking of changing his name to Captain Andromeda, what with “andro” meaning “male” and it’s also space themed. Would anyone be really heartbroken if I did this?

Edit: I should mention that this change isn’t going to be in the comic. The comic will stay the same. He will always be Male Man in the comic. This is for something else.

This is 100% true. My house (which I call the Merganarium) burned last week. Everybody is safe, including the kitties (Scrambles has to wear a cone for a while but he’s fine), and I probably still have all my comic files. That’s the important stuff!

But unfortunately, I won’t have a computer for a while. (I drew this at work which I don’t like to make a habit of.) I have the rest of this issue already finished, thankfully, but after that, I don’t know how long it’ll be before I get any more comics done.

A lot of people asked me how they could help. There are a bunch of ways, most of which gets you stuff in return for your kindness!

It looks like things are going to turn out okay in the end. I’ve got lots of friends in town letting me sleep at their places, we should have a more semi-permanent place to stay by Thursday, and then we can start putting things back together.

Thanks for your understanding!