Blaaah comic.
Some notable technical inaccuracies in this strip:
- Clean beach/water (England)
- Sun shining and clear sky, when at the beach (England)
- I manage to throw something remotely hefty more than 3 feet.
So this is something I’ve been a little bit iffy about implementing, especially considering how it’s something of an outdated concept; the comic is something I’m proud to offer for free (even more so when I’m able to offer it on a regular basis… *cough*) so I’ve never really rushed to jump on the idea of having a donation button on the site. I figured it may be worth a shot, however, since a little extra revenue from the comic might help me better justify working on the strip from a financial perspective (just to be clear, I don’t mean that in the “rawr rawr rawr, give me money or I won’t draw anymore” sense; I’m going to keep putting out these comics, free of charge, and as frequently as possible no matter what. Just that it might help me to spend a little more time doing those comics, to make them look extra-spanking good, and to ensure that frequency isn’t so much of a problem!)
Once I manage to get some actual merchandise that people might be interested in set up, then I’ll likely do away with it. Have been exploring a few avenues for creating said merch, but most of those avenues have turned out to be cul-de-sacs. Unless anyone would be willing to shill out for a book that either costs three times more than it’s worth, or is printed at the lowest possible quality humanly imaginable.
But for now it’s there if anyone’s interested — a donation of any amount will give you the wallpaper in a variety of sizes (1024 x 768, 1280 x 800, 1280 x 1024, 1440 x 900, 1680 x 1050, 1920 x 1080 or 1920 or 1200) either left- or right-oriented to suit wherever you prefer to keep your desktop icons!
I’m planning to change the available wallpaper every so often, but each one will be up for at least 30 days, so everyone has a long enough chance to grab it if they want before it’s gone!
For now though, we’ll see how things go.
Had a sudden influx of other design/illustration work which made it tricky to find enough time to spend on drawing comics; would have been more manageable if being ill with all the diseases hadn’t put me just far enough behind that I was only just able to keep up with all the stuff I had rolling in.
Have been able to balance my work/free-time schedule a bit better lately though, so stay tuned for new comics in the very near future!
Just finished uploading the entire archive to date (a far more grueling experience than I anticipated, but still so much easier than it could have been!) and now all that’s really left to do is make a few superficial tweaks here and there! Well, that and to keep updating on time which, now that we have an actual nice and shiny new website, is an even more engaging prospect!
The schedule has been a bit flaky in the past, but this is the point where As You’re Up stops being the webcomic I add to if and when I have the time, and becomes instead the reliable, dependable, respectable webcomic it has always wanted to be.
I have adorned my laptop’s monitor with a fancy top hat, and it feels right.