At this point, I am nearly halfway through Issue 3. Boy do I wish I could work faster. Even with Midjourney assistance on the backgrounds, I feel like production is sluggish at best. Then again… it is just me after all.
Either way, we’re truckin’ along. And regardless of where I’m at production-wise, I am not scootching the launch date.
Anyway, here’s a high-level overview of some future updates/ plans in the works, as well as a few ideas that are still in the brainstorm phase:
Short Stories
I think I mentioned this before in a previous blog post, but I plan to have some short stories on the website sometime after releasing Issue 1, and I would like for the scheduling on those to be inbetween issues, so there’s new content on the site every month. We’ll see how that goes…
Informative Blogs
I can’t possibly be the only artist out there who’s leveraging AI fin some creative capacity, let alone for comics. I think it would be good to start making helpful blog posts on topics such as the hybrid AI art creation process, mental health/ mindset, and even more business-oriented blog posts for artists (down the line).
Patreon
Here’s the thing: I want the comic to be free to read, period. I don’t want to hinder the visibility of this story by putting a paywall in front of it. That said… I would like to stop working my day job to fully commit to this project. I think Patreon could be a great resource for this, but it will take a TON of work to get to a point where I can actually make a living off of that income.
Obviously the Patreon would only really be for those who feel compelled to be my patrons because they value the project and believe in me. I’m thinking I’ll start with lower tiers just to test the waters, and then add a few premium tiers later on when I get a better sense of the fanbase.
Publisher(?)
I’ve been mulling over this one for a while. A lot of publishers don’t want to touch AI art (which I don’t blame them for), but that does leave me in a tricky place. I would like to work with a publisher someday, yet that depends on a lot and may ultimately not be in my best interests. But it’s an idea.
Oh, and I decided I’m just going to brave this stupid social media situation for now. I can’t let it be the center of my universe. My focus should be on doing this story justice, not my follower count.