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FUNDED.
Poor Wayfaring Strangers is funded! It was close, but we did it! Thanks, everyone, for backing, sharing, and putting up with the unending self-promotion! You did this as much as we did!
But wait! There’s still a day left! There’s stretch goals, and artist bonuses, and another way to help, and it’s totally free & easy: sign up for this Thunderclap! It only needs 10 more people! Just ten.
(Pst. Don’t know about Thunderclap? Think it looks scary? It’s not. It’s way cool. Check out the FAQ.)
Again, thank you all so, so much, from the bottom of our hearts.
PWS Thunderclap!
There’s one more way you can help Poor Wayfaring Strangers: pledge to participate in a last-minute Thunderclap to get the word out Saturday morning about the last day of the PWS Kickstarter! Share, share, share, but most importantly, don’t forget to visit the link yourself and hit all those shiny buttons for Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr! Thunderclap can greatly amplify our message when we’ll need it most!
Hey, lovelies.  I know I’ve been sorta blasting you guys about that kickstarter pretty much without posting anything much else and, I’m sorry about that.  A lot of things were happening at once, like getting this picture done and moving across the country from LA to Lexington, KY, and some fun with having to be a real adult for the first time in my life.  But I wanted to show you what I made and make a sort of final plea to you guys to help get this funded.
@joncairns wrote this really lovely thing about our mutual friend who passed away last year. You should read it, it’s amazing.  It is genuinely the nicest thing I think anyone has ever said about our friend.  Probably better than any eulogy that he got at his funeral, if there was one at all.  The thing is, I don’t actually know what happened at the end.  I know that he killed himself.  I know that it’s a tragedy.  I know that the comic Jon made for the book and his write up about the comic are the best closure I’m probably ever going to get on the subject, because honestly, it sums up a lot of the feelings I had for our late friend, Josh.  It’s deeply personal and amazingly direct and concise.  Even if you didn’t know Josh, I think this comic is worth a read.  I think a lot of us have a Josh in our life, or maybe are a Josh, someone we care about that is struggling, who has so much potential and isn’t living up to it for a lot of reasons, some that are their own fault, and some that are beyond their control.  The frustration comes from the things they could change, that they fix if they had the will.  And not to make light of it, because it is hard, so very, very hard, but it’s also not an excuse.Â
There was a lot of times where Josh and I were in the same boat and I think that’s why this comic means so much to me, because it could be me or both of us.  I think I kind of owe it to myself, and a little to his memory, to be better about the things I can control and to work harder and live up to the potential I have and a few others see in me.  I’m not as inspired as Josh but that isn’t going to stop me from trying.  Jon talks about art rivals, people who motivate you to keep going and do better.  I don’t see a reason why Josh can’t be mine, at least for now.  I don’t get to win by default, he’s still leagues ahead of me in the ideas department, so I’ll do my best to catch up.  Getting this printed in the book is the first step for me.  The first real tangible thing for that feeling of catching up and being successful.  It’s a baby step in some ways, but for me it’s huge since it’ll be the first time I’ll be published.  Maybe I’ll write a short story for Aubrey, Linette and Vivian featured above, maybe a comic if I can find someone who’s willing to go in full collab partner with me, but it all starts with this picture that I’m so proud of right now.  I think it’s one of the few times where I executed my vision well enough to be like, yes, that’s what it was supposed to look like, and I’m really excited to show people and do it again.  If I can do that, I think I can make a living with this whole art thing, even if it’s a relatively modest one.  That’s all I really need.
In discussing moving forward and the notion of success, it’d be nice if you read this too by @lauramakesart.  It sums up some vague things that have been sitting in the back of my head a bit and it’s interesting to hear someone else’s perspective who hasn’t “made it” by some standards and didn’t go to school for art.  It’s been a thing that’s always kinda vexed me as a self taught artist, how that feels like a huge handicap.  And generally speaking, I haven’t figured out what being successful exactly means to me yet.  I’d like to set the bar at being able to pay my rent and bills and eat with money made from the things I create.  And those are definitely worthy goals, don’t get me wrong, I do what that very badly.  But, should that be the benchmark for success?  I think if I really threw myself out there and did commissions full time, I could probably get close to that.  I pretty casually can make about half of that without really advertising that I’m open for commissions.  And honestly, I don’t think that’s enough for me to feel successful or satisfied.  The money is essential to living, but not really the goal.  Success for me, I think will have a lot more to do with whether or not people like the stories I have to tell, if they like the characters I create and if I can connect with them in some way that makes them better, happier, more confident.  A lot of that lies in the realm of my writing, more than my drawing.  Success is weird, and maybe there’s no one goal that’ll make me feel successful.  But I wanna get there, wherever there is.
This has been a bit long, and I’m usually pretty quiet on here, but I thought it was important to kinda put myself out there a little more.  Hopefully you have a better sense of who I am and why this kickstarter is so important to me.  I hope it’ll give you a reason to pledge if you haven’t already and are a fan of what I’m doing.  I also hope that what I and others wrote was interesting to read, impactful even.  Signal boosts would be nice, since we’re in the last 3 days of the kickstarter and really, it’s worth it to grab this book.  It’s going mean so much to the people involved.
Success.
I don’t often ruminate on this blog, because I assume people are here for art and give zero shits about what I think about myself and my work. But I have some incentive, a reason to talk a bit about myself.Â
I’m in a kickstarter. It’s in its last days, it might not get funded, but I hope it does. Its full of a lot of cool people who do cool stuff and make cool work. I like being around cool people who make cool stuff!Â
I put a lot of time these days into trying to push artists up. We can be a competitive lot, a emotional bunch, overworked and incredibly busy people. The support for artists out there often is just blogs like these, imploring you to take care of yourself, and to do what you love. I wanted to say a few truths about myself, to add to the pile of blogs. I’ve been saying this a lot to artists I meet in life, but I wanted to get my thoughts somewhere more conclusive, in hopes that they will resonate with you.
“What have you been doing with your life?”
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1 week to go! We’re gaining momentum but we’re not funded yet so please, please, if you haven’t pledged yet, get on it! Signal boost the heck out of this! http://kck.st/1SesEdX
We’re back to introducing you to each of the creators involved with Poor Wayfaring Strangers. This time it’s Jon Cairns ( @joncairns), who contributed My Best Friend’s Suicide, a deeply personal short you can read a little more about here.
Born and schooled in the less-than-Wild West, Jon Cairns emerged from the Californian chaparrals as a freelance comics writer/artist. The concept of the frontier features prominently in his work, having spent his life navigating frontier-influenced attitudes in the American Southwest and rural Western Australia. His work appears in print in the Beyond (O-Type Hypergiant) and NOBODIES (Soil) anthologies, and online (Alpha Flag, Untitled SF, True Hi-School Romance).
I thought it would be cool to get back to introducing you to each of the creators involved with Poor Wayfaring Strangers. This time it’s Laura Wilson ( @lauramakesart, @artanecdotally), who contributed Loose Ends, a story of siblings and supernatural justice.Â
Laura likes a little mystery in art and aspires to have work that relates to people on many different levels. She’s been drawing and plastering the internet with her work since she was a wee 13 year old. Laura received her BFA at Maryland Institute College of Art, where she studied experimental animation.  She enjoys color and texture, spirits and gods, teeth and gross goop.
Currently, Laura lives in Austin, Texas. She hopes to incorporate the lively city into her personal work, while pursuing a career in illustration and comics. On any given day, you can find her in her small apartment, trying out whatever media she can get her hands on.Â
Hey everyone! 10 days left on the awesome Kickstarter for oyr comic anthology, Poor Wayfaring Strangers. It’s a collection of wild and weird western comics from all kinds of awesome talent. They even were kind enough to let me sneak into the book with a little horror comic. Check it out and tell your friends!
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Poor Wayfaring Strangers
About two years ago, one of my best comic friends—Erin Mehlos of Next Town Over fame—started kicking the idea of a Western comics anthology that would both collect the guest comics running occasionally between her comic and a few new ones.
So, here’s the first page of my story: My Best Friend’s Suicide
It’s a really short, super personal short story and I’d love it if you donated to the Kickstarter so it could get printed and out into your hands. I’ve got some bonus tiers there, too. So give it a look, and if it grabs your attention, you know what to do!
For some (lengthy and emotionally heavy) context about the story, read below.
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Now, I’m not saying I can predict the future… just that I may have predicted the future in my Poor Wayfaring Strangers story, and that future is clogged with plant matter.
Tumbleweed: you could be next.
(Please support us on Kickstarter!)
Aside from that sweet kickstarter, I also have a new DAGS zine, which I’ll be selling at our local small press expo, Staple! If you like dags and live in Austin, come out to the expo in March!
You can absolutely get a signed copy of this, with an original sketch from Laura, along with PWS, which features her story Loose Ends, all for $40. Do it!
What kind of stuff’s in this book I need you to Kickstart? This kind of stuff, and way more other stuff. Get me and my friends ( @joncairns @backwoodgoat @lauramakesart @kyethn @radioonsoundoff ) paid for our effort, friends! If you can’t swing it, share it with your rich friend so they can get it to lord over you!
A preview look at my story “The Grinning God” in the Poor Wayfaring Strangers anthology. Just one of many neat stories in this book! Check it out and back it on kickstarter!
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Who’s involved with Poor Wayfaring Strangers?
@joncairns @backwoodgoat @kyethn @radioonsoundoff @lauramakesart @carolinejohnsonart @donebydani
That’s who. Get this book!

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A group of comics friends hits the trail with seven diverse stories of western/frontier fantasy and more in this brand new anthology.
Here it is! Go go go! Get it! Back it! Make it happen!
Panel from my own short, which I still can't figure out what to call because I'm like that.