HELP ME CHOOSE! Fonts of the Mer Folk.
over 3 years ago
– Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 07:15:27 PM
I'm lettering the book as I thumbnail. I'm selecting a Font for my creatures to differentiate their dialog from humans. Here's where I need your help! Which font [ Top or bottom] is more legible? Seems more spooky goddess of the sunbath kinda vibes. Your decision will change the course of the book! I'll add some drips to the box it sits in. I LIKE the bottom font but it may be just too much to read. Let me know!
Book Of Mer : Release dates. Meet Astata. + DragonCon. August Update 2022
over 3 years ago
– Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 10:27:33 AM
Hello all,
I've come with some GOOD news. I'm going to release the book of Mer in May of 2023.
I'm writing to you from my newly assembled desk in Illinois. Which hasn't been put together since my last update in May.
Like You, I've waited 4 Long months. I spent that time living in boxes, No internet other than my cellphone, Not being able to work on ANYTHING, dealing with landlords who refuse to care for their properties and lots and lots of waiting on others to be able to move forward. Sheriffs and courts, hornets nest and sulfuric water. Reads like some kind of nightmare but FINALLY. The storms have settled and I'm not clinging to driftwood anymore.
In the meantime, I've been rewriting and fighting to make the next few issues of the book of mer something worth waiting for [ hopefully] . By the time issue 1 is released issue 2 will be completed as well. I know it's taken a lot of patience and faith in me and I thank you for it. I understand if that patience has been pressed.
When I first wrote this book, it was under duress. I was not my best self. I was living in an environment with someone who yelled over my shoulder everyday that I wasn't caring enough about the plights of some far off war all the while causing chaos in my heart. Telling me I wasn't enough. Until I told that lie to myself and thought I wasn't worth even existing. I am a person who equates their ability to work with their self worth and if I'm not here to do what I am made to do and what you paid for then what exactly am I DOING here in this world. I hard and unfair truth but that was my reality for a time.
I thought that would be a great basis for what Astara, the Main Character of this series is enduring paralyzed by her visions.
It pains me to read your messages. And you're within your right to be upset. It has been a long time with very little info as to where your book is. I'd not been ignoring you. I honestly hadn't seen the messages until now. I'd been living in a tower of boxes, just able to find enough undamaged prints to sell at the conventions I agreed to attend last year. But I'm happy to report that after almost a year of unrelenting chaos, I'm finally sitting in my work space for the first time. My first thought was to write to you. There will be more regular updates now that I can actually get into my computer and give you things!
I'll be attending Dragon Con next week. Come on by and we can talk more about it. :)
pitchdeck complete. back to the book!
almost 4 years ago
– Sun, May 15, 2022 at 12:25:38 PM
The pitchdeck for the cartoon is complete at long last. It felt like a blockage was finally broken. So what’s next!?
Your artbooks and merch are preordered and I have to design the latest zine.
The flood in my house took about half of the data for the comic so I’ve got about 22 pages left to recreate but it has given me time to revise it and make it into a better story.
Once I wrap up the issue and master the album , we’ll confirm dates with Image and see what the best time to release will be.
Moving ahead, I’m working on assembling a team to help create and handle admin so I don’t have to take all of this on alone. :)
I’ll be attending a few conventions this year, so if the release date matches an event you’ll be attending,let me know and We can sort out an in person pick up :)
Thanks again friends
Afua
May! an update
almost 4 years ago
– Fri, May 13, 2022 at 03:19:22 AM
Hello All!
It’s been one year since the proposed release date of the Book of Mer and its been a heck of a year. A Concussion that took me 8 months and 2 surgeries to recover from. Divorce from an abusive spouse and hospitalization from severe anemia and hypoglycemia. It’s embarrassing and has taken so much counseling and support to pull through.
But it feels like I’m finally coming back to my mind. The depression from the concussion was severe. It was like being in a fog that made everything difficult to see and impossible to find a way out of. Work was difficult. Life was difficult. I was drowning in my own thoughts.
I moved far away from the danger and fell into another. A slum lord who has me dealing with gas leaks, cracked pipes destroying artwork and computer gear, windows that don’t close in the dead of winter. I thought maybe I was the butt of a cosmic joke.
But Finally, after what seemed like an endless fog ( I put on a brave face at conventions) I feel like I’m finally back to ME. I wanted to thank you all for your patience and understanding while I make this book. This is a huge undertaking and I’d not be able to do this without you. I wasn’t going to say all this in an update, but you deserve the right to know where I am and where this project is.
I’d hate for you to think poorly of Kickstarter projects because my life was turned upside down.
I am open to ideas on how to repay my backers for their kindness and patience during this delay.
Dates coming soon. Thank you again friends.
Afua
workin workin workin
about 4 years ago
– Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 11:50:24 PM
I’m still workin at this pitch deck. I’ve been having issues with where I’ve moved to. Gas leaks. Broken pipes damaging computers and original art and now windows that have been painted open and unclose-able that my landlord is trying to charge me for. Slum lords.
It’s been utterly delightful.
But despite being huddled in my home withe a heating pad and a wool blanket to sit at my desk, I’m making progress. I don’t have a release date yet but as the chaos in this place settles and it gets warmer, it’s so much easier to be here and work.
More soon.
Afua
