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A Welcome!
🕑 Added 2022-06-20 18:14:29 +0000 UTCWelcome! For you new members and maybe a few of you that have been around a little longer, here's kind of how this place works, reprinted from an earlier post:
First and foremost, I wear two hats. I have two "day jobs"- a machinist and small-time manufacturer by day, and cartoonist by night. (I have the cape and everything!) So traffic here is part of both- mostly extra art, but as I've gotten into making simple videos of the machine shop stuff, there's some of that, too. I know some of you are only here for one or the other, but I try and make it all entertaining.
Second, despite the warning Patreon slapped on the page, this is not necessarily an "adult" channel. Yes, there's some adult art, and likely will be more in the future, but it's not the main purpose of this page.
Any 'adult' stuff gets posted at the $5-and-up tiers, if that sort of thing matters to you.
Third, as for that main purpose, while many artists have regular submissions to their page (along with contests, polls, streams, etc.) as much as I wish I could do something like that, I rarely have the free time. Please consider that your membership here is helping support the five-day-a-week main comic, and I'm really only able to post extras as time, inspiration and opportunity allows.
Why don't I quit one and focus on the other? I can't. Not being able to build cool stuff would be just as bad for me as not being able to draw cool stuff- and vice versa.
... To say nothing of the fact that neither one, by itself, earns what you might call a fair income. :D Both together actually start to qualify. :)
I know that might come as a bit of a shock to many of you, that a guy working out of his garage in Left Armpit, Alaska, making small handfuls of parts for obsolete paintball guns, and in his spare time drawing furry comics, isn't just raking in the dough, but hey, I guess it's just my luck of the draw. :D
So, TL:DR version: I post new stuff here irregularly. Sometimes it's a bit of an extra comic or alternate punchline, sometimes it's a quick sketch, sometimes it's proper art when I have both the time and inspiration to do such a thing, sometimes it's a shop video. I wish I could put stuff up more and faster, but then, I also wish there were 36 hours in a day, there were two of me, and neither of us needed to sleep. :)
But no matter what, thank you all for coming along for the ride! There's still lots of shenanigans in store for our crew, so I hope you'll stay to see it! :)
Doc.
Comments
I started reading the whiteboard I believe in 2007, and have been reading ever since.
Truttle Bear
I'm just glad to have the honor to have been along for the ride for the past 20 years. Congratulations! :3
Ghostbear
SHLORK!
eddi_TBH
Here's hoping. 🤞 And if you do retire, I still have the collections and my Whiteboard folder.
Doc Nickel
I'm honestly hoping I can make a fortieth. :) I mean, naturally I don't wish to die within the next 20 years :) but also that I'll still be able, both physically and mentally, to produce it.
Doc Nickel
Sorry Cats, I'm told that if one has adult content, unless you're primarily an adult channel, that content should be above the 'base' tiers. And I don't see any option to provide individual exceptions.
eddi_TBH
If necessary, I will rise from an unquiet grave for the 40 year celebration. Just remember, "blaarg?" in zombie means "can I please have your autograph?"
Delisle
Informative and amusing...., and I decided that a guy posting 5 days a week deserved more support from me!
Thisguy
I’ve been here only about… a year or so? And I’m here mostly to support the webcomic… And the occasional cheesecake.
jay maechtlen
I mainly came in to support the webcomic and - yeah, I do enjoy the cheesecake! The mechanical/machinist stuff is a bonus. Cheers!
Red Fox Homesteader
Congratulations on 20 years doc. I can't believe its been that long. I came in pretty early, before Sandy came in I think. Been great watching you grow.
Cats n' Cameras
5 and up aww. Cries. Does being your web host count hahaha lol no worries
Hogan
Its been a great ride so far, keep on trucking Doc! :D
Jason Hopkins
Congratulations on making the channel entertaining and diverse! I discovered your comic in 2010 or so and have been reading it since. Keep up the great work!
Rennon the Shaved
Congratulations on 20 years of your comic! That's phenomenal.
