Mike Dawson

Thanks! + a look ahead

Added 2025-11-28 18:18:51 +0000 UTC

Just a quick post to thank you for all the support you've given me here on Patreon, I couldn't be more grateful. In this day and age where every streaming app is its own subscription, and every creative person is trying to get by with Substacks and paid newsletters and whatnot, I recognize how significant it is that you're willing to send actual $$$ my way every month to help me realize my creative projects and goals. It's incredible, I appreciate it so much. The last year has seen solid, slow, but steady, growth for me here, the more things keep up this way, the more time and effort I'll be able to put into writing and drawing and self-publishing comics, all things I love to do.

I don't like to commit myself too strongly to future minicomic plans, but I do have a pretty good idea of how the next three months are going to go. At the moment I'm working on an all-new cartoon essay about time-travel for December's digest-sized mini, FUN TIME, TIME, TIME.

In January I'm planning on producing a smaller mini called "Puffin Socks", which will be along the lines of the Hamilton comic that you either should have recently received, or that should be reaching you in the coming days. Just like that mailing, I'll likely be including a new sticker along with the mini. This is a rough of one of the panels:

And then February is Hourly Comics Day, one of those cartooning challenges, similar to Inktober, but where you draw a new page of diary comics every hour. I did it last year (see below), and was pleased with the results.