Mood:
brightThere is a thanks necessary for the two people who have donated in the past two months and made the extra pages released possible.
Thank you to both of you.
I'm very grateful. I often wish I could do more: add more pazazz to the website somehow. But I suck. I'm short on ideas.
That being said, I could reiterate the reasons behind the current donation drive... but I don't want to whine again. I prefer NOT to whine here to begin with. That's what my livejournal is for. =^-^=
To sum up: I'm beyond flat broke and Akashik needs community support.
Being broke is normal for a webcomic artist, even ones that work at other studios like I do. And sometimes things happen to make things so red, there's no light at the end of tunnel. Tha'ts how things are for Akashik right now. And that's how I'll sum up the whining.
So all this week I'm urging you, the readers without whome there'd be no point to making this comic, to help. As I'd mentioned in my last post, we have approximately 30,000 hits a month from people; people who come and read this comic regularly. I estimated that if each and every single one of you gives ONLY $1 (or more if you wish) that would help. A lot.
In exchange for that single dollar, you'll be getting the following:
1. Extra pages (provided there are enough donations)!!
2. Our donation incentive wallpaper and desktop theme!!!
3. A spot in the to-be-added Wall Of Fame - a page dedicated to public acknowledgment to our supporters in an upcoming print issue of Akashik!!!
That's a WHOLE LOT for ONLY $1.
And it won't hurt your wallets because, well, it's only $1. =^-^= (That's the best part.)
Just 300 $1 donations will help enormously. That would pay for the website here, for paper to draw the new pages on, ink, markers, and ultimately food to feed the artist with. (Okay, and maybe a candy bar so the artist can get sugar drunk to write scripts with.) These are all necessary components to creating Akashik, which (I hope) entertains you.
Normally I've just put the donate button up and ignored it because my bills were paid, and so long as people enjoyed the comic I was content. I LOVE doing Akashik for you guys! I LOVE knowing that people read it, and I'm happy so long as my bills are paid. Akashik is not a get rich quick scheme... but I can't afford to anymore - at least for a little while. I'm truly sorry about that.
So please, again I ask that you consider that $1. It could make the world of difference.
Today's accompanying donation drive artwork was drawn by our mascot and future Flash wizard, Halona. It's so cute I'll make it a regular button later, I swear!!
