#818

Amelius on Oct. 14, 2009

Yeah, as I'm sure you might have guessed things didn't work out so well for my dear ferret. We had to take her to the vet for the last time on Friday. Cancer is just horrid. Sorry to be absent and many thanks to all who gave us well wishes and support.

I really don't want to spring this on everyone while telling you a sad story about my ferret, but I gotta say something else that's important regarding the comic.
It's come to the point where I may have to get a job to help out with our finances, but I'd prefer that job to be my comic and not something that takes me away from working on it. I don't want to lean on the generosity of my readers, and this isn't me saying that I'm holding the comic hostage either, but we're having a little trouble living on one income (it's not like we live beyond our means either, I'm living off Ramen if I even remember to eat most days!) but taxes and unexpected expenses have come our way. Nick has been waiting months now trying to save up for dental surgery and I was supposed to go to the doctor's for a followup on some things like my wrist and couldn't afford that either.
I'm not going to ask for something for nothing either, I actually did make a wallpaper which we'll send out and I even intend to make some more very special content for all who donate even a bit. Any suggestions are welcome of course, and we might even have a donation drive where we set up a raffle to give free stuff to a winner every month (like original art, pipecleaner sculptures I made, buttons and whatnot depending on what we decide on. We'll have more details on Tuesday) but every donator of course gets a wallpaper sent to them regardless.

By the way, I did change the donation button so it directs to Nick's account now, so if anyone does donate don't panic that it says “Evil Empire Comics” and Evil Emperor Nick in the address, I'm married to him so it's going to the same place of course ^_^.

We really appreciate everyone who's bought a shirt in the cafepress store, but that's there for your benefit rather than ours because we only make enough money to cover the cost of keeping the store (and the multiple options) open. I'll update that soon too though.

And for those that donated last time in our very dire hour of need, I haven't forgotten you either, I'm still working on that book for you but it ran into a snag, meaning I didn't like the ending and re-wrote it. Of course that means I have to redraw some art too, but as soon as that's done you'll get that sent to you. I'll always be grateful for your help and support!

Please bear with me though guys, you wouldn't believe how hard it is to have to ask you for help like this. I know there's other options out there but I want to do everything I can to keep this comic the main thing for me and I don't want to have to drop it or take time away from working on it.