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KC Newsletter! April 2026
Hello!
This issue: Free stuff! General positivity!
This month’s finances and what all got done
I tried to lean into my rough patch this time and accept that I needed a break, which included skipping the newsletter for March, aaand which means there is very little to report in this category. I do feel much better now! Hopefully going a bit dormant for a minute there will let me get back to work properly, I am absolutely dying to share the end of this arc with you all. As always, thank you very much for letting me take time to recover when I need it; this naturally happens with any project on this scale and this certainly isn’t the first time for this comic, but I am very appreciative that KC’s audience is so understanding whenever it cycles around.
The next update was originally planned to be around five pages, but I’m nearly finished with the first one. I’d like to update a little sooner and decrease the scale of the batch update slightly so I’m going to try to post a new page in the next few days after this goes out. Novel work is also ticking along! I gave that its own section this time.
Despite the slowness, finances inched forward slightly! By my count KC’s combined support is hovering around 928 USD per month. Any forward momentum is good, but getting some this month was really, really encouraging. I’ll do my best to keep earning it.
Things!
Free Comic Book Day Stuff
As usual I will be giving some of my very few paywalled works away for free this weekend! This time you can pick up the novel and Volume 3 as pay what you want downloads on ko-fi or itch.io; it’s a little early for me to advertise it out loud, but since you’re here on the newsletter I’m letting you know the listings are live right now. Go get them! Tell other people to get them! Read my things!!
Convention season, lots of talking
It is here again, somebody in this house had some kind of engagement every weekend for basically all of April. They mostly went well! I did try out a local prose author-focused show and, as I suspected, I didn’t really click with the scene. As much as I’m enjoying prose writing (and despite the fact that it will eventually be most of what I’m doing) I’m still a much better fit with other cartoonists. But it was a good time! I was pulled in at the last minute to participate in a Q&A panel about graphic novels; it was kind of a weird one but I did manage to record it and you can see it over on my youtube channel if you really want to do that. Next time I’m bringing my own seating.
Oh, speaking of conventions: I have once again completely sold out of the first two manga volumes, and I am not even a little bit close to being able to restock them. It’s infinitely easier to get prose novels printed because I don’t have to go through a tiny local printer for them, my guy in Denver does wonderful comic work but wonderful comic work is not cheap. Lee and I are still working on climbing out of the hole we started digging around the end of 2024 when Tennessee kept dragging us back there, but I’m vaguely hopeful we’ll be able to start spending money on things like this again by the end of this year. They’ll be back eventually! Fortunately the comics are available in other, cheaper formats with unlimited stock, isn’t that cool?
If the hour of more recent Q&A isn’t enough, I also found and posted one that Lee and I recorded back in 2022 that talks about Kidd Commander specifically, if you haven’t seen it yet.
Novel Development
I’m nearly finished drafting the first half of the Wretched Analog novel! Like Grist, the adaptation will be getting a new title, but I’m still having trouble committing to it and I don’t strictly have to do that yet so I’m putting it off. The robot novel, the Agatha novel, whatever.
I usually have to spend a lot of time with a draft before I feel comfortable sharing anything substantial, but I did post a very early very subject-to-change bit over on tumblr (and on the forum! If social media annoys you), and people seemed to like it a lot. I think this arc will be a lot of fun in prose! I’m still really enjoying how natural it feels to turn a location into a proper character in a novel vs. a comic and Decodenn, especially the Goddard estate, are interesting places to hang out with. I write about weird houses pretty frequently and I think it’s a topic I get across better in writing than I can manage in the webcomic. Please look forward to it!
State of the artist
Normal again, doing much better this month. Here’s hoping this translates to me getting more work done regularly, I’m getting restless.
Swings and roundabouts!
-Aria
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