Hi, this is my weekly cartoon newsletter. If you haven’t already, why not subscribe and have it emailed to your inbox every Friday - it’s free!
The real shock is that my weekly newsletter is nearly 6-months old!
This week, I’ve been:
Working on a new cartoon strip, Augbot & I;
Thinking more about how to promote my cartoon work;
And, planning my new paid-subscription option that I intend to launch at the end of July.
Augbot & I is a combination of two cartoon themes that have featured a lot lately, namely ‘me’ and ‘robots’. Once I had the idea to combine both, the inspiration kept coming and I now have enough storylines to develop a strip, at least in the short to middle term. The first few strips should set the scene and explain the relationship between the two characters, so no need to go into it here.
The strip will launch properly in next week’s newsletter (the six-months edition!), but I created the following preview to give my newsletter a push on social media, and to give an idea of what to expect - although I’m still playing with the drawing style and layout.
I’m getting more excited about introducing a paid-subscription option.
To re-cap, my weekly newsletter is free to subscribe - and always will be - but I’m hoping a paid option will encourage a small amount of patronage to help support my work, sustain the newsletters, and (importantly) fund the tea and biscuits 🫖.
The plan at the moment is to produce a monthly newsletter for patrons only, with a little more content, special paid-subscriber benefits, and so on. It will be published on the last Friday of each month instead of the free newsletter that week - so still 3 or 4 free newsletters each month depending on the number of Fridays. I’ll share more details in the coming weeks.
In other news, I’ve ordered new glasses with occupational lenses, as things have been getting blurrier than usual lately. I find it difficult to get frames to fit, as it seems most people have freakishly small heads. Thankfully, my wife was there to offer a second opinion.
And finally, a special birthday drawing for a cool young man in my other family. Feliz cumpleaños Liam!
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Hasta pronto,
Iain