A slight update from Andreas

Hello everybody! Thought I'd reach out to the community since it's been an unusually quiet month.

First off, I've been in contact with Karno. He's made assurance that sketches will be coming along soon, and assures me that the delay has been due to multiple Real-Life issues, as well as working on multiple comic projects at once. The man is seriously keeping himself busy, and in the Tuscon summer heat, that's not easy from what I've heard.

In a related note, Karno made a journal post recently about a site which seems to be ripping off Patreon pages wholesale. They sign up with a dummy email, with a dummy credit card, then just sits back and collect the patron posts without giving anything to the artists. Seriously, what a douchebag move. Patreon is *supposed* to be purely about generosity, I always felt; If the artist produces really good stuff then the fans can throw them some spare change every now and then, and the artist, aided by the generosity of the fans, can produce more and better works. Everybody wins.

The reason I bring this up is because, out of curiosity, I went in and checked the list of patrons, and sure enough, there was in fact one patron who'd signed up as a $10 patron 2 months ago, yet so far has contributed $0. That does sound like a dummy account to me. I mean, I can understand a person can fall on bad times, but if that happened to me, I'd either lower my pledge or pause it altogether, not let the thing just run. But that's me.

So, I am shouting out a question to the patrons on this matter: Should I remove patrons who sign up, yet don't seem to be contributing anything? If yes, how much of a "grace period" should I give them? My first thought was three months, but again, that's just me. The only reason I mention a grace period is because, without it, I'd kind of come across as a goose-stepping fascist if I kicked everyone who's ever failed to honor a pledge, which I don't want to.

I'm just wondering if I should kick those who've apparently missed every single pledge over a fair amount of time.

And in closing, I just want to give a shout out to all the awesome patrons of this comic, who are in fact the overwhelming majority. You guys, old patrons and new, are truly amazing and have helped both me and Karno a huge amount with your pledges, great and small, over these 17 months of existence. I hope to live up to your expectations and hopes, and I assure you... There is a *lot* of good stuff coming in the future. Let's see how long we can keep this up.

Best regards

Euro_salamander