It's Patron Acknowledgement Time!

Chapter Three will be done before you know it, so I need to know: how would you (Dear Reader) like to be acknowledged in the chapter's Acknowledgement Pages?

If you've done this before, you know how it goes: just take a minute to fill out this form!

Part of the deal of supporting this project is that I credit you as a supporter of this project wherever the project is published. So far, that means online, where I make acknowledgement pages for each chapter.  Here's the Patron Acknowledgements for Chapter One, and here they are for Chapter Two.

An important part of these acknowledgements is that I like to know how you'd like to be acknowledged. By default, I'll credit your name as it appears on Patreon (the username that Patreon's spreadsheets say you use). Don't like that idea? The other options are…

• be credited as "anonymous,"
• not be credited at all,
• you can confirm, "yes, please use my Patreon user name" (this is just a kindness to me),
• or you can specify a different name (e.g., some people put their kids' names down).

Chapter One's acknowledgement pages took the form of a "butcher's bill," the list of dead and wounded after a naval battle. Chapter Two's pages took the form of a star chart. I'm not yet sure what form Chapter Three will take. My favourite option is to make it look like names carved into the bricks that make up the big defensive walls.

Again, the form is here! Thank you to everyone who takes the time to fill it out—it just removes a little ambiguity from my life. :)

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I was, of course, wrong to predict that I'd have finished coloured pages by the end of April. I still have about 16 pages to flat, which, honestly, is pretty good, considering how disrupted the month has been. I've had fewer work days than most months (due to balancing my work against my partner's schedule). Plus, I've had to get a few materials prepared for VanCAF (I'm doing my first in-person comics event in three years!), I took a day and a half to do some writing (trying to make sure the story doesn't become unruly), and of course the colour scripts and the changes in the flatting process (as already discussed).

While flatting, I've been listening to the Taskmaster podcast, and it's been providing a lot of behind-the-scenes insight not only on the show, but more generally on the British comedy circuit and on creative pursuits. Maybe that's me reading into it too much, maybe there's something there. I'm going to keep listening and if anything concrete takes shape, I'll share it.

(Taskmaster is a show where British comedians and comedy-adjacent performers compete in absurd tasks and are judged capriciously by Greg Davies, "The Taskmaster." When it was first recommended to me, I disliked it. Then I tried it again, on a different season, and before I knew it I'd watched each and every episode. If you try the show because you're familiar with a particular performer, it can feel "off," because your favourite isn't doing their usual thing. But once you get used to the way the show reveals each performer's character over time, it becomes a whole new thing, and I've ended up becoming a big fan of some comedians who were new to me. The choice of each season's cast is an art in itself.)

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Finally, it's Spring Time here in the beautiful Pacific North West, so if you need me and I'm not at the desk, I'll be outside moving flagstone from one end of the yard to the other and trying to prevent our toddler from burying garden tools.

I remain,
As ever,
Trampled beneath Tonka trucks,

TC