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S.O.S. from KJ. This time... I need help.
9 years ago
I'm sorry for the freaking novelette that's below, but please, please read it if you enjoy my work.
I'm not proud of making this post, but it's been a long time coming. I've tried to hang on as long as I can, but I've finally hit the breaking point. I need help, people. With my degenerative disc disease keeping me from working a regular day job and Brim's therapy bills piling up, we're in trouble. Commissions just don't pay well enough and are too few and far between.
As many of you know, I started doing the Pet Project comic as a commission made by
skatelian4 to help out one of the first real friends I made in the furry fandom, 
lei-lani. Almost all of the money went to her to help her keep her house when the assholes who stuck her with a predatory loan wanted to foreclose on her. Since about page 3, I've been doing the Pet Project for free because it was 1) hugely generous of Skate to help out Lani and I wanted to fulfill my promise to see it through to the end, and 2) It's fun as hell to work on. I mean, I love doing comics, and I love doing porn. Win-win.
Well, my situation has changed. I can't do Pet Project for free anymore. In fact, my future as an artist is in peril, but I would hate, and I mean HATE, to leave Pet Project unfinished or even put it on the backburner any longer while I try and scrounge up enough commissions to barely squeak by for a couple of months in the blind hope that I could get ahead enough that I could squeeze out another page in about 6 weeks.
So, I'm asking you generous furries of the fandom for some more help... but I'm not just begging here and offering nothing in return. If I can scrape together enough to get by on for the next couple of months, I'll be able to work on Pet Project full time and just get it DONE. I'm not talking some Patreon deal where only people who donate get to see it, I mean, this comic was commissioned to be brought to the whole fandom to enjoy, and that's where it'll stay, in public.
So, how much do I need?
Because of Brim's therapy which Medicaid won't pay for, our monthly expenses are $1600/month. Based on my speed tests last year (Before Brim's Zoloft stopped being effective and everything went to hell for me) I can produce 2 pages of Pet Project a week. 8 pages a month. There's 18 pages of Pet Project left to ink, because I inked a few pages much further ahead in the script while Lani was writing the script, and inking is what I find most time consuming when doing comics, so I SHOULD be able to get Pet Project totally finished in 2 and a half months.
If I can raise $160 per page, we'll squeak by. That's $320 per week and $1280 a month... (About minimum wage) with help from family, we could at least survive long enough for me to finish Pet Project. I'd like to ask for $200 per page so the bills can be completely paid, but I know things are tough for everyone right now. $160 per page to survive with assistance, $200 being the goal.
I've held off on asking for assistance for as long as I possibly could, but I'm at the end of my rope... and you guys KNOW me by now. After all the Sketch Clubs and free art events, you guys KNOW I bust my ass on everything I do. I will be streaming EVERY PAGE that I work on and any time I AM working on the comic, you can bet that I'll be streaming it so you KNOW your money is supporting WORK, not dicking around on Youtube or playing LoL. 8 hours a day, 6 days a week until it's DONE. That's my commitment. Any trips to Canada to see family will be posted well in advance so I can work extra hours to try and make up for the absence and if I have to stop working due to catastrophic LIFE, I will be sure to warn you all well in advance so you can withhold the next donation until I'm able to resume work again.
And when it IS done, I'll put it all together in a PDF that y'all can download for your viewing pleasure on whatever device you happen to keep quality erotic comics on that will be available for everybody. Full print resolution. Every page in full color and professionally made.
I'll keep regular daily updates on how many pages have been funded and I'll just keep working on them full blast as soon as they are.
Sorry for the wall of text here, but it's all come to a head and I would LOVE to bring you guys Pet Project completed. If you would like to help me out, you can donate to my paypal at silverkitty000@gmail.com. (Do not send emails to that account as I don't check it. If you need to email me, do it over at kinojaggernov@hotmail.com)
I'm not proud of making this post, but it's been a long time coming. I've tried to hang on as long as I can, but I've finally hit the breaking point. I need help, people. With my degenerative disc disease keeping me from working a regular day job and Brim's therapy bills piling up, we're in trouble. Commissions just don't pay well enough and are too few and far between.
As many of you know, I started doing the Pet Project comic as a commission made by
skatelian4 to help out one of the first real friends I made in the furry fandom, 
lei-lani. Almost all of the money went to her to help her keep her house when the assholes who stuck her with a predatory loan wanted to foreclose on her. Since about page 3, I've been doing the Pet Project for free because it was 1) hugely generous of Skate to help out Lani and I wanted to fulfill my promise to see it through to the end, and 2) It's fun as hell to work on. I mean, I love doing comics, and I love doing porn. Win-win. Well, my situation has changed. I can't do Pet Project for free anymore. In fact, my future as an artist is in peril, but I would hate, and I mean HATE, to leave Pet Project unfinished or even put it on the backburner any longer while I try and scrounge up enough commissions to barely squeak by for a couple of months in the blind hope that I could get ahead enough that I could squeeze out another page in about 6 weeks.
So, I'm asking you generous furries of the fandom for some more help... but I'm not just begging here and offering nothing in return. If I can scrape together enough to get by on for the next couple of months, I'll be able to work on Pet Project full time and just get it DONE. I'm not talking some Patreon deal where only people who donate get to see it, I mean, this comic was commissioned to be brought to the whole fandom to enjoy, and that's where it'll stay, in public.
So, how much do I need?
Because of Brim's therapy which Medicaid won't pay for, our monthly expenses are $1600/month. Based on my speed tests last year (Before Brim's Zoloft stopped being effective and everything went to hell for me) I can produce 2 pages of Pet Project a week. 8 pages a month. There's 18 pages of Pet Project left to ink, because I inked a few pages much further ahead in the script while Lani was writing the script, and inking is what I find most time consuming when doing comics, so I SHOULD be able to get Pet Project totally finished in 2 and a half months.
If I can raise $160 per page, we'll squeak by. That's $320 per week and $1280 a month... (About minimum wage) with help from family, we could at least survive long enough for me to finish Pet Project. I'd like to ask for $200 per page so the bills can be completely paid, but I know things are tough for everyone right now. $160 per page to survive with assistance, $200 being the goal.
I've held off on asking for assistance for as long as I possibly could, but I'm at the end of my rope... and you guys KNOW me by now. After all the Sketch Clubs and free art events, you guys KNOW I bust my ass on everything I do. I will be streaming EVERY PAGE that I work on and any time I AM working on the comic, you can bet that I'll be streaming it so you KNOW your money is supporting WORK, not dicking around on Youtube or playing LoL. 8 hours a day, 6 days a week until it's DONE. That's my commitment. Any trips to Canada to see family will be posted well in advance so I can work extra hours to try and make up for the absence and if I have to stop working due to catastrophic LIFE, I will be sure to warn you all well in advance so you can withhold the next donation until I'm able to resume work again.
And when it IS done, I'll put it all together in a PDF that y'all can download for your viewing pleasure on whatever device you happen to keep quality erotic comics on that will be available for everybody. Full print resolution. Every page in full color and professionally made.
I'll keep regular daily updates on how many pages have been funded and I'll just keep working on them full blast as soon as they are.
Sorry for the wall of text here, but it's all come to a head and I would LOVE to bring you guys Pet Project completed. If you would like to help me out, you can donate to my paypal at silverkitty000@gmail.com. (Do not send emails to that account as I don't check it. If you need to email me, do it over at kinojaggernov@hotmail.com)
Good luck and godspeed to you out there!
And let others know, okay? This is a really great opportunity for the whole fandom.
But I will definitely help you in this endeavor. I will try to send you some spare monies when I can.