I have one.

Cool! Do you know if it's possible to use Patreon under a pseudonym? When you're a patron, how does the charge show up on your credit card? Does it show as a charge to Patreon or as a charge to the artist you're patronizing? As a creator, do you get individual payments from each sponsor or does Patreon aggregate them and then just send you one check?

Talk to Ritts he's got one right now.

I guess talk to Ritts - he is popular enough he has probably gotten payments. I haven't tried to request any of the limited funds I've collected yet from Patreon, but it's collected by them and aggregated, yes. As a patron, dunno how it's showing up on credit cards because my charges are coming out of the payments I receive. Using as a pseudonym - I think so. I'm on there as The Jeweled Horn. http://www.patreon.com/thejeweledhorn

I've only been researching setting one up, but I'd like to know this as well. If you get ahold of Ritts, would you share that part?

I compiled a bunch of milestone/pledge examples that didn't sound convoluted/stupid if you want help with that part, but I thought everyone knew your name anyway? Or is this for fatty porn?

What sort of milestones are you offering?

I don't have anything yet, but I was going to do a comic, and was thinking of things related to how the comic is executed, like starting off with just inks, then bump up to coloring, then up to full shading, and then a bigger gap to go back and add color/shading to previous work.

Ritts has the best ideas for milestones that I've seen so far - the only other milestone I took note of was "new computer equipment to handle more work at $5000/whatever," but that seemed off. Say I was making $300 a page for a comic that I kept up with regularly, I would be able to invest in a better tablet pc pretty soon.

Most of the trickery seems to be in the pledge freebies. Stuff like prints and early access to new content, or accessing private streams. I would never do streaming though - I hate drawing in front of other people.

Inks to color to shade makes good sense.

Private streams is difficult since I do all my art in traditionalmedia, but early access might work. I've always been confused by why people would pay for that, but I guess some people do!

Also, is this for fatty porn?

Yes. It's what people want!

I KNOW HOW THAT GOES.

I'd be careful. I hear that Patreon has a "No Illicit Material" rule akin to PayPal's, and they'll freeze your account (and any funds they hadn't already transferred to you) if they hear that you're involved in such things.

... So I hear, anyway. You might look into it yourself.