Hey Chio Crew! Here's the status of the next page:

Thumbnails: 100%
Pencils: 20%
Ink: 0%
Flat color: 0%
Shading: 0%
Backgrounds: 0%
Expected update: now 9/21

I haven't made much progress due to some Life Things happening unexpectedly at the end of the week, so that's...complicating things. I'm bumping this page to 9/21 and hoping I can catch up from there. I'd like to finish this chapter by the end of 2024, but... we'll see.

I always feel tremendously guilty for having to move update dates around, but I'm learning to prioritize my health and sometimes it's hard. I really do appreciate all of you who are sticking with me despite my slow pace. It means a lot to me.

My ability to work at all is highly variable day to day so making a webcomic with a schedule is remarkably difficult. At this point I'm thinking of taking Nov/Dec off from public posts so I can build my buffer again. I'll make a better post on that at some point.

Read Follower from the start, or catch up:

🧬 Newest page: http://follower.messenger-comic.com
👨🏼‍🔬 From the Start: https://follower.messenger-comic.com/follower-webcomic/follower/
🦘 RSS: http://follower.messenger-comic.com/feed/
💖 Early: http://chio.club

I made a post about the new changes Patreon is making, and what I think about them. You can read it on the Radio Chio blog here: https://www.radiochio.com/patreon-again/

Hey Chio Crew! Since I've been struggling to balance making pages and taking care of my joints, I decided to take a page from some other artists I've seen do this and start doing a weekly status post. I think this will help me stay on track with what I'm doing and let you all know what's coming soon. I tend to feel terribly guilty when I can't work as fast as I'd like, especially when I have supporters on Patreon and Ko-Fi who deserve more. So I think this will help bridge that gap.

Anyway, here's the status of the next page:

Thumbnails: 100%
Pencils: 100%
Ink: 5%
Flat color: 0%
Shading: 0%
Backgrounds: 0%

Read Follower from the start, or catch up:

🧬 Newest page: http://follower.messenger-comic.com
👨🏼‍🔬 From the Start: https://follower.messenger-comic.com/follower-webcomic/follower/
🦘 RSS: http://follower.messenger-comic.com/feed/
💖 Early: http://chio.club

As is becoming common everywhere online today, this is a post about where you can find me online!

I keep the most up to date links to social media and such on this page on my website: http://radiochio.com/quick-links

Radiochio.com is generally the best place to find out what I’m up to.

I’ve been using bluesky quite a lot lately - I’m https://bsky.app/profile/radiochio.bsky.social

Everyone is also welcome to join my discord, too! That’s here: https://discord.gg/ZjNvKBTqje

Anyway, I hope to see some of you around!

The next big update to my Nanowrimo Friday First Draft is up! We're almost at 35k words now, which is basically double the size of the last update. Join my Patreon or Ko-Fi at $5+ and get access to the EPUB download!

https://www.radiochio.com/friday-first-drafts/

Hey hey! It's coming up on that time again! I'll be sending out our monthly newsletter in the first week of October. Get on the list to get it sent right to your email! 💌 https://www.radiochio.com/newsletter-2/

The Chio Chronicles Newsletter is going out tomorrow afternoon! Sign up here to get in before it sends: https://www.radiochio.com/newsletter-2/

If you’ve ever dreamed of having your very own custom Chio character drawn by me, with their own cameo in Follower, now’s your chance! I’ve been working on a batch of new Follower pages, and I need a whole cast of background Chios!

I’ll work with you to create a canon Chio character who will appear on at least one page of Follower! For a slightly higher price, your character can appear on at least 3 pages, with the possibility of a speaking part.

All levels will get a fully customized character sheet illustration of your Chio, and will appear with your name as credit on the Follower cast page.

Check out all the details, samples and fine print in this post on my website: https://www.radiochio.com/create-a-chio-returns/

I'm trying something new and making a little series of storytime type videos! The first one premieres on Wednesday. You can find out more in this blog post: https://www.radiochio.com/premiere-storytime-with-bug/

I made a big old blog post about everything we did in 2022! There are a lot of updates about comics stuff we have in-progress, along with some changes we're making to certain things, and a bunch of information about what we did this year. There's quite a lot more than I expected when I started writing! 2022 was a tough year, but a lot of good stuff still happened.

Read about it at: https://www.radiochio.com/2022-in-review/

We're trying something new and making our usual monthly update posts public, as well as centralizing them around our hub website! Check out the post here and see what's up with us this month: https://www.radiochio.com/december-2022-news-updates/

So this whole Twitter thing has been a little anxiety-inducing, considering I get a significant portion of my comic-reading audience from there. That said, if you are interested in following me and my projects on other parts of the internet, have I got a thing for you! I keep a pretty-often-updated list of all my online haunts on my website, so you can just bookmark this one page and get everything at once. There's also a signup for my newsletter, which is probably the best and easiest way to follow what I'm up to, since no one can stop that from working! Except me! You can get all of that here: http://radiochio.com/quick-links/

All my comics and stuff on itch are 50% off right now! Also if you need to offload $8 you can get *all of it* for that for the next week. You get a bunch of comics, I get $8, and I won't ruin a social media platform! Everybody wins! Probably.

https://itch.io/s/80714/twitter-fire-sale

I've been posting weekly updates to my Youtube channel on Sundays and Wednesdays! If you haven't subbed yet, you should! You can get early peeks at new comic pages and see some of the other stuff I've been up to. Check out my Youtube channel here!

This is also kind of a low-key way to help support my comics, since a bigger following helps ye olde algorithm decide to push my content to more people, and if I can (somehow) manage to get to 1,000 subs, I can actually get paid for my content. So your support is very appreciated!

I've got playlists for all kinds of content, so if you just want to watch me make comics for hours and hours, I can help you out with that! It's good background noise, I hear.

I'm streaming some comic work tonight! Come join me at https://twitch.tv/radiochio!

Here are my stream plans for this week! They might change depending on if my hands are too hurty to function! The best place to find out times is on my Twitch page at http://twitch.tv/radiochio/schedule

I am planning on doing a bunch of Resident Evil Zero and a little drawing this week, to try and ease back into it.

MON 5 PM US EST: Resident Evil Zero
WED 8 PM US EST: Comic art hangout time
FRI 5 PM US EST: Resident Evil Zero

Hey Chio Crew! Exciting news today!

Follower is this year’s Best Anthropomorphic Comic in The Duck Webcomics’ Drunk Duck Awards!

Since part of the awards process involved reader nominations, we’d like to extend our thanks to everyone who sent in a nomination. We couldn’t have done it without you, and your support as readers and a community means a lot to us!

Now we’ve got legit bragging rights and a fancy banner to stick on the website. Exciting!

To celebrate, all Follower digital comics are 75% off in the shop this weekend, and you can get the whole bundle for just $5! Each comic includes a bonus story not seen elsewhere online.

If you’d like to join us and the rest of the community in celebrating, drop in on our Discord!
https://discord.gg/ESrkG43B2v

The rest of the winners are announced (with comic presenters!) in this webcomic-style presentation ceremony over on The Duck!

Thank you so much again for continuing to read our comic! We have a lot of story left to tell, so even though things are moving a bit slowly at the moment due to injury, we’re determined to see it through!

We're working on bringing Follower Volume One to print this month! This means lots of revisions and new stuff just for the book. Delade is working on two new short stories just for the book, and I've been hard at work on editing pages. If you support us at $5+ per month, your name will appear on the thanks page in the final book and you'll get a PDF copy when it's complete! You'll also get a look at all the new stuff while we're working on it. I've been uploading batches of revised pages for Chio Club folks as I work. There's also a special new tier for folks who want a physical copy, too.

If you want to help support the book, join us on Patreon or Ko-Fi!

I'm doing my last Friday Night Art Fight stream today! Starting in just a few minutes at http://twitch.tv/radiochio!

Hey! I'm streaming right now while I work on the next Follower page! Come hang out and chill while I draw!

http://twitch.tv/radiochio

Here's my streaming schedule for this week! A note: based on feedback, I'm moving start times earlier this week! We'll see how it goes. Check Twitch for start times in your local time.

All streams start at 4 pm eastern time this week!
MONDAY 7/18: Working on Follower first half; probably Stardew Valley second half!
WEDNESDAY 7/20: Caves of Qud continues!
FRIDAY 7/22: More Art Fight attacks and taking requests for Twitch bits!

Hope to see you there! http://twitch.tv/radiochio

Here's my streaming schedule for this week!

7/11 8:30 PM EDT: Working on comic art & playing a game!
7/13 8:30 PM EDT: Playing Caves of Qud!
7/15 8:30 PM EDT: Working on Art Fight attacks and taking requests!

Hope to see you there! http://twitch.tv/radiochio

Doing some art streaming tonight! I'll be working on Art Fight attacks and taking requests for Twitch Bits!

Starting in just a few minutes! -> http://twitch.tv/radiochio

Hey everyone! Just wanted to post a reminder that the Drunk Duck Awards close on July 9, and Follower is eligible for a few categories this year!

We can't nominate ourselves, but if you want to help us have the chance at a little visibility and recognition, this is an easy way to do that!

Everything you need to know can be found in this post on our website: https://follower.messenger-comic.com/nominate-follower-for-the-2022-drunk-duck-awards/

Here's my streaming schedule for this week!

7/6 8:30 PM EDT: Playing Caves of Qud!
7/8 8:30 PM EDT: Drawing Art Fight attacks & taking art requests!

Hope to see you there! http://twitch.tv/radiochio