cwisnia

Fans, let’s not waste time! HERE ARE THE REWARDS I’m so excited to have available for ALL OF YOU, and different ways you can access them! Thank you SO MUCH for supporting me every month. In these difficult times, it means the world to me that YOU TOO may be suffering through all this, and STILL you are wanting to support me. The utmost and sincerest thanks to YOU! -Chris

PEOPLE WHO AREN’T GIVING ME ANY MONEY!

It’s ok! Don’t feel guilty! I’m so overjoyed and flattered to realize that you’re enjoying what I do! I post a lot of free stuff too, simply because I’m so thankful to have you as a fan and best friend!

1. PLEASE: Enjoy without guilt all the free videos I’m posting at my youtube.com/Diaryofastrugglingcomicsartist. You can find a COMPLETE LIST of ALL the vids, and which one’s are free, at my blog chriswisniaarts.com/blog/archives/1150.

2. You can also find a ton of free comics at my website’s contents page chriswisniaarts.com/blog. (Click on Doris Danger to get started. There are others, but you gotta poke around a little.)

3. And lastly, I’m always posting samples of the art and stories that I’m working on, as well as my favorite music, movies, books, and comics, at Facebook, Twitter, and (a little less reliably) Instagram – all @ChrisWisniaArts. Let’s be best friends!

$1 Patrons!

THANK YOU SO MUCH! You didn’t have to do this, and you did anyways! Talk about the TRUEST, MOST SACRIFICING, GIVING donation!

$2 Patrons!

You have access to ALL MY COMICS, as well as TEXT FEATURES about those comics, at my www.chriswisniaarts.com/blog website. Just click on any comic book icons there, and they’ll take you to these projects’ tables of contents. To find the latest posts, select a comic from the Categories list on the right, under the Search and Pages.  These links will take you to all my posts for that particular project, listed Facebook-style, with most recent at the top. [Unfortunately, you may need to scroll through some $7 and $4 Patreon posts that you can’t access to get to your $2 comics, but doing so will find you the most recent stuff.]

Currently, I am spending alternating months – first posting new comics pages, then posting link features or text features.

$4 Patrons! (all the above, plus)

At my Patreon.com/ChrisWisniaArts, YOU can access tons of high res prints, audio commentary tracks, and screen savers!

For you art-process-o-philes, you can poke around within my web comics to find scans of ORIGINAL PENCILS, ALTERATIONS to the art before reaching the publishable piece, UNEDITED, UNCLEANED examples, and uncolored BLACK-AND-WHITE, PRE-COLORED inks. Pop over to my www.chriswisniaarts.com/blog website, and select the Categories (i.e., the comics project) of your choice from the list on the right, under the Search and Pages.  These links will take you to all my posts for that particular project, listed Facebook-style, with most recent at the top. [$4 Patreon NOTE: Apologies that you may need to scroll through some $7 Patreon posts to get to your kind $4 rewards that you can’t access, but rest assured, you will find them there.] Currently, I’m focusing new posts on my upcoming Brush with Peril graphic novel and my upcoming More Doris Danger graphic novel, and that’s where you will find these $4 Patreon rewards.

$7 Patrons! (all the above, plus)

1. You can ALWAYS access this AD-FREE PLAYLIST of all our Diary of a Struggling Comics Artist video interviews! These are updated every time we post a new vids!

2. I also post, JUST FOR YOU, multiple SELFIE VIDEO COMMENTARIES each month. They might be of me in exotic locales discussing my comics, or time-lapse videos of myself creating my art, or intimate dives into the artwork I’m working on – close-up looks at my original art in various stages, behind-the-scenes-peeks of what I’m drawing while I’m working on it, what concerns or challenges or ideas are going on in my head while I work on it, and more! Go to my www.chriswisniaarts.com/blog website, and select the Categories (i.e., the comics project) of your choice from the list on the right, under the Search and Pages.  These links will take you to all my posts of that project, listed Facebook-style, with most recent at the top. Currently, I’m focusing new posts on my upcoming Brush with Peril graphic novel and my upcoming More Doris Danger graphic novel. You can also click on any comic book icons on the blog page, which will take you to these projects’ tables of contents instead of the most brand-new posts.

$10 Patrons! (all the above, plus)

You have earned original sketches, and I am hopeful you will find this offer is sufficient to earn you your money’s worth and more!  I canceled your pledge tier (I think two years ago), but when I did, I promised I would honor the monies you had donated up to that point. I would like to now offer you to spend ALL your credits up to now toward either books from my store and/or original, published artwork from the $25 tier below. I will be in touch with you shortly, so that we can make this happen.

$25 Patrons!

IMPORTANT: Shortly, I’ll be sending you the first of a series – FINALLY! – of samples of my original artwork that YOU HAVE EARNED – and which I will be happy to send you. I apologize for such a delay, and thank you for your patience. Before the pandemic hit, I was dreading the time it takes hunting down and then photographing the art, taking time to upload the photos and put together and send you the links, and then take the time to organize and safely pack and then wait in the lines at the post office to ship all the work. THEN when the pandemic hit, I was concerned about putting myself potentially at risk in public at the post office.

BUT YOU DESERVE TO RECEIVE THE ARTWORK you’ve paid upfront. And we’re gonna get it to you, with my apologies for the silence and delay. Look for the bulletin soon, and I’ll also reach out personally, with thanks, to your personal emails I have on file.

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Enjoy yourself, EVERYBODY, and THANK YOU SO MUCH for supporting me!

Chris

I really want to hear from you!

I’ve been dutifully posting a monthly update to alert you of all the material I’ve been posting, each month, for YOU kind, kind Patreon supporters! But I haven’t heard much from anyone, over all these years. Hey, everybody! Are you enjoying my posts? Are you enjoying my monthly updates? Is it helpful to have these links to what’s new? Do you like hearing what I’m up to? Would you be fine without these bulletins, because you’re not really reading them?  Are you not even really looking much at anything I’m up to, and you just like knowing you’re helping me, because you’re not really into comics, but you just want to help because we’re best friends, or you’re my mom?

I’d like to try an experiment this month. Shortly, I’ll be posting a new Monthly Reckoning – but it will be different this month. I want to see what you think, compared to the detailed Monthly reckoning highlighting everything I’ve been up to, both artistically and with my Patreon posts for YOU. This new bulletin – unless there’s something really big and important, like last month – will contain a concise, simple reminder (because I know there’s always a lot, and it’s confusing!) of all the places you can find YOUR Patreon rewards, or just find FREE STUFF I’ve got posted everywhere.

HERE’S WHY the experiment. All thanks to YOU kind Patreon supporters, my Patreon is currently making roughly $250 a month (If I round up). To show my thanks, I have been devoting roughly 20-30 hours a month to making sure new material is posted and available FOR YOU, here at my Patreon.com/ChrisWisniaArts or my ChrisWisniaArts.com/blog website. This entails resizing my art, uploading them to website or Patreon, putting them up and getting the coding set up for them to flow as web comics, including hyperlinks to the necessary places, or making them available as downloadable PDF’S, high res printables, screen savers, and so on, and then also putting together the mailers to you so you are aware of and can access all this new material.

This amount of time that I monthly dedicate DOES NOT include the hours I’m devoting to creating the actual stories and art, which is all the rest of my spare time. It also does not include all the time that my film editor is dedicating to creating our Youtube.com/DiaryOfAStrugglingComicsArtist videos that we produce weekly. I say this to illustrute as an example: if we dedicate this full $250 Patreon income toward an hourly wage for ONLY my Patreon rewards-posting time, I’m making $8.33- $12.50 an hour (which I’m happy and EXCITED to do for you, and which I find rewarding and fair in rewarding you for your kindness). And that leaves $0/hour from this income for my actual creation of art or my editor who is creating content for you. Please also keep in mind that of this $250 a month,  $90 of these pledges are supposed to go to kind patreons receiving original art from me. If we subtract out that money (which is fair, because that money is FOR the original art and not the Patreon perks), then my “income” drops to $5.33-$8 per hour.

I don’t point this out from malice. It is just a simple fact of the struggles artists face, trying to make a living dedicating themselves to their craft. And that’s why I want to hear from you! I want to hear you’re enjoying the work I create for you! I want to hear WHAT you’re enjoying! I want to hear if you mind if I streamline my monthly bulletins, and if in doing, you can still find all this material I’m working so hard to create for you! I’m working in a bubble here, even more so during this pandemic, and we should be making a community hear. It’s nice to hear my fans are appreciative.  I’m reaching out! Please! Just a quick to say hello!  Thanks as always for your support, your fandom, and your patronage.

Sincerely,
Chris

Well, I finally did it, everybody! There’s still some editorial work to be done (and this project demands A LOT of it, but as of this week, I’ve finished up my upcoming graphic novel, Brush with Peril.

This project takes famous museum art and makes it characters and settings in a James Bond-style spy novel. For those who don’t know who Wayne Thiebaud is (from the quote above), I wrote about him and this project in THIS Blog entry.

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But now, let’s get into this week’s list of FUN for YOU kind Patreon supporters!

For YOU great $1 Patrons,

Thank you so much for your kind, kind support! It’s thanks to YOU that I’m able to make some income for my passionate endeavors, and what a help and an motivation and warm thought that is, knowing you appreciate what I do. Thank you!

For YOU great $2 Patrons (and higher),

This week I posted a TEN PAGE, full color (thanks to my best friend, Ricky Sprague) Doris Danger story from my upcoming More Doris Danger GIANT MONSTER Adventures! You can read it, beginning HERE! I posted so many pages, I didn’t have a chance to link our “first/previous/last links for all the characters/settings/story lines involved,” so I hope to get that up next!

Don’t forget, there are lots of other comics available to you, including stacks of Doris Danger comics that DO have all the “first/previous/last links for all the characters/settings/story lines,” over at ChrisWisniaArts.com/blog! Are you curious about the Giggling Scientists? Do you wonder what Mannequinny Weirdness is going on in New York? Do you wonder who Felk is? Click through the links to follow their stories! (Complete list of characters, factions, locations, and themes HERE!

For YOU great $4 Patrons (and higher):

In that above-mentioned 10-page story, I posted four pages of original scans of the artwork, before I cleaned them up or they were colored. Just click the green “Pre Edits” button when you see them! Here’s the first one!

At Patreon.com/ChrisWisniaArts, here’s a brand-new High Res SPLASH Page… Literally!! Get it?? Splash??

Then, don’t forget your Patreon-only Youtube.com/DiaryOfAStrugglingComicsArtist EXTENDED AND BONUS VIDEOS, which are always listed -most recent at top – HERE. This month, we’ve been posting a lot of indie creators, mostly local to my Sacramento area, but recently we’ve also posted some of the below vids:

125b. PETER BAGGE, The Patreon Cut (video, approx. 37:00)

126. PETER BAGGE 2 (video, approx. 25:00)

127b. DERF BACKDERF, The Patreon Cut (video, approx. 17:00)

128. DERF BACKDERF 2, (video, approx. 18:00) 

131b. KEVIN NOWLAN, THE PATREON CUT (video, approx. 12:00) 

136b. John Cassaday, The Patreon Cut (video, approx. 6:00)

And of course, don’t forget you can access A PLAYLIST of EXTENDED BONUS FOOTAGE from our Diary of a Struggling Comics Artist video interviews!

For YOU great $7 Patrons (and higher),

I created some selfie commentary videos about my comics:

Creating the Brush with Peril graphic novel

Brush with Peril – Develop your own style: Don’t copy a little, copy LOTS!

Doris Danger (vol. 1, Chpt. 6), page 036 – Commentary Video: Chris Inks His Own Stories

Doris Danger (vol. 1, Chpt. 6), page 043 – Commentary Video: Alan Moore’s letters pages in 1963 (1993, Image Comics)
(NOTE: This one was filmed in haste and anxiety because it was a crowded location, and instead of saying everything I wanted, I blurted out what sounds to me now like a misogynist jab, so please read the accompanying text for context. I’ll post a more thorough explanation in a new video next time around! What suspense for YOU!)

Then I posted some videos in my studio, so you can see me tracing my comics!:

Chris at the Tracing Table (Two Takes!)

And don’t forget you have access to AN AD-FREE PLAYLIST of all our Diary of a Struggling Comics Artist video interviews!

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As usual, I am so appreciative in your faith in me, and support of me! I can’t say I couldn’t do it without you, because I am committed to creating my art, however it’s so satisfying to know that YOU are out there enjoying the results of my efforts and wanting to help me to succeed. For that, I can’t thank you enough.

Sincerely,
Chris