The Best Laid Mistress

Jay Naylor

I'm kind of leaning toward that option. We'll see.

Jay Naylor

I've thought about that, but I'm worried about the bleed away from $6 patrons downgrading into $1. I may do it as late as a year, we'll see.

chipsiup

Thanks for responding to my concerns, Jay. :) In terms of older content, how about releasing them to pledges after a certain period of time has passed? For example, releasing Wolf Queen 3 to all pledges after you complete the Persia and Flounce project after Best Laid Mistress? That was new patrons can still get the chance to read it but the older ones will have had 5 or 6 months of exclusivity.

CWT

Just my two cents, but if it's not costing you any money to keep your website catalog online, I would vote for keeping it (I say this without any foreknowledge of whether or not/how much you might be paying for server/hosting fees for your website, of course). It (your catalog website) is really the only legal way to obtain your older comics, for those who want to legally obtain them, of course. After seeing some of your scraps/previews of older comics floating around, I personally went looking for a place to purchase the whole comic. I've personally bought several, and opted for the month long access at least once ( actually twice, I think, harddrive crashes eliminated my original copies) and was glad to find your site. I've not found other sites run by artists to be as clean, navigable, or simply easy to use. In addition, I'm assuming it's the only place to access the sequential series full of your main characters. Even though you've said you're (at the very least) taking a break from working on them, I know people who have never seen them before discover them and avidly spend hours catching up on them. In summary, I suppose, if it's not costing you anything, or if the cost is at least negligible in the sense that you're not loosing money by keeping it, up, I'd say keep the website, if only as a host for your back-catalog. Unless you're up to the time consuming task of finding somewhere else to make them available.

scottykat

Those twins are still some of my favorite characters of yours

Jay Naylor

As to the previously finished projects, right now I'm thinking up a way to release them as they age, but I can't give instant access to new pledges because it wouldn't be fair to those who've supported them going back months, now.

Jay Naylor

A few things: For comics here being $6/month, I see it this way: Many comic creators charge per page for their creations on Patreon. At my current pace of production, you get charged roughly about $1 per page if you want to see the comic from Patreon as they go, on top of the normal $1 pledge you get for seeing everything else I draw throughout the month that's exclusive to Patreon. Also, I conceived this Patreon as more than just product for price, but a commitment to support and ensure they keep going. The success of Patreon has ensured I can work more on the creations my fans want, instead of pouring time into YCHs. So, there's more value in a $6 monthly commitment in contributing to freeing up an artist's time to produce more material, than paying $7 per release, or even the common practice of paying $14 once a year for everything done since. Also, Patreon is less of a hassle for users to use if they want my material. The Catalog is an old, creaky code that I can't upgrade because there's no programmer with the time or skill. I've looked. I'm also pretty certain there's an exploit in it. The moment a catalog item is released, it appears on the internet for free within the day. On top of that, Patreon provides a community for people to give me feedback and ask questions, a community of people who are actually invested in the continuation of what I do, not just randoms from the internet.

chipsiup

If you're going to do away with the catalog, would you be lowering the cost for comic access on the patreon? I ask because currently if you take three months to finish a comic, a patreon subscriber would have to pay $18 to read it, as opposed to the $7 or $8 from buying it from the catalog. Also, what about previously finished projects? Are you going to share Rise of the Wolf Queen 3 again, or will any new patreons joining from this point forward just never get the chance to read it?

MKX Player

You explained it quite well ;)

pokediginut

Your catalog is classic and always has these titilating summaries on them. I'd keep em but add them after Patreon.

Goth Skunk

While this is technically true, the images downloaded straight from patreon all end up being saved with filenames that resemble a string of random characters. There's something to be said about the pleasant aesthetic of filenames like 'jn-*.jpg'

InkInk

I know this is an odd question but will this comic still show the strong love that Persia and Flounce share? I love how crazy she is for him.

James

I always thought it was funny that Mai wears a cat bell.

Wolfcub

Nice.

Biowolf

Can not wait for this!

Jay Naylor

Yes. But it's not the standard viewpoint for it. It's different.

Bryant Holmes

Is it an expansion of that comic involving the third party to their relationship?

Gebreel

I see more dudes getting nailed in the ass for your future!

Nirnia

Oh really? Well shoot that answered two questions! Thanks Jay :D!!

Jay Naylor

Oh, I need to make a post about that. Patreon's changed a lot of things, and while I can still upload download links, apparently, they aren't necessary. If you save the image to your HD, it apparently saves at full size, anyway.

Nirnia

A Persia and Flounce comic? Sweet jesus, i'm already drooling for this one. Oh and another thing real quick, not to be rude or anything D:! But uh, is there a reason as to why some of the most recent pictures aren't available for downloading? I haven't had a chance to get online and check in the last week or so, so someone may have already asked this question, just really curious is all. Thanks again Jay! and keep doing the sexy things you do! :D

Jay Naylor

Mmm, hard to describe. It involves Persia and Flounce.

I think updating your catalog is a good way to keep your website intact and keeps the chance that someone buys a comic from there too. And just like MKX Player said: Any hints for the next project? ;-)

Progfox

As someone who only recently joined your patreon ranks, I'd say that I would regularly check your catalog for updates but was pretty saddened by the lack of anything until I realised the patreon was a thing. So perhaps posting on your site that your patreon has been updated or something? The benefits of subscribers here may outweigh the potential extra cash coming in from people buying a comic or two from the site, but nothing more.

MKX Player

Any hints as to the next comic :p