september updates (spx, enamel pins, print sale, & more!)
hey there!
i hope the end of summer is treating you kindly. here's a quick newsletter with some updates for the end of august and the beginning of september. most of the art i've been working on isn't quite ready to be shared yet, so this is a pretty update-heavy one.
• flamecon reflections! •
flamecon was this past weekend, so i want to say a huge thank you to everyone who stopped by my table, bought books, signed up for my newsletter there, and/or let me ramble about haunted houses. it was so, so fun!
next on the list, and my last big con of the season, is... (please imagine a drumroll here.)
• small press expo! •
i'll be tabling at small press expo in bethesda, maryland september 17th & 18th! you can find me at table W24B, where i'll have all kinds of comics, zines, pins, stickers, prints, etc, and lots of haunted houses.
you can get tickets here in advance, or at the door!
spx is a con that's very dear to me. it was the first indie comics event i ever went to, when i was around 14 or 15 years old, and i brought a little comic i'd printed at staples (the first comic i ever made, i'm pretty sure!) and gave it away to people. now, almost a decade later, i'm tabling there for the first time! i'm so ridiculously excited. i hope i see some of you there!
• patreon enamel pins! •
i hit a milestone of $500/month on my patreon last month, so i'm making enamel pins for all my patrons! there's still a couple days left to sign up and get one — just join at any tier by august 31st.
my patreon has 3 tiers:
spirit orb: $1, tip jar tier*
haunting: $5, behind-the-scenes access to art process, previews, and blog posts
ouija board: $12, all the perks of the haunting tier plus monthly physical mail
folks at the ouija board tier will also be getting some bonus stickers with their pin!
* (every tier will be getting a pin, as a thank you for supporting me, but if you sign up at the spirit orb level and feel like pitching in a few extra bucks this month to help me cover shipping, that'd be super appreciated!)
i also have a bit of a stretch goal going — if i can hit 100 patrons by the end of the month, i'll be making these pins with rainbow/anodized metal! i'm at 72 right now, so less than 30 to hit that goal. i think it'd look real cool; here's a mock-up of that!
• moving sale on my inprnt! •
i'm moving to baltimore in a little over a week, and having a little sale in my print shop to cover some of the costs of moving! you can check that out here, and use the code YTSSKDH8 for 15% off for the rest of august.
• recent? art?? •
as i said at the top, most of what i've been doing isn't stuff i can share just yet. but i can give you some real sneaky close-ups to get you excited about whenever it gets announced! i think i can, at least. i'm going to. here we go.
• recommendations! •
books: i finished plain bad heroines by emily m danforth yesterday and absolutely adored it. it's a story-within-a-story-within-a-story sort of book, about a boarding school where a bunch of girls mysteriously died in the early 1900s, and also the horror movie being made about those events in the present day. if you like weird creeping horror, almost every single character being a lesbian, and cursed locations (and, honestly, if you're here, i assume you like all of those things), you should go check it out.
misc: i compiled a little recommendation list of haunted house/spatial horror media for my tumblr, so if that's something you're into, you can find that here.
as always, thank you for reading & supporting me! next time i write you, i'll be in a new apartment in a new city, and hopefully settled in enough to get back to making as much art as i want to be making.
i hope you're doing well, taking care of yourself, and keeping safe. talk to you soon!
— kaylee