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Hourly Comics Day 2025! A rare Saturday HCD, a nice treat to not be doing Day Job Comix but it ended up being a very busy day :)

More commentary and pictures of the many ridiculous hot choclates are available on my Patreon (public post!)

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This month only - Patrons at all levels can get access to my second-ever hourlies from 2008 (🫣)

After that they go into the vault and Postcard-tier patrons can access them whenever they want forever! I'm working on creating a full archive of all my hourlies there. So far there are quite a few....

I'll be doing hourlies again and they will get posted here, but they will go on Patreon first :D

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Part two of our conversation on Oh Human Star!

Part 1 is here: https://www.thetradewaiters.com/post/771614135596269568/the-tradewaiters-eps-110-o-human-star-vol-1

We’re back to read volumes 2 and 3 of O Human Star by Blue Delliquanti. This time we get into the trans text and subtext of the series, how metaphor and text support each other, and break down the main characters to see what makes them tick. We’ve got an alternate political universe, a true AI singularity, disability representation, a long-expected Astroboy moment, and some unexpected difficulties with pho to get through. Let’s go!

Also mentioned in this episode: The webcomic by Blue Delliquanti Astroboy by Osamu Tezuka Walk Away by Cory Doctorow Wicked directed by Jon Chu Yellow Brick Ramble by Daisy McGuire Magical Girls Kira and the (Maybe) Space Princess by Megan Brennan Ranma 1/2 by Rumiko Takahashi and Exit advent calendars

Music by Sleuth

You can find us at: J Dalton Jam Jeff Ellis

Our next episode will be on Our Dreams at Dusk by Yuhki Kamatani.

You can also follow the TradeWaiters on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, and Ko-Fi.

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Hourly comics day is next Saturday! I have a busy day planned so I won't be able to post live, but at least I won't be at work...!!

Hourly Comics Day 2024

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The next comic I’m working on is in the “solarpunk” genre, but what is solarpunk? I created a microsite – solarpunk.lol to collect and organize my thoughts and research as this genre is being developed.

To me ‘Solarpunk’ is a genre of fiction that explores the simple question: “What if this all works out?” While apocalyptic fiction preoccupies itself with all the ways our society can be destroyed and what comes after, Solarpunk acknowledges that all of those terrible things may come to pass and we can get through it. It is by its nature, in my opinion, an optimistic genre that should focus on primarily optimistic stories. Mostly because that is the type of story we desperately need at this moment in time.

‘Solarpunk’ as an ethos can be divided into three main parts.

Love

Love, in the deepest broadest sense, is a major driving force of this movement. Love of our planet and love of each other, making decisions based on compassion as the guiding star.

Sustainable Flourishing

The term “Sustainable Flourishing” originates with the book Sustainability by Design by John Ehrenfeld. The underlying idea is that it’s not good enough to make technology that is less harmful. “Clean” tech and even “Net Zero” are not enough. We need to treat our biosphere as the complex system that it is, and reinforce biological systems so we AND the biosphere are both continuously flourishing. It’s moving away from the concept of extraction, and since reading this book I’ve learned that it’s much closer to Indigenous models of biosphere management.

Anti-Fragility

The concept of “Anti-Fragility” originates with System Thinking or System Design. In the sustainability world yIllustrated text that reads "what is solarpunk? (solarpunk.lol)" in a verdant green field of digitally painted wildflowersou’ll often hear things like “climate resilience” and “robustness” but anti-fragility as a concept goes beyond this. When you try to break an anti-fragile system it comes back stronger by design.

Check the site for more thoughts and memes, or let me know if you think I'm missing a component!

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I recently posted my 2024 year in review over on Patreon! This is a quickstart summary of all the work I did over the course of 2024.

All Patrons get the 65-page recap PDF automatically, or it's available for a one-time price in the shop. All previous years are pay what you want on ko-fi!

Inside are a ton of drawings, sketches, development work for Skuttleboat Cove and lots of extra comics! I bundle it all together in one convenient place so you can be sure no algorithms will get in the way. You won't miss a thing.

Much more to come. Thanks for following! 🌱💜

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The love that keeps you going

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Yes Yes YES I have been daydreaming about similar conversions of Malls and Strip Malls.

And I love this expansive idea of incorporating vertical gardening.

But housing -- even converting PART of the mall into housing-- is already being implemented in some places!

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Got a chance to re-read one of my favs, always a great time!

This episode is on the first volume of O Human Star by Blue Delliquanti. Read the webcomic and then listen to our thoughts on planning a webcomic, the best uses of science fiction, and the unique advantage that a limited colour palette has for comics. Fair warning we spend like half of this episode griping with where the conversation on AI has gone since this book was finished, but I promise this book and this episode will make it worthwhile.

Also mentioned in this episode: Meal by Blue Delliquanti with Soleil Ho Across a Field of Starlight by Blue Delliquanti Pantheon adapted by Craig Silverstein Everything Sucks by Noah Millions and Saturn’s Children by Charles Stross

Music by Sleuth

You can find us at: J Dalton Jam Jeff Ellis

Our next episode will be on the second and third volumes of O Human Star by Blue Delliquanti.

You can also follow the TradeWaiters on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, and Ko-Fi.

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2025 risograph calendars for sale at korybing.storenvy.com! I only made 100 of these so get yours before they’re gone!

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Art v Artist for 2024

Thanks so much for sticking with me this year! 🙏

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Y'all seem to really like my cartoons with my cats. So I thought I'd offer you the chance to get one of yourself and your own little goblins.

Let me know if you're interested!

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we read As The Crow Flies!

For this episode on As the Crow Flies, by Mel Gillman, Jam, Jeff, and JD are joined by Ryan Estrada. We talk about one of Ryan’s favourite banned books. Is this a thoughtful story of alienation, doubt, microaggressions, and faith? Or is it, as one book banner summed it up, just “gender chaos?” We’ll talk about the power of traditional media (by which I mean pencil crayons), libraries, and how not to be uncomfortable in nature.

Also mentioned in this episode: Stage Dreams by Mel Gillman Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook, Ko Hyung-Ju, and Ryan Estrada No Rules Tonight by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada Occulted by Amy Rose, Ryan Estrada, and Jeongmin Lee Student Ambassador and Broken Telephone, also written or edited by Ryan Estrada Travellers created by Brad Wright Can I Get a Witness directed by Ann Marie Fleming Witchlight by Jessi Zabarsky Zen Shorts by John J. Muth and The Inscrutable Doctor Baer and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue by Jerzy Drozd

Music by Sleuth

You can find us at: Ryan Estrada J Dalton Jam Jeff Ellis

Our next episode will be on O Human Star by Blue Delliquanti.

You can also follow the TradeWaiters on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, and Ko-Fi.

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I'm really proud of myself for completing a whole year of this watercolour series for Postcards From a Better Future!

They were all 4x6" except for the biiiiig one I did for December (currently in the mail to supporters!)

I'll start a whole new series for next year and if you want to get in on the ground floor for that, make sure you sign up for the postcards tier before December. I'm offering 50% off the first month with the coupon code POST

You can also gift it to someone else if you know someone who could use a little cheer in their mailbox every month :)

On the back of each postcard you get a little letter from a character in the webcomic I'm developing (Skuttleboat Cove).

They print and ship from the USA so it takes a little bit longer for it to arrive to international destinations but it does ship worldwide :)

Thanks so much to everyone who has joined me on this journey so far! 🤗

[jammyness]

I'm really proud of myself for completing a whole year of this watercolour series for Postcards From a Better Future!

They were all 4x6" except for the biiiiig one I did for December (currently in the mail to supporters!)

I'll start a whole new series for next year and if you want to get in on the ground floor for that, make sure you sign up for the postcards tier before December. I'm offering 50% off the first month with the coupon code POST

You can also gift it to someone else if you know someone who could use a little cheer in their mailbox every month :)

On the back of each postcard you get a little letter from a character in the webcomic I'm developing (Skuttleboat Cove).

They print and ship from the USA so it takes a little bit longer for it to arrive to international destinations but it does ship worldwide :)

Thanks so much to everyone who has joined me on this journey so far! 🤗

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I am cursed to never feel fully comfortable in any given outfit :(

(Patrons got this one a month early!)

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Away

I was experimenting a lot with vaporwave colours and glitch effects in 2021-2022 and then I forgot to post any of it. Ultimately I didn't want to go in this direction but I still rather like it :>