We just missed our top donation goal for April. That means for May we're going to go back to our normal schedule instead of the extra-comics hyper-schedule we've been on. What is our normal schedule?
Namir Deiter: Monday through Friday (5/week)
You Say it First: Monday, Wednesday and Friday (3/week)
Spare Parts: Monday and Friday (2/week)
Namirdeiter.net's bonus comics have been moved to Saturdays and Sundays- so if you're a member of namirdeiter.net- you'll still get at least one comic update seven days a week!
Also, starting next week, Spare Parts will be updating on Tuedays and Thursdays (John, you convinced me).
Here's one little teaser for you, still deciding on just WHAT to do with them, but you'll know by next week:
Secondly, Imbroglio has been released to the NamirDeiter.net bonus library. Imbroglio was a print-only comic book that Isabel did back in 2003. It's never been released online before, and now anybody who's donated to us can read it - enjoy!
We've decided to just go ahead and reopen the store... please note, we don't know when we will be reordering certain books (such as the Spare Parts and You Say it First books) so if you thought about getting it, you might not get another chance for a long time.
We're raffling off the original art to this month's wallpapers! For each $10 you give, you get an entry for that week's drawing (so if you give $10, you get one ticket in the raffle, $20 gets you two- you get the drill). If you want your monthly payment to Namirdeiter.net to count in the raffle, make sure to make it by the Thursday of that week, as we will have the drawing on Friday and mail it out on Saturday (first class within the US, registered airmail outside of the US).
Here's how the weeks work out- there will not be a raffle for the first week of the month, but there will be for every week after (well, if we do this again... we're still up in the air and this whole raffle thing is still in the experimental stages). Remember, you only have to donate once to be in the raffle all month long, but the longer you wait, the less chances you will have at each different piece of art (so if you donate only in time for ND art, you only have one chance at one piece of art, but if you donated by the 12th, you have one chance at all three pieces of art)!
Week Two (have your payment in by 04/19) You Say it First
Week Three (have your payment in by 04/26)Namir Deiter
The selection will be done "live" on our ND Chat podcast (oh, by the way, we're back to doing our weekly podcasts, which are available only for namirdeiter.net members). They're black & white, inked on Bristol paper, with no pencil lines. I don't have the exact measurements of them off hand, but they are smaller than a eight and a half by eleven piece of paper. I made sure all of this month's wallpaper images were extra detailed for this month in celebration of this new raffle system (one of the reasons they took so long to make!) and depending on how this goes, this might just become a regular thing!
So, what does your ten bucks a month get you? Well, you get access to 400 sketch updates, several years worth of commentary (and enjoy that while you can, we may be making a few changes to how much access new donators get to older content), 200 pages of exclusive comics (including two namirdeiter.net exclusive series!), plus the semi- interactive NDU Bonus Library- home to the monthly 12 page bonus stories (with one being added every month), plus lots more! As always, your membership helps keep all our comics up and running and our sites ad-free. This month we have another chapter of the Tales of Grover Hills for this month's main page comic, and chapter four of Elemental Story for our bonus book (We will eventually have a way for you to purchase previous titles, but more on that later).
Last month's bonus book, Sea Dreams Book 2, is now done being written, I'm very happy to say. I am very happy with it, despite previous writing issues. Sea Dreams Book 2 should be available to everyone who donated last month by the end of the month.
Also... all $50 donators- your original bonus book artwork and mini-books have been shipped, staples and all. Thank you for your patience!
Which one will you be entered in?
Spare Parts - if you donate between April 1 and 12.
You Say it First- if you donate between April 13 and 19th.
Namir Deiter - if you donate between April 20 and 26th.
The selection will be done "live" on our ND Chat podcast. They're black & white, inked on bristol paper, with no pencil lines.