Thank you, Kickstarter backers! (Patreon)

586 backers. $19,560 of a $3000 goal. 652% funded.

If you'd shown me those numbers when I was scratching the first lines onto paper for this project I would have not believed you. Yet here we are. You made this happen.

Drainers (formerly Dregs) was a special project for me right from the beginning. It was a cute little slapstick that under its surface was really a defiance of hesitation and rejection of fear. For many years leading up to this strip I’d planned and concepted a hard drive full of unfinished projects, as many artists do. They were going to be epic, incredible, perfect. And not a single one of them got finished, so all of that remained forever frozen in potential. This is one of the most insidious traps of creative work - your ideas are safe staying as plans. They can exist as glorious dreams never risking the harshness of being made reality. But it's an illusion. It's a fairy tale we tell ourselves to protect ourselves from the discomfort of criticism, our own shortcomings and most of all the actual toil of running through the whole process.

The day I started Drainers was the day I finally put my foot down and said "enough!" I swore to myself that I would grit my teeth and bear the criticism, shortcomings and toil. I gave myself carte blanche to suck as much as necessary to complete the full process. And what better subject than a story that literally takes place in a sewer?

Creating Drainers was hard. It was painful at times. I worked on it through my most brutal years of generalized anxiety disorder and some days it was just hell. But all that mattered was crossing the finish line. And after 150+ pages, I wrote the words "the end" and broke down in tears with the hoarse cry, "I did it!" And honestly, that was enough. It was sufficient to have broken my chains and conquered the challenge. Drainers was already an enormous personal success.

And now, with the help of everyone at Cloudscape Comics, the fans, and backers, this very special little book is going to be printed. And you all wanted it so much that you left a smoking crater where our funding goal once was. I cannot describe what a journey this has been nor how grateful I am for your support. You have my sincerest thanks and I look forward very eagerly to holding this triumph in my hot little hands.

Thank you all.