"What's next for Jam" 5 years on! (Patreon)

Hey everyone, I'm doing some archive work right now (digging through and reorganizing old stuff) and I just wanted to take a moment to pause and reflect because it *happens* to be the five year anniversary of this post (when I announced I was ending Wasted Talent!):

What's Next for Jam | Jam on Patreon

Nov 18, 2016 (5 years ago today, yikes!!!!!!!!!)

It's kind of wild to read that post now, and it made me realize a few things:

First: All of you reading this today -- you're the ride-or die patrons! I jumped off a metaphorical cliff by ending my webcomic and said "idk what's gonna happen!?" And y'all said "aiight cool, giv'r". That's METAL AS HELL??? I can't express enough how cool it is that you were along for this whole ride so far :))

I’m super duper grateful for this space and everything it has enabled me to achieve. Your steadfast support, patience, and understanding as I grappled with some really difficult times has made more of a difference than I can really properly express. Thank you.

Second, hey, I'm really proud of what I managed to do! I more or less stuck to the plan I set out of what I wanted to explore.

• Cute things:
  • Cattes, The "catsona" concept, Corgis, Moss is Boss, general cuteness of zines and stickers
• Engineering:
  • Shenzhen Fast, Career Zine, 3D Printing (WIP), some good ask-comics
• More zines and short works
  • Good Bones, Prose short stories, Self Care SOS, Moss is Boss, Food Zine, Ok to Sploot
• Non-comedy autobio
  • Some interesting pieces in 2018 and throughout 2020
• Collaborative works
  • Wander and Beyond with Sfé, Swan Song with JD, Tradewaiters, Corgi coasters with Phil

The biggest nut I haven't fully cracked yet is "comedy", but wow those were five profoundly un-funny years!! All I can say is stay tuned, I feel like I'm getting closer 👀

Recently I've started to feel  some ideas coalesce about the direction I want to take my work in. To enable this, I want to make some tweaks and changes to the structure of Patreon here. As you can see I've done a TON of wildly different stuff here over the last few years, so I need your feedback to make sure that I'm only making the kind of changes that will result in more of what you love the most 😊. (that is assuming that Patreon doesn't go the way of NFTs and I have to torch the place and start over alskdjfalkecjiowe)

The next post will be a short survey/discussion on what you love! Don't worry, I am pretty sure it's gonna be "tweaks"/refinement rather than a major overhaul. 

For now, let's celebrate still being alive! 🥳