Wyliman by Mario A. Gonzalez

After months on deliberating if I should get one going or not (I opened my account since September) I finally did it. It’s a little hard for me to ask for money (the donation buttons on my webcomic sites always haunt me for some reason), but, it’s indeed work i’d love to keep producing but it’s becoming harder to finance with no outside help.

So here it is! Ergo Comix on Patreon.

In case you’re not familiar with Patron, it’s basically a way to give constant financial support to the artists you like. You can give as little as $1 and as much as you’d like. Every bit helps and it’s greately appreciate it. You can raise or reduce the amount you are willing to give each month and you can jump in and out any time you want. Or, you can watch this video that explains it even better.

There’s two mayor goals I want to reach and compromise to you with this Patreon: Be able to tackle at least a chunk of the printing costs of both comics printed versions and, bring Wyliman back.

So here we are. Hopefully you’ll be able to help me out on this venture, either by becoming a patreon or just by spreading the word.

Thanks a lot!

Mario A.~

Blargh…

I’ve been dreading to do this for this entire week, but then again it’s something I’ve been thinking about after completing book 4.

Anyway, I’m putting Wyliman on hiatus. I’ve done this a couple of times before but it never really amounted to anything past two weeks or less because I felt guilty and I jumped back in. But for these past 3 chapters I haven’t been feeling it. I’ve been so out of myself writing and drawing the comic that if I kept pushing it, I’d only be delivering sub par work (there’s a couple of pages in chapter 43 I just hate to look at of how awful they came out). Not that I’m quitting Wyliman ever. Heck, even being bothered by my own work as of lately, I think this last story was one of the most organic ones, and I loved how the involvement of you, the readers, with it shaped it as it went alog.

But, if posting late and barely for the past two-three weeks was a sign of anyhting, is that I wasn’t enjoying it and I was at the verge of losing it.

And, if you remember the last blog I posted, things on personalandia aren’t so hot either. Life took a sharp turn and basically crapped all over the place. So I need time and lots of patience and endurance to get things rolling out smoothly around here. And since I’m going to entirely miss next year’s convention season, I have no pressure to finish book 5 to get it to shows.

I won’t leave you with empty hands, tho. Clink (my other webcomic, in case you haven’t seen it yet) will keep updating regularly. So you can get your fix there for the time being.

I’m building myself up almost from scratch with Wyliman by the time you’re reading this. I’ve been feeling my style has been floating comfortably in place for a bit, so it’s time to shake it from it’s core and go back to the panic and excitement of experimenting. So be sure about something, when we come back, it’s gonna be way better (and if you follow Clink, you’ll get to see the development of this “trainning” little by little since it’s gonna affect it too).

I hope this won’t last long. I have at least up to chapter 50 already planned, so I really want to get this stories out to you. But I won’t if I’m not having fun with them. And I’ll be showing of concepts, and sketches and little previews of things whenever they come around.

Thanks for your time and understanding.

Mario A.~

PS: Feel free to send guest strips whenever you want, by the way. For what it’s worth until I bring the comic back, you can have fun with the characters and I’ll show case them here.