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Issue 7, Out Now!

Posted on June 10, 2024 by ject

You can buy it right now from the Zine Store, or click the button below. Every sale is distributed among participating artists, so if you want to support them, that’s the way to go!

Thank you infinitely if you choose to do that! Right now I am trying to gather funds to increase the commissions I pay artists for the Second Year of the Zine, and every little bit helps. If you’d like to get the issues as soon as they come out you can become a supporter on Ko-Fi; or on Patreon, where there’s a couple of extra tiers with more perks! If you want to become a supporter just for the sake of it, you can donate via liberapay.

If you can’t or don’t want to buy the issue right now, that’s alright! Over the course of the next few weeks the comics will be published here on the site. Here’s the release schedule if you’re curious:

Thank you for reading and supporting independent artists and Free-Culture.

See you next week with more Everybody Loves Smiley.

Physical Zines giveaway: Derivative works!

Posted on May 27, 2024 by ject

Hello!

Today would have been the launch of issue 7, but there’s been some restructuring and it will be coming out in a couple of weeks instead. Apologies about that, but I promise it’s worth it!

Instead, how about we do our second ever Physical Zine Giveaway!?

This time around I will pick 3 different winners who will each get 3 physical issues of the zine. Each can pick which issues they get. I will ship them pretty much anywhere in the world using Canada Post (tracking will depend on how far from Canada you are).

In order to participate I will need you to:

  1. Pick a work from Issues 1-6 of the zine.* (*Be careful if you choose Juanele’s comic in issue 4, since the characters are not free-culture, just the story itself)
  2. Check out which license it is under.
  3. Create a derivative work based on that work. If it’s a comic, please make it 1-page long minimum, 3-pages long max. Make sure the content is PG-13, PG or G.
  4. Comment on this post, and make sure to include which work you’re creating a derivation from, what license you are using (it has to be consistent and compatible with the license from the original work. Your work must be Free-Culture in order to be considered), and a link to look at what you made.

The 3 winners will get:

  • 3 Physical issues of Fodongo of their choosing shipped to them pretty much anywhere in the world.
  • If the derivative work is a comic page (or pages) they will be included in a future issue of Fodongo and the authors compensated for their work.
  • If the derivative work is an illustration, a translation, or something in a medium different than comics, you will get featured on the Fodongo website.

You have 30 days from the publication of this post to submit your work! Winners will be announced a few weeks after this period.

Good luck. Thank you for reading, supporting and participating in Free-Culture.

See you next week with the comic Plenty of Fangs, by Sprak, from Issue 6.

Fodongo at East Side Flea!

Posted on May 11, 2024 by ject

Hey! Just wanted to make a quick post to let you know that there will be physical issues of Fodongo for sale at Vancouver’s East Side Flea next weekend, on May 18th and May 19th!

If you are in Vancouver or a city close by in British Columbia’s lower mainland, pop by and look for GeeseGoose Media Co-Op’s booth. We will have stickers, bookmarks, books, zines and other cool stuffs! Even if you buy nothing, please come and say hi. 🙂 We will be there from 11am-5pm both days.

See you Monday with the last comic of issue #5, the beginning of a new series ‘Everybody Loves Smiley’, by me. Hope you like it, and have a nice weekend!

Issue 6, out now!

Posted on April 22, 2024 by ject

Here we go, April issue!

You can go to the Zine Store or click the button below, if you want to support the artists involved in this issue.

If you are able to, please consider doing that! We are fundraising in order to increase the commission amounts for Year 2 of the project, so your purchase would go a long way. You can also donate on Ko-Fi or Liberapay, if you’re so inclined. Thank you!

Of course you can also just wait a few weeks and all the comics in this issue will be right here, on the website. Convenient, isn’t it? We appreciate your readership and attention. Here’s the release schedule for this issue:

Next week we will have another comic from issue 5, Dead Sight, by Zach Acherman.

Thank you for reading and supporting Free-Culture and Independent Artists.

Issue #4 is now on the Internet Archive, and Fundraising for Year 2!

Posted on April 10, 2024 by ject

You can also now choose between two options on the Zine Store for issues whose comics are now all online: Download (for free) and Support (for $3.00).

This is so that you don’t necessarily have to go to the Internet Archive in order to download the issues, though you can still do that. They are also accessible in my Ko-Fi Shop, but the newest issue is always free for monthly supporters.

Speaking of monthly supporters, you can still become one on Ko-Fi, Patreon or Liberapay if you want to, and your donation will support all Fodongo artists and the zine project at large!

If you would like to purchase some physical zines, you can now order a bundle with the first 5 issues from the GeeseGoose Media Co-Op store, which supports both the zine and the small producer co-op Jectoons.net is a part of.

Funding for Year 2 of Fodongo

As we near the first half of the first year of the zine, I am starting to think about year 2. While I plan on funding it as long as I can, my resources are limited, which also unfortunately limits the amount I can pay each artist per comic.

My ultimate goal is to pay at or above industry standard rates per comic page, which sits around $300 per finished page. We are nowhere near that at the moment, however, since $300 is roughly how much I’m spending per issue, so we have a long way to go to reach that goal.

(I am incredibly thankful to all the contributors for the amazing work they have produced, in spite of the low budget. You are amazing.)

I’m not necessarily in a rush to get there, but I would like to compensate the artists who have done such an incredible job with the comics so far fairly, so for year 2 (which should begin in November or December this year) I have come up with a working budget that will allow me to:

  • Increase each artist’s pay per comic by 50%
  • Cover web hosting costs for the next year
  • Pay any fees and taxes related to the income generated by the zine.
  • Potentially pay someone to draw a cover or two.
  • Potentially pay an artist for an ongoing story for a few issues.

And I need your help to get there.

I’m looking to raise $6500 CAD total in the next year.

I will be counting money from sales and donations, so even if you don’t want or can’t donate at the moment, but you would like to purchase some digital or physical zines, that would be very much appreciated. Only 50% of each sale would go towards the funding for Year 2, though, since the other half still goes to the artists participating in said issue.

Let’s be clear though, the zine will still exist even if that goal isn’t reached. That goal’s purpose is mainly to increase the amount I can pay each artist per comic per issue, which I think matters a lot.

If somehow we beat that goal and go over it, I would also like to hire someone to help me clearly alt-text all the comics on the site (something I haven’t been good at), as well as pay the artists even more per commission! It’s an exciting prospect.

So if you can and would like to, please support the zine. If you would like to but can’t at the moment, please share it with everyone, make derivative works, review it.

Free-Culture is incredibly important, and it benefits everyone.

Thank you for your attention and support. See you next week with another comic!

Ject.