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Issue 6, out now!

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!

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.

Issue 5 is now available!

Four all-new comics are ready in .pdf form for you to acquire!

You can go over to the Zine Store or and get it right now, or simply click this convenient button that happened to be here when I started writing this post:

If you do, thank you SO MUCH! All proceeds are distributed between Fodongo and participating artists, so you are supporting Independent artists and Free-Culture and we just appreciate you so much for that.

You can also just wait a few weeks and all these comics will be available here on the website! Here’s the schedule:

Release Schedule Issue 5

Homesteady (CCBYSA) by María Izquierdo Barri: April 1st.

Miss Luna (FAL) by Amelie Shypilova: April 15th.

Dead Sight (CCBYSA) by Zach Acherman: April 29th.

Everybody Loves Smiley (CCBYSA) by Jectoons: May 13th.

Next week we will have another comic from issue 4, Wishing Star by Peny0u.

Thank you so much for your time, and for reading and supporting Independent artists and Free-Culture.

First 3 issues of the zine now available on the Internet Archive

As mentioned in the About page, once all the comics from an issue are published on the site, the issue is uploaded to the Internet Archive.

The first three issues are up there now, for posterity! Please check them out, download them, share them, and create derivative works! If you still want to support the zine (thank you!) you can head over to the Zine Store or the Support page. 🙂 Enjoy!

Physical Zine Giveaway!

Would you like to win physical versions of the first 5 (that’s right, 5!) issues of Fodongo?

Then this post is for you!

There are three ways to enter the raffle:

Proceeds from this raffle will support contributing artists and help make more zines in the future.

You have until March 17th 23:59 PST to join the raffle, and the winner will be decided on March 18th at 19:00 PST. You will then receive an email with the good news and asking you to provide an address to send the zines to.

If you can’t participate right now, don’t worry! There will be other chances to win physical zines in the future.

Thanks so much for your attention, and for supporting independent comics and Free-Culture!