As some of (the five of) you who read this may know, I've recently embarked upon an "all in" creative adventure, which includes a new web comic and a collaborative book project for a start. This has been a wildly fun few months, filled with much making and even more networking.

It's also been - in a word - exhausting.

I want to keep it up. I really want to continue drawing, shaping "Postcards from Purgatory" into everything I believe it can be, accepting commissions for the wonderful books of my friends, putting together "Bar the Door," as well as a small series of perzines on the back burner, and collaborating with my ever-so-talented roommate and comrades on various artistic endeavors. I want this to be the best year in the history of years for me, creatively speaking. And I believe I can make it work.

In order to make it work, however, I have to work. And balancing all this art'ing with an everyday job is a job in and of itself. It's doubly difficult with my agoraphobia insisting on my staying indoors (the stubborn jerk). I'm definitely leaving no available stone unturned: I've taken on freelance work from home with a local SEO company, continued to beef up my Etsy resources business, begun selling prints of my art at every e-avenue I can rustle up, been offered (and enthusiastically accepted) a couple of commissions from creative friends, and I'm reviewing music for spare change at one of those pay-as-you-write sites. Somehow still, however, none of this adds up to enough to support myself. And so, I've created a Patreon campaign in the hopes of acquiring pledges from people out there who enjoy my art (both written and visual) and would like too see more of it.

http://www.patreon.com/mollyoblivion

I feel like I've been obnoxious in my promotion of this campaign... It's just very important to me. Some might even say vital. My parents and a few close friends have been so incredibly supportive and encouraging. I appreciate you all so much (you know who you are). But it's been very slow-going on a larger scale and I'm afraid, if I can't generate enough interest soon, it'll fizzle out completely and prove to be a bust. I'm starting to feel the nagging hand of discouragement over here with what little buzz I've been able to kick up and maintain about the campaign beyond my inner circle.

Help me bring it up a notch? Even if you can't afford to pledge, sharing and liking my Facebook posts about the campaign helps more than I can say. Tell your friends, tell them to tell their friends and so on and so forth... Please help keep me creating until I can get these projects on their feet!

Okay... Here endeth the begging.