Help an Angel in need.

by on January 9, 2010 at 7:41 pm
Posted In: Announcements

Guys, I never ask you for ask you for anything but…

Actually I ask you guys for quite a bit and you have always gone above and beyond.  You support this comic and I am eternally grateful for that.  But I am afraid I have to go to the well of you generosity yet again.

This time it’s not to help yours truly but to pay back someone that helped us all.  Someone without whom this comic would not exist.  An angel that came and saved Exiern is in need of our help.

About 3 years ago I had just switched the art over from my own to Studio Boom.  For 3 month he had been drawing spectacular art.  But there was a problem.  My art was still in the archive.   The comic was expanding but it didn’t earn enough to keep Boom on staff more or less have him redraw the archive.  It was looking like at the end of the month I was going to have to let him go.

Then Eri came along.  She, a loyal reader, agreed to foot the bill to redraw a large portion of the archive.  Her money kept the comic going and more importantly her money paid for the redrawing of the transformation scene at the beginning of the comic.

As you all know the sales of that transformation scene made the comic viable and enable Boom to stay on Exiern.  With out Eri there would be no Exiern as we know it and probably no Exiern at all.

Now Eri has run into a bit of trouble.  She is studying to be a nurse.  Or was.  The government has cut off her financial aid and while she is working a job she doesn’t have enough to pay for school.  Without some help her dreams are over.

conflictedFLATI am asking for your help  Below you see a paypal button.  100% of the proceeds from that button I am going to donate to Eri to help her pay for college.  To anyone who donates I will send this special pinup image that I was saving for a rainy day.  Anyone who donates over $10 can opt to receive an 11X17 print of the image.

(Yes I know it has nothing to do with this situation and is a bit perverted but that all I had, ok!)

Please give what you can.  Eri was and angel for Exiern in it’s time of need now it’s  time for the all of us to be her’s.


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A Glove Story

by on January 8, 2010 at 12:00 am
Posted In: 17 - Corsets and Loose Threads: Part 2

Previously on Exiern

Faden made a joke

Eric Kimball is the writer and publisher for the online comic Exiern.com, Legacy.com, and Darkreflections.Exiern.com.Exiern.com the most successful of his comics is a fantasy parody with a transgender twist.The comic follows the adventures of a barbarian warrior who is transformed into a woman by an errant wizards spell.

Eric’s stories are know for their tongue in cheek wit and character driven plots. The explore the concepts of identity and societal expectation on the individual and how that contrasts with freedom of sprit and self expression. These stories have gained a online following of over 600,000 monthly unique visitor and with an active and involved fan base.

Eric never really considered himself a writer and to this day still scoffs when other refer to him as such.Suffering from mild dyslexia any thought of a career in writing were beating out of him by every single English teacher he ever had.But in March or 2004 on a lark Eric posted a comic online figuring that a visual medium was not exactly writing.From that simple beginning Exerin Comics LLC has grown to a publishing house that regularly produces three comic written by Eric and an additional comic written by Alison Sarnoff (Knitprincess.com).The company employees 5 artist to and is about to expand into the iphone market.

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Back

by on December 19, 2009 at 12:00 am
Posted In: 17 - Corsets and Loose Threads: Part 2

Previously on Exiern

Tiffany met Denver
And they got to know one another
But then they had a fight

About Christmas

We are tired.  Studio Boom is burning the candle at both ends to keep up with work family and this comic.  I am desperately searching for a job as my current assignment is ending Feb 1st.  We are beat.

So this Christmas as a present to ourselves there will be no update of Exiern.  Sorry about that but we need the week just to catch up.

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Offerings

by on December 12, 2009 at 12:00 am
Posted In: 17 - Corsets and Loose Threads: Part 2

Previously on Exiern

Faden revealed a secret

and the squirrels plotted

Blog entry

I have been asked in the past what I have against squirrels. Why do I make the squirrels in Exiern so evil. To that question I have two responses.

The first response is:

The squirrels in Exiern are not evil. They’re a super-intelligent hive mind, with mystical powers, yes. But not evil. The are just obsessed with nut. As long as you don’t stand in-between them and a tasty acorn they have a pretty much live and let live mentality. Sure they could take over the world in a heart beat but such endeavors would simply distract them from there quest for nuts.

The second response is:

To even ask that question you are clearly a person who has never owned a bird feeder. Because if you had you would know that the squirrels in Exiern are in no what an exaggeration but a true and accurate portrayal of squirrel kind.

To own a bird feeder is a constant and futile war to keep squirrels out of the seed so that there would be some left for the birds. A war where you as the human are clearly out matched intellectually. I’ve tried everything from steel cages to grease to hot pepper powder. Out side of giving the squirrels in my neighborhood acquiring a taste for Mexican food everything has been a complete failure

Once, I even tried electrifying the bird feeder. I put a current line on the poll supporting the feeder and a ground line on the feeder. The idea was that when the squirrel climbed up the poll and touched the feeder they would get a shock. Well it took less than 24 hours for the squirrels to figure out how to get around that.

You are probably thinking that the squirrels learned to jump on the feeder. Nope. The little buggers chewed through the ground line. You see! That’s a solution that takes quite a bit of electrical engineering knowledge to achieve. These are no normal woodland creature.

The squirrels are out there and they surpass our puny human intelligence in every way. All hail the All squirrel.

By the way I figure I should point out we do have an all squirrel t-shirt in the store.

Purchasing it would please the secret masters of the world.

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