IT’S THAT TIME AGAIN! Where Alex reminds you to please vote (hopefully for Beyond the Western Deep) in this year’s RINGO AWARDS! Just hit the link here if you haven’t and fill out your ballot! Thank you to everyone who’s voted already, and please spread the word any way you can to friends and family to get out the vote!

There, see? Tosch was just helping Sigrid out because she was, and I quote, “SO INTERESTED” in the canid war campaign! Nothing to read into that. Nothing whatsoever!

This is also the first time we’ve heard about the canid alliance with the polcan, but I wouldn’t read too much into that. I’m sure by “polcan allies” he just means that they go on picnics every once in a while, have a nice brunch, order up some pancakes, that sort of thing.

Oh, I guess there’s also a planned attack on Terria? Details!

As you might have noticed, we’ve finally retired our Backerkit pre-order store, as our business with Make That Thing begins to wind down following the end of the Kickstarter campaign. If you’re interested in getting a book, pins, prints, etc and weren’t able to, you’ll be able to find me and Rachel at San Diego Comic Con this July 18th-21st!

If you aren’t able to make it to Comic Con, we’re going to be looking into possible online store solutions. If nothing else, we’re looking into how we’ll work prior volumes into our inevitable Kickstarter for Beyond the Western Deep: Volume 2!

For guest art this week, I wanted to share this absolutely incredible piece from new community member Shay!

Look at that! JUST LOOK AT IT! It looks like somebody flipped on Netflix, scrolled over to “NEW IN ANIMATED” and started watching some cool new series called Beyond the Western Deep (with subtitles on, of course).

Shay, we absolutely love this piece! Your style really sells the animated quality of our characters, and we look forward to seeing more work from you in the future. We’ve already saved out a few of your other pieces from the Discord for future pages, so we’re excited to share those in the coming weeks as well. THANK YOU SO MUCH!