This very Merry Lady Valiant Christmas image was drawn by the Lady Valiant team. For the past few months, our amazing artist has grown a small team, where he has done the pencils, layouts, etc, and they finish up with coloring.
This amazing Christmas image was done almost entirely by the assistants, hoping to show us what they got! Don’t worry, Xam is still doing all the work on the main pages and side stories.
Our growth this past year has been incredible and insane. I have also been reading all the surveys you all have been filling out and I have some news, after talking to our artist.
As I’ve said many times, the bulk of the cost of LV goes directly to pay for the art, then the hosting service. There is not much left afterwards. LV to me is more about enjoying the community we created and the story being created as well.
Because of our recent growth, our artist has finally earned enough to file taxes. Unfortunately, where he lives taxes freelancers heavily.
We have talked about this and we both want to keep the updates going. Unfortunately, the prices we have set now, 12 pages a month is not realistic. We unfortunately need to back down to an 8 page a month(two pages a week) schedule in 2020. December will stick with the 12 a month schedule. We will be keeping the colored pages.
We have also seen requests for more naughty side stuff, and we are hearing you loud and clear. Our other main goal is to double the size of the monthly side stories. To do this, we need our patreon to reach $3,100 a month.
Now, we can get back to a 12 page a month schedule next year, but this is entirely reliant on more growth, which we desperately need.
I’m already talking to other partners I have in the comic world about getting the word out, but any help you guys can give would be awesome!
I’m attempting to figure out how I can make Lady Valiant even better. If you guys can take a few minutes to fill out a quick survey, that’d be awesome.
Sorry for posting this, but I’m sort of having a bit of a slump and wanted to know if you guys are still enjoying the comic.
Also, I know some of you are asking who this blonde bombshell is. It’s Turbulance, from the comic of the same name! Her story is being told as an extra comic for patrons in the $15 tier on the patreon.
I’ve not made a post about the Patreon for Lady Valiant yet, but I’ve decided now is a good time to tell you guys about it.
One thing I want to make clear is the core Lady Valiant comic will never be behind a paywall. I’ve never put it behind one before I still won’t now. However, I try to provide really amazing extras in the different tiers to make it worth the patrons’ support.
The $7 tier gets you access to the Official Lady Valiant Discord server. Other than communicating with myself, the artists, and other fans, the discord has another extra. A few months back, it was discovered that for he past ten years I’ve commissioned a lot of artwork and comics that have never before been seen. Access to the Discord gets you access to all these past comics and art I’ve commissioned. I’m still digging through emails and old hard drives discovering old material I forgot existed.
A few fans set up a Pixiv and Deviantart showcasing just a few samples of what I commissioned in the past, so if you think you might be interested, please check it out.
The $15 tier has access to the original Lady Valiant comic, as drawn by the first artist, Blackwalker80, before the comic was redrawn by our current artist. The original Lady Valiant has a few minor changes so it’s well worth checking out. What’s more is this tier has access to another 8 page a month comic I tried having made several years ago called Turbulence.
Turbulence is not quite like Lady Valiant, in fact, it’s quite a different comic alltogether! Check out the preview of Issue 1 and, if interested for more, join the Patreon at $15!
The $20 tier is where it gets interesting. The $20 tier not only has access to all previous tiers, but monthly 5 page naughty side stories set in the Lady Valiant Universe! Currently we have three side stories, and side stories are now set to be released every month.
That’s not all. We have goals set. The more patrons, the higher the goals we can hit. Next Month will be a 3 page a week month, with a total of 12 pages. Hitting our next goals will get us up to 16, then 20 pages a month! I invite you guys to look around at what we have to give and, if you deem it valuable to do so, give our patreon a spin.