Added 1 new A* page:A generous reader sent me a contribution via PayPal today, which I was very grateful to receive--but further than that, they also asked if I'd looked into Patreon, a crowdfunding service that would give them and other like-minded readers an easy way of contributing to A*'s continuing development each month.
I *had* looked into Patreon when I first heard of it some months back, but it was early days for the service at that point, and it was a little hard to tell exactly how it would work in practice. Now that I look at it again, though, I see that some well-known webcomics are using it quite successfully, and even webcomics with smaller readerships than mine are getting significant support from their readers through Patreon.
So I'm thinking I should give this thing a try. I wouldn't slap a big Patreon banner up on the front page or anything--maybe on the About and/or Store pages >_> --but I'd probably be doing sketches as prizes for higher level contributors, and showing photos of them in the blog, which would be a good excuse to mention the thing now and then. And a good excuse to get more sketching done, which I've been neglecting of late. Anyway maybe I'll see about getting set up with them over the weekend.
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