Behind-the-scenes bonus: Nightmares in the North 11/11 is the rare Tall Strip where I got all the way to the drafting stage of a Short Version first. See the comparison here.
Five Recs: Webcomics I’m glad I re-caught-up with
Trying to do “1 like = 1 rec” Pride Month webcomic recs again this year. Going through my reading list to pick good recs really drove home how many webcomic archives I was behind on, and prompted me to do a bunch of catch-up reading.
Here are the threads, if you want to help boost them around a little:
And here are 5 solid comics I caught up with along the way:
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Every time I go to update my “recs for Finished, or at least Permanently Ended, webcomics” page, I think: should I reorganize this somehow? Are there things I should explain better? Is the formatting weird? Should I just import all the entries into my Tagpacker recs and use that instead?”
…And then all those options seem like a lot of work, so I just add to the existing list, in the existing format.
How’s it working for you? Feedback welcome.
Here’s five new series I’ve added:
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Five Recs: Webcomics on Hiatus, but the archives are still Worth Reading
For most of the ongoing webcomics I follow, I use my ComicRocket reading list to keep track of where I am in the archives, and get notified about new updates. Makes it easy to share around as a general rec list, too.
The following series have been on hiatus for so long, I’m officially dropping them from the “ongoing” reclist. Here’s a sendoff post. Including some fanart I’ve done for each of them.
If you’re reading this after June 2026, and any of these comics have started up again, feel free to comment and share the good news!
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Disabling some of the cruft in Wordpress: did it help?
I’ve had this tab about “A big list of things I disable in WordPress” sitting open for…longer than I want to admit.
Here’s the post about where I actually try it. And, well. Wasn’t worth the wait.
(This is part of the “how do I webcomic?” series, with useful information on all kinds of comicking-related topics.)
Testing ground 1: Shine
Started on And Shine Heaven Now, because that site has the lowest stakes if it breaks something. Which…I did. Because I didn’t double-check the formatting of my functions.php file.
Once I had the correct opening/closing tags in there, though, everything seemed fine! For comparison, I ran this Shine landing page through PageSpeed Insights, both before and after the WP-disabling.
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Backlist Shipping Special, the 2026 version
A couple years ago, I did a Summer Shipping Special, where readers could order the entire Leif & Thorn backlist for 90% off the postage costs.
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Hat tip to the supporters of Leif & Thorn Volume 8
The ebook of Volume 8: Tread Softly is finished and available to the general public!
All thanks to the preorder support of this year’s lovely backers:
🌙 Starlight Honeymooners
| Russ Cartwright |
| Jonnie Irvine |
| Alienea |
🌙 Princess Halations
| E. K. |
| Meredith |
| Hinn |
| yamiangie |
| Lex Chimervera |
| Nekonomi |
| KendallPB |
| Mikaila Rasa |
| Albert Cua |
| Knut Aage Hofseth |
| Sailor-Cresselia |
| Mom and Dad Ptah |
🌙 Cosmic Powers
| Sliz |
| THG |
| Lenora Rose |
| Xanthipe |
| Niels Starfari |
| paralianBlue |
| Fir McGrevy-Gilmore |
| Kaldra |
| Triss |
| Thyme |
| K Rainey |
| Simone Pietro Spinozzi |
| Sydney Savoy |
| Eva S. |
| Richard W. Gombert |
| John H. Bookwalter Jr. |
| Olivia Montoya |
| Kristina Preusker |
| Jamie |
| Jacob Magnusson |
| Beth Culp |
| Lyndsey |
| Izzy “Strontium“ Hall |
| Jonathan |
| Tim Sauke |
| Victoria Conner |
| Kai |
| Lori Forrester |
| Sid |
| Dinglehopper |
| Nikki W. |
🌙 Prism Powers
| AK Momster |
| seelieAce |
| Mordaine Barimen |
| Avary Imani Powell |
| Ven |
| William C. Tracy |
| Carmen Maria Marin |
| Amy |
| Raene/Nikki |
| QuailFence |
| Craig Hackl |
| ThoBu |
| Jens Bejer Pedersen |
| Susan |
| Jay Lofstead |
| Megan K |
| AnnaDaEllie |
| Lielac |
About the traffic issue…yeah, I might have spoken too soon
When I said “let’s make the most of the higher site traffic limit,” I did not mean “Bingbot should start continuously body-slamming my comics with a new page request every few seconds.”
But that’s what happened. Here’s a graph of the past 30 days, where you can see, in late September, the CPU usage from the BICP site (for some reason, it has a special fixation on that one) tripled:
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…and we’re back!
Well, readers, it finally happened: my comics had Too Much Monthly Traffic for my hosting plan. So the sites (Leif & Thorn, But I’m A Cat Person, and even And Shine Heaven Now) were briefly unavailable, until I paid for an upgrade to the next level.
As problems go, “too many readers” isn’t a bad one to have.
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The Leif & Thorn Volume 8 campaign is already over 50% funded! We are crushing it, here. Which means it’s mini-print poll time.
As always, these images are all high-res enough for postcard prints, and I’ll adjust them to look good at the right dimensions. (If the winner is a splash page with text on it, I’ll also make a textless version.)
The poll will remain open until the BackerKit fundraising deadline (September 30), and you can vote for your top 2 choices:
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10th Anniversary Guest Art Showcase
To celebrate Leif & Thorn turning 10 years old this October, I’m doing a guest art showcase!
Details and requirements on the Google form where you can submit your art. Illustrations, guest comics, animation — it’s all welcome.
The deadline is October 18, so you have just under two months. Onward!