Fruit Incest

On paper, Fruit Incest seems to have done well. The 600th comic has been uploaded and our fourth year anniversary will be in a month. Not every comic can claim to make these accomplishments. Unfortunately, anyone who’s been around a while knows things are never that convenient for me.

For on, I’m starting to get to larger comic ideas that I’m not sure I’m ready for, but I have the experience and time to finally attempt them, so all I can do is wish myself luck. The site itself isn’t looking too great, with the Concentrate section being especially useless since I never managed to get any of what I wanted done…well, done. And it’s no secret that Fruit Incest is still mostly unknown, and hardly anyone checks the place out. As always, I appreciate everyone who does, especially you usuals. You guys keep me going, and I’m trying my best to get more of y’all out there so you can enjoy our lovely blue tinted comics. Until then, I’m still relying on you guys, but I thank you for everything.

It’s a rather small and uneventful 600th comic special, and things are still feeling a little down in the dumps, but we’ll pull through! Here’s to more success and I hope you all learn to love your lolis very much.

Well apparently I haven’t had any news since December, and that was mostly just me wishing people a Happy New Year. Things haven’t been getting done at the pace I hoped for, but we recently finished a big story arc. The comics are coming out relatively smoothly, and to celebrate our improvements, I even updated the somewhat outdated About page for the first time in a while. Hopefully the place is finally gonna be appealing to potential new readers, so long as I can actually get any here.

I’m working hard, but not hard enough. Fruit Incest has a ways to go, and I’m hoping we can all get some attention and introduce my stuffs to anyone looking for a cute comic to read, cause I’m proud of what we’ve been getting done so far and hope to keep improving. As always, I appreciate all the support and word spreading I can get from any of you with friends who like comics and hope we can only get more from here on out. I haven’t been too active this year, but I’ll work on getting you all kinds of cool stuff to enjoy.

In the meantime, continue to have fun, tell your friends, and remember to love your lolis like always folks.

Hey everyone. I did a few changes around the site. Most of them are so small you probably didn’t even notice, but at least some of the things that have been bothering me a while are cleaned up finally. I’m no site design expert, but at least I have the place looking decent enough for now.

I’d still like to make the menubar over the on the left a little more active, but I have no idea what could go there. My monthly archives list got too long, and anything else that would fit in that space is either useless or tacky looking. Oh well, little by little.

Still haven’t done much to get any new readers, not that I have many ideas. I could try ads again, but again, hell if I know any good places that I can afford. Work is so frustrating when you can’t even do it. But we’ll get there someday! And when we do, we’ll have all the lolis we’d ever want to love. The lolis must be loved folks.

Fruit Incest was set up and began over the course of the first two weeks of October, so I like to treat the whole month as the anniversary seeing as there’s too many different days that could potentially serve as the official anniversary date. I’ve got….something planned, you know, for the whole third anniversary planned out. I’ll save those details for later though. For now, I wanna start off our meaningless pigeon anniversary month with a little message.

Recently I’ve had to make a stunning realization that I’ll probably live longer than five years from now, and in that realization, I’ve had to admit one thing: I don’t want to do Fruit Incest forever. For now I’ve got several years of material, but who’s to say where I’ll be in five to ten years? Whether our last FIniversary be our fifth or our tenth or our fifteenth, I feel like I now have a time limit I didn’t before, and it’s entirely possible that I could be in my 30s someday, with no new audience or following, leaving poor Fruit Incest to go out as quietly as it came. I’m not getting any younger either. 20 is like the new 50 in Internet years after all!

So what’s this depressing midlife crisis mean? Well, it means that I want now more than ever to get noticed. I want Fruit Incest to be a name people know about in obscure corners of the Internet. And more importantly, I want Fruit Incest to be the first in what could possibly be a real career rather than just a comic I do while unemployed (man I suck at finding a job don’t I?). I know no one ever reads these, but it’s still something that’s on my mind more as both me and the comics get older throughout these slow years. I know lots of you guys have recommended me and shown me to some friends, but I still appreciate every bit of luck and attention I can get for our fruity little FIniverse. Any help is definitely appreciated.

You can show your appreciation by sharing some muffins with me and remembering to love your lolis everyone.

Hey guys, it’s a good thing I never update the Concentrate section, cause it’s been down for a couple of weeks. And when I say down, I mean I deleted everything. But don’t worry, I’ve turned my Deviantart page into my official crappy old drawings dump if you ever want to see my old shames.

If you want actually decent work though, you’ll note our fancy new Concentrate page has some nice new bios of some sort. Go on, click that link there to the side. This message will be waiting for you when you’re done looking. The Cocktail section enjoys all the company it can get as well. I don’t have much now, but I’ll be making new ones whenever I have free time to fill it out with your favourite Fruit Incest celebrities. I’m very lazy though, so be sure to nag me and force me to draw your favourite characters first, like any decent fan would. I’ll be uploading them all on Tumblr as well, in case you don’t want to randomly check the page every few weeks.

I’ve also got another surprise waiting, but that one might take a while. Not for any particular reason. I could probably get it done in one afternoon, but you know how lazy I get. As you may have guessed, all these changes are for the benefit of any new readers. I’ve got five second bios and I’ll be making my lamer corners of the Fruit Incest archives easier to navigate soon. It’s a perfect time to nag your friends into reading my stuff and call them lazy bastards when they make excuses not to! I’ll be doing my best, so let’s give it our all, give me your nice brownie-based wishes of good luck, and remember to always love your lolis folks!

Okay, so for starters, let me clarify that I am no professional. A professional would have known that sometimes, even if you work full time, you can’t get everything done in one day. After working for over 10 hours straight, I didn’t even come close to finishing half of what I planned for my glourious 400th comic. I wasn’t planning on making this entire story arc in colour, but I wanted the intro to be in colour, because that’s the entire purpose of the fourth panel there.

When drawing this, I woke up, went to do some grocerie shopping and eat lunch, came home for a quick shower,and then spent the entire day working on the comic. This was a big comic. I’d have been pressed for time just doing it in my usual blue and white vision. Hell, I had to rush just to get those last panels shaded in blue at the very least. It wasn’t until I began colouring the big panel that I realized it just was not possible to do a full, in-colour, fully shaded, giant comic page like this one in just one day. Drawing comics like this requires full time work! It’s no wonder many webcomics have such poor schedules.

Speaking of schedules though, in the end, I had to get the bare minimum done. I needed some colour, and I barely squeezed it in with my poor paint job. Even though it would take at least another day to do everything I had planned, I could still sacrifice a few hours past midnight to take my time a little bit for that one panel, but I ended up going for a mediocre job done on time than being late for something that still wasn’t up to my expectations. I guess it’s easy to tell where my priorities are.

Either way, I’m definitely not trying this again anytime soon. Like I said, doing full comics requires full time, and seeing as I don’t even have a real job at the moment, I can’t even think about drawing comics full time. I can barely get by as it is! I’m just not cut out for the big leagues I guess, but I try dammit! This certainly isn’t the first time I screwed up a milestone comic, but 400 comics is still an accomplishment, so it’s something at least.

Here’s to another good run of comics, and hopefully ones where I learn my lessons the easy way. Wish me luck and remember to love your lolis folks.

Alright, so I just finished another part of the big crazy story arc I keep slipping in and out of, and with that done for now, I’d like to say I plan to step up my game now. Yes, I know I always say that, but this time I mean it. While writing this “chapter” I basically planned out most every future chapter I have in mind for this, meaning I now have no excuse not to do more story arcs every once in a while. On top of this, get this, I got a Tumblr thingy now. I know every time I get these things just for getting more attention it never works, but this time I’ve actually been using it! So far I’ve gotten myself in the habit of drawing on a semi-daily basis, which is good for me, and maybe for you guys if you care about that, but it’s good for the comic because it helps me improve on a few skills…maybe.

So I no longer have excuses for being lazy. I have to shape up and live up to the expectations I forced myself into, so expect me to actually try with this year’s comics. I hope everyone enjoys more Fruit Incesty adventures and remembers to love their lolis.