Page Delay for Feb 24th, 2023
on February 6, 2023
at 9:04 am
Quick heads up that the page that’s supposed to release on the 24th will likely be a few days late. Thank you for understanding!
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Patreon Update
on January 14, 2023
at 11:18 am
Hi everyone, I finally knuckled down and put some benefits on the Patreon. There are currently two tiers which will be detailed below, but there may be more in the future with more benefits, so keep an eye out.
Tiers
$1 Pledge – Dust: Gives you access to the new Nine Gates discord server where I’ll be doing art streams once or twice a month.
$5 Pledge – Bone: Early access to pages a week before they release (Though they will be in linework form for the time being just because of my workflow), as well as WIP previews of future pages.
Monthly Patreon money means I get to focus more on the comic, so I can continue to improve the way it looks and hopefully get pages to you faster, so please consider pledging to support me and the comic!
Soma Journal #8
on January 13, 2023
at 10:30 am
Long time no see everybody, and happy Friday. I hope you all have been enjoying Chapter 3 so far, as of today there’s six pages left before a brief break, and then we’ll move onto Chapter 4. Page 47 also marks the beginning of the first action scene of the comic. This IS an action-adventure comic I swear, it’s just first and foremost a story about a sad girl and how she interacts with and changes the world and people around her, and vice versa. I’m a big writery type so I like writing dialogue, and you’re either here for it or here despite it– Either one is fine by me.
We’re also rapidly approaching the comic’s first milestone: 50 pages! I would love to do something special for it, so if you have any thoughts or ideas, please do reply to me here.
Since I kind of ran out of things to write for COOL GATE FACTS I’ve decided to adapt the format so that they’ll be attached to relevant page descriptions if I have something to say about it.
I hope to see you again next week
-Soma
Info for the Next Release
on December 16, 2022
at 9:07 pm
Hey everybody.
Pages 44-45 will be released on December 30th as opposed to next week, but the following page will release as usual after that. This is just more convenient for this particular spread, thanks for understanding.
Break Update: Important Announcements and Questions (11/24/22)
on November 24, 2022
at 1:29 pm
Hi everyone, just checking in because I’m incredibly eager to start posting this next chapter. Just a reminder that page 41 will come out Next Week on Thursday (December 1st). I realize that’s not the day I usually post on, but I just wanted it to be exactly at the start of the month.
A few other things:
-Quick reminder that Nine Gates turned a year old last month on October 29th, so happy late birthday Nine Gates. I would’ve liked to have gotten more done but I’ve just been easing myself into this whole comic thing. If you don’t know, Nine Gates originally ran on a biweekly schedule, before I switched to weekly. Between my developing ability to pace a weekly release webcomic properly, and growing accustomed to actually getting a page a week done, I think Nine Gates should progress at a steady and enjoyable clip from now on. There’s definitely things I’m looking forward to getting to in the story, but I need to learn to enjoy the things I’m getting to work on now. rather than pining on things I want to do later.
-Something I’ve been thinking on for a while is the topic of two page spreads, and how I should consider them as far as page releases go. What I’ve decided on is that it is two pages, so I should treat it as such. Any time there’s a two page spread I’ll consider it the page release for that week and the week after. This is most certainly not relevant to page 44 and 45 at all.
-I’ve already talked about how I want to build a healthy community and fandom around Nine Gates. What I want to know is what you want out of a community, and what you would like me to do concerning that.
If you’ve stuck with Nine Gates and you’ve made it your weekly or monthly routine to check out the next set of pages, thanks for sticking around, I appreciate the comments on every other page. I originally started Nine Gates pretty much entirely for myself, but having people who enjoy it is a good motivation to continue improving my art and writing to make it the best it can be. I hope the following continues to grow, and honestly as Chapter 3 comes out it would be pretty badass if you could boost Nine Gates as much as you can. I can only promote it so hard, and the cost of ads kinda builds up after a while. So, tell your friends, shove it in people’s faces on reddit or discord or something, reblog tumblr posts about it, etc.