[Re-upload of a newsletter from Oct 28, 2025, for the archive]
This one is rather meta again, like "How to Start". At the time I wrote this back in September, I had fully finished "The Bears Go Up", and, thanks to the stepping stones of bravery that the Bears gave me, I had also written out some even more unfiltered thoughts (that are still unfinished as of today, but will probably become future chapters). But I also hadn't shared anything with anyone except my partner yet.
It felt really, really weird to be sitting on these finished pieces for months, with no plan in sight about how or when to share them. All my fears and thoughts were jumbled in a giant mess, and thankfully therapy was helping me quell them one by one, but the slowness of the process was a bit agonizing. I had never been so terrified to share my work before, while simultaneously feeling such an intense yearning to let it all out.
Reading over everything I had written, especially a potentially-future-but-as-of-yet-unfinished chapter called "Weak", I couldn't help but be terrified of sharing any comics at all, because it seemed like it was all too harsh, too honest, and too direct. Not necessarily for my wider audience, but... well, for my family, specifically.
I considered a lot of options, haha. I considered releasing it all anonymously under a new artist name so the work could be out there but my family wouldn't see, I considered keeping everything a secret and never sharing at all, I considered fully aborting and never writing again....
But my thoughts and feelings are all painfully real. And they've been waiting so very patiently for me to carve out a space just for them, so that they could finally come out of hiding. I couldn't take that away from myself now, could I?...
So... I wrote about all that. Here's "A Little Corner". 💌
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Only one more finished chapter in my pocket now, which I'll release next Tuesday. After that, the plan is just that I'll make and release comics sporadically, whenever I feel like it, heh.
Thank you for following along! <3
All the best,
Jessica