"Everybody Loves Smiley" (1) is now available for everyone to read. First page above, rest on the website.
https://fodongo.jectoons.net/2024/05/13/issue-5-everybody-loves-smiley-by-jectoons/
Now all of issue 5 is online, you can download it from the site! It should be up on the Internet Archive later today.
https://fodongo.jectoons.net/downloads/fodongo-issue-5/
Thank you for reading and supporting independent artists and Free-Culture.
A tale about uncomfortable roommates, by Mario A. Gonzalez, is now available for everyone to read. First page above, rest on the site.
https://fodongo.jectoons.net/2024/05/06/issue-6-terms-conditions-by-mario-a-gonzalez/
Check out his other comics, Wyliman (https://www.wyliman.com), Clink (https://clinkcomic.com) and Nihil Negativum (+18)(https://www.ergo-comix.com/comics/nihil). And do check more comics out from issue 6!
From issue 5, "Dead Sight" by Zach Acherman is now available for everyone to read. First page above, more on the site:
https://fodongo.jectoons.net/2024/04/29/issue-5-dead-sight-by-zach-acherman/
Please check out his other comic at https://ewdeliverycomic.com, and check more comics at the Fodongo site!
"Miss Luna", by Amelie Shypilova, is now available for everyone to read! First page above, read the rest on the site:
https://fodongo.jectoons.net/2024/04/15/issue-5-miss-luna-by-amelie-shypilova/
Please check out her other work (https://amelieshypilova.myportfolio.com), and consider purchasing this issue to support the artist and to help fund Year 2 of Fodongo!
https://fodongo.jectoons.net/downloads/fodongo-issue-5/
Thank you.
Funding for Year 2 of Fodongo
As we near the first half of the first year of the zine, I am starting to think about year 2. While I plan on funding it as long as I can, my resources are limited, which also unfortunately limits the amount I can pay each artist per comic.
My ultimate goal is to pay at or above industry standard rates per comic page, which sits around $300 per finished page. We are nowhere near that at the moment, however, since $300 is roughly how much I’m spending per issue, so we have a long way to go to reach that goal.
(I am incredibly thankful to all the contributors for the amazing work they have produced, in spite of the low budget. You are amazing.)
I’m not necessarily in a rush to get there, but I would like to compensate the artists who have done such an incredible job with the comics so far fairly, so for year 2 (which should begin in November or December this year) I have come up with a working budget that will allow me to:
Increase each artist’s pay per comic by 50% Cover web hosting costs for the next year Pay any fees and taxes related to the income generated by the zine. Potentially pay someone to draw a cover or two. Potentially pay an artist for an ongoing story for a few issues. And I need your help to get there.
I’m looking to raise $6500 CAD total in the next year.
I will be counting money from sales and donations, so even if you don’t want or can’t donate at the moment, but you would like to purchase some digital or physical zines, that would be very much appreciated. Only 50% of each sale would go towards the funding for Year 2, though, since the other half still goes to the artists participating in said issue.
Let’s be clear though, the zine will still exist even if that goal isn’t reached. That goal’s purpose is mainly to increase the amount I can pay each artist per comic per issue, which I think matters a lot.
If somehow we beat that goal and go over it, I would also like to hire someone to help me clearly alt-text all the comics on the site (something I haven’t been good at), as well as pay the artists even more per commission! It’s an exciting prospect.
So if you can and would like to, please support the zine. If you would like to but can’t at the moment, please share it with everyone, make derivative works, review it.
Free-Culture is incredibly important, and it benefits everyone.
Thank you for your attention and support. See you next week with another comic!
Ject.
"La Puerta Plegable", a short comic about I scare I had a few years ago, is now available for everyone to read!
First page is above, the rest of the comic is on the site.
https://fodongo.jectoons.net/2024/04/08/issue-4-la-puerta-plegable-by-jectoons/
Later today the whole of issue 4 will be available on the Internet Archive, and you also have the option to directly download the .pdf from the site now! Of course you can still purchase it, support the zine and the artists in it.
Thank you!
Goooood morning! "Homesteady", by María Izquierdo Barri, is now available for everyone to read! First page below, other pages on the site:
https://fodongo.jectoons.net/2024/04/01/issue-5-homesteady-by-maria-izquierdo-barri/
Check out María's other work! (https://artstation.com/marizba), and do check out the rest of issue 5:
https://fodongo.jectoons.net/downloads/fodongo-issue-5/
Thank you for reading and supporting Free-Culture.
"Wishing Star", by Peny0u, is now available for everyone to read! First page below, other two on the site:
https://fodongo.jectoons.net/2024/03/25/issue-4-wishing-star-by-peny0u/
Please check out her work (https://www.instagram.com/peny0u/). If you buy the issue, thank you so much! 50% of revenue is distributed among artists.
Thank you for reading and supporting Fodongo. :)
📣 OUT NOW! Issue 5 of #Fodongo !
María Izquierdo Barri, Amelie Shypilova, Zach Acherman and me put together March's issue of indie, Free-Culture comics.
You can check the release notes and release schedule in the post below:
https://fodongo.jectoons.net/2024/03/18/issue-5-is-now-available/
50% of revenue is distributed among participating artists.
Thank you SO much for reading and supporting Fodongo. :)
Yep, it's terrifying.
My bad, I missed the rule about complete stories only; I'll be taking this crosspost down.
Apologies, I missed the rule about full story only. The rest is on the website; I'll be taking this crosspost down. Thanks!
Aaah my bad. I must have missed that rule; I can take the post down. This is page 53, so there's a bunch of back story on the website. Thanks for the explanation!
Or reuse some already-built housing. Large condo buildings cause gentrification; buy a portion of the units and make them affordable housing, below or non-market units. You save yourself the trouble and the building expenses, you can still raise taxes on 'land-owners' and you house people in dire need of housing. You also revitalize and degentrify areas. A lot of condos are owned as second-homes that are rented out, so the owners wont be unhoused. If they are concerned about loss of income, we all get together, push for raising taxes on the richest and on corporations and implement universal basic income.
(As an aside, a lot of buildings not-intended for housing that are not occupied can be repurposed as housing. We just need political will).
Yes, it honestly does seem like an appropriate reaction at this point. Certainly wouldn't hurt.
(App double posted, deleted duplicate)
It's not even about panic-building, just making it easier from a legislative point of view to get them done. Offer incentives and grants. The simplest more straightforward solution would be that there was a percentage of units in every new building destined for non-market, and slowly 'convert' units to non-market units in older buildings too.
EDIT: Aware that 'simplest more straightforward' has a very armchair-expert ring to it. I meant it in a 'this is a legitimate proposal they have the power to push and achieve' kind of way.
What's hard to understand is why they keep on pushing "affordable housing" that no one can afford.
More non-market rentals and co-op housing is sorely needed. What exactly is stopping him from making this a reality in the province?
EDIT: Someone should send him Ricardo Tranjan's "The Tenant Class". Excellent read.
Thank you so much! The move was chaotic, but we survived somehow! :) Hope your year is going great!