[ETA: Look, as promised, EXXXTRA vampire goodies for today: Page 90 (Melissa de Alvarado’s personal Moment o’ Daylight) is now fully markered! Take a gander here.]

[Pssst!: Check back in the evening (Pacific Time) on Wednesday for an extra surprise!]

Of course, this wouldn’t be a Sarah Roark production if I didn’t leave you with just an eensy cliffhanger, namely — why oh why is Cat wearing bellbottoms?

…….As he falls into some kind of warp/portal thingy?

…………..In his own eyeball?

Well! I gotta give you something to come back for in Volume II, don’t I? ;-D

SO. THIS CONCLUDES VOLUME I. OVER. FINITO. Just in time for my birthday, too. I hope you’ve enjoyed it!! It’s been a long, hard two years of work, but an amazing experience on all fronts, and the very best part of the experience has been sharing the story with all of you and seeing your reactions.

So what now?

Well, I want to give you more of this. Much more. There is so much more story to tell, so much more comedy to inflict — after all, we just now hit Full For-Realz Daylight, right? Now the fun begins. (Right, Cat?)

First of all, I want to give you guys a beautiful, high-resolution dead-tree/digital edition of Volume I to buy. With luscious extra bonus content and a sexy cover. (I want to hook you up with some cool merch of other sorts as well!) Second of all, I want to get Volume II rolling for you. And third of all, I want to gather the low-res/website version of Volume I into a format that’s easy to download and devour in one go, in addition to creating a hopefully-witty “Last season, on After Daylight” catchup page to summarize Vol. 1 for new — and/or forgetful 😉 — readers. AND I wanna do all of that without having to bombard you with ads to pay the rent. Or sell any internal organs that I’m still using. Or that you’re still using. I mean to keep this webcomic totally free for readers.

Believe it or not, I have a plan for how to make all this happen, but I’m gonna need your help!

This website is going to go on semi-hiatus, in that I won’t be posting new comic pages till it’s time to begin Volume II. However, what I will be posting here is sneak peeks, goodies, tidbits and diaries as I prepare the Volume I deluxe softcover and its Kickstarter. If any of you guys are planning indie projects of your own, hopefully you can benefit from looking over my shoulder, sharing my little triumphs, wincing at my mistakes — meanwhile, the rest of you can just laugh along and be glad it’s someone else. 🙂 I’ll also be starting up a Patreon page, which will have further delights for members.

Have you enjoyed After Daylight, Vol I? Have you laughed with me at my little vampires’ moments of pain, and shed tears at the jokes? Do you want more? Then here’s what I need you guys to do. ::seriousface::

Stay tuned! I’m not going to promise right now that the site will update every week, because I’m about to attempt a bunch of things I’ve never tried before, and mad science is inherently unpredictable. But I will try to have sweet new stuff up for you to check out on a frequent basis. I will certainly be posting major announcements about the print edition, the Kickstarter, Volume II planning, etc, at this site. You can also follow me at any of my plentiful social media outlets for the latest news.

I’m not going to promise right now that the site will update every week, because I’m about to attempt a bunch of things I’ve never tried before, and mad science is inherently unpredictable. But I will try to have sweet new stuff up for you to check out on a frequent basis. I will certainly be posting major announcements about the print edition, the Kickstarter, Volume II planning, etc, at this site. You can also follow me at any of my plentiful social media outlets for the latest news. Spread the word! Even if you have no cash to spare for Kickstarter or Patreon or books or merch, you can still show your support and earn my eternal gratitude by telling everybody you can nail down about After Daylight. Faceposting, Twits, Tumbles, Deviations, heck, even antique face-to-face mentions — I’ll take ’em all. I’ll need ’em all. I can’t emphasize this enough: it’s going to take your repeated cries of delight to prick the ear of the almighty Internet!

Even if you have no cash to spare for Kickstarter or Patreon or books or merch, you can still show your support and earn my eternal gratitude by telling everybody you can nail down about After Daylight. Faceposting, Twits, Tumbles, Deviations, heck, even antique face-to-face mentions — I’ll take ’em all. I’ll need ’em all. I can’t emphasize this enough: it’s going to take your repeated cries of delight to prick the ear of the almighty Internet! Throw money! There are now two beautiful models for crowdfunding in the New Economy. The Kickstarter will be a lump sum I must raise for an initial print run of a beautemous Volume I. (Aaaand some other nice tier rewards and KS exclusives too!) So that’s a one-time payment, for which you get STUFF. Patreon, however, is a way to support creators you love on an ongoing basis, one little drop at a time — you can set a monthly max contribution, and/or pay per piece of Art! delivered. There will be Patreon-exclusive content and previews, and I will make sure there are worthwhile rewards even for the drip-coffee price-level of pledge. In addition to these, there will be a “storefront” for purchasing After Daylight stuff.

There are now two beautiful models for crowdfunding in the New Economy. The Kickstarter will be a lump sum I must raise for an initial print run of a beautemous Volume I. (Aaaand some other nice tier rewards and KS exclusives too!) So that’s a one-time payment, for which you get STUFF. Patreon, however, is a way to support creators you love on an ongoing basis, one little drop at a time — you can set a monthly max contribution, and/or pay per piece of Art! delivered. There will be Patreon-exclusive content and previews, and I will make sure there are worthwhile rewards even for the drip-coffee price-level of pledge. In addition to these, there will be a “storefront” for purchasing After Daylight stuff. Let me hear your dulcet voices! Feedback. Ideas. Thoughts. I welcome them all as I dive into this. Welcoming is not always the same thing as obeying, especially since different folks will likely have different opinions, but believe me, I value the input I’ve gotten from each and every one of you and will be happily chewing over everything you say going forward. In particular, if any of you can recommend reviewers, blogs, sites, etc that might be interested in posting reviews/blurbs/announcements for the Kickstarter, I need to start reaching out to those places now.

Cheers, all! 😀