Bob Appavu

Merritt's Story Book 1 Finale: Request/Opt Out

I've set a release date for the final 5 chapters of Merritt's Story book 1!

As I mentioned in a previous post, these "top secret" book 1 finale chapters will go out as PDFs to your Patreon-linked email address instead of posting directly to the feed.  Because each file is unique, I can only email them to 50 patrons per day,<...

DOTU Ch.04P.16 is up on the main site!

This page went up for early access yesterday, but here's a notification for those of you who like to visit the main site:

http://www.demonoftheunderground.com/comic/p272/

There's not much news this week that patrons don't already know - but if you didn'...

Chapter 4, Page 16

[1/8 edit: Here's a link to the page on the main site! http://www.demonoftheunderground.com/comic/p272/

Also, there's a link in the author comment for the sphere placement quiz if you missed it on Discord/tumblr. :D ]

W...

[Poll] "Guest" Letters?

I hope you guys are all having an awesome Friday! :D  I have a question for you.  Since 2014, I've now sent out 38 letters from Pogo! (+1 bonus)  I still enjoy making and sending the letters, and I have no plans of stopping them.

But after so many years, I would like to get a bit of a creative recharge and mix things up.

I wa...

Pogo's December 2017 Letters Have Been Sent! (+some small changes)

Pogo's December 2017 letters have been sent out to all processed patrons, so you should be getting them soon.  Email letters went out last night and this afternoon for those of you who get them digitally, so if you haven't received them yet, let me know.

These are a couple days late, so thank you for bearing with me!  To those of you wh...

Chapter 4, Page 15

Big size, and up on the main site with a new voting incentive!  Don't forget: weekly updates in January! :D

http://www.demonoftheunderground.com/comic/p271/

In case you missed my previous post about it, I'm going to try to get Pogo's December email...

Page tomorrow, Letters Tuesday, End of Month Reminder

Hey guys!  I'm just giving you a quick heads up on my page/rewards schedule.

• We're getting weekly pages in January, so there will be a new page tomorrow!
• Pogo's letters will go out on Tuesday.  The holiday schedule threw me off a little, and I forgot that mail isn't being delivered every ...
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Chapter 4, Page 14

Big size, and up on the main site with a new special Christmas minicomic voting incentive!

http://www.demonoftheunderground.com/comic/p270/

Remember, we get weekly pages in January thanks to hitting 7K subs on Webtoon! :D

Lil Pogo Sketch, Latest News!

Just sharing a sketch I did for one of my awesome beta readers!  I'm horrible and still haven't dropped it in the mail, but I will do it this week! :D  It's Pogo above ground in the observation deck of the Sears Tower, looking unusually calm and peaceful. :)

We hit 7K subs on Webtoon!  Why does that matter?  B...

Devoted - Merritt's Story - Chapter 22

Chapter 22 is here!  You can download the attached PDF or read it inline.  Part of this was posted as an excerpt long, long ago... It's still probably my favorite chapter.

Reminder: the next update is the finale of Part 1!  It's going to be a big thing! ^_^  But because I plan to release several chapters at once, it's going to...

Patreon has canceled its new service fees!

A HUGE thanks to Patreon for listening to all of us!  I'm so glad they took our feedback into account and decided to cancel the fees they were planning for 2018.

If you are a patron who decreased or canceled your pledge and would like to increase or reinstate your pledge, well, that would make me very happy!  Since I have a charge upfro...

Chapter 4, Page 13

Big size, and up on the main site!  I didn't finish it until around 4am, so it was too late to do early access this time around.  Instead, I'm just putting it up on Patreon a few hours earlier than normal.  Next page, I should be able to do early access again.

2017-12-11 15:06:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Bonus Pogo Letter+One more portrait sketch

Since I was late with Sketch Tier sketches and sent November's letters without them, today I sent out the sketches with a bonus letter.

Don't send Pogo money!!! XD

Only people in the Sketch, Sketch+Secret Gallery, and Custom Card Tier will get this letter in the mail, but I figured I'd let all of you read it. ^_^

And ...

November 2017 Sketch Tier Sketches 13-18

Here are sketches 13-18 for the September/October/November Sketch Tier rotation.  If you're a Sketch Tier, Sketch+Secret Gallery Tier ($20), or Custom Card Tier ($50) patron and you have a preference as to which sketch you want, post here and let me know.  It'll be on a first come, first served basis.  If you could let me know tomorr...

November 2017 Sketch Tier Sketches 7-12

Here are sketches 7-12 for the September/October/November Sketch Tier rotation.  Sketches 13-18 coming shortly.  If you're a Sketch Tier, Sketch+Secret Gallery Tier ($20), or Custom Card Tier ($50) patron and you have a preference as to which sketch you want, post here and let me know.  It'll be on a first come, first served basis. &...

November 2017 Sketch Tier Sketches 1-6

Y'all are so awesome for waiting for me!!!  Thank you!

Here are sketches 1-6 for the September/October/November Sketch Tier rotation.  Sketches 7-18 coming shortly.  If you're a Sketch Tier, Sketch+Secret Gallery Tier ($20), or Custom Card Tier ($50) patron and you have a preference as to which sketch you want, post here and let me...

[Important] Patreon's new service fee

[12/13 EDIT: Patreon has listened to user feedback and decided not to implement the new fee discussed in this message!  I'm keeping the message for the sake of having a record, but please note that this information is outdated, and there will be no new service fee!]

Today, Patreon sent out an email to creators letting them k...

DOTU's Discord Server is Now Live!

As I mentioned in the last page update, I was working on putting together a Discord server for DOTU.  Well, here it is! :D

[Last updated 1/26/2021]

For those of you who don't know, Discord is basically a chat app, kind of like IRC.  I just wanted to give DOTU readers more of an opportunity to chat and hang out.  It's a...

Pogo's November 2017 Letters Have Been Sent!

Pogo's November 2017 letters have been sent out to all processed patrons, so you should be getting them soon.  Email letters went out yesterday for those who get them digitally, so if you haven't received them, let me know.  The $10.01 secret gallery illustration should go up later in the weekend.

I normally send quarterly Sketch Tier s...

Annie, Help! D: (minicomic + reward status)

Pogo is late! D: D: D:

Okay... I'm late.  With November's monthly rewards.  Illness and freelance just completely kicked my butt during the last week of the month that I'd reserved for Pogo's letters, Sketch Tier sketches, and the secret gallery drawing.

Pogo's letters are, well, at exactly the state you see up above - printed but...

[Video] The Ferrets and I Review Redbubble Products

Now that the Redbubble shop is launched and I've received almost every sample, I figured I'd post a video so you could see the products better, in case you weren't sure about quality or what the difference was between the different print types.

Hopefully this video would also be helpful if you're thinking about opening your own shop and don't wan...

Ch4P12 is up, News, RB Official Opening+Coupon

Here's your notice that DOTU chapter 4 page 12 went up, for those of you who like to visit the main site!

http://www.demonoftheunderground.com/comic/p268/

Also, a couple of questions:

1. To those of you who are pledging below $5 and who get email ...

Chapter 4, Page 12

Early access!  Posting on Friday for $5 patrons!

I hope y'all aren't overloaded with DOTU Patreon posts right now. :P  Next week we'll be getting Sketch Tier sketches and other monthly rewards too.

Did you guys all have a good Thanksgiving?  How about an underground style Thanksgiving gathered around the drug chandelier? ^_^ ...

Poster samples arrived 2 minutes after my last post :P

I wish I'd waited a couple more minutes before making my last post so I'm not bombarding all of you with email notifications!  But the posters ("large" Battle illustration and "small" character line-up) and medium stickers I ordered just came in, and they turned out awesome!

The actual prints look great, but the color is a little washed out ...

RedBubble Samples + Black Friday Sale

I got in some samples from my RedBubble order!  Above is the iPhone 7 Plus cell phone case ("snap" style, the cheaper one).  It came out perfect and I'm super happy with the printing, and now I'm using it. XD

I also got a bunch of small stickers!  The stickers are made of a sort of thin vinyl-like material that's really durable, an...

Chicago DOTU Inspiration Trip!

Some of you might remember from last year that I've been taking some trips downtown to get inspiration for DOTU, since it takes place "below Chicago" and I like to incorporate Chicago-looking stuff into the environments whenever I can.  The above pic is a few examples of that.

I got back from this year's Chicago trip a few days ago!  It...

Devoted - Merritt's Story - Chapter 21

Here's chapter 21 of Merritt's story!  You can download the attached PDF or read it inline.

If any of you have been stalking the table of contents page really closely (come on, admit it, I know all of you are! :P), you may have noticed that I originally planned for book 1 of the story to end and chapter 21, and now it's set to end at 25. &nb...

First Look at the RedBubble Products

Here are just a few of the products in my RedBubble shop!

It's mostly set up.  I've uploaded all the art I planned to do for my first run.  I'll periodically add more (including one special miniskirt and set of leggings I have planned for the near future, haha...)  But I figured this would be a decent selection for the holiday seas...

DOTU Chapter 4, Page 11 is up, plus a new voting incentive!

Patrons already saw this page on Patreon last Thursday, but here's a notification for those of you who like to visit the main site.

http://www.demonoftheunderground.com/comic/p267/

There's also a ton of news, though a lot of it is stuff you patrons alre...

Card Portrait - 2154 Jordana

Well, I finished one!  Hopefully I'll get more time later this week to work on card portraits again.

So here's pre-rebellion Jordana!  I decided to go with the soot-stained battle-ready Explosives Unit look.  I really want the Explosives Unit to make a comeback, haha...  (btw, we're gonna find out what happened to them on, lik...