IaaDiTe: Thank You For Reading by 24HoursSleeping on Newgrounds

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IaaDiTe: Thank You For Reading

So, thoughts. Thoughts, thoughts, thoughts.

I made the first sketch of Andrea and Olivia about... I'd say nine or ten years ago? Obviously, actually making the comic came much later, starting in 2021. I hadn't considered the comic as something I'd actually make; not seriously, at least. Daydreams. Andrea and Olivia sketches were comfort doodles in a rough patch in my life.

(Funny that my comfort came from nightmares.)

So fast forward to 2024, and the comic's finished! It's weird. I feel like I should feel like it ate up too much of my life, but I don't. It was just a thing I did. It's kind of nice to know that I can do something like "draw a page every day" for 3 years.

(Okay, I had one hiatus.)

It doesn't really have any value; I don't have plans to try to sell it. (If I did, I'd redraw the first 200 pages because of my improvement since then.) (And then, after that 200 pages of more practice, I'd want to redraw the rest, and I'd get stuck in a loop.)

So, a big chunk of my life, and I don't regret it. I got some really nice comments, and a lot of nice people commenting. So thank you for making me feel like my time wasn't wasted. You made my three-ish years feel important.

...Also, as my first comic, this was just practice. I'll be back.

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WarehouseRabbit

2024-04-13 15:45:54

Well done, bunbrother

24HoursSleeping responds:

Thank you. Now I think I should take a nap or two. Or maybe three.

TheyBopsky

2024-04-13 12:30:53

well, I already said my thank-you's and bye-bye's last page, so I can't really go on a big climacitc monolouge here like you did. But uhhh, this comic was definitly a lot more than just "a thingie [[som3 b odY]] did", I always knew there would be a new page whenever I came on and it was comforting. Good memes were had, I replaced your understandably anonymus name with Spamton talk, renamed your clown and lizards, and complained about age filters - what fun! And then Tyhonhood and WarehouseBunnie came along, and it was an even better reading expierience with a very smol and cozy community of other people reading. The ability to talk to you, [[th3 1 who puLLLs 7he Stri ngs]] while the story was still going was also something I never could have expierienced with any other story, it made it so much more interactive and fun!

I guess I did just go on a big climacitc monoluge. Peck!

24HoursSleeping responds:

It makes me feel good that this daily upload was important to people. For me, even though I enjoyed it, it was a bit of work to make it every day, but to other people it was a bit of stress relief. Makes it worth it.