Firefly Jelly

I think the reason for bad box office numbers is self-evident. When we had grainy 12" 4:3 CRT TVs, of course the big screen was a draw. Now, with cheap 80" 4K+ TVs and sound bars, why would you want to sit in a box with a bunch of strangers, pee in a dirty bathroom and pay $12 for popcorn?

I never got deep into acting, but I always thought that "method" meant that you sort of crawled into the character and kept the persona on at all times while working on the job. What does that have to do with box office numbers?

2/3 of The Extras creative team will be at Webcomicon! It's the perfect time to come on out and say hello!

There's a new page of... The Extras?... heading to the place with a thousand stories this Friday, September 12, 2025 at 3 PM EST. theextras.thecomicseries.com
A big announcement, just in time for webcomicon.net

In 1900, 31% of all deaths were children under the age of 5. Today it’s 0.7%. Vaccines, medications, and modern science are the reason why. Trust the science, it’s been proven to work safely and efficiently time and time again.

There's a new page of The Extras wrapping it up this Friday, August 22, 2025 at 3 PM EST. theextras.thecomicseries.com
We have reached the final page of Solomon's Fishbowl! The girls are back where they're supposed to be, but...

There's a new page of The Extras getting a shock this Friday, August 15, 2025 at 3 PM EST. theextras.thecomicseries.com
Well, that doesn't look good...

I'll be at Webcomicon 2025 with all of these luminaries of the webcomic world! It's a great convention- well-organized, lovingly run, and in a fantastic location. Come on out and check out Book 4 of the Extras, debuting at this convention!
webcomicon.net

You're not alone, CaitCat. It just takes a while for people to find each other in a fractured online universe. Don't give up.

There's a new page of The Extras checking the time this Friday, July 25, 2025 at 3 PM EST. theextras.thecomicseries.com
Hey, it's getting kinda late...

There's a new page of The Extras laying it on the table this Friday, July 18, 2025 at 3 PM EST. theextras.thecomicseries.com
The question is asked! Will Shelby get the answer she expects?

There's a new page of The Extras looking determined this Friday, July 11, 2025 at 3 PM EST.
The moment is approaching, and Shelby readies herself to ask the big question...

all the other webcomic hosting platforms: corporate bs and keep either allowing or straight up implementing a/i shit

comic fury: has a rotating banner of crocodiles drawn by the community (which are all pride-themed at the moment!)

I just discovered this meme and I love it.

Happy #PrideMonth to all my #LGBTQIA + friends!

More Chris McCoy goodness.

There's a new page of The Extras asking big questions this Friday, July 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM EST.
theextras.thecomicseries.com
What will Chantilly ask the leviathan oracle known as Solomon?

I've been alive long enough to see almost none of the futurist predictions of my childhood come true. I'm sure they were doing their best, but absolutely none of them (or SF writers of the time, for that matter) seemed to grasp the depths of human greed and how it would sabotage the future.

These days, I often think of the film Idiocracy, and how, ridiculous as it is, it also maybe didn't go far enough. Yes, the comical future government is debased and ignorant and incompetent... but they are still good people and actually want to help. They just don't know how.

be less afraid to create clumsy comics. awkward tangents. amateur lettering. weird sequentials and pacing. You Can Just Make it. you dont need to be trapped in a cycle of perfectionism and imposter syndrome when you could have a finished work instead. print that thing out and staple it!!!

My post from Tumblr which reads: I genuinely wonder if people realize how many projects get abandoned because the readership "wasn't there", when in reality, the readership just stayed silent. It's a big thing in trad pub that book series get discontinued because readers pirate the books or wait until the series is finished to buy a copy, leading the publisher to think that nobody actually wants the book enough to continue the series, but it happens with indie creators too. I've discontinued a lot of free, online series because it's not worth putting 3-5 hours a week into posting a project for no readers. Sometimes I finish the series for me but just never post it again, other times I don't finish it at all because it feels more worthwhile to put my time into other things. Sometimes I hear from readers who are sad or upset that I didn't finish something they were liking, but the *reason* it never got finished is because I didn't know anyone liked it. If you like something, tell the creator, tell your friends, make some noise about it. If you would be sad if a story never finished, make that interest known because one of my biggest considerations before discontinuing a series is "will people miss this? Will I be letting people down" and 9/10 times, I come to the conclusion of "no, it doesn't even seem like anyone's reading this" only to learn after I've moved on that apparently someone was.

You may have seen this post circling talking about how important it is to tell creators when you appreciate what they do.

The irony is it's MY post from Tumblr stolen by someone else. Please reskeet THIS post & NOT the stolen one bc we support creators making their own work on bluesky.

The Extras is the story of four young women and a bat that might (or might not) be a ghost. They all live together in an odd boarding school in a very strange city. It's a slice-of-life comedy / drama about the everyday adventures of growing up. www.theextras.thecomicseries.com

Annihilation is the rarest of treats- a completely original SF novel. Enjoy all the success, because you deserve it!

So you've managed to unintentionally write the novel version of a solo exquisite corpse? That is a fantastic achievement!

The Southern Reach series is like nothing I've ever read before, and I've been reading for a long time. People ask me to describe it, or give a summary, and I really can't, except to laden my attempt with superlatives and ask them to read it.