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Narrative Lead at ArenaNet // Co-Creator and Writer of the comic series "Beyond the Western Deep"

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Our Western Deep Volume 3 Kickstarter ends in just five days! It's been an awesome campaign so far--the hardcovers are fully funded and we've already hit TWO of our stretch goals, unlocking the Music of the Western Deep digital album for all our backers and netting all physical tier backers a brand-new emote sticker sheet and our wonderful V3 promotional print by Kosperry. With just five days to go, we're aiming for our next major stretch goal: the TWO PIN SET, adding the sharp-toothed, succulent-slinging lutren rogue alongside burgeoning assistant-ambassador Janik! If we hit $30K, every pin backer gets upgraded to the two-pin set for free, and we'll add the pins to our BackerKit store for everyone to enjoy!

Let's finish this up strong! We know we can do it!

head to https://www.westerndeep.net/kickstarter and check it out!

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Mark your calendars: Western Deep returns to Kickstarter for Volume Three on JULY 18th! We'll have the V3 hardcovers, new character pins, and even a special stretch goal: a softcover omnibus of V1-3!

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Wow, been a while, huh?

Dusting off this old thing. No idea how often I’ll post updates here, but you can expect a nice mix of game dev and Western Deep-related stuff.

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I know I’ve been pretty quiet here in regards to Beyond the Western Deep, but I figured it was worth boosting that Backerkit pre-orders are closing up soon!

If you’d like to pick up anything we had in our Kickstarter campaign, including hardcover copies of both volumes 1 and 2, you’ll need to do so by September 15th! We’ve got some fun little pieces of merch you can also grab, so check it out! ⬇️

https://beyond-the-western-deep-volume-two.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders

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We’re in the home stretch! There’s just about THREE DAYS LEFT in the Beyond the Western Deep vol. 2 Kickstarter campaign - it closes April 10th at 9am EST!

If you were still on the fence, now’s the time to join us! We’ve hit most of our stretch goals, but would love to sweeten the deal even further. If we achieve the ultimate goal to reprint Volume 1, we’ll be able to make copies available at a discount post-campaign!

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We’re coming down to the wire! Help us achieve our ULTIMATE STRETCH GOAL and everyone can get a super-discounted shiny new Volume One hardcover to match their shiny new Volume Two!

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Time for a Kickstarter update! And… good gravy, we’ve already hit the inital goal and pushed through the first stretch goal! :O

Alex and I are floored by this show of support, and wanted to thank everyone who’s chipped in so far. Seriously, thanks a ton. ;_; We still got some cool merch locked up in those stretch goals, so there’s ground to cover yet!

https://westerndeep.net/kickstarter

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I absolutely second Rachel’s words--we’re COMPLETELY and TOTALLY blown away by everyone’s incredible support. We’ve got a lot of stretch goals left to hit, so we’ll be keeping the hype up best we can. Please help us by spreading the word :)

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Our Beyond the Western Deep: Volume Two Kickstarter is live!! Come check us out - we’ve got a proper hardcover copy of Volume 2 and some nice goodies on offer, along with some MORE goodies that we’d love to make possible via stretch goals!

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If you follow me on twitter you may have already seen this, but if not I’ve got a treat for you!

We commissioned Knights of the Light Table to make a sweet animated intro for our Beyond the Western Deep vol. 2 Kickstarter campaign! It turned out so well we wanted to tease it a week out from launch. :D

This campaign is for printing a proper hardcover run of Volume Two with a meaty extras section, as we did with the first volume. But of course there are more goodies in store! You can follow the campaign here before we launch, but I’m sure I’ll be plugging it in the future and you won’t easily miss it. ;)

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Some artwork I did not long ago for Beyond the Western Deep. The creators will be launching a Kickstarter March 4th for their Volume 2 book!  As I understand it, the original pencil art for this piece will be available at one of the pledge tiers. If you haven’t yet read BtWD, well, please remedy that immediately! From the writing to the world building to the artwork from multiple amazing artists, it’s really a stand-out: Westerndeep.net

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tl;dr: Please vote for BEYOND THE WESTERN DEEP in the “Best Webcomic” Ringo Award category this year! Every vote counts, and if you read a comic you really enjoyed in the last year, don’t forget to cast your vote for it!

The Ringos are pretty unique, letting both comic creator pros and non-pros all have a say in what gets nominated. You can hit up the link in the first image, or the much-easier-to-link http://bit.ly/ringos2019! 2018 has been a huge year for Beyond the Western Deep, with us gaining back full control of the IP right at the onset of the year, followed by our successful Kickstarter back in October. And all the while, @kobbers​ released over two-dozen updates to the main story and guest artist Leah Briere produced a wonderful 10-page guest story. 

If you haven’t checked us out yet, there’s never been a better time to start at https://www.westerndeep.net/!

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One final Kickstarter update! The campaign officially ends in 19 hours as of this posting, and I’m super grateful for how successful everyone’s made it! We’re at over 130% funded, both stretch goals met, and there are even a few original art slots left (from artist Leah Briere), so it’s still a great time to get in here!

Besides, we actually got Kenosh to smile for this picture, so, y’know. Don’t disappoint him :D

Click here to check out the Beyond the Western Deep: Vol 1 Kickstarter page! Time’s a-wastin’!

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Hey folks!

This morning, we launched a Kickstarter to reprint Beyond the Western Deep volume 1!

We know some of you missed the original hardcover print run, and since we’re now back to being full owners of all our IP rights, we’re hoping to make that possible. And this time we’ll be offering some other goodies if you spring for the bundles, including a special limited edition cover, enamel pins, prints, and… there may even be some artist commissions left!

If you like animal people who go on adventures and try to navigate a perilous political landscape, check us out!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2036424072/beyond-the-western-deep-volume-one

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We’re at over $11,000 and nearly 70% funded, and we’re not even two weeks in! There’s still some original art tiers left, and unlimited supplies of both the standard and limited edition hardcovers.

If you haven’t checked it out yet, now’s a great time to do so!

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Commission of a buddy’s Warframe character, Syb!

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@tdcpresents‘s writing in Never Stop Sneakin’ is my favorite brand of stupid. I don’t think a game has ever made me laugh as much.

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Hahah thanks @mactheactor :) It was such a fun project to work on!

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(Thanks Rachel!)

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And for fun, the emotes I’ve made so far for the BtWD Discord X)

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These custom emotes are amazing and make up about 50% of all my posts on the BtWD Discord :)

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Commission for @atelier-bagur! Jin and Mochi are fun characters and I enjoyed drawing them :3

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These two are so cool! Great job, @kobbers!!