Every month at the Dumbing of Age Patreon there’s two new exclusive bonus strips — one that patrons get to vote on, and another that’s my choice! This month, my choice is a peek at Joyce’s JULIA GRAY comic strip! And Julia Gray’s R.A., who will go unnamed. You can read this month’s new bonus strip and the backlog of literally hundreds of previous bonus strips at the Dumbing of Age Patreon!
Also, if you pledge $5 or more per month, you can read tomorrow’s strip a full day-and-five-minutes early, every single dang night! You’d be reading tomorrow’s strip right now.











Every time I’m like “okay, no more plaid, don’t do a character in plaid again,” and every time I still end up finding reference for a plaid shirt that’ll make me go “oh that’ll look great on so-and-so” and whoops anyway here’s Joyce in plaid for this storyline. And a weirder pattern, too! Those thicker blue lines are irregular! What am I doing? I have 5-year-old twins! I don’t have time for this!
Anyway I’m told I need to write more blogs on this site, for the SEO, so that’s part of why I’m parading this art in front of you and blathering on about it. Also, I drew plaid, so APPRECIATE.
Though when it did come time to render the shirt day-to-day in the actual strip, I sure dropped the angled variation of the pattern on the pocket. Look, I have to set some boundaries for myself. 
A new storyline begins today! “As Long As It’s Free” runs from today, June 7, through August 26. It’s the fifth and final chapter of Book 11. 







