Everyone voted for Jason!  But they didn’t know he was, uh, imminently due in the strip.  And so I wrote this bonus strip which I couldn’t really run until today, cuzza spoilers, so here it is now!  Technically still June!  I win!  And Jason wins.  Sort of. This bonus strip and hundreds of others can be found at the Dumbing of Age Patreon!  All you need is $1 a month.  Upping to $5 a month gets you early access to tomorrow’s strip every day!  It’s all pretty great.

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.

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 NIGHTGUY!    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 up to $5 or more per month, you can read tomorrow’s strip a full day-and-five-minutes early, every night like clockwork!

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.

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, patrons voted for Mike, and so he sort of appears in this month’s first bonus strip (via one of Walky’s LAWsome strips) because he’s Otherwise Not Terribly Around.  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 up to $5 or more per month, you can read tomorrow’s strip a full day-and-five-minutes early, every night like clockwork!

New Dina t-shirt just dropped!  It’s 30% off for the next few days.

The Dumbing of Age Book 10 Kickstarter is live! This book will collect “Year Ten,” spanning the four storylines that start on August 18, 2019, and complete on September 9, 2020. This includes new commentary, behind-the-scenes artwork, and new character designs into an 236-page tome with luxurious glossy paper all bound up into a sturdy presentation.  Our biggest book yet!  And there will be a foreword by Seanan McGuire!

The Book 10 Kickstarter is ready for launch, probably this coming Monday, March 28, and there’s now a Dumbing of Age Book 10 Kickstarter PRE-LAUNCH page that’ll let you click a button to notify you when it goes live!  Soon!  SOON!

Everyone knows before you even start publishing your comic, you need to have all your merchandise ready to go.  That’s Comicking 101!  So come blow all your money on JAWsome t-shirts and mugs and masks!  This comic will definitely keep updating past the first week!

The fun thing about POD tshirts is that you can throw up a design because you feel like you should and it’s perfectly okay when absolutely nobody buys it.  I’m looking at you, Indomitable Sex Monster.  A number of people greater than zero may buy the Roller Derby Team t-shirt. (Also available as masks and mugs????)