What is Patreon?

Patreon is a bit like crowd funding for artists and creators. There are artists, musicians, writers, blogger, vloggers and comic creators with accounts on Patreon. Patrons donate small (or large) amounts of money to the creators to help fund their particular endeavours. Basically, Patreon is a way for people to financially support artists, writers and anyone else so that creative people aren’t dependent on second jobs or big businesses for their wages.

Why are you on Patreon?

We love making comics and we want to make more but we can only do that with the help of those who read our comics. Being a comic creator is hard, most of us have full time jobs and create in our ‘spare’ time. Those of us who want to write and publish comics have to employ artists and work hard to fund them, often doing work we wouldn’t necessarily choose to do. All of our ‘spare’ money goes towards creating our comics and our artists work hard for us for less than they are worth. We’d like it if our Patreon account funded our comics, so that we could create even more.

What do you use the money for?

Currently our Patreon campaign is funding some of the pages of our comics. If our Patreon campaign generated more money, we would hope to reach some of our other goals, such as:

•Pay our artists a higher page rate
•Publish our comics twice a week
•Create more comics
•Publish on kindle and nook
•Print a trade paperbacks of our comic series

How can I help?

There are different tiers of pledges for which you get a variety of rewards, such as bonus content, early access, stories, NSFW pin ups and portraits of the character, as well as articles about creating comics. You can pledge as little as $1 a month and cancel whenever you want to – there’s really no obligation to pledge more or to keep pledging long term. We have different ‘Reward’ tiers and everyone who pledges gets early access to all our comics.

You can have a look at the tiers here

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VINCENT DUBOURG

Art & Letters

Artist Vincent Dubourg has always wanted to work in comics. He got his start at the age of 20, doing make-up for cinema, TV and fashion in Paris. It was sometimes tough to make ends meet, so Vincent took several jobs on the side, including one as a night watchman for a year and a half. During this time Vincent volunteered to do storyboards for every director he met, in order to learn about drawing and visual storytelling. Vincent had so much storyboarding work from them that when he left the night watchman job, he was paid to work on a movie two weeks later.

In the intervening 15 years Vincent has created storyboards for movies, video games and advertising. In 2009 he decided to do what he’d always wanted to do: comic books. After capturing the interest of a publisher, Vincent completed two volumes of a story based on the adventures of Napoleon. He’s worked on several small projects since then, and has an ongoing personal project currently in development. And now, he’s the regular artist on Scions!

 

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ADAM JOLLY

writer

Adam Jolly has been writing and drawing professionally for about eight years, starting shortly after moving to the United Kingdom from Kentucky. He has worked as a freelance artist and writer – primarily in indie comics – for most of that time, with a few brief forays into the gaming industry (both tabletop and video). Early on, he was lucky enough to meet Octavia; her coloring has covered a multitude of his artistic sins over the years. He holds an MA and a BA in creative writing, from Western Kentucky University and Kentucky Wesleyan College respectively.