Hi folks!
First up, the big news is that the books are printed and in our possession! We are finishing up getting all the extras and freebies (mini-prints, tradin...
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Ethan Kocak
4 months ago
Digital Download
Hey folks!
I've put a ZIP file containing the PDF and ePUB versions up on my Dropbox.
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Ethan Kocak
4 months ago
IT'S FINISHED!
Hello everybody! I apologize for the lack of recent updates, it was mainly because finishing this book consumed my entire life. It ended up being 183 pages, instead of the or...
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Ethan Kocak
about 1 year ago
Link Update
Sorry for the follow up email, but some folks were having issues with uncompressing the zipped version I sent out in the last update so here is a non-compressed copy of the P...
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Ethan Kocak
about 1 year ago
State of the Book May 2025
UPDATE:
There seemed to be an issue with the compressed version of the PDF I linked earlier, so this new link to the book is uncompressed and seems to be working now. Sorry...
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Ethan Kocak
over 1 year ago
Concept Development and Cover Reveal!
Hi folks. Been hard at work on The Unfamiliars, but I recently finished up a section I wanted to share. It's one of the most detailed pages I've done to date, and the finish...
Hi folks! First up, the big news is that the books are printed and in our possession! We are finishing up getting all the extras and freebies (mini-prints, trading cards, pins etc.)finished up and sent to us. We are going to be sending out your surveys soon too, so watch for those, although I will be making another post when those are ready. THANK YOU again for your patience and understanding. We are in the homestretch!
A Print Copy of The Unfamiliars
Sticker Sheet Design!
Karell Pin
Skullumbo miniprint example
Trading Card Example
Hello everybody! I apologize for the lack of recent updates, it was mainly because finishing this book consumed my entire life. It ended up being 183 pages, instead of the originally planned 150, and for awhile the story itself fought me. I have truthfully never worked harder on anything in my life. But as of 10:43 this morning, I'm ecstatic to say it's complete. I've edited, re-written, re-drawn, re-edited pretty much as much as humanly possible and this is it. So what's next? I plan to have the last few tweaks to the cover files done by the end of this week and we can send it off for proofs as soon as possible and then once those come back we will be ALL SET. I am working through the list of people I still owe commission pieces to, so if you pledged for one of those and haven't heard from me yet, I'll be reaching out imminently. There are a few of the extras that still need to be completed, but I don't expect those to take too long and I'll be working on those while we wait for the proofs. For those that want their digital copies, I will be making that available in the next couple of days, just need to export the Epubs and PDFs and make sure they look correct. Oh and, please make sure all your contact info is correct so when we start shipping out we don't hit too many snags! All in all, thank you all SO MUCH for your extreme patience with me. This has been a joy and a struggle and I am so so so excited for all of you to get to read it.
Narrator callin' me out
There seemed to be an issue with the compressed version of the PDF I linked earlier, so this new link to the book is uncompressed and seems to be working now. Sorry for any issues.
Hi folks. Since we last chatted about the book, I've been hard at work adding and rewriting and drawing and all the other things that go with making a really good graphic novel. We're up to over 100 pages now that I'm comfortable calling basically done, and I have the last third of the book plotted out and thumbed.
In all honesty, this has been the hardest thing I've ever done artistically, and I definitely underestimated how much time it was going to take me to realistically get it made and out the door. And now, roughly a year later, the world is so different economically and who knows how the tariffs and whatnot are going to impact all of the printing and shipping of the physical books. So I've been thinking about it a lot.
The last thing I want to do is make any of the folks who have supported me annoyed with me, but I also think we might need to encourage some more support in case more economically turbulent things happen. So what I'd like to do is start releasing a page a week of this book as a webcomic to get some more eyeballs on it. Before that happens, I'm releasing everything I've done so far to you folks (Patreon supporters and Backerkit supporters) so you'll be more than a year ahead of the general public.
Folks who backed the project for physical rewards will still be getting those things, and even backers who only backed for digital rewards will still be getting higher quality files and access to the completed story way before webcomic readers. Hopefully this will help us bring in some new readers and we can do even more with this project than I initially intended, but for now my focus is still on finishing the book and getting it to my supporters. I am also attaching the current 100+ pages draft of the book to this post so you can see where we're at if you'd like. (Or not, I know some of you want to wait to be able to read the whole thing in it's entirety.)
I hope that all makes sense and doesn't rankle anyone. Of course, I welcome all feedback, questions and opinions here. Please reach out, either here or on socials or whatever's easiest for you if you have concerns.
Sorry for the follow up email, but some folks were having issues with uncompressing the zipped version I sent out in the last update so here is a non-compressed copy of the PDF for you. Apologies again, please let me know if you have any issues with this one.
