Hello to our valued club members and thank you for your continued patience as we go careening through April! As you can see, our estimated release date for books has just whipped past us.

This is the biggest crowdfund that Iron Circus and White Squirrel, our indie comic distributor in the Pacific Northwest, has ever fulfilled. We are preparing to ship some 30,000+ Lackadaisy books to you all. This is immense for us. We are so grateful! But also, it's a logistical challenge!

You may have noticed that people who pre-ordered Lackadaisy Volume 1 from Amazon are already receiving their books, and we felt we ought to explain to you why this is the case. As soon as books arrived from the printer, Amazon was able to grab all of the copies they had reserved in one fell swoop and ship them in the blink of an eye. Meanwhile, White Squirrel, who is fulfilling the book orders for the BackerKit crowdfund, is operating with a small staff and limited warehouse space. They've been a great and reliable distributor for Iron Circus comics in the past, and they are moving as fast as they can, but they simply can't keep pace with a behemoth corporation like Amazon. So, we ask for a little bit more of your patience on that front.

Also, we do want to assure you that you will be receiving all books you pledged for in one package -- Lackadaisy Volume 1, Lackadaisy Volume 2, and the Lackadaisy Essentials art book included. The latter two books are not slated for public release until late in 2024 and early 2025, so you will have them long before anyone is able to get their hands on them from Amazon or any other book retailers.

As a reminder, if you pledged for any physical Lackadaisy books, you also get the corresponding ebook! These are currently available for you to download in your digital rewards here on BackerKit. Click on your account PFP in the upper right corner of BackerKit > Your Pledges & Surveys > View Pledge > Under Survey, click View order > Get Your Digital Downloads



We've got a few other updates for you as well while you are here: firstly the Zib Plush!! 

This is just a prototype for now, but we thought he was looking dapper enough (smoking habits aside) to show you how he's shaping up.

We've also been busy prototyping the Lackadaisy Card Game!

We still have some minor things to iron out here, like what material will be best to print the cards on (right now, we're testing vinyl), but it's getting close!

A second small update -- but there was some interest shown here in the Chevron and 3 of Clubs pins that, while not part this Backerkit, were occasionally asked for updates for in comments here!

These are now available for a limited time on the Iron Circus website! I really do not know if we're going to make these again after this so if you wanted one, this is the time. These are again, not pins featured from this Backerkit, but if you are a pin collector like me, you'll want these for your corkboard!

You can find these over here at https://ironcircus.com/store/ ♣

Have a great rest of your week, everybody!

Hello to our lovely club members! We've noticed that quite a few of you are having address updates and we're looking to help you get those resolved. 📝

Please forward your updated address with your Backerkit Username and pledge #, and preferentially using the email you have connected to Backerkit itself to [email protected] 👈 so that we may get that squared away for you.

If you haven't finished your survey for another reason, do that here please: https://lackadaisy-bookset-and-plushes.backerkit.com/ 🐈

Further updates will come to this page as they become available. As always thank you for your patience!

To all of you: Hello! My name is Sylphy and I am a new face here at Iron Circus Comics, taking over handling of posts here and on social media accounts. We apologize for the lack of communication from the latter half of the year 2023, this due to a couple unforeseen situations with a few from our team outside of their control, but we are all recovering and this was part of the reason I was added. It's great to be here to help you all! However, I do not control the [email protected] email - so if you have an issue that needs assistance or are looking for an update to a reply from this email, you'll likely get the clarification I can provide but then also a request to reach out to this email with a ticket number if applicable. Please allow 3-5 business days for review and a response if you send us an email. If you've already read this blurb 2+ times... ehhh. sorry.

On to updates!:

The majority of the plushies for backers have been sent out at this time and it is wonderful seeing you all pose and post and make little outfits for them! Like seriously, that's rad!

We're excited to see you all receiving them and setting them up for display (me, specifically me) so please continue to do this! If you are having an issue with receiving your plushies, or have received them with wonky anatomy or broken accessories, please reach out to https://shop.junipercreates.com/docs/contact or if you are not receiving a reply, reach out to us at [email protected] with a picture of your plush and your order info so we can help you.

If you did not opt to get a plush when you originally backed the kit, you can also order one now at https://lackadaisyshop.com/ !

Even though the rewards have started to go out we do want to remind all our club members to fill out their survey as well as eventually we will need to take that down and it will be a shame if you miss out. That can be plugged in here if you haven't already done so: https://lackadaisy-bookset-and-plushes.backerkit.com/

Book shipments are finally beginning their way in to our distributor in what we've been told are 3 incredibly large shipments!

Part 1 of this shipment containing Volume 1 and Essentials has already arrived to Ingram (the distributor) and Part 2 which has Volume 2 and more copies of Essentials is expected to be here 3/25, and then shipment Part 3 on 4/1 if there are no delays with the courier time. Once Ingram has all of the incoming shipments, we will then send the books to White Squirrel, who is our crowdfund fulfillment. These will then be shipped out to you. And an update here will happen when that shipment begins.

These books will be shipped independently of the pins and the card games in their own packages. However you may also still end up seeing the standalone Volume 1 in stores before the backer rewards are issued out by our fulfillment processor. If that ends up happening, we do apologize for this delay in receipt on your end. Backers will receive their books ahead of the Volume 2 and Essentials store release dates however.

The Chevron pins are finally in! It's great to be able to share a couple photos with you all now that they look how they should!

After the issue with the previous pin manufacturer where the casting was not as originally planned, we've arranged to work with a completely different manufacturer and have started talks with them to prevent another extended issue with the pin rewards. Talks with a new manufacturer are already underway and we thank you for your extended patience with this particular odyssey. Something will eventually happen with the original incorrect pins but we will get to that once the backer pins are issues out to you all.

Edit 3/28: As for the pins in the above picture, a large majority of those are in the process of reaching backers at this time! You should start to see yours arrive over the next 7-10 business days.

The card game mentioned is within the works now! We are speaking with a couple of different printers for sourcing options on our materials and once we have an idea of a timeframe a further update on this should become available. We're looking forward to having a few visuals to show you in the upcoming future!

Also upcoming (it's a big update!) is an additional mini-episode as well! One where Mordecai gets interrogated by a knee-high Ivy in a small peek into Lackadaisy's past. While we're excited to show you more in the future, we have a few club patron backer exclusives of what's coming up for you all to see below: