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🕑 Added 2022-11-24 19:22:54 +0000 UTC1. Me, Katia, and all our animals are finally reunited! Which, naturally, brought us all a lot of joy and relief (at 33 I now know what "tears of joy" actually is).
What didn't bring us that much joy - be it still with a healthy dosage of relief - is how Serbian customs treated a huge package of my art, books and clothes that arrived couple of days later after Katia.
Basically, customs dug through our entire package (because it looked too big and too nice not to contain any contraband or expensive good, huh), messed it all up by putting the stuff into a larger and shittier box with huge holes in it, and then OF COURSE it was raining in Belgrade for the last few days, so of course the new package received some amount of water damage:
Luckily, my original art actually suffered the least amount of damage (nothing that can't be fixed with a hot iron, which, btw, we don't even have here XD), while most of my remaining stock of zines and some of my personal books got wrecked preeeetty hard -___-
(I was saving that copy of Dagger Dagger for almost a year so I can ship it to him to Ukraine, god fucking damnit!!!)
And yes, as you remember, I brought a lot of my art along with me on my initial flight to Serbia two months ago, but I actually forgot how big is the stash of older comic art that I had to leave behind in Saint Petersburg - pages from Protector, Turncoat, 7 Deadly Sins, and even some Undertow; stuff that I never really intended to sell, but.... For mobility's sake, I think right now I have 2 options, because getting kilograms and kilograms of this art across borders is an incredibly taxing ordeal: I either start selling some of the pages myself, or move my operation to a new art rep (a thing I've sworn off against couple of years ago, but I don't think that I posses the luxury of being so snide right now).
Anyway, this is something for me to consider later, probably. I'm just happy this stuff is safe and more or less intact here, with us all now.
2. My Gumroad store is up and running again, because I was able to get myself a functioning Serbian paypal. And good grief, is that a relife - because, as nice-looking and ethical as Itch.io is, it's complete and utter dogshit with taxes and payouts.
So yeah, both my 2022 releases - Magnum Opossum 2022 and Souls Love #3 - now available there, too!
3. Finally, I really wanted to thank all my new patrons for their care and support. I don't actually think that twitter is gonna die (or become worse of a site than it actually is), so if you subscribed to this patreon sometime in the last 2 weeks - consider yourself bamboozled ^__^
...But I do hope you'll find this Patreon entertaining ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Cheers!
Comments
Artyom Trakhanov
Weirdly I'm okay with someone touching all my personal stuff, but incredibly anal about not having my copy of FUGUE in mint condition anymore T___T
Michael Oeming
Such cute pets. Love your art
Reba Jacobs
Oh man, that sucks about your books and art and all your stuff getting pawed through. Glad it's 'mostly' ok. That Harren page is nice to see safe there too!
Glad you’re reunited and getting settled, but that really sucks about the art.
Artyom Trakhanov
between this, that, and Payoneer, my life has to many fucking Ps in it
Artyom Trakhanov
(post initially said "functioning Serbian patreon", but of course I meant to say "functioning Serbian paypal")
