"Everybody Loves Smiley" (1) is now available for everyone to read. First page above, rest on the website.

https://fodongo.jectoons.net/2024/05/13/issue-5-everybody-loves-smiley-by-jectoons/

Now all of issue 5 is online, you can download it from the site! It should be up on the Internet Archive later today.

https://fodongo.jectoons.net/downloads/fodongo-issue-5/

Thank you for reading and supporting independent artists and Free-Culture.

A tale about uncomfortable roommates, by Mario A. Gonzalez, is now available for everyone to read. First page above, rest on the site.

https://fodongo.jectoons.net/2024/05/06/issue-6-terms-conditions-by-mario-a-gonzalez/

Check out his other comics, Wyliman (https://www.wyliman.com), Clink (https://clinkcomic.com) and Nihil Negativum (+18)(https://www.ergo-comix.com/comics/nihil). And do check more comics out from issue 6!

https://fodongo.jectoons.net/downloads

From issue 5, "Dead Sight" by Zach Acherman is now available for everyone to read. First page above, more on the site:

https://fodongo.jectoons.net/2024/04/29/issue-5-dead-sight-by-zach-acherman/

Please check out his other comic at https://ewdeliverycomic.com, and check more comics at the Fodongo site!

Attention everyone! Issue 6 of Fodongo is out NOW!

This time around we have Mario A. Gonzalez, N. Toyohito , SPRAK and myself bring you freshly baked comics, all ready for you to read.

Please take a look at the link above, and if you can and want to, consider buying the issue. It supports the artists behind it and will contribute to our fundraising for Year 2 of the zine. Thank you so much!

"Miss Luna", by Amelie Shypilova, is now available for everyone to read! First page above, read the rest on the site:

https://fodongo.jectoons.net/2024/04/15/issue-5-miss-luna-by-amelie-shypilova/

Please check out her other work (https://amelieshypilova.myportfolio.com), and consider purchasing this issue to support the artist and to help fund Year 2 of Fodongo!

https://fodongo.jectoons.net/downloads/fodongo-issue-5/

Thank you.

Issue 4 on Archive.org

Funding for Year 2 of Fodongo

As we near the first half of the first year of the zine, I am starting to think about year 2. While I plan on funding it as long as I can, my resources are limited, which also unfortunately limits the amount I can pay each artist per comic.

My ultimate goal is to pay at or above industry standard rates per comic page, which sits around $300 per finished page. We are nowhere near that at the moment, however, since $300 is roughly how much I’m spending per issue, so we have a long way to go to reach that goal.

(I am incredibly thankful to all the contributors for the amazing work they have produced, in spite of the low budget. You are amazing.)

I’m not necessarily in a rush to get there, but I would like to compensate the artists who have done such an incredible job with the comics so far fairly, so for year 2 (which should begin in November or December this year) I have come up with a working budget that will allow me to:

Increase each artist’s pay per comic by 50% Cover web hosting costs for the next year Pay any fees and taxes related to the income generated by the zine. Potentially pay someone to draw a cover or two. Potentially pay an artist for an ongoing story for a few issues. And I need your help to get there.

I’m looking to raise $6500 CAD total in the next year.

I will be counting money from sales and donations, so even if you don’t want or can’t donate at the moment, but you would like to purchase some digital or physical zines, that would be very much appreciated. Only 50% of each sale would go towards the funding for Year 2, though, since the other half still goes to the artists participating in said issue.

Let’s be clear though, the zine will still exist even if that goal isn’t reached. That goal’s purpose is mainly to increase the amount I can pay each artist per comic per issue, which I think matters a lot.

If somehow we beat that goal and go over it, I would also like to hire someone to help me clearly alt-text all the comics on the site (something I haven’t been good at), as well as pay the artists even more per commission! It’s an exciting prospect.

So if you can and would like to, please support the zine. If you would like to but can’t at the moment, please share it with everyone, make derivative works, review it.

Free-Culture is incredibly important, and it benefits everyone.

Thank you for your attention and support. See you next week with another comic!

Ject.

"La Puerta Plegable", a short comic about I scare I had a few years ago, is now available for everyone to read!

First page is above, the rest of the comic is on the site.

https://fodongo.jectoons.net/2024/04/08/issue-4-la-puerta-plegable-by-jectoons/

Later today the whole of issue 4 will be available on the Internet Archive, and you also have the option to directly download the .pdf from the site now! Of course you can still purchase it, support the zine and the artists in it.

Thank you!

Goooood morning! "Homesteady", by María Izquierdo Barri, is now available for everyone to read! First page below, other pages on the site:

https://fodongo.jectoons.net/2024/04/01/issue-5-homesteady-by-maria-izquierdo-barri/

Check out María's other work! (https://artstation.com/marizba), and do check out the rest of issue 5:

https://fodongo.jectoons.net/downloads/fodongo-issue-5/

Thank you for reading and supporting Free-Culture.

"Wishing Star", by Peny0u, is now available for everyone to read! First page below, other two on the site:

https://fodongo.jectoons.net/2024/03/25/issue-4-wishing-star-by-peny0u/

Please check out her work (https://www.instagram.com/peny0u/). If you buy the issue, thank you so much! 50% of revenue is distributed among artists.

Thank you for reading and supporting Fodongo. :)

📣 OUT NOW! Issue 5 of #Fodongo !

María Izquierdo Barri, Amelie Shypilova, Zach Acherman and me put together March's issue of indie, Free-Culture comics.

You can check the release notes and release schedule in the post below:

https://fodongo.jectoons.net/2024/03/18/issue-5-is-now-available/

50% of revenue is distributed among participating artists.

Thank you SO much for reading and supporting Fodongo. :)

"La Rana" (03) by myself is now available for everyone to read!

First page above, read the rest on the site:

https://fodongo.jectoons.net/2024/03/04/issue-3-la-rana-03-by-emiliano-carrasco-jectoons/

Please check out more comics at https://fodongo.jectoons.net

Would you like to win physical versions of the first 5 (that’s right, 5!) issues of Fodongo? Then this post is for you! There are three ways to enter the raffle:

• Buy a digital zine from the Zine Store
• Become a Monthly Supporter or
• Donate $3CAD or more on the Ko-Fi page

Proceeds from this raffle will support contributing artists and help make more zines in the future.

You have until March 17th 23:59 PST to join the raffle, and the winner will be decided on March 18th at 19:00 PST. You will then receive an email with the good news and asking you to provide an address to send the zines to.

If you can’t participate right now, don’t worry! There will be other chances to win physical zines in the future.

Thanks so much for your attention, and for supporting independent comics and Free-Culture!

From Issue 3, "Dungeon Dad", by SPRAK, is now available for everyone to read!

https://fodongo.jectoons.net/2024/02/19/issue-3-dungeon-dad-by-sprak/

See page 1 below. :)

Please look at their work (https://sprakcomic.com), and consider purchasing the issue this comic was published in (https://fodongo.jectoons.net/downloads/fodongo-issue-3/). 50% of all revenue is shared with contributing artists!

If you really like Fodongo and you'd like to help make more zines, you can also support the project on Ko-Fi!

Thank you for reading and supporting independent artists and Free-Culture!

Issue 4 of the Free Culture Comics Zine, Fodongo, is OUT NOW!

This time Juanele Tamal, Amelie Shypilova and Peny0u all sensed a theme and made their comics about love. I'm the odd one out and made a short story about a scare I had a while ago.

Please consider purchasing this issue, it turned out quite great, and 50% of all revenue is redistributed among artists!

Thank you so much for your attention and support.

And Issue 4 comes out on Monday!!

I encourage you to read some delightful comics at https://fodongo.jectoons.net :)

Hey, long time no see.

Since the last post there have been 2 more issues of Fodongo! And a new one is coming out next Monday.

Issue 2 has a horror comic by returning artist Zach Acherman, a delightfully cute instruction manual by Sharvari Shah, a battle for the ages by Amanda S. Rovaron, and the continuation of the adventures of the Magical Singing Frog, by myself!

Issue 2 is now available at the Internet Archive (so is Issue 1, by the way), but if you wanted to support the participating artists you can still purchase a digital copy on the site!

Issue 3 came out last month and has a comic about a writer by BurnedCoffee, a comic about airports by Federico Kempke, a comic about the role of parenthood by Sprak, and the conclusion (?) of the Magical Singing Frog's adventures by me!

Two of those comics are up on the site, and you can purchase the zine and support the artists if you want to as well. :)

Thanks for reading! Will post again soon!

If you throw something plastic in the ocean and doesn't come back, it will never poison you. Chances are it will come back though.

This is the cartoon from last week; was moving so I didn't have a chance to post, but here we are now!

Hey all! Here's the most recent Duso page. I'm happy with how the building turned out. There will potentially be no update next week because I will be moving.

If you'd like to read more please head over to https://duso.jectoons.net.

Like some of my other work, this is licensed CC-BY 4.0. More details at https://duso.jectoons.net/acerca-de-about/

This week's vignette. Used some Mexican actors from the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema as reference for the poster; let me know if you can tell who!

To kick things off I thought I'd share this small project with you all; it's a Free Culture Comics Zine that I put together.

The concept is something I have been wanting to do ever since I started thinking of making more Free Culture Stuff, and thinking about how to better approach a creative venture in a way that benefits the creative community at large and also the artists contributing to it.

It works as follows:

1. I commission 3-4 artists to create 3-page comics in black and white an licensed under one of five Free Culture Licenses (WTFPL, CC0, CCBY, CCBYSA or Free Art License). They can choose, and I do NOT own their work, I just commission it and put it together on the zine. Yes, this is a pivotal part of it: I want the artists to be paid before they make the comic and I want them to have a say in what kind of license they use. As part of my personal experience with Free Culture (of which I can talk about at some other junction), it takes a bit to warm up to the concept and realize that in general sharing in the creative process like this is a good thing.
2. I put the zine together using Scribus.
3. I release it at fodongo.jectoons.net, for sale digitally (additionally at itch.io). 50% of each sale is directed towards administrative stuff (paying for hosting, domain, increasing the budget for and paying artists for the next issue, etc.) and 50% is distributed among the artists that contributed to that zine. Forever.
4. Over the course of 8 weeks the comics are published for everyone to read on the website, and then the zine will be available at archive.org. As each artist's comic is posted publicly they can share it on their own socials and websites and such.
5. Rinse and repeat.

It's a different kind of pitch (a friend of mine at one point suggested to allow people to not use Free Culture Licenses, and I thought but... most things already don't have those, and that's a key feature of the project. It's hard to not think in the money-making/capitalistic way of making art, and it's not entirely our fault, I don't think); but I had the good fortune of getting a very good reception from an exceptional group of people I've had the pleasure to meet in the animation sector.

First off is Sprak, a queer Canadian artist who makes the comic Coffee O'Clock. They made a sweet vampire story that made me d'aw quite intensely. They licensed it CCBYSA. It's also already up on the site in case you want to check it out.

Then Zach Acherman, an animator and compositor with whom I worked on a show last year. He made a very short horror story that has some neat twists and turns! He licensed it CCBYSA.

Owen Twaites is a self-described 'aspirational himbo' and overall incredibly friendly guy, and one of the people I started a producer co-op with. He made a short personal tale about being overwhelmed by social interaction and notifications, and licensed CCBYSA.

Finally there's yours truly, and I made a silly comic about a magical singing frog in space. Licensed CC0.

I am incredibly thankful to these artists, and thrilled at how the zine shaped up! And I'm excited to share it with you all, so please take a look if you have the chance, and please share it and make some derivative works. :)

Ok, enough for now, I need to finish the next Duso page.

Talk to you later!

Hello! This is a space to share and discuss the projects that I have going on at Jectoons.net, as well as to share any derivative works you create based on the stuff I make!

I am Jectoons, a Mexicanadian animator and comic artist who believes and advocates for Free Culture and Open Source stuff. I am currently making two comics:

• Random Vignettes is a series of... random vignettes depicting a variety of scenarios, from general injustices to every day life scenes and social critique. It is licensed CC-BY 4.0

• Duso is a silent, all-ages comic about an orange dog named Duso who one day finds a pink ball in the immense void he inhabits. It is licensed CC-BY 4.0.

I also edit and publish a Free Culture Comics Zine called Fodongo, the first issue of which is out now!! Every month I commission 3-4 artists to make a Free Culture comic and put them together in a zine! 50% of each sale is redistributed among artists.

But my stuff is not the only reason I made this community; it is also a space for you to share your own Free/Libre Culture projects, or your derivative works, or to talk about such topics!

So join us and enjoy! ¡Y si quieren publicar en español, es más que bienvenido!

Looking forward to chatting with you all!