October has many, many, many holidays and observances, in case All Hallows Eve at the end of the month and being widely recognized as the Spookiest Month of The Year were not enough! Some observances include:
Adopt A Shelter Dog Month 🐶
Bat Appreciation Month 🦇
Black Cat Awareness Month 🐈⬛
Cookbook Month 🧑🍳
Go Hog Wild-Eat Country Ham Month 🐷
Go Nuts Over Texas Peanuts Month 🥜
Month of Free Thought 💭
National Pasta Month 🍝
National Pet Wellness Month ❤️🩹
National Pizza Month 🍕
National Popcorn Month 🍿
National Pretzel Month 🥨
Positive Attitude Month 😀
Squirrel Awareness And Appreciation Month 🐿️
Commissions
Hopefully very early this month (ideally before this coming Monday), I shall post a Halloween-themed Y.C.H. commission opening on Patreon.
September Update
September Update
Happy September!
This month has an amazing number of month-long holidays/observances/awarnesses/causes, including
All American Breakfast Month 🥞
Classical Music Month 🎼
Happy Cat Month 😺
Hug A Texas Chef Month 🤠
National Courtesy Month 😊
National Potato Month 🥔
Read A New Book Month 📕
Sketchtember ✏️
STEPtember 🦶
Where I Post What
The middle of the year seems like a good check-in point (and a couple months late is close enough {ahem}). The following explains where I post and what I post nowadays.
Comic Reruns
Reruns of Deer Me, Sharpclaw, and various short stories (most of which fit within one of those two worlds) publish on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays on
X (Twitter) (currently within the Deer Me #450s comics, chapter 43 So Many Women)
Patreon as the new short-form Quips (currently within the Deer Me #20s comics, chapter 1 Con of Doom)
and also Mondays through Fridays on SubscribeStar (currently within the Deer Me #10s comics, chapter 1 Con of Doom), though this schedule shall change to match the Patreon Quip posting schedule once it catches up later this month.
These comic reruns mostly post in chronological created order of completed whole chapters, though there is a bit of switching between the two worlds for the sake of variety. This means that the occasional Sharpclaw chapter posts between two Deer Me chapters that were both completed first.
Current Comics
Ignoring the fact most weeks (months, years) do not have a current comic update, current Deer Me comics post Fridays on DeerMe.net and current Sharpclaw comics post Wednesdays on Sharpclaw.com.
Current Art
Current art images post as they get finished on Snarkclaw.com. I have no immediate plans to repost old art or current art anywhere else, though I might also use Patreon (Quips or more frequent regular posts) for such.
WIPs
I do not publicly post WIPs (works-in-progress), though I might start using Patreon (Quips or more frequent regular posts) to do so.
Monthly Updates
A monthly update summarizing the previous month's links to current comics and current art, along with whatever news or other rambling I share at the time (like this), posts on (or near) the first of each month in full at Snarkclaw.com and Patreon.
How to Reach Me
The best way to contact me has always been and continues to be e-mail. Everyone online has an e-mail address, two e-mail addresses do not have to be on the same platform to communicate, and algorithms (other than aggressive spam lists) do not dictate what is seen.
I have been trying the last few months to build muscle by daily gardening (which sounds a lot milder than the actual physical labor has been) and swimming, and the results are sunburn, insect bites, heatstroke, no weight loss, no improvement in how I look or how my clothes fit, lots of extreme soreness and fatigue, and supposedly some muscle toning where I did not have it before.
I think I might give up, let the plants overtake everything, and at least have some energy to work on comics and art.
In fun news, July has many, many, many month-long celebrations, including
Adopt A Rescued Rabbit Month 🐰
Anti Boredom Month
Cell Phone Courtesy Month 📱
Dog Days (July 3
August 11) 🐶
Family Reunion Month 🏡
Lettuce Month 🥬
Lost Pet Prevention Month 🐱🐶🐰
National Hot Dog Month 🌭
National Ice Cream Month 🍨
National Outdoor Month 🌳
National Park & Recreation Month 🏞️
National Picnic Month 🧺
National Watermelon Month 🍉
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 And, of course, happy 250th birthday to the United States of America. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
