Body Shaming (Full Comic Below in Attachment)

Hey Guys, 

Someone from the Top Tier leaked this comic and now its out.  I don't think its fair for it to be out there and free, as you guys pay for supporting the site.... SO I have attached the  PDF for it so you guys can all have the comic. 

****But please read the following:

You can thank the $55 Tier patrons for making this comic. It's their extra payments above the $45 that went into making this comic.  

I will tell you that it has bothered me so much that it was shared, that I am NOT GOING TO CONTINUE MAKING IT.  

This comic is OFFICIALLY DEAD.  Thanks to whoever shared it, that on YOU.

 I had just written 15 more pages for it that I was going to have worked on just after I finished HISTORY LESSON with REKKS, but I am NOT going to continue it.   That is a DIRECT RESULT of this leak.

Please STOP sharing the site's work! 

If you like our comics, don't hurt our site.  I want to acknowledge that the majority of everyone here is amazing and it's the reason that we have so many comics.  So for you guys, THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart!

There have been 4 major leaks on my site, each time I watch my patronage plummet for 3 or 4 months after. People ultimately don't want to pay for porn. (There are some good people that do want to support artists but 75 percent of people just won't pay as long as there is a free option on the table) An artist like Rekks, (Body Shaming and History Lesson) costs the sites' $55/tier Patrons' support over $200/ page just to produce the comic. Most of my artists aren't always people into the fetish and for high quality work I have to pay more to get these artists to make these fetish based comics. Once the support disappears, the comics begin to fade. I don't know if you know or like the artist Nite Q but he has stopped making comics because his sales have dropped to barely anything. Lustomic alone sales aren't what they used to be. That's why their comics are less frequent and  that's about money unfortunately. So you can see that ultimately piracy has an effect on this world or we would still have Nite Q making comics.

When patronage drops below 200 patrons, so will the 10 updates a week across the board. 

It's currently at 188 patrons. (we had 250 before the leak) 

People, I understand that our patron is expensive, but I also sink it all back into the site.  Most Patreon sites are lucky if you get 2 comic pages a month.  Even in the 15 tier I try do at least 10 updates EVERY MONTH.  That isn't CHEAP or EASY.

I have had a few of my comics on Lustomic and before 8 muses was a big thing my sales were pretty stable, then the F95, 8muses and Empornium started to leak my comics the same day as their release. I watched as my sales went from $1000 per comic (which takes me about 2 Hefty months to make) drop to about $100 in sales, which is like $100 for about 320 hours of work. So I stopped doing Lustomic and selling comics outright.

The worst thing about 8muses is that they (whether you know it or not) are destroying artists, not so much by exposure, but simply by traffic and search engines. If you currently try to search for your favorite artists in a search engine, 8muses and a whole host of other forums, clickbait sites pop up. Usually making the artists not even pop up in a google or bing search FIRST for their OWN WORK. Artists don't even get a fighting chance to be the first in a search engine for their own work, I am sure that you can see how that might be problematic in so many ways. 

I have to actively contact google and file DMCA complaints (weekly) simply to be above someone who is just hosting stolen or shared work from my site.

These things don't just happen in a vacuum. I promote the fuck out of my work on Imagefap, Twitter, Rule 34, Deviant art, Hentai foundry, BDSMLR, and Tumblr (before the porn purge) so people know about my work. Piracy of my work might have helped in the early stages of my comics (like 3 years ago) but I personally release 10 percent of the work for free out there all the time. If people are into toons/comics of IR/Sissy/Femdom then they absolutely know who we are.

Sorry for the rant. I can't thank you enough for being great patrons by helping to create these comics and of course for listening to my truth and respecting my wishes.

I hope that you and your friends and family are okay and dealing with this pandemic stuff well.

Sincerely,
Devin Dickie