Mia Jay and Laurel Boulton (On Hiatus)

Composure

Barely holding it together <3

Season Three Explorations

Playing with some style stuff in advance of Season Three! This is kind of a cartoonier direction than the previous concepts, but I think I like it?

Heads up! Starting next week we're beginning a new mini-comic! This one is a pretty big deal, as it is going to be canon, and fully inked and c...

Winter Wonderland

Sometimes a family is you, your mist-wolf girlfriend, a ghost who hates her, a monkey, your giant snake mom, your uncle made of rocks, a monster hunter who tried to kill you, and Boar.

Happy holidays!

- MJ

Mini-Comic: This Poor Child

A little glimpse into Jonah's history. Also a good example of why, even though she loved him, Lillian wasn't really a good mother for Jonah.

As a heads-up, we won't be available for an update next week, so there'll be no uploads on the 17th, but we hope to bring you something Christmassy th...

Sneak Peek: Kells' Season Three Look

They really took the pirate thing and made it their whole personality. To be fair, I think it looks good on them.

- MJ

'What Big Teeth You Have' Pt 3

Obligatory disclaimer: pulling out is not an effective method of contraception! These two are just playing a risky little game...

In other news, I've read and written SO much smut since I wrote Jonah in this. I promise his dirty talk is way better now.

Thanks for tuning in for this li...

Sneak Peek: Jonah's Season Three Look

This one is more subject to change than Mercy's design, since we haven't yet gotten our editor to sign off on bearded!Jonah. But we really want it to happen, so fingers crossed!

His hair gets curlier when he's at sea, as seen in season two's flashback story. Adorable.

- MJ

'What Big Teeth You Have' Pt 2

These two continue to tease each other. Incorrigible.

I've gotten so much better at drawing Jonah's body since then.

Point of interest: Mercy's back scars! This was after we had written 'Awake', where she got them, but lonnnng before we drew it, which means this was the first time she...

Sneak Peek: Mercy's Season Three Look

As an exclusive for our patrons, here's a look at Mercy as she'll be appearing at the beginning of Season Three! We're thinking of revealing designs for Jonah and Kells over the next two weeks as well 👀

The facial features are in a slightly different style, since I like to take the seaso...

'What Big Teeth You Have' Pt 1

We have a surprise for you guys this week!

For the sake of some background, this is a lil smut comic we wrote and drew back in March 2021! It's no longer considered canon for a handful of reasons, not least of all that Jonah acts differently here re: Mercy's wolf form than the canon Jonah (...

Mini-Comic: Please No

Just one good reason why Asa never attempted to mind-control Gravebarr. It's simply not worth it.

- MJ

Art Nouveau Pin-Up: Lillian (NSFW)

We know our fellow monster-lovers gotta eat too <3

Art Nouveau Pin-Up: Lillian

The third in our series of Nouveau-style pinups! I think this was my favourite one yet!

- MJ

Non-canon Chapter Script - 'Visions'

Hello everyone and a HUGE THANK YOU for your patience while we finished up season 2! I thought it'd be a good night to post an old script that never made it through editing. It's just a little bit spooky, so HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

This was a chapter we wrote together that was ultimately scrapped ...

! Patreon Hiatus - October Update !

Hi everyone!

Mia here, just letting you know that as Laurel and I continue our end-of-season crunchtime into October, we're going to continue to keep Patreon on pause for another month. As much as we miss updating you guys with new content, we simply don't have the time while our schedule i...

! Patreon Hiatus !

Hello! Just putting an official public notice here that the Of Swamp & Sea Patreon is on hiatus for the month of September. Current Patrons will not be charged.

Please keep in mind that new sign-ups will be charged, but you'll have access to the entire backlog of exclusive content for...

Laurel's Doodle Delivery

Hi all! We're doing something a little different this week. In order to give Mia a small break, I'm posting some of my old OSAS content from throughout the years! I'm definitely not the artist between us, but I thought some of these early concepts and doodles might be interesting, especially to s...

Reading

The couple that reads together!

Based on a Patron request for Jonah and Mercy's own cozy little book club~<3

- MJ

Reenactment

Give him credit for trying!

Based on a patron request for Jonah reenacting a scene from one of Mercy's favourite books <3

- MJ

Mini-Comic: Collective Adventures

Kells proving that there's nothing wrong with just being good at your One Thing and sticking with it.

Featuring Felicity, a character for a side project we didn't end up going with.

Pinup - Captain Stillet

Apparently with the first episode of Shadow hitting free readers, we've had more comments lusting after the Captain. So this is for those people, and also anyone who likes monster pirate daddy I mean captain

Bonus: the first picture/concept design I drew of the captain years ago. Some desig...

Pinup - Captain Stillet (NSFW)

With zoomed-in version 👀

Modern AU - Gravebarr

We're working super hard on trying to keep ahead of our buffer for the comic right now, but we still wanted to drop a quick something for you guys since we didn't post over the weekend. Therefore: humanized Gravebarr. I'm sorry.

In the modern AU, he's one of Jonah's adoptive uncles. Clearly...

Mercy x Iris Musings

Everyone's favorite 'what if' ship?

- L

Spidersonas - Mercy

Here's a look at Mercy's Spidersona, AKA Wolf Spider! I designed this one, and Mia got it to its final form! I feel like this suit in particular must be pretty hard to get in and out of. Maybe she's stuck in it?

- L

Grip - Redraw

A redraw of an older piece!

Spidersonas - Jonah

A spiderjonah, if you will.

Do you think he got bit by a radioactive spider but, like, on the eye? Owch...

Stay tuned for Mercy's soon!

- MJ

Announcement: Subscription Pause for June

Hey all!

While we're hard at work over the month of June building up our buffer for the comic, unfortunately there won't be much time for the extra content we post here. For that reason, we're pausing billing on all active subscriptions for next month, and will return with fresh content in ...

Prose - AWAKE

It's been a while since we uploaded any of the old prose versions of the comic chapters for you guys to see, so here's the original version of 'Awake' for your perusal!

DISCLAIMER!

There are certain differences in this version of the story, due to changes we ended up ...

Concept Art: Teen Jonah

Here is Jonah as he was originally going to appear in another flashback in an upcoming chapter. The idea has been changed so this won't be appearing after all, but we thought you guys might be interested to see our boy growing up anyway!

He's about 15 here, and about 10ish in the story we s...