Dear Insane Children,

Font Lord here again   🙂

Letting you all now know that the Chaos Necklace reward is gone and has been replaced with the Hysteria Rabbit + Tote Bag.
Wheeee !!

This will affect everyone at the $75 tier and above charged from Feb 1st onwards.

Another amazing thing about this tier update is that if you have already got your Chaos Necklace reward from being at the $75 tier previously, you will STLL get the Rabbit + Bag reward if you pledge $75 again.

And just to clarify, this is not just a February goal, this is an ongoing and permanent thing at the $75 tier.
So you can change your tier to $75 now if you want, or just do it another month in the future, whatever is good for you.

By the way, this is February’s print, so it actually seems a pretty great month to do that particular tier   🙂

We also want to remind you that this is a timed Patreon exclusive.

At some point in 2021, the Hysteria Rabbit + Bag will be on sale in the Mysterious store, but that will not be for several months at least.
So getting it as a Patreon reward is currently the only way to get the Hysteria Rabbit.

PLEASE MAKE SURE your address is up-to-date and accurate on your Patreon profile, as we will NOT be fulfilling these through Backerkit.

Any questions, pop them into the comments and I’ll see if I missed anything   🙂

– Cheers

Dear Insane Children,

Font Lord here with the final result of your choice for the next 6 art prints.

Honestly, surprised that Alice’s burning family didn’t make the cut, but hey, that’s why we’re asking you, so we can make the right decision on what to print   🙂

So, to be clear, those people who were charged in January are already getting “Holding the Moon”, but here’s what will be happening from February onwards.
And again, just to clarify, we reserve the right to change things up should we need to, and we will give plenty of notice if that happens.

Oh yeah, and some of the images might be edited slightly as they are updated/refined. 

Charged in February

Charged in March

Charged in April

Charged in May

Charged in June

Charged in July

Some incredible Art Prints coming up, I think you’ll agree.

– Cheers

Dear Insane Children,

Font Lord here wishing you all a Happy New Year and that your first 3 days of 2021 are off to a flying start   🙂

[American also here proofreading Font Lord’s post and maybe being mean to him.]

So, down to business.
We would like you to Choose 6 of your favorite pieces of art from the images below.
Then when we see which ones are the most popular, they will become the next 6 prints for Patrons in 2021.

[Well, Martin, technically we reserve the right to change a slot if something Truly Amazing comes up – but we’ll be sure to give lots of warning beforehand if we do that. Not like that one time YOU changed the print after the start of the month and made a bunch of Insane Children angry].

(By the way, the image for those Charged in January is already chosen, it’s Holding The Moon, which you have already seen here)[. <– punctuation, Martin!]

So, please only choose 6 and then next week when most people have voted, we can make an art print calendar for Feb-July [Why abbreviate “February” but completely spell out “July,” MARTIN?] so you all know what’s coming. Yay!

[NOTE from American: There are 10 images presented but ONLY CHOOSE 6 that you like best]. 

– Cheers

[From Shanghai with Teasing Martin, American]

Dear Insane Children,

Happy 2021! Here’s hoping your year is already off to a great start. We’re heading into the Chinese calendar year of the “Metal Bull” – and I’m going to say we should interpret that as the year that we Rock-And-Roll while nothing can stop us. According to The Internets: 

Is 2021 a lucky year? The 4 most fortunate Chinese zodiac signs in 2021: According to the Chinese Zodiac, 2021 is more of a lucky year for men and women born in the Year of the Ox, the Year of the Snake, the Year of the Rooster, and the Year of the Rat.

Being a rat (and Yan is too), all I can say is: RAWR! 

How many of our Insane Children are also among 2021’s list of lucky animals?

Speaking of Insane Children, we’re working on a scene where Alice meets The Knave (a former Insane Child turned servant of The Queen) as she makes her way to the Royal Court. 

Omri sent over a sketch of this scene (main image above) and I sent back a quick note: 

The Knave being much bigger than Alice and having an adult body with an Insane Child head… feels wrong to me. He’s supposed to be an Insane Child who managed to escape into this version of Wonderland and took on a role working for The Queen. So… I would prefer we use the sketch version that Norman did (the one I posted above).

I was hoping for a version of The Knave based on this image from Norm: 

And for the scene to be set in a place like this: 

Another revision (or two) and I think we’ll be there.

Meanwhile, Joey has been working on a critical part of The Moon… 

Here you can see the process she’s gone through from initial sketch to final illustration. 

I really love the colors, composition of the final illustration. You may recall that this is a scene where Alice disables the Heart of The Moon in the middle of her “escape from the circus” Grand Theft Moon sequence. 

This one needs to be an art print – because I want this one hung in my office ASAP! 

Who else wants this one as a print? 

And speaking of potential Art Prints… 

This collaboration between Norm (lines) and Omri (color – coming soon) is sure to be a winner. This depicts Alice fighting her way out of The Circus with her newly acquired Crystal Vorpal Blade. Woo.

Omri says he’s starting on color for this one now. Can’t wait!

Insanity Check

How’s everyone doing out there? Did you find a special way to ring in the New Year? Any resolutions get made (and already broken)? 

Let us know in the comments below. And share your best wishes for a new year. 

With Love From Shanghai, 

-American

Dear Insane Children, 

Happy (almost) New Year! 2020 was a bit crap. But it’s almost over and… well, here’s hoping (REALLY HOPING) that 2021 brings us a bunch of good stuff. 

Speaking of good stuff… 

We had a fun live stream over Twitch yesterday. If you missed it, I’ve just uploaded a copy over on my YouTube Channel. You can check that out HERE. 

But if you don’t want to sit through a 2-hour live stream and only want to hear what we have in store for 2021, you can click HERE. 

The shorter video walks through the various projects we have going on at the moment – and talks about the different ways those might (or might not) move forward in 2021. 

All of this is, of course, only made possible with your support, involvement, and trust. And for that, again, a huge THANK YOU to the Insane Children. 

I have a feeling 2021 will be the year that all of our investment, commitment, and creativity will start paying off. Fingers crossed!

From Shanghai with Frozen Crossed Fingers, 

-American 

Dear Insane Children

Font Lord here with the last Lucky 5 of 2020.
Wheeee !!

Actually, this is the Lucky 10 since due to insane busy-ness, last month’s lucky 5 didn’t get done.
Sorry about that.

So as you know, we use the powah of Google’s RNG feature to pick the lucky ones from our list of Patrons + the last YouTube video’s comments in order to keep things all above board   😉

This time the prizes will be…
5x mini Throne Room prints
5x 2021 Calendars
And we’ll be assigning them randomly to the following people.

The winners are…

* Allison Cooper
* Gishpane
* Sophie Antoni
* James Manley-Buser
* Katharina Antonietti
* Tatjana Schulten
* Layna Pajak
* Rain Patterson Owens
* Gedalia Santamaria
* Marisa Batchelor

Congrats to the winners   🙂
We’ll get your stuff out as soon as we can, but shipping is pretty chaotic out there currently, it might take a little while to arrive. Sorry!

IN OTHER NEWS!

This week we are going to do a live-stream on Wednesday.
So please be aware of that and don’t turn up to Twitch a day late and be all upset that we’re not there.
https://www.twitch.tv/americanmcgee

So that’ll be 10am Shanghai time, Dec 30th.

Los Angeles = 6pm Dec 29th
New York = 9pm Dec 29th
London = 2am Dec 30th
Sydney = 1pm Dec 30th

Hope to see you there for the usual, chat, fun, discussion and MORE PRIZES    😀

Finally, as you know by now, no Lucky 5 post is complete without a Lulu.
Here you go.

– Cheers