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HOLE Chapter 04 + Early Summer Roundup

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Hole chapter 04 title page of a side view of Jane looking at her phone as she opens the back door to her job, the page framed at the sides with bricks and telephone poles. In the background we see the mural on the building across the lot from her, where a giant painted tiger cranes its neck down behind her with sharp teeth and long tongue poised as if to eat her. Text reads "FRICTION WARS WITH INERTIA".
A further away shot on Nat's driveway one morning just before dawn. The garage door is open and the garage itself is illuminated entirely with an eery red light, contrasting the desaturated purples outside. There doesn't appear to be anything untoward in the garage, just tools and boxes and junk, but the vibe is uneasy. Text reads "THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE IS NOT THE ABSENCE OF PRESENCE".

Hello all! Long time no see! I need to remember to update this thing more frequently. First thing’s first, HOLE is officially off of hiatus! I’m very excited to share chapter 04 with you. I’m finally getting into the actual meat of this thing. It’s also a good time to catch-up/reread if you’re so inclined, with 100 pages now in the archives to binge.

In other summery news, I’m finally starting to get my show schedule lined up for the rest of the year. The only guarantees at this exact moment in time are the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE) in Chicago (go figure) on June 28-29 and the Denton Comic Art Expo down in Texas on September 27th. It’ll be my first time doing either of those shows so if you’re in the area I would definitely like to see you!

In terms of general life stuff something I have been very proud to have been working on lately is helping to set up and run the Cartoonist Cooperative’s 2025 Minicomic Awards, an award celebrating the contributions of short-form comics to the development of the artform that awarded $500 cash prizes to seven winners in seven genre categories. It was very fulfilling! Here’s the award ceremony (in which I make a brief voice appearance) if you’d like to see what all we were working so hard for:

In my final piece of news, I’m getting very close now to launching my latest Patreon-exclusive erotic comic. Here is all I will leave of it to you for now…

A black background with white text on it that reads: IRONSCROTE DO YOU HAVE THE BALLS TO BE THIS NUTS? Transgressive transgender transhumanism. Body horror t-cock & ball torture.

Viscous Discharge Press New Year’s Sale!

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An image of a bunch of copies of Blix & Vega Collected Edition lying on a table. Over top of the image are text boxes saying "discount code: newyearnewme", "viscousdischarge.bigcartel.com", and "20% off all purchases until 1/15/25".

I’ve decided to start the new year off right and make room for some new stock by running a 20% off sale on everything at Viscous Discharge Press until January 25th. This includes the brand spankin new collected edition of Blix & Vega, so if you’ve been wanting to grab a copy now’s a great time!

In other exciting news, Hole was accepted into the KNIFEBEETLE webcomic webring as a member!

Screenshot of the horror section on Knifebeetle with the listing for Hole right at the top. The description says: Hole centers on 27 year old Jane Nowak who is forced to confront her tumultuous past when the ghost of her childhood best friend/rival Asenath "Nat" White begins to torment her. As the haunting takes its toll on Jane, forcing her deeper into a spiral that affects her performance at her job and tanking her mental health, she must relive the trauma of what happened between her and Nat in high school and the bodies left in their wake."

KNIFEBEETLE is a curated webring of longform narrative-driven webcomics and it’s been one of my favorite collections of webcomics for a while now. It’s a big honor to have my own comic included in its ranks.

Hole will resume updating publicly this year, but a reminder in the meantime that you can read Hole chapter 04 currently updating in sketch form over on my Patreon.

I hope you all have a happy 2025!

A closeup on a linocut print of someone with a shadowy face looming threateningly over the viewer. Over top of the image are text boxes saying "discount code: newyearnewme", "viscousdischarge.bigcartel.com", and "20% off all purchases until 1/15/25".

Hole’s 2nd Birthday!

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Happy birthday, Hole!

Side profile of Jane from Hole as she's held in place by some kind of horrible meat grip. Above her a giant mouth descends and a long tongue extends from it to wrap around her throat and lick her face.

It’s wild to me that I’ve already been making this comic for two years, and, also, that it’s only been two years! This project is my baby, and has been vital to me excising a lot of the demons I got knocking around in my head. Here’s to more years as I get this thing done!

I might hear you asking, “But isn’t Hole on hiatus right now?” And you would be right! Publicly, anyway. The middle chunk of this year got too busy for me to finish chapter 04 before chapter 03 finished posting, but as a stopgap I have started posting the sketches for chapter 04 up over on my Patreon. If you’re interested in seeing process of how I make this comic or are just itching for more Hole I hope you check it out! Here’s an example of what the sketch pages look like:

Sketch comic page. First panel is of a high-angle view of the inside of the butchershop Jane works at. We see her wiping the counter while Christian talks to a customer. The customer asks "Will these keep if I leave them in the trunk while I go help my mom change her tire?" to which Christian replies "No." In the next few panels we see Jane collect up some garbage while they others talk. Customer: "She said a sinkhole opened up out near Altamonte. When she tried to drive around the edge of it the busted asphalt popped the damn wheel. So will the meat be ok?" Christian: "We won't be offering a refund if it spoils, that's for sure."
Available over at Patreon.com/AcidwashWerewolf!

If you’re not interested in subscription models but would still like to support the comic, I have good news for you as well! After every chapter I post several pieces of behind the scenes content over on my Patreon that until now was completely isolated to that platform. To celebrate the second anniversary, I have compiled all of that bonus content and bundled it with PDFs of each chapter to publish together over on Itch.io! This is also beneficial if you’re one of those people that prefers to read PDFs over web reading, or you want to download the comic to take it onto a plane or something.

Screenshot of an Itch.io page showcasing the first three chapters of Hole hosted there.
Available at AcidwashWerewolf.Itch.IO!

As for other things on the horizon, I have all of the books in now for the Blix & Vega Kickstarter and have begun the process of sending them out. If you backed the Kickstarter, you should be getting your book soon! If you didn’t, and you’re interested in buying your own copy of Blix & Vega, fear not! I will be updating my Big Cartel store soon with the books as well as new prints and stickers and zines I have made. Stay tuned for that update in the next couple weeks.

Thank you all so much!

HELLRAISER UNWOUND Launch!

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My friend Mark Bouchard (It Took Luke, Leaf Peepers) and I made an 8-page Hellraiser fancomic, with them writing and me drawing! UNWOUND is an Extremely Gorey tale of two lovers deciding to meet the parents and discovering just how badly that can go.

Previously only available on my Patreon and in person at shows, it is now available for sale as both a digital pdf via my itch.io account and as a physical zine through my shop.

Buy the physical zine here!
Buy the digital pdf here!

In addition to the comic launch, I have also updated the Viscous Discharge Press store to include more prints! If there’s anything there you’re wanting to grab why not pick it up with a copy of the Hellraiser Unwound zine? 😉

Chapter 03 of Hole has started!

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A title image of someone's hairy leg in the foreground as they look down into a puddle. In the reflection in the water we can see that it's Jane from Hole, but that her face has been badly distorted through light refraction. Text reads "White blood cells serve many functions".
A title page featuring an orange ipod mini with red earbuds, a folded up dark red pocketknife, and yellow and red running shoes sit arranged on a dark porch. overlaid atop them are the words "APOPTOSIS IS CALCULATED"

Click here to start reading it, or of course you can check out new pages ahead of time over on Patreon!

I’m very excited to share this one with you all. It marks the end of the “opening” section of Hole, and after this we can start drilling down into what this thing is actually about. Sorry, I made this about drilling hole. I’m sorry.

Another thing I wanted to mention because I think I have neglected to outside of my socials (my bad! still getting used to this) is that as well as Hole updates and prints mailed to you on my Patreon I also have a series of pup play human pets based around different dog breeds up for the NSFW tiers. Here’s a little sample if that’s the kind of thing you’re interested in:

The upper torso of a thin, pale woman with long blonde hair done up in pigtails that poke out of a pale leather pup hood. In her mouth is a bone-shaped gag, and a collar around her neck leads to a leash going off the page. Before the page cuts off, we see her arms bound in armbinders and pasties covering both her actual nipples and two more sets on her upper torso trailing below them.

Lastly, while it feels tacky to tack it on at the end here like this, I wanted to say that the ongoing genocide in Palestine is still ongoing, and that whatever anyone can do to help bring attention and aid to the plight of the people there is of the utmost importance right now. An organization I belong to, the Cartoonist Cooperative, is doing a donation drive wherein people who donate E-Sims to the people of Gaza can get art and comic rewards from various people in the Co-op. While I myself had to drop out of contributing art for health reasons, there are many more people involved who would love to reward you for whatever you can contribute at this time. The only thing any of us really have in this world is eachother, and we have to take care of as many as we can.

Viscous Discharge Press Launch

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I finally set up another online store to sell physical goods through! Introducing Viscous Discharge Press!

I have zines up there for five comics–all drawn by me, with four of them also written by me and one written by Adam V Massimiano (that one’s Death-Tell Clicker). All of them are black and white interiors with color block printing on the covers. This is my first time doing mixed media zines like this and I’m pretty excited about it!

Excitingly, this also means both issues of my erotic comic Blix & Vega are now available in print for the first time! I know a few people were asking me if I’d ever have it available in print, and now the answer is yes!

Right now all that’s available through the site is zines, but I’ve been working a lot with linoblock printing lately as you can see and I’m hoping to start selling block prints and original ink drawings and stickers and the like through the site before too much longer.

Go check it out!