About
Hi! Thank you for reading The Dawn Chapel, I’m pretty excited that you’d want to! I started doing this comic in the fall of 2009, with the objective of just doing a comic page a week to try to teach myself how to tell stories visually and see if I could keep a regular update schedule. I shoot for updates on fridays but as often as not, I am late and wind up posting later on the weekend. Some people are pretty good at getting their comic out according to a regular schedule; I am not one of them.
I don’t know, should I write something else here? How about a faq? I guess people like those?
Haha this is a pretty funny comic and — whoa wait there sure are lot of talking animal people. Is.. is this a furry comic? I think I got betrayed
Yeah this comic is usually pretty furry, but not aways. If I feel like talking animal characters work with whatever the comic is, they’re probably gonna be there.
Does this mean that you are a furry? I don’t think I am okay with that.
Oh man, totally. I don’t have like a costume or anything, but I do draw loads of weird furry art and I’ve been active in the furry crowd for years before I started this project. I don’t even have the good sense to be embarassed about it anymore.
I’ll try to leave the weirdness out of the comic, though! I mean, the bad weird, anyway. I don’t wanna freak nobody out that I don’t have to.
If I still like this comic does.. does that make me a furry? :(
Not necessarily, I guess? I don’t know, ain’t everybody who liked Star Wars got to wear a stormtrooper uniform, you know? I’m not gonna rat you out to your friends for liking my comic, if you’re worried.
Wait, I don’t understand, what is a furry?
If you are reading this comic and you are asking this question, you are probably my mom, and I love you but I am not prepared to have this conversation with you
Can I repost your comic to content aggregators or splogs like 9gag, funnyjunk, fatpita, etc?
Oh, please don’t. Even when my site is linked, kids that use those sites never click through. If you see my strips posted on those or similar sites, I’d be very grateful if you dropped me a note so that I can get after them.
How about Imgur? I want to share your comic on Reddit but I don’t want to crash your site.
Please don’t repost my stuff to Imgur, either. Reddit users are just as bad about not visiting the source if it’s not directly linked, and my web host is sturdy enough to handle the traffic, it’s cool.
Can I commission you to draw a thing?
Yes, absolutely! Commission information can be found here.
Howcome the prices on your originals are so weird?
I tend to price my original artwork based on how willing I am to let go of it, rather than an objective assessment of how much it’s “worth.” If I don’t really want to sell something, I’ll price it so high that if it does wind up selling, I won’t be too upset about it.
Why is this comic called The Dawn Chapel? There is nothing morningy or churchy about it.
When I started doing this comic I had registered the url dawnchapel.com for another project that I never got around to starting, and rather than spend the money to register a new url (and have to think up a title for this comic) I figured I’d just use what I already had. It is probably the dumbest way to name a webcomic; and if it is the dumbest way to name a webcomic (like, if there’s an objective review board or whatever that is able to confirm that this is the dumbest way to name a webcomic), I would like a prize.
I have another question that is not answered here; this is a problem and you should do something.
