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Where do you get your button making supplies, if I may ask? Also, is that a hand-held press in that picture? I’ve wanted to try button making but the standing presses are so expensive! Thanks!

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My machine is the Badge-a-Minit hand press, which I got for $100 about… 6 years ago?  I got the starter kit that came with 100 sets of button parts, which were my practice buttons while I learned how the machine worked.  I buy button parts in bulk from ButtonSafari on eBay, since they are much cheaper than BAM’s button parts.

I wrote up a whole button guide on my blog a few years ago, so go read that for more information.

A hand press is good for getting your feet wet, but a table-top unit with a lever will save your hands from dying.  I’ve been at the point where I should probably upgrade to a lever machine for the last couple years, but I’ve been putting it off and putting it off.

The nice thing about buttons is that whatever kind of machine you buy, it will eventually pay for itself in buttons sold.

Loving how the new Hues chapter is coming out! I really like aesthetic change as well! What made you decide to change it up if I may ask?

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Couple reasons!

First, inking is a skill I’ve been ignoring for years and I’ve decided to improve it.  So what better way to do it than make it part of my regular routine?

Secondly, time.  I’m slowly introducing more simplified techniques into The Hues so that any given page will hopefully take me less time to make, and therefore I can get more pages done in advance.  As well as make time for myself to work on commissions and side projects. :)

Inking the comic helps because it takes care of a lot of readability issues in the figures, and it takes a lot of weight off me at the shading stage since I don’t have to spend as much time rendering the folds on clothing and such.

That’s a lot of technical stuff in there, but basically, trying to develop and expand my skills, and trying to save some time! :D  Thank you for the kind words!

As someone who works with CC processing, when contesting that asshole’s chargeback please please provide all of your information from other scammed KSers, especially if you can all team up and prove it. Credit Card companies are not fond of people who abuse the CB system but they don’t always have good ways of mapping consistencies. He had to keep providing his home address so it’s not like he can claim the card was stolen.

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Thanks for the info!  I have indeed forwarded my correspondence with the other creators to Amazon, and hopefully that will be helpful in appealing the dispute.

I am curious. You stated you’ve been working on The Hue’s premise since 1998 I think the date was? How much has it changed since it was first thought up? Why did you decide to work on Garanos before The Hues?

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That’s correct. The Hues will turn 15 years old on August 27th.

It’s changed pretty dramatically more than a few times since its inception.  In the very beginning, it was essentially a Sailor Moon fanfic, then for awhile it was a pretty conventional magical girl series, and now it’s a love letter to the genre.  I’ve described this iteration of The Hues as a collaboration with my 12-year-old self, which is pretty accurate.

Garanos presented itself in my head during a time when I had convinced myself that The Hues would never get made, so that’s why I made it first.  TH had been my baby for a decade at that point and I had really kind of lost objectivity about it.  It just wasn’t ready back then, and I wasn’t ready to change things up in order to make it something more special.