Hey, Maggie’s doing some Dumbing of Age animations. DO YOU WANT TO SEE DOROTHY AND JOYCE RIDE A DREAM HORSE of course you fuckin’ do
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$50K Book 14 Kickstarter update: JACOB MAGNET tier unlocked!
by David M Willis on April 29, 2025 at 9:12 amThe Dumbing of Age Book 14 Kickstarter is finally past $50k! And that means JACOB is unlocked! Pledge at the JACOB MAGNET tier to get a Jacob magnet along with your book! (And don’t forget you get a free DOROTHY magnet in there too!) Or if you’re aiming for Jacob plus two or four other magnets of your choosing, huzzah, there’s the PICK THREE or PICK FIVE MAGNETS tiers! And if you want all of them unlocked during this campaign? Well, there’s a few tiers that hand you COMPLETE MAGNET POWER!
Up next are LIPSYNCING LUCY at $55K and…. DREAM HORSE at $60k! That’s right, it’s Dorothy and Joyce on a horse! Let’s make DREAM HORSE happen!
One week remaining! This thing ends next Tuesday just before midnight (Eastern)! So pledge today! or between now and then, whichever
Patreon bonus strip for APRIL 2025 — KAITLIN
by David M Willis on April 27, 2025 at 2:09 pmEvery month at the Dumbing of Age Patreon there’s two new exclusive bonus strips — one that patrons get to vote on, and another that’s my choice! This month, folks voted for KAITLIN, Becky’s former roommate at her original college who was gay exactly once and then stopped that forever after she learned her lesson, probably! Read this bonus strip and hundreds of previous at the Dumbing of Age Patreon!
Also, if you pledge up to $5 or more per month, you can read TOMORROW’s strip RIGHT NOW, every day!
Free Comic Book Day (May 3) signing at Laughing Ogre Comics!
by David M Willis on April 23, 2025 at 4:39 pmFree Comic Book Day is coming Saturday, May 3, and Laughing Ogre Comics in Columbus, Ohio, is featuring some local cartoonists! And guess what? I’m local cartoonists! So from noon to 2pm, you’ll find me at a table inside the store. I’ll have some Dumbing of Age books, bookmarks, and probably some magnets!
$46,354 Kickstarter update: Surprise BEATRICE MAGNET tier revealed!
by David M Willis on April 21, 2025 at 10:01 amDumbing of Age Book 14 Kickstarter update: It’s time for one final SURPRISE magnet unveiling this year! At the incredibly important and not at all random number of $46,354, we’re throwing down the gauntlet of BEATRICE! She’s one of the few remaining members of Lucy’s dorm crew that’ve yet to get a magnet! And she’s technically in this book! unlike zaph, sorry zaph
Pledge at the BEATRICE MAGNET tier to get her tucked into your signed/doodled Book 14 along with the free DOROTHY magnet! Or choose to get her and a handful of others at either the PICK THREE or PICK FIVE MAGNETS tiers! Or go whole-hog with the COMPLETE MAGNET POWER tier and get every magnet unlocked in this campaign!
Next up: JACOB unlocks at $50K, LIPSYNC LUCY unlocks at $55k, and I’m announcing now there will be a THIRTEENTH magnet this year if we pass $60K, and it’s a big’un. So big it’ll have eight legs! To help get us there, pledge today!
Book 14 Kickstarter Good Friday update: CHRIST FALLS, DINA IS RISEN
by David M Willis on April 18, 2025 at 7:10 pmThe Dumbing of Age Book 14 Kickstarter reached the next stretch goal of $45K on Good Friday, unlocking the PAJAMAS DINA MAGNET tier! That’s right, Christ has fallen and DINA IS RISEN. Take that, LORD!!!!
Pledge at the PAJAMAS DINA MAGNET tier to get a Dina magnet along with your book! (And don’t forget you get a free DOROTHY magnet in there too!) Or if you’re aiming for Dina plus two or four other magnets of your choosing, huzzah, there’s the PICK THREE or PICK FIVE MAGNETS tiers! And if you want all of them unlocked during this campaign? Well, there’s a few tiers that hand you COMPLETE MAGNET POWER!
Up next? Jacob, I think, at $50K. I don’t have a silhouette for him yet. Still trying to decide which look to go for him: exercise wear? casual wear? It’s a quandry!!! But there’s a surprise magnet reveal popping up soon who’s not Jacob! They do have a silhouette.
Book 14 Kickstarter update: EXERMACISES SARAH MAGNET tier unlocked!
by David M Willis on April 14, 2025 at 10:21 amThe Dumbing of Age Book 14 Kickstarter is at $41,752! And you know what that means: absolutely nothing!!!! But we’re surprise-revealing the EXERMACISES SARAH magnet anyway!
Pledge at the EXERMACISES SARAH MAGNET tier to get just Sarah (plus the free Dorothy magnet), or go all-in at one of the COMPLETE MAGNET POWER tiers and consider her and all other unlocked magnets automatically yours! Want more than just one magnet but less than the whole roster? We got PICK THREE and PICK FIVE MAGNETS tiers available for you folks.\
Still unlocking at $45K: PAJAMAS DINA MAGNET tier! And some more after that, probably!
Book 14 Kickstarter $40K stretch goal unlocked: HALLOWEEN BILLIE and HALLOWEEN RUTH magnets!
by David M Willis on April 12, 2025 at 10:04 am
The Dumbing of Age Book 14 Kickstarter has passed $40K, which means: Double magnet unlocking! The HALLOWEEN BILLIE and HALLOWEEN RUTH magnet tiers are now available! Or get both of them (plus the free DOROTHY magnet) by pledging to the HALLOWEEN BILLIE AND RUTH magnet tier! And, of course, if you went all-in on a COMPLETE MAGNET POWER tier, consider them added to your pile.
Don’t want the whole run, but want a choice of three magnets? Of five magnets? Then the PICK THREE and PICK FIVE magnet tiers are there for you.
Scheduled next is the PAJAMAS DINA magnet at $45k! Plus, you know, sudden surprise magnets may occur. (well, a surprise if you don’t recognize distinctive silhouettes) And even more TBA!
Book 14 Kickstarter update: Surprise #DRANKS JOYCE MAGNET tier reveal!
by David M Willis on April 8, 2025 at 10:09 amIt’s morning of the second day of the Dumbing of Age Book 14 Kickstarter! Let’s juice things up with a SUDDEN MAGNET REVEAL: #Dranks Joyce!
Pledge at the #DRANKS JOYCE MAGNET tier to get just Joyce (plus the free Dorothy magnet), or go all-in at one of the COMPLETE MAGNET POWER tiers and consider her automatically yours along with every other new magnet revealed by the end of this campaign!
Up next: HALLOWEEN BILLIE and HALLOWEEN RUTH unlock at $40K, and also some other magnets are waiting in the wings.
Book 14 Kickstarter update: FREE DOROTHY MAGNETS unlocked!
by David M Willis on April 7, 2025 at 10:54 pmAs the Dumbing of Age Book 14 Kickstarter completes its first day, we’ve hit a second stretch goal: FREE DOROTHY MAGNETS for everyone!!! (who pledges for something I snail-mail to you) Pledge for a book, there’ll be a Dorothy magnet in there, no extra charge! Pledge for anything that’s not just PDFs, that’s a free Dorothy magnet! Pretty rad.
The $30K stretch goal spot used to belong to the perennial “extend weekend comic strip updates for another year” thing, but…. look, my buffer’s out a whole-ass year. 365 days. The stretch goal of “I’ll keep updating 7 days a week instead of 5” is just kind of ridiculous on the face of it. So out it went! And I skooshed up the Free Magnet stretch goal to take its usual spot.
Next up: HALLOWEEN BILLIE and HALLOWEEN RUTH magnets at $40K, with probably a surprise magnet reveal along the way, to keep us on our toes.