*clicks New Post, gets overwhelmed with extremely-fancy post-creator thinger* oh jeez it is new

Anyway, hello! Welcome to New Site! If the DNS has caught up with you. If it hasn’t, then you’re not reading this!

Let’s start out by saying I Hate New Things. If I could, I would’ve continued running the old site until I was a billion years old, held together by tape (both me and the site), finally beginning to write the characters’ sophomore year. But the old site was built on ComicPress, which is a WordPress plugin that doesn’t exist anymore. And the more it doesn’t exist, the more shit starts falling apart! AND IT WAS STILL WORKING, TECHNICALLY! Which I would bring up every time Kevin and Chuck would say, uh, hey, you need a new site built on something that currently exists and is supported. And I’d point out my right bottom wisdom tooth, which my dentist has been advising me remove for like five years now because it’s crumbling, it’s really just a clump of shards, BUT IT DOESN’T HURT YET, so until then I’m keeping it. (The dentist has given up asking me to remove it.)

But, like, fine. Make a new site. Do it. But make it as much like the old site as possible, because, again, I Hate New Things. And by god, they did their best to appease my mad whims. Sure, some stuff needs to be sorted, still. They and me are working on that when we find things to trim. So it looks kinda mostly like the old site! And, most importantly, it’s not built on increasingly soggy and moldy cardboard. This cardboard is FRESH, yo.

back end’s kinda nuts, though

hate new things

btw now that comicpress is gone the site can finally update to WordPress v6.9 which is, say it:

Every 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, we dolly in on… HUMAN SKULL!  you heard me  Check out this strip and the backlog of hundreds of previous bonus strips at the Dumbing of Age Patreon!

Also, if you pledge $5 or more per month, you can read tomorrow’s strip a full day-and-five-minutes early, every single dang night! You could be reading tomorrow’s strip right now!

I have a NSFW Patreon, did you know? And while usually it’s just shitposting naked people, sometimes I show stuff from my hard drive of things I’ve drawn that later got repurposed into Slipshine pages!  And this is one of them.  For the last day of 2025, we’ve got an earlier Joyce/Dorothy drawing that later got reinked/colored differently in “Friend of Dorothy (THE BIGGEST)”!  Plus, see the step-by-step pencils and reworkings that got this drawing to where it ended up, before it got finished differently and canonized as a part of a lights-out scene.

turning a big dial that says “fluids” on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

I have a NSFW Patreon, did you know? And while usually it’s just shitposting naked people, and…  yeah okay this is basically that.  Two years ago we got a festive holiday Joyce pin-up, last year we got Amazi-Girl, and this year we’ve got Season’s Greetings from Sal!  She’s the ralsdon for the… Salsdon?

No, that doesn’t work.  Rewrite.

Every 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 demanded DINA!  And demanding Dina means demanding DINOSAURS!   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!

Every 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, we check in with JOE, whoever that is!  Check out this strip and the backlog of hundreds of previous bonus strips at the Dumbing of Age Patreon!

Also, if you pledge $5 or more per month, you can read tomorrow’s strip a full day-and-five-minutes early, every single dang night! You could be reading tomorrow’s strip right now!

It’s a Monday!  For cybering!  I think!  Anyway, today you can use code MONDAY25 at the Dumbing of Age online store to get 25% off any order larger than $20!

Turkeys have been vored, and so not only is it now Folgers Siblings Time again, but it’s also JESUS SHOPPING SEASON NOW AND FOREVER AND EVER, and so that means this year’s new book is now available in my online store for purchase for everyone!  Dumbing of Age Book 14: Reminding Myself That Despite What That Sign On The Highway Says, Hell Isn’t Real is here!  Hell isn’t real, but Christmas sure is!  Despite all that warring we do on it.

let me copy-paste my webstore’s write-up down here, like a professional

This 220-page full-color book includes the entire fourteenth year of strips (four full storylines) from August 2023 through August 2024! There’s commentary! There’s cast bios! There’s bonus features! There’s a year’s worth of bonus strips from Patreon! You can also pay extra to get it doodled in and autographed, because this is America. As of this writing.

There’s also last year’s Kickstarter Magnet set, or at least what’s left of it to sell.  We’re down a Sal!  You can find that here: Dumbing of Age Character magnet set of 12 (Book 13)

Now, this weekend there’s a coupon code to ease you into your holiday shopping.  If you use code THANKS20, you can lift 20% off any order over $20!  that’s right you have to buy at least one book, that’s how i getcha

Anyway, that code’ll last until Sunday night.  Head on over to The Store!

Every 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, LESLIE won!  or did she, really  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!

I have a NSFW Patreon, did you know? And while usually it’s just shitposting naked people, sometimes once in a blue moon something canonical pops up. Not a story. But an image, a snapshot of something that probably actually happened.  Or maybe something that should’ve happened a little more under hopefully audio-dampening covers.  Sorry, Sarah, I also had a sexually-active roommate in college, but in your favor I imagine fingers are a little more discreet.  But not completely.  Oh, what a terrible day to have ears.