Announcing: Penn

Hello everybody. I’ve got some exciting news about the Patreon, which is that it is, as of today, officially a joint Patreon for me and Penn.

Let me open with the obvious reassurance: I am not cutting back my work here at all. This is purely an additive change—in addition to my output of essays, you’ll now get anything that Penn creates. That will include music, art, writing, and lord only knows what else—he’s even more of an eclectic magpie than I am. 

The reasoning for this is pretty simple. First, Penn and I are collaborating on more and more stuff as time goes on. There’s the comics, obviously, but I’m also playing around with and on his music stuff, and we’ve got at least one joint writing project in the hopper. Second, he’s increasingly got a significant amount of solo work. And while he could create his own Patreon for that, it just seems easier, given how much stuff would be cross-posted and the fact that Penn doesn’t have as established a name, to just fold him in here.

$10+ Patrons already know a lot of this because Penn has been doing weekly roundups of his daily album reviews. (Which also highlight one of the ways that trying to split our work doesn’t make sense—he writes those reviews, but I curate the album selection by dint of the fact that they’re the albums I put on for him to wake up to when I get in the shower every morning.)

But in terms of other work, Penn’s dropping his first musical release on you tomorrow. And later this week we have a little something for you called The Demon Hero that I think you’ll enjoy.

So please welcome Penn to the Patreon. And I’ll be along with something new for you before too long.