Spicymancer 2025 Wrapped
Looking back on 2025, which was a pretty wild year. Some of these comics I'm shocked to realize were this year. Let's go month to month!
January: I started the year in the middle of Rumble vs Ranger, still one of the biggest events I ever did on the Patreon. I had intended to try to finish it out before the end of the year but it ended up flowing into March. We also had a rare Cass appearance, and Ollie started showing up a bit. Oh and Johnny the Werewolf was revealed to secretly own a Blue/White Control deck.
February: A good month for Quiver! Started with Slingcuffs, and I remember doing a strip game on Twitter/Bluesky using Quiver. I did a thing where the outfit would be cut from the middle out, which I think ended up confusing some folks. I still never really know how to gauge these sorts of "interaction goal" posts. Also some clownposting.
March: This was a pretty stacked month. Rumble vs Ranger finale, plus the Speedrun comic that I remember doing pretty well. Then there was the lego Ollie that I did end up buying and lives on my desk now. And finishing up with an appearance of the Gorgon!
April: Oh April is when I first posted the Puppygirl comic with Ollie that somehow found its way into a Scientific Paper? It also featured the introduction of the Actirangers International. 5 more OCs, since I clearly did not have enough already. And somehow I even found time to do the Apryl Project with some discord friends. Oh god, and after all that I ALSO posted the Slumber Party comic in April... what a month.
May was comparatively chill. Robber Guy and Quiver finally went on a date. (I've gotta reveal his real name at some point). Eclair did Eclair Things. Oh! and my computer died! That was annoying. I ended up scrabbling for placeholder stuff, even going back to using the accursed Adobe Photoshop for a little while.
June therefore was a bit of backlog posting. Did the baserunning comic which was an idea I'd had kicking around for a while. And spent some time doodling fanart for Nikoto's P*kemon discord game.
July I posted the first draft of the Gingerwood TTRPG system. Which... I should probably do more with... And I managed to get a beach themed comic done in the appropriate season!
August was a pretty busy month. I was in the middle of a big move so it was mostle simple illustrations but I did finally receive the Actiranger Helmet prop that I commissioned at great expense almost a year before. Finished the month with a swimsuit Beck.
September featured a brief poll choice thing with Vincent and Beck. Not quite Rumble vs Ranger but I do want to try to do more of these sort of CYOA things this year. Pink got milked by Sienna.
October or should I say Bonktober was a busy month. Spending most days trying to keep up with a drawing challenge I'm pretty happy with the volume of drawings I managed to produce over the course of the month. Though there was a big wrench thrown into the gears as I was banned from tumblr for a little while. Thankfully that all got sorted inside of a week, but wow I was stressed out about stuff for a while there.
November I did a bunch of miscellaneous doodles and a bunch of fanart. A Give me 6 OCs to draw challenge I did twice, some ice cream foxes, and Oh hey it's Yuna!
I rounded out the year with a big vacation to see family in Taiwan during December, so it was mostly little doodles. Though I did get a sponsorship from Lovense which was pretty recent so I doubt y'all need the reminder. (The affiliate link should still work, though apparently folks who have the Honey plugin might need to look into that...)
And that's the whole year in review! There's a bunch of posts I didn't mention but overall I'm really proud of everything I managed to post this year and I hope y'all are having fun. When I first started this patreon I was doubtful that I'd be able to find an audience or, for that matter, maintain my creative output. I'm thrilled to be proven wrong on both fronts!
A lot of the time it's hard to realize how much you've done until you actually look back on it.
Thank you all so much for supporting me as I continue to make comics and speculate about the mating habits of fantasy monsters.
Best wishes and DFTBA
-Spicymancer
Comments (21)
DFTBA? Finding out you know that is a wonderful post-Pizzamas gift :3 Twas a great year, here's to many more!
Thanks for this! I had to unfollow for a while and this is a great way to catch up on the months I missed. I had no idea you wrote a TTRPG! It looks like a lot of fun, I'm going to have to try it.
I'd love to see more of Andie and the Gorgon, if that's not too much trouble :3
The slumber party comic is one I keep coming back to. Such a silly concept at first glance, and yet it just turned out so touching and wholesome. ♥♥♥
man looking back at it all like this, you had a helluva year! cheers to a new year and keep on making your wonderful, beautiful, horny art!!
DFTBA? Oh boy, didn't realize there even was an overlap between spicy artists and nerdfighteria!
Hears hoping this year sees more scientists recognizing your work
This was a really nice roundup post thank you. The slumber party comic still makes me cry, looking forward to next year.
This one of the best and most comprehensive “year roundup” posts I’ve ever seen an artist do. Well done, and here’s to another year of great work!
A kind year until you as well!! Ollie getting into a scientific paper is wild though, a medal to wear for sure.
Great year, here's to the next one. 🥂 You don't have any bad OCs/settings, honestly. I might have favorites I'd like to see more often, but there's never a post where I'm like "aw, man, it's _____"
Amusingly your Castlewood TTRPG draft got me inspired to start working on a little setting pamphlet expansion using its rules for a location I'd used for some smut I wrote. It's kind of on the backburner now for a multitude of reasons, but it was fun to play around with the mechanics you drafted
Twas a good year indeed
slumber party still makes me tear up, one of your best 🩷
Godlike stuff, fancy. Love everything you've done ❤️❤️
Pink with Sienna might be my fav piece of the year. And also you def should think about trying more things out with that Gingerwood ttrpg idea, I'd be very interested
Okay, I hadn't heard about the academic paper about puppygirls, that's actually kind of amazing.
Here's hoping for some more Quiver X Doesn't Actually Control Bears Man content in the new year!
Here’s to another great year of art and OCs hehe. It was so fun seeing what you could create.
I was half expecting to click on this and see a bunch of your characters in ribbons, mummy wrapping, or things like that lmao
Appreciated all the great art this year!