Tamberlane

A new 11x14 print, Tamtoro! I wanted to do a cute homage to Totoro and I landed on this. It will be available for the first time at GGC 2026, Oct 24 & 25th at the Seattle Convention Center, Table 98! Very, very happy with it! You can almost taste the nostalgia...

A brand new ~5.5" Belfry standee, available for the first time at GGC 2026, Oct 24 & 25th at the Seattle Convention Center, Table 98! Aww... how could you say no to that little face? Even if she is making a total mess!

Ari, Izzy, and I will be vending at GeekGirlCon in Seattle on Oct 24/25! We got surprise un-waitlisted two weeks ago and have been prepping ever since. We've put a lot of work into revamping our booth setup and doing some new merchandise. Excitingly, It’s our first time vending as Hollow Tree Studio

Hello all! Some of you might recall that we are part of Patreon's Creator Ambassador program, which allows us to beta test new features and lean on the Creator Ambassador community to improve our offerings to our community. For the next 12 weeks, they're running a challenge for ambassadors to, well,

Hey y'all! Fellow Foxglove member Momodriller (listed as Jasmine Coté) has graciously split her half-table space with us at Small Press Expo, on September 12 and 13th in Maryland! Momo will be selling the last bit of her test print run of Preeny Has to Repeat 6th Grade, as well as a charming new lit

Hey guys!! Thank you so much for your patience! The break was extremely helpful to me and allowed me to not only get a better bead on my health, but also to see some new doctors and get onto some new meds! As a result, I've had the best sleep I've had in literal years, and I'm actually ENERGIZED. I'

Hey y'all! Thanks for your patience in waiting for new pages. I know it sucks being stuck on a cliffhanger without new pages, and I know we're all excited to see what happens next. No one is more frustrated than I am! So why not more pages? tl;dr: I have new tools to monitor my health and I have bee

The next scene is on its way soon! If you want to read new Tamberlane the second it's available, you should support us on Patreon! Apricot Croissant patrons will get the pages literally minutes after I finish drawing them; Cuppa Tea patrons get that page a week later; and the public will receive fre

Don't worry, it's good news! I know it's been a bit while Ari and I have been cooking. We both took a break for the end of the holidays, but otherwise we've been hard at work on the script for the last month and change. Longer, if you include how long we worked on it while we were still finishing th

Hello all! I figured I'd give a little update on where things are standing right now! Comic Updates Folks with full buffer access have probably noticed there have not been any new pages for a couple of weeks. This is a combo of a couple of things: A family emergency for which I had to travel and was

Wait, what's up with Ari? Both Ari Noble (co-writer for Tamberlane) and IzzySqueakzy (one of our flatters, historically) desperately need our help. They have lost a large portion of their income and are unable to afford rent and utilities. As a student Visa holder, Izzy is unable to do any paid work

Hey guys! We did it! The Patreon is squished! But we did more than just squish the tiers — we did some important and helpful housekeeping at the same time! Here's what you need to know about the Patreon changes: We reduced the number of tiers down to 3 regular tiers and 1 high donor tier. This is to

After a few months of plonking away during idle hours while resting, the Tamberlane Patreon is finally ready to relaunch! Unfortunately, we are not able to do a stream party this time, but you can expect the change to happen Monday, March 31st, at around 10am PST. You have until then to get onto the

Hello all! As mentioned in my 2024 Wrap-up post, I'm shrinking my Patreon further in 2025. Having fewer responsibilities outside of the comic page has done wonders for my mental and physical health -- and the health of the comic itself! So I'm following that trend to squish the Patreon down a little

Commission I did for the Foxglove Comics Secret Santa this year Hello, folks! I hope your holidays were good, and that your new year is starting even better! Despite a month of illness, my holidays were lovely, and this year promises to be an interesting one for me. Health As always, we start with a

Hello! I'm sure you're getting many posts like this in your inbox given the recent news, but I'm uploading one anyway because it's better safe than sorry! What is going on? What is happening to Patreon? Apple is requiring that Patreon switch to their iOS in-app purchase system starting this November

Whew! Been a little bit since the last newsletter. I'm gonna keep this short and sweet (ha ha ha) since I'm on a much-needed vacation this week. But I figured I'd give y'all an update! Health First, as always: Health! For once, I have some really good news on this front! The combination of a number

Hey all! I hope the leap year is treating you well so far! First off: work has been slower than I'd like lately due to various health issues related to pain and fluctuating sleep. As part of rebalancing how I approach things, I've told myself that if I'm in an appreciable amount of pain, I won't wor

Happy September! Here’s an update of everything that’s going on behind-the-scenes. Kickstarter Status The book is pretty much our entire focus at the moment and is moving right along. Right now I am focusing on editing and laying out annotations while Ari is fine-tuning the comic pages for print wit

August Newsletter I have a LOT of updates to share with you, so let’s dive right in! Art Fight I participated in Art Fight last month and had an amazing time drawing for folks! Thanks to everyone who drew for me too, it was really fun! You can see all of my “attacks” on my Art Fight account here. Vi

Hey everyone! Here are some general updates for everything that’s been going on and what you can expect for this month and throughout the summer. Health Update As some of you may remember, right after the Kickstarter closed I was knocked out by a one-two punch of a fibro flare and Covid. While I’ve

We can hardly believe it, today marks the 7th anniversary of Tamberlane! Thank you so much for supporting our little indie comic, and by extension, our community of writers, artists, colorists, and team members. We couldn’t have done this without our loyal readers and Patreon supporters!

Hello friends! Ari here. It’s time we talk about cameos as we move into February! As many of you know, cameos have been an important aspect of Tamberlane’s history. From the beginning, Caytlin offered the opportunity to higher-tiered patrons to have their character integrated, whether visually or as

Hello everyone! Happy January! I hope your New Years was wonderful and, if you celebrate the Lunar New Year, I hope your celebrations will be equally fun! We have a pretty meaty update ahead, so let’s get right down to business! Health In BIG news, I finished my final Ketamine treatment (click here

It's my birthday today!!! My husband is going to take me out tomorrow to the big lights display downtown and push me around! I'm so, so excited for it. He loves to push me around places, since we don't have to worry about me tiring out, we can chat, and he can lean down to kiss me like this UwU I re

Hey y'all! It's been a lil bit since I've been able to sit down and write one of these! Big apologies for that. Health The reason I've been pretty quiet and my work has slowed down lately is my health has been pretty rocky. Lots of extended pain flares, and when those die down, I've been in really b

Big news! Tamberlane has been nominated for a Ringo Award! Thanks to all of your nominations and support, I’ve been listed among the finalists in the Best Cartoonist category. While Tamberlane as a comic didn’t receive any nominations, I can’t tell you how happy receiving this nomination has made me

Hey all! I know it's June now but here's May's newsletter! Health I spent the month largely prepping for the charity stream for Jonas, which I will get to shortly! And since my flares key partly to stress, I was in flare for pretty much the whole month. I was SUPER glad to have the big buffer I had

Hello all! April is ending which means it's time for me to ramble about what happened this month! Hooray! Health As always, my health is a big factor in how I do month-to-month. Over the last couple of months I've been dipping in and out of flares (for those new here, I have fibromyalgia, and a flar

New song just dropped on April 1! To celebrate Tamberlane reaching our 300th-page milestone, Tamberlane co-writer and all-around talented individual Ari “MetaJoker” Borhanian has created a new song, “My Tamberlane”, which celebrates the mother-daughter relationship between Belfry and Tamberlane. Lis

Hello all! Haven't written a newsletter for a bit. This is another one that will be a bit short. Health Health has been rocky. Between still trying to adjust meds and a flare-up that just won't quit, I've been pretty up and down this month. Still hanging in there! However, mentally I've never been b

Hey all! Another short newsletter for you. Charity Stream Last month, I coordinated a charity stream with Ari's help, that involved 8 folks gathering together to entertain, draw commissions, and have fun for the sake my friend's little girl with terminal brain cancer. We managed to raise over £4000

Hello all! It's been a while since I've been able to do one of these! I'm just letting you know what's going on in Case de Caytlin right now, since the last one was that I'd been sick and meds were messing with me a month or two ago. I've been through a bunch of (mild, but irritating) illnesses sinc

Hey all! As you can see, I skipped a couple newsletters during my break, so now it's time to catch up! Let's dive in to what happened over the last few months! The Great Break of 2021 As I realized that I was trying to keep a lot of plates in the air and barely scraping by at one page a week, and my

Hello all! Wow, it's like I just wrote the February Newsletter two weeks ago or so! Imagine that! I'm going to try to keep this newsletter a little less rambly. I sure like to talk in these things, lol! Tales from Treehollow As some of y'all have noted, neither February's nor March's comics have bee

What All Happened in February? Hello, lovelies! Thank you for your patience with the February newsletter, with Vancoufur having thrown a bit of a wrench in my plans! I'm much recovered now and speeding through work once again, and I'm quite happy to report back on everything that happened in the sho

It's another month, which means another newsletter! Wowzers! Sleep Problems First thing I'm gonna mention this time around is that it is my biannual terrible sleep cycle time. For as long as I can remember, there's been a couple times a year when I'll just randomly stop sleeping very well for a few

Hello all! It is time to do the December newsletter, and also share with you the results of the roadmap poll and my plans for the year. What a whirlwind it's been on my end! Bonus Comic Processes December's bonus comic was the first bonus comic to need an extended deadline. And it's not surprising,

Hey guys! Still on a break, and I've been genuinely taking time off this time, I swear. (Mostly going, what's a hobby? How do I fill this time?? The answer has been Webtoons!) But while I've been taking time off, I've been thinking about where to focus this year, and figured I'd get your guys' opini

Hello, all! It's the end of November here for me, and a lot has happened! Especially since the last newsletter in July. Whew. What can I say? Time is hard to hold onto this year. What Happened in November Systems and Scheduling, Oh My! I've been doing a lot of work on my end to try and shore up my o

Howdy guys! How are you doing? I hope you're doing great! Have you been enjoying SGDQ as much as I have? This post ended up being HUGE so I'm trying to put in a lot of TL;DRs for each section so you can skim. Health Update Before I get to the bulk of this post, lemme give you a health update! The br

Hello again! It's time to look back over a very eventful month! I hope you guys are had a decent July and I hope that August is looking up too! What Happened in July A lot of work has been going on behind the scenes this month. On the 11th, the brand new website went live, which has been spectacular

Hello all! It's time to look back over the month! I haven't done this in a while and I'm working on figuring out ways to make that easier to do. What Happened in June I've been mostly just trying to keep up with work this month. At the end of May, I tapered off my old meds and started my new ones, a

Hey y'all! I was working on some Tamberlane cast D&D class keychains / pattern / what have you, and here's a preview of the coloring style! Still a WIP. $10+ folks have probably noticed there haven't been any new buffer pages in the last week and that's because I was trying to focus on this. I had a

Another month, another newsletter! Well, guys, it's been 3 months since the Great Refactoring and it's time to take a look at all the progress that's being made on my end! As you can tell, there are a LOT of moving parts to this thing, and progress is slow but dedicated to getting caught up to all t

Wow, time flew by!! What the heck! How is it already May? That means the year is nearly half over already. I feel like I blinked and 4 months exploded into nothingness. This month has been one with a lot of ups and a few downs. Most Importantly... Tamberlane returned! After months of waiting to not

Hey guys! March is drawing to a close and it's time to summarize all that's been happening! I hope you're all doing really well; if not, my heart goes out to you and I'm sending you good vibes. And if you ARE doing well, well I'm still sending you good vibes! The last month has been a good one, if a

Hey guys! I'm trying something new. At the end of every month I want to try to summarize what your patronage has done to improve Tamberlane and its creator - me! I really want to emphasize how much your support means to me. These last two months have been difficult, as I recover from this surgery an

So as you can see, I'm going to be out of commission for a while. Tamberlane is hereby put on a break, all Patreon rewards are suspended, and will be returning as I'm able. I will probably be doing some sketches and stuff since I can doodle while lying down, and I'll post those up here on Patreon. (