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I've been letting our artists know for the last couple of months and now it's time to make things public. I am retiring from publishing and Agency Publishing will cease to sell comics after December 31st, 2015. It occurred to me this summer I spend more time recruiting, marketing, and submitting DMCA responses to people stealing our content than actually creating the content. It isn't how I want to spend my time. I have two children entering grade school, so I seek a simplified life to focus on them and focus on my day job, which has become more challenging, exciting, and involved than I would've thought possible.
It's been a fantastic run and you guys have been amazing supporters throughout this process. Here's what will happen:
Our website will go down December 31st, and much like our old TickleTown clips, the comics will not be available to purchase on the website going forward. So if you want to check out a series, do it now! There are only 2.5 months left to buy our product.
We will release The Agencies #25, The Ruthless #17, Tickle Magnet #10 and Hunted #8 before the end. These will be the final issues of their respective comic lines.
If you have questions, let me know!
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As an idea couldnt u just sell the comics you have already on images4sale once you close the site?
I may put them up for sale in the future, but not right now. There's too much overhead with the legal and tax implications, for a service that charges 40% off the top. Not worth it.
Really sad, cause I enjoyed every work of you and your artists.
Feels empty to know, that all the great stories will not come to an edn
But.... I understand your step (stealing makes it all worse) and wish you only the best for your future
I have a question to you.
YOu know I really enjoy all of your works. Hunted and Yelena the most, and thinking about, that the stories never will end makes me sad.
So I wanna to ask you something (maybe it's a mean question and I hope I will not insult you):
Is there a chance, that you give your fans and customers the stories and ends for your comcis?
I mean, a short written text, which tells us, what will happen next in the stories and how they end?
Is this possible? I would be dying if I never would know what will happen to Gretcen and Yelena. To the Agency, to the Ruthless, in the Magnet etc.
Greatings, Deemon
Let me think about that one for a bit.
1) Will you be deactivating this account and deleting all its contents?
2) Do you intend to have the comics from the site be put on sale since the site going to be shut down?
3) Will any of the series or characters published under this name go to another fetish publisher or are all the writers and authors going down with the site too?
2. No, I have no plans on selling any of our digital products after December 31st.
3. No, the content will die with the site. I'm a little sad to see Hunted go after Jon and Yuri poured their hearts into it. I have no problems working with them if they want to continue the series, but it's a lot of work, so it's certainly not something I'm pushing onto them if they want to focus on other things.
2.) I meant will you be chopping the prices on the comics as the countdown begins. I'm not trying to be cheap or anything but $12.95 is still pretty expensive for an online comic. I'm sure you have your reasons but that is just my opinion. Maybe $9.99 or something like that since the site is shutting down. Just a suggestion.
3.) Damn, everything? The characters, the stories and all those years of hard work gone? I know Yuri is on here but the other artists are going to be hard to see go. Hopefully one of them at least makes an account on here or tumblr to at least share any art they make after December. Man that is heartbreaking to hear they won't have any sort of presence online anymore.
3. The artists will still be here, I gave them more advanced notice than I gave our customers so they could have bridge to find other work to bridge the gap. We are not their sole employer in most cases, many of them do this for a living so they work for several different publishers.
But hey, even Agent Succubus can come back from the dead, there's always hope. Just not in the forseeable future.
Although not entirely the reason for the decision, it doesn't help.
I admire the work you have done and I will miss this one entity you had created which seemed to be constant in our universe... none the less, all things come to an end.
The most best of luck to you and your family going forward!
Bye bye, MrAgency-Man! See ya around the galaxy!
Your artwork is seriously, seriously amazing. Some of the most gorgeous I've seen on dA. I hope inspiration hits you often, and hits you hard.
...what about Patreon though? Have people donate every month for content... heck, maybe entice larger donations by having reward tiers such as having a drawn version of you or your OC make an appearance, or even having them be an actual character interacting with the leads?
Just a suggestion.
It is sad; it is an end of an era.
Good luck to you in the next chapter in your life. I hope you're at least still around to appreciate all the tickle related work that comes after you retire.
Luckily there are still mountains of content from both a video and comic book point of view, so I feel good that you're all in good hands as consumers.
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Thank you for being you.
Thanks for the kind words^___^
I want to thank you for your support, but morally and financially, over the years. It's people like you that keep artists going, creating amazing things. So don't ever stop being you!