Blog – Leif & Thorn

All layouts are responsive, but some are more responsive than others

21 February, 2021 21 Comments

Update, Tuesday (3/2) just after midnight: Okay, now I’m just playing with zooms. There’s a new row of buttons above every comic — toggle between sizes (only affects the mobile layout) and let me know what you think.

Also, open the main stylesheet CSS and refresh, to make sure you have the latest version of that! (It’s the “everything but the color scheme” CSS, and cached versions may be glitchy.)

Note: all the variants are in the Northern Lights theme, because “color scheme + page size pick-your-own combo platter” is too much to code for a first-run test. Switching to a different site theme will return you to the current default zoom.

Leif & Thorn shipping news (no, the other kind of shipping)

2 February, 2021 3 Comments

The Volume 3 packing station is in full swing. Featuring large boxes of books, and small piles of Stuff What Goes With The Books:

Volume 3 hits the digital shelves, complete with new Cool Fantasy Map

22 December, 2020 2 Comments

The ebook of Leif & Thorn Volume 3: Creeping Vines is now available! Readers who preordered it through Kickstarter got the first crack, but anyone who missed the campaign can finally buy it on Gumroad.

The ebooks of Volumes 1 and 2 are available in the same store — along with the paperback versions, if you’re into those. (The printing of Volume 3 is in progress as we speak.)

Along with song lyrics, fancy recolored strips, and a bunch of exclusive bonus sketches, this is the volume where I had a new map done.

Cheers for all the Volume 3 backers

30 October, 2020 No Comments

This is the post where I credit everyone who backed Leif & Thorn Volume 3!

You’ve set a backer record, a funding record, and the wheels in motion for me to print a whole new book. Thanks to every single one of you.

A Hero and a Scholar

Clara Danao
Svirdilu
Izzy “Strontium” Hall
Jamie
Mikko
Judy

Long-Runner Print of the Narrative

Nikki W.
Kaldra
Katherine R
Punkin
Caleb Schirmer
Albert Cua
Richard W. Gombert
Andrew Webster
Brittany Kelly (TheGoodDrawer)
Peter Post
Tory S. Morgan
Triss
Hela
Cathy Green
Paul Cassella
Kyle Albert Anderson
Nolwenn Lahotte

The Book Where It Happens

Steph
Jonnie Irvine
Chimervera
gladdecease
KendallPB
Beth Culp
Alienea
Dorothea
Fir McGrevy-Gilmore
Angela Bacchi
Barbara

A Print Of The Narrative

Naomi Butcher
Eva S
Meghan McCusker
Liz the Lucky
Kris Preusker
Simone Pietro Spinozzi
Xanthipe
Ada Kerman
paralianBlue
Shizamura
Sailor-Cresselia
Susan Wilson
Julie L Spradley
Lenora Rose
BashMeNot
Tamvana
Kaitlyn
Victoria Linnea Conner
Dinglehopper
Tracy
MsM
Tim Sauke
Olivia Montoya

Long-Runner Scrappy & Digital-Only

H.
Cristov Russell
Jay Lofstead
James Post
Megan
Trip Space-Parasite
Einar Petersen
S. Stevenson
Lenore Jean Jones
Alaina
Eric Müller

Young, Scrappy, & Digital-Only

Anaxaphone
Lielac
maileguy
Jens Bejer Pedersen
Brett Bennett
CJ Gibson
David W
Owens
Esther!
AnnaDaEllie
Joann
Erin Subramanian

Taking ship prompts for #OTPober

1 October, 2020 44 Comments

Art request meme! I’ll do sketches (and sometimes more than sketches) for the first 15 people who comment with a Leif & Thorn ship, a prompt from column A, and a prompt from Column B:

Character profiles are listed on the Leif & Thorn wiki, in case you want to double-check somebody’s name.

I’m not taking prompts for blood relatives, but other than that, feel free to pick any 2 characters in the strip. (Or any 3+ characters…) Whether their in-universe status is established couple, budding romance, just friends, just enemies, or total strangers — as long as you think a sketch of the romance would be fun, go for it.

Honestly, the canon romances are going to get plenty of art anyway. So if you have an off-the-wall crack ship that’s probably never going to get drawn otherwise? Now would be the time to ask.

Retweetable thread of everything on Twitter here.

Voting on the exclusive mini-prints for Volume 3

23 September, 2020 No Comments

The Kickstarter to print Volume 3 is off to a great start, so here’s the part where you get to vote on “which art should be used for the exclusive mini-print that goes in every book.”

Advertising Your Webcomic On Twitter (a how-to and a case study)

20 September, 2020 5 Comments

I couldn’t find anyone to talk with about webcomic advertising on Twitter…so I went out and did my own. Here’s how it went.

(This is part of the “how do I webcomic?” series, with useful information on all kinds of comicking-related topics.)

Done a couple months before the Leif & Thorn Volume 3 Kickstarter, because I wanted to see if it was a promising way to advertise the book.

Not going to describe all the step-by-step setup, because there are a lot of generic “how to run a Twitter ad campaign” guides out there already. But I’ll start with some general notes about Stuff I Did, then move on to Useful Tips I Learned.

Continue reading Advertising Your Webcomic On Twitter (a how-to and a case study)

Volume 3 cover reveal!

4 September, 2020 3 Comments

The one where I finally get to make a “do it for the Vines” joke. And only, uh, 4 years after it stopped being culturally relevant.

Here’s the new cover, along with the two that go before it:

A wave of low-key website upgrades

3 August, 2020 7 Comments

I’ve been rolling out a bunch of small-but-useful updates to the Leif & Thorn site lately, and wanted to show them off a bit!

Sorted by volume

As the print volumes build up, I got to thinking there should be an obvious way to jump between them in the digital archives.

…yes, you can do it on the Archive page, but I wanted something even more obvious. For the potential reader who picked up a paperback first, and is visiting the URL on the back for the first time.

So now those jumps are in the row of links above each comic!

Because servers would rather have browsers ask for “one large image” than “lots and lots of tiny images”, the base image looks like this:

If you got to make a live-action adaptation of Leif & Thorn, who would you cast?

25 July, 2020 6 Comments

Pretend for a minute that your budget is unlimited, the reach of your casting call is global, anyone you pick will have no trouble learning whatever language(s) we film in…oh, and the set/crew will magically stay COVID-19-free. It’s a fantasy, okay, we do what we want.

Which actors would you cast to play the Leif & Thorn characters?

Who plays Leif? How about Thorn? The knights? The servants? The magical girls? Your favorite secondary character?

Page Header