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next page batch preview

a sneak preview for you all of something that's coming up in the next batch of pages!! as you can guess, the next scene is back in the Now. I was afraid that I wasn't going to get these pages done in time to continue posting here on schedule, but I wrapped up colors and lettered the page that's going up on Monday, so patrons at Latte& Espressoare going to keep getting new pages uninterrupted!

S.I.R. #5 Cover

This got announced today!! I got to do a variant cover for my friend's incredible title, S.I.R.What is S.I.R.??Ringo Award-nominated indie darling cartoonist Fell Hound (Commander Rao) brings an over the top sports and battle anime-coded series that is not one to miss!Get ready for your new obsession…MOTORCYCLE JOUSTING!Fate brutally separated Avery Sakai from her girlfriend Nico Xing, but acceptance to the Bridleham Academy might be just t...

Keeping Time Page 76

First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll Pagesif this seems like a Paradise Kiss homage to you, then you are correct(Oop, my in-entry image didn't work the first time so I'm editing hahaha)

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First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll PagesI know I am very choosy about which bits of era nostalgia I get real picky about accuracy with, and the gmail UI here was one of them, haha!!

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First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll PagesThe greatest disappointment in Emi's mother's life was that Emi married an American man who went to an unremarkable university. She thought Emi could've done better.The greatest disappointment in Emi's life is that her mother turned out to be right.

Keeping Time Page 73

First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll PagesThe center panels here might be some of the most important ones to the story that I've drawn yet...

[18+] Relentless Page 03

First Page| Previous Page|Next Pagesneaking this in here before August is all the way over!! I really want to try to get at least one page of this done a month, and I'm pretty amped I'm able to get this out for you all despite how absolutely rough these past two months have been.you know the chorus from We Are Scientists' "Nobody Move, Nobody Gets Hurt"?My body is your bodyI won't tell anybodyIf you want to use my bodyGo f...

Keeping Time Page 72

First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll PagesSHE'S HERE. Enter the twins' mother. She's sort of a pivotal character, but I won't ever get to fully explore everything about her in the comic itself, so I'm gonna leave lil tidbits in the blog posts here about her, haha!Emi Akutagawa (née Sasaki) was born in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, even though her mother was already a permanent resident of the United States when she was pregnant...

Keeping Time Chapter 3 Pg 1 (pg 71)

First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll PagesAHH we're back, just in time for the end of August. I'm posting two pages today because this one's a splash page, but then I'll probably go back to once-a-week? Probably? WHO KNOWS, we're gonna feel it out with vibes. 😎Anyway, this chapter's named after "Rudderless" by The Lemonheads, of which I really love the demo version.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a80fNAKYIQYI...

Denver's Junk Drawer is live

IT'S DONE I'M DONE I'M FREEEEEEI mean, there's a ton more I could do to this, but this hyperfixation has been going on for a WHILE and it's starting to interfere with my sleep and eating schedule, which is how I know it's time to cut it off, haha!Anyway, without further ado, here's what I've been working on in my spare time!https://keepingtimecomic.com/denver/index.html"A browser-based mini-‘game’! A throwb...

August Newsletter

I promised a newsletter update today, and I am delivering!!Kody's On Another Podcast!First up - thank you to everyone who submitted reader questions to the Comics - Coffee - Metalpodcast the other week. The episode just came out today (the main reason I tried to time this newsletter to today, haha)!Like to simply listen to your podcasts? Check it out here!Rather watch me make a fool of myself on camera (and also see Don's REALLY cool stud...

chapter 3 wips

I think I'll be writing a newsletter at the end of this week with a longer update, but August has not been going so great. 🥲 But I am still plugging away at these first pages of chapter 3. By the time I FINALLY got into the swing of inking again, it was time to start flats hahaha. Anyway, a big scene between Emi, the twins' mom, and Daniel is coming up and it's one of the few scenes that survived from pretty much the very first dr...

Keeping Time Page 67

First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll Pages....!! And that's it for Chapter 2! Ahh!! Looking back on it, I posted the first page of Keeping Time on September 20th of last year, meaning we made it two chapters and 67 pages in in that time. My initial reaction is, "oh my god I'm so SLOW," but this has also been a difficult year, and July alone aged me approximately 7 years.I've started on the inks for the first few pages of ch...

Keeping Time Page 66

First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll PagesI am struggling to not catch COVID from my partner in our single room tiny apartment, so I'm queueing this up while I still have my wits and energy about me(I am so glad I don't have to draw the piano bar for a while. All of these chairs and tables. Tracking the background extras and where they are, and where they've moved to, since page 60. SO TIRED)

Keeping Time Page 65

First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll Pages...?! I only realized today I didn't post a page update last week! I think it's because I normally queue up my Patreon updates on Tuesday, but last Tuesday was The Stalker Incident, so it seems as though my brain fully broke that day and I didn't even realize.There's only three pages of this chapter left (including this one), so I'm actually thinking I'll be posting all three of...

July Newsletter - July had no chill and I am suffering for it

Between Patreon-exclusive pages dropping down to once a week instead of twice, the Surgery FiascoI had this month, and then the Stalker Incidenton Bluesky, this has been the slowest month my Patreon has seen in a year, and I am both so sorry and appreciative of everyone's understanding!If you're not following me on BlueSky, you probably don't know about either of the last things I mentioned, so let me catch you up real quick. July&#39...

Keeping Time Page 64

First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll Pagesit is my belief that Denver doesn't use any hair products, and just has a chronic case of bedhead (sleeps facedown, one leg out, you can only tell he's still alive if you get close enough to hear him snoring)

Keeping Time Page 63

First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll PagesYOU TELL 'IM, ELENAAlso for those of you not on BlueSky, I had a minor surgical procedure on Friday that has been having More Than Minor, But Less Than Major complications since then (I've since been to the ER and my regular doctor about it arghh), but I have been virtually unable to do much of anything, including sit at my computer, for 4 days!! Booo. So things might be slower around here than...

quick apology

whoops so sorry Latte members who just got a flash of NSFW shoved at you for a brief moment before I caught it and edited it to only the NSFW tier!!! It's a force of habit for me clicking both tiers whenever I post a comic page, I'll make sure it doesn't happen again!

[18+] Relentless Page 02

First Page| Next Page(spike spiegel voice) Denver loves the kind of man who bosses him aroundAlso I am maybe naming this after a PUP songbut please don't tell Stefan Babcock his music is somehow tied to gay porn(it IS a very good song but not related much to the comic, except that when I heard it, I couldn't believe PUP did a song with a guitar line so reminiscent of the post-punk revival sound I love so much and that's the kind of so...

Keeping Time Page 62

First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll PagesSometimes you gotta write in jokes to make fun of your own character about his name

Keeping Time x B-SIDE You

I've had this idea in my head for MONTHS now but I've been unable to draw it because I just couldn't spare the time. Finally, now that I'm in between chapters of Keeping Time, I HAD A CHANCE TO SIT DOWN AND DRAW IT!B-SIDE Youis a reallygreat webcomic with hundreds of pages already up by Kaycie D! Aspiring musician and delinquent-in-reform, Danny Strife, strikes up a friendship with bookish teaching assistant, Alden Taylor, at comm...

Keeping Time Page 61

First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll PagesI have given it a lot of thought, and this is how Elena has accomplished this feat given that she's behind one of those big bar counters. Here is a very accurate, scientific diagram, drawn completely to scale**these statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug AdministrationAnyway, Elena's willingness to climb on bar counters is part of the reason why Denver is so startled here, but ...

[18+] Relentless Page 01

Next PageHEHEHESome things:I know this looks like a manga but the read order is still Western (Left to Right!)top!Daniel is here for a good time, never a long oneDenver only bottoms for people he really trusts!! He's still sort of self-conscious about itTHIS COMIC HAS NO TITLE but please know I am percolating ideas for it. If I ever think of one, I'll come back and edit. If not. OH WELLI personally enjoy mimicking the limitations of trans...

spicy comic preview

Okay, so you all have a 9-page spicy comic coming your way in the future. I have no idea on what sort of time schedule -- I'm only gonna work on it when time permits, so no promises about speed! (or quality for that matter. I have to allow myself permission to be imperfect about this or I know it'll never get done). The first page will probably go up later this week!anyway, it's all written and thumbed, so I'll be picking at it sl...

Keeping Time Page 60

First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll PagesI've been so excited to get to these pages for SO LONG!! Elena and Denver together is super, super fun to write (and almost as fun to draw). I wonder how this interaction's gonna go... 👀From next week, we'll be going down to 1x a week page updates, probably on Wednesday! This way, you'll at least get content for longer while I rush to catch up on the next chapter's scripts and th...

Keeping Time Page 59

First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll Pagesbad dog :((this week I'll be posting comic updates on Monday and Friday like normal, but I think we'll be going down to 1x a week updates form next week!)

June Newsletter

It's already been a month since I wrote the last newsletter? We're almost halfway done with 2024? That can't be right.Anyway, hey, hi!! Welcome to new patrons blinkfraid, Carrie A., zhimbrolizard, Curio Blue, Elizabeth J-K, Ally, The Violet Fox, Yukiizura, Stephanie C., Matthew Z., and siltondill! Thank you so much for joining, no matter how long you plan on sticking around for. Every single one of your pledges makes such a huge, tang...

Keeping Time Page 58

First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll PagesAHH! I'm not actually finished with this current batch of pages, but I made sure to at least take this page all the way to completion so I could post it for you all! I have relatively high hopes I'll be able to actually finish all these pages by next week, so hopefully we'll be able to return to our regular Mon & Fri page posting schedule next Monday!Thank you all for your patience!! These ...