News From the Front

Posted by Jairen at Tuesday June 4, 2013 - 10:06am

Greetings Friends!

First, I want to thank everyone who came out to our panels at Anime Boston. Packing the room for the sweets panel and the interest and dedication in the metal panel is why we drive all over the country to present and hang out with you all.

Also, no less important I want to thank everyone who came out to hang out and support us at A-kon 24! Every single one of you that buys something or starts reading the comic is something that means a lot to us. This is something we are doing for the long term and having positive feedback is what makes the hard times doable and genuinely helps us as we transition this to a full time thing! Without you guys and gals we could do this. Truly and sincerely, thank you! The turn out far exceeded expectations!

Now as a matter of business, I'm sure many of you newcomers have noticed the site is a bit....aged. We started this officially in 2008 or so concurrently with a Warcraft guild and coded it by hand to be functional and marginally stylish by the standards of 5 years ago. Between the original host explosion and general design changes...it is starting have that not-so-fresh feeling.

There is a solution however! I will be doing a redesign of the site over the next few weeks (it's actually happening this time, I promise!). Please bear with us in the meantime and hopefully we can get it transitioned over pretty smoothly.

Also, again for the newcomers. If you are wondering about the comic dates. A while ago we lost most of our material to date, and are basically either recovering (where possible) or recreating what was lost, this takes some extra time, but rest assured it will be filled in as soon as possible. Our current hard goal is to have it back to where it was plus new material for this year's Otakon. We are cautiously optimistic that we can make this date. Stay tuned and keep checking the archives to see the story get filled in.

This started from me playing with an old server for self hosting back when we were really small. Turns out that wasn't the best idea, nor was the backup plan...therefore find ourselves in the situation we have now. At least it's being fixed now

Thanks again

Jair Out

Welcome Back to the Stage of History!

Posted by Jairen at Tuesday February 19, 2013 - 12:18am

Once again I just want to thank all the people who came out to see us at Katsucon this year! This was sort of a born again moment for us. We have been doing stuff int he subculture to one degree or another for almost 7 years now, but it was always something we did on the side. However, this year was when we realized it was time to really decide where we wanted to take this, and whether it will be a hobby or our future. To that end we have decided it's time to make this our future proper and devote the bulk of our time and energy to LostGamers Comic and Studio.

It was you guys, at katsucon, Otakon last year, Nekocon and the like that really made us realize it's possible and you all like what we are doing. We couldn't have persevered without ya'll

That said, you will notice that the website is sparse and outdated. Kas and I put this site together many years ago and rather quickly, it was designed to mainly just start getting the comics up as fast as we could. I think it's about time that changes and we look a little more professional and lovingly crafted. As such I will be beginning a website renovation this week and hopefully it will be completed in a few weeks. If you run into any oddities or downtime, that is probably why. I dare not interrupt Kas while she is doing the artwork for the comics, so this may take a bit as it's a solo job. I am looking forward to debuting the new site design for everyone to see.

to sum up...new site incoming, and thank all you guys for giving us the amazing opportunity to make entertaining the gamer/otaku/geek subculture our livelyhood!