Merryweather Comics is a company! (And Backstory)

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Hello readers!

First of all, I want to thank all of you for following and enjoying our comics. It's been such a wonderful thing to experience! A lot of people seem to think 'Merryweather' is just one person, which it is, but it's also a company, which can be a bit confusing for some people. So today I wanted to take some time to explain a bit about how these comics are made, where our company came from, and some of the process that goes into producing these comics!

My name is Merry, and I'm the person who originally made this company! I'm also most likely the person you've been interacting with whenever you've gotten a reply from this account. My personal account is @Merrydawg!

I'm the writer of Stalker x Stalker, Internet Explorer, Winter Moon, Everywhere & Nowhere, Fox Girls Are Better (with Lost Pause), Clinic of Horrors, One Million Gold, Crawling Dreams, Lovecraft Girls, A City Called Nowhere, My Incubus Boyfriend, Virgin vs. Chad, Vampire Gamer, and also all of the random oneshot comics that are posted here on Twitter!

I was originally a sales and marketing manager who saved up all of my money, in order to launch a company doing what I always wanted to do, which was write comics. I was ready to spend as much money as it was required to do, to hire a team of co-creators, to make this dream a reality. That was 8 years ago. We didn't make a single cent for 5 years.

To me that was alright. I would just continue working in sales, and continue to make money, and pay all of it out to my co-creators, who are mainly artists from various countries in Asia.

Just a few years ago, in 2017, was the first time in my entire life that I earned a profit from doing comics, and immediately I started pouring in all the money I earned into hiring even more people so I could make even more comics, because I love comics. I still do this to this day.

If the company makes money, I don't take any of it. All of it goes into a bank account in Japan, where it will be used on new projects. The only money I ever earned was from my published series on WEBTOON, like Winter Moon, Everywhere & Nowhere, The Steam Dragon Express. Every other cent of income has gone to making more comics.

Because I just want to make comics. It's literally all I want to do. I don't care about getting a car, I don't care about buying an expensive house, I am fine just playing some games on steam, and getting the possibility to write comics. I will do this until the day I die. Maybe it's because I'm weird, or because I am diagnosed as being autistic. I don't know. I just find it very, very fun to do.

Anyway, sorry for that tangent.

The main account that you know and follow @Merryweatherey is used primarily by 4 people, and sometimes features works from other of our works from other places. These 4 people are @PrincessHinghoi, @RaynoTW, @Carillus_, and myself @Merrydawg. When it comes to the Twitter memes of Merryweather Comics, those are the 4 main individuals you'll see involved. I am however the only one actually engaged in posting and marketing these comics.

The meme comics are mainly meant to be fun, silly, and cute. They're not meant as some main work, and if you follow other accounts, like our Facebook or our WEBTOON, you'll see far bigger comics that the resources are actually way more likely to go into making.

In many ways, the meme comics like Stick Bug-Chan & others, are just a fun way we relax inbetween bigger projects, while also marketing ourselves in a way new people can find us, so they will go read the bigger comics.

The meme comics largely, do not earn any money.

"So why are they so unfunny/lame/cringe/outdated?"

Well, comics take a long time to do. Let's say a sparkling brand new meme comes out. Firstly, all of the artists that work on meme comics along with myself, have obligations on our primary series. With Hinghoi, Stalker x Stalker, with Mao, Minecraft Anime, and with Carillus, Fox Girls Are Better.

So first, we must get an idea for a meme comic, which does take some time, even if you don't think they're funny. Then, once the script is written, we have to schedule a time to sketch, line art, and colour it. This takes time, too.

By the time the comic is finally out, it could be a month or two after the meme comic is actually posted on our Twitter account. It's sort of a microcosm of why TV shows always incorporate memes in stale ways. TV shows take up to a year + to be produced, so when they try to use memes, it comes off as really outdated and stale. The meme was probably fresh when they filmed the scene.

Sometimes we're really fast with a meme, though. That all just comes up to scheduling. Like, maybe we've already finished most our work for that month, so you'll see a bunch of really up to date and fresh memes being posted.

"Why do you keep making things into anime girls? That's a dead meme."

I keep seeing people say that. I guess the act of turning things into anime girls in and of itself is not that funny, yeah. It's gijinka / personification. It's been popular ever since anime started becoming a mainstream thing.

People in Ancient Greece also turned concepts into hot dudes with their religion, and you even have ancient versions of Earth-Chan portrayed by tall busty women. Mother Earth, Gaia, Eorthe, Jord, etc etc. Pirates used to sculpt beautiful women and put it up as mascots on the front of their ships, because they thought pretty girls were good.

I don't know what to say. We like personifying things into anime girls, because anime is a cool artstyle, and it's kind of fun and silly to think of our every day objects and what they might be like if they were a human. Humans relate best to humans, after all. We're social animals. And considering we have almost 600,000 followers from turning things into anime girls, I'm pretty sure most people in the world also think its fun and silly. I've had to explain what I do to normies many times, and they all get it and give a chuckle because of how silly it is. And yeah, it is silly. It's just goofy fun. It's a newspaper comic. It's Garfield for weebs.

The way it's meant to be read is just as part of your daily twitter scrolling. See the comic, chuckle for like 5 seconds, give it a like, maybe a reply saying "Haha anime girl go brr" and move on. It's not meant to be anything more than that.

Then you have comics I work on like 'Everywhere & Nowhere' or 'Clinic of Horrors' that I spend tons of effort writing scripts for, attempting my very best to build interesting worlds and interesting characters that people can long-term fall in love with. I try my best.

Maybe I'm not always successful. Writing is not what I'm best at. I'm best at marketing, and sales, but I WANT to be good at writing, and I try my best to be good at it, and learn when I can. I think many people have experienced this. They're talented at one thing, but they WANT to be talented at another thing. One of the very few skills (and I stress, VERY few) is marketing and making money. Anime style comics, is my interest.

You can find other twitter accounts belonging to our company as well. Like @ClinicofHorrors that posts episodes from Clinic of Horrors, or even @Lewdweather which features the artworks of Osiimi (@Osiimiartist) who creates the artwork of Crawling Dreams which you can read @CrawlingDreams, featuring the stunning horror and Danganronpa inspired artwork of @Minsterphamduke.

We're a large collection of creatives who all work with each other to make fun comics for all of you to enjoy. During our new years marathon a lot of our artists joined a 10 hour stream where we watched all of our YouTube channels videos that we had posted in 2020 (a video almost every day).

I've seen people claiming that I don't pay the artists that work with me, and I'm so confused by that. Why in the world would these industry level artists work with someone who doesn't even pay them? All Merryweather Comics artists are paid according to the price they want to be paid for, and when a comic makes a lot of money, the money goes into our company savings, and the artist gets a pay raise.

Back in 2014 when I started trying to set up this company, nobody I talked to believed webcomics could make much money. But through years of persistence, dedication, and probably a lot of hardcore nerdiness, I made it work somehow, by non-stop marketing the comics. It took many years of pouring my entire salary into paying everyone's salaries, and now I can work with artist friends from all around the world, and we can make stupid things like 'Big Chungus-Chan' a thing, while also doing our best to make good comics like @ClinicOfHorrors a thing.

If one of our main artists is sick for a month, or is too stressed to work, or is burnt out, then they still get paid. It's one of the things I insisted on. Because I want them to feel safe that this company is something we all built together, and if one of us succeeds, then the others succeed also, and we should all feel safe and not have to worry about money. If an artist needs more money for something, emergency medical bills, etc, then we also always send them extra money for those months.

Merryweather Comics is a family of creatives who all enjoy what we're doing. There have been members that have come and then left because it wasn't their thing, and there have been hard times, but with the current team consisting of about 15 artists, 2 video editors, 1 comic editor, and 12 voice actors I am confident in saying that all of them are happy to be part of it.

The problem has been that people have thought we are all 1 individual, and people think that individual is me (@merrydawg). My fear is that people will not support us if they find out we're a company, because people on Twitter tend to think companies are soul-less organizations, and prefer to support individuals. This is a company made up of many individuals who all support each other, so please keep supporting us, even though you now know we are a company.

I hope you will continue to support us, so we can continue pouring every single cent of support you give us, into making even more silly meme comics, narrative webtoons, VTuber content, and more.

Here's a list of every person who works with us.

@PrincessHinghoi
@Merrydawg
@Osiimiartist
@Minsterphamduke
@carillus_
@monomogi
@heyacazz
@raynoTW
@Ermao_Wu
@aptx9522
@AJsparkx
@pcmaniac88
@pokurimio
@JoakimWaller
@Sketchkun
@easywavey
@Lumituber
@JunUsagi518
@YoloxSage
@Kirero
@Nakayama_Nana
@OraMagi
@MosoBox

If I forgot about someone, please let me know!

And special thanks to our regular cast of voice actors!

@ema_emaex
@masamasacat
@fuji_nile
@AJsparkx
@sirokuro_sorako
@nanattohara
@yama6ya
@trickster_voice
HAI
@torippy_restart
@miusuzu
@yuyusu
@uraya_sigeya
@EssieoVA
@TheBeast58235
@vexy.voices

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Thank you for everything. I love all of you.

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