Hi, everyone,

Thought I’d give you a quick update here, especially for those who don’t follow me on social media – honestly, I should have done this ages ago.

The main reason for my long absence and the lack of new comics has been that I’ve been dealing with a series of personal health issues on and off basically ever since I got sick at the start of the pandemic, and had some bad new developments recently. It’s not great, and it’s all left me pretty stressed and exhausted, and pretty far from comics-making mode.

However! Band Vs Band is my favorite project of all time, and my intention has always been to return to it at some point, when I can. I don’t know when, yet, and I don’t want to set a specific date in case it’s a promise I can’t keep…but I do want to be making comics again, and posting this feels like summoning hopeful momentum in that direction.

I also want to thank all of you who’ve read and enjoyed the comics over the years, and everyone who’s shared it with friends, supported my kickstarters and my books, or told me these gay band comics made you laugh, or have a place in your heart, or any nice thing, really. I’ve been so lucky to have readers that have been so overwhelmingly kind and supportive, and your enthusiasm for Band Vs Band has meant the world to me. I know I’ve shared this before, but I originally started posting these comics on a little drawing blog I used to have, with an attitude like “ha ha, I don’t care if anyone else likes or even Gets this – I’m drawing it to make ME laugh, as a treat”…and the fact that other people DID get into it was one of the best surprises of my life.

The image I’ve used above is in the BVB Volume 1 special edition book, and I’ve had it available as a print for a while – but I realized that, while it’s been on my social media, it WASN’T actually anywhere on this main website. And, dang it, I always really LIKED it, so: now it is! I thought it’d make a nice “cover” image to kind of hold the space here for a while until there’s new stuff, instead of it just continuing to be the last-posted comic page indefinitely.

I think that’s it for now (and if you follow me on any social media, you’ll definitely get updates on any comics happenings. The one I’m actually most active on is twitter, and that’s also the one to follow if you want regular pictures of my cats)

(Edit 2025: My twitter is no longer active, and the best place to follow me is on BlueSky)

These are awful times we’re living in, and 2022 is already pretty rough…but, despite everything, I’m gonna go into this year with some hopeful energy towards making comics again.

-Kathleen

Oh my gosh, it’s a new Band Vs Band, just in time for Valentine’s Day! At some point this just sort of became THE official BVB holiday, with new valentines almost every year.

I also want to apologize for how infrequent the comic updates have been lately: basically, I underestimated how much it would wear me out get books to print in 2018/2019 (but don’t get me wrong, I’m really glad to have those books!) I love making these comics so much, and it’s really frustrated me to have less of that energy. I’m working on it, though, and, as always, it means so much to me that all of you read & enjoy it and look forward to updates!

It’s a new comic page! I feel bad that I wasn’t able to do as many pages as I wanted in 2019…but what the heck, I DID do a bunch of pages that I really liked. Onward, to more gay band comics in 2020!

It’s a new page, in which: Learn Guitar Club continues! Sort of!

It’s a new comic, in which: Honey Hart is still enthusiastic about teaching YOU guitar! Kinda!

The other big news around here is: my online shop is open again, for the first time since the Volume 1 reprint Kickstarter. I’ve finally got both books in stock, plus some neat stickers and Risograph prints. (There’s also a digital edition shop, and those versions of the books have the same bonus stuff as the print ones.)

As always, thanks so much for your patience with my messy comic-postin’ schedule, and thanks so much for reading – it really means a lot to me that people are glad to see it update.

And we’re back, with a new comic page! (The first page with Learn Guitar Club was here.) Thanks for your patience, all – and I’m still working on updating the online store, aiming to have that open again ASAP.

We’re back! Oh my gosh! Thank you SO much for your patience, everyone – if you missed seeing this before, my decade-old computer that I’ve been making comics on this entire time finally died, and I was stranded without one at home for about a month. The good news, though, is that this is the first page I’ve done on my beautiful brand new laptop, which is like absurdly more powerful and reliable than the old one.

Next up: re-opening the online shop (watch for that in the next couple of days!)

A new Band Vs Band page, in which: one of the laws of costumes is that they must eventually come off

It’s a new page, in which…WELL, maybe all the costume-related feelings at this party average out to…”complicated.”

It’s a new page, in which: WELL, sometimes in this life you can be very compatible with someone in Some Ways, and…not so much in others.

(Quick Kickstarter note: I’ve now sent out everything that doesn’t have custom drawings!)