September 26 2024: Attention print media enjoyers - Nothing Doing #1 is now available for preorder!! This 24 page b/w minicomic collects the first 20 strips, and can be purchased from now til 12:30pm EST on Thursday, October 10. Books should start shipping around mid-late November. Get your copy here!!!

September 15 2024: I'm starting a newsletter! It's called DIRECT TO VIDEO, and you can subscribe here. In addition to being another way to receive Nothing Doing updates, this newsletter will contain any substantial announcements you might want to know about (book preorders, major site updates, etc) and maybe some little treats I think of in the moment. Basically, consider this a supplement/backup to the already-existing website and RSS feed, but with the potential to become something more in the future. Wow!!!

I will be real - part of the reason I'm doing this is that I keep worrying my RSS feed is going to break and I won't know how to fix it. In the wake of cohost shutting down, I know a fair amount of people are looking to move on from social media as a whole and become True RSS Freaks (affectionate), and I'd hate for any readers to lose track of what's going on with the comic because I saved a file wrong or something. If you are one of these people and you want to keep up with my work, this might be a "the move!"

That said, I also just think there's something novel and fun about newsletters. I don't know yet what I might like to do with it; maybe it'll be a fun way to preview other projects or share little secrets about the comic. Anything is possible (though I will say that every edition will have at least one comic in it -- that's the "horse's promise")!

For the first four weeks, there will be twice-weekly updates on Tuesdays and Thursdays containing five strips from the Nothing Doing archive each. Once all the strips are archived on Buttondown, it will be updated whenever there is a new comic slash whenever I have something important to announce. It simply would not be a project of mine if it had a more coherent schedule lol

All that to say: comics! Directly to your email!! Literally what in this world could be better than that!!! Subscribe today!!!!!

May 1 2024: Today's the one year anniversary of Nothing Doing, and I've written a long post about it. At some point I'll upload it to this site as well for archival purposes, but as I don't have a blog set up here yet it's going to live on cohost for now. It gets political towards the end, so if you're against the liberation of Palestine I would suggest you spend your time elsewhere and also get off my website.

March 18 2024: I've set up an email! It's something I should have done a long time ago, but my domain provider doesn't have an immediate way to set one up internally so I put it off for a good while. I've put a link on the homepage as well, but if you have any questions about the website, if the RSS feed is broken, etc, you can reach me at horse@horseonvhs.com.

A few other updates have been made as well, namely this news page and the little "latest update" bit at the top of the home page. I'd like to make this a slightly more active space, so there may be a few more little things here and there in the next few weeks.

March 18 2024: Welcome to the news page. I'm currently testing it, so if you're seeing it on the date listed you've probably gotten here via your neocities feed. Don't go sharing it! It's a secret til it's ready. [Editor's note: actually I felt like it was pretty much "done" shortly after writing that so I already shared it around. Who knows how you got here or when! The possibilities are endless]

This page is pretty transparently inspired by the way Evan Dahm has archived past news posts on his own website, which is to say, all in a row. My main goal with this website is to keep it as simple for me to keep track of as possible without compromising too much on the stuff I want to be able to do with it; this sort of approach seems to be a pretty unobtrusive way to present more information to a visitor without it distracting from the simplicity of the home page, and something about having all the posts stacked chronologically on top of each other just seems fun to me.