01.31.2005 - Isabel Marks:

January certainly hasn't been a great month for YSIF as far as hosting goes (which is nothing to do with our hosts). First it was hit by a DOS attack, then our bandwidth got used up before the billing month... we're on back on back-up bandwidth, so everything should be alright for now.

But still... it's certainly odd and a little distressing to see the site going down twice in one month (though I should mention it was no one's fault- the wonderful people over at Fuitadnet's help chat have certainly seen more than enough of us).

The good news is though, YSIF has reached it's goal for this month, which means the comic will continue to update seven days a week for the month of February- thank you to everyone who has helped us! Your faith in the comic (and of course your donations ^^;) has helped to keep me going through many rough times! I'm especially pleased that we made it this month, considering the slow start it had, thank you all!

I'm going to eventually start doing mini-reviews of web comics (like my husband Terrence is doing over at Spare Parts- which, by the way, I gave a new site design to- I hope you all enjoy it!), expect to see the first one sometime this week!

Also, in comic related news, please be sure to check out Oriyan! - a wonderful, drop-dead gorgeous webcomic by Celeste Smith and Jessica Hymas. It's the kind of comic that you all should have been reading as of yesterday. Seriously.

01.24.2004 - Terrence Marks:

One more thing - we're raffling off the original art for this month's wallpaper. For every $5 you donate during January, you get a chance. We'll have a drawing on February 1st. And yes, previous donations for January will be counted.

01.23.2004 - Terrence Marks:

We currently offer wallpaper and extra updates in exchange for donation. We're thinking of making some changes to our donation schedule. E-mail me and let me know what else you'd like. Isabel works very hard right now, so anything that involves my talents (programming [like the news archives we have now - you can read old news, check the link at the bottom of this], writing Spare Parts and YSiF, site updates, and such. I do NOT write ND, however) is especially welcome.

Also, You Say it First is falling very short of its donation goal for the month. It's a good comic and we want to keep up the 6-day-a-week updates. This is our only source of income right now. The money goes to food and bills. There's only about a week left in January. Please help us keep up the schedule. - Terrence

01.17.2005 - Isabel Marks:

Welcome to another week of You Say it First!

First off... the month is half over and You Say it First is 1/5th of the way to our goal to have You Say it First go six days a week for February... if you enjoy those three extra updates a week, please consider donating today! Not only do you help support the authors of the comic and help to keep the comic updating six days a week, you also get a wallpaper sent right to your e-mail box!

In other news... work on You Say it First Book 2 is almost complete! I'm considering doing some auctions to help pay for the book's productions (especially if we don't reach the donation goal for this month) or maybe a couple of commissions as well.

01.10.2005 - Terrence Marks:

As you may have noticed, the ND Unlimited forums are closed. Basically, they caused a fair amount of stress. This made Isabel enjoy doing comics less and threatened to cause health problems. Now, none of us want that, so we're closing the forums down.

I understand that some of you enjoyed the forum and are sorry to see it go. We're not bringing them back under any circumstances, however. Not worth it.

01.03.2005 - Isabel Marks:

Wow- it's been, like, a year since I last updated the news around here... fortunately Terrence made the gap a bit more bearable...

We have new fan art in the fan art section, please be sure to check it out!

The wallpaper for the month is not done yet, but it will be soon, as the total will be updated soon too.

I wish there was more news to write about... still working on YSIF book two, hopefully there will be a nice big update to the store in a few months, but till then, please enjoy the comic!

12.31.2004 - Terrence Marks:

Somebody was nice enough to send us Mario Kart: Double Dash, and we spent the afternoon playing it. We'll have the comics up in an hour or so (by 3 AM, Pacific time, at the latest).