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Volume 4 and Patreon

News, news, and more news!

By Alanna Harpsong

So the first page of volume 4 of The Cat House goes up today. We will as usual be posting a page every Friday until we run out of pages. Which will be like September, because it’s 30 pages long.

Aside from the delightful length, you get a new delightful character. Delightful… sure. Sara is being introduced into the house this volume. New maid. More cat girls and naughty fun.

Of course we have to give a special thanks to a very special fan. Grip, who has generously sponsored this volume of The Cat House. Which has afforded him the chance to work side by side with us on this one. To suggest scenarios and ideas. Even down to tiny details like tails and ears. While getting to watch us go through the process from script, to script edits, sketching, inking and colors. It’s been a pleasure to work with you and we’ve been so appreciative of your ideas and suggestions. It has really made this a fun volume.

Which brings me to Patreon. If you don’t know what Patreon is, it’s a site that allows you donate and help support the studio. The chance for more art, comics and information on the status of the visual novel we’ve been working on. We go by a monthly subscription here and have currently 3 tiers you can donate at. $1, $5, or $10.

Why should you consider this?

Because there are a variety of things you can gain, that you wouldn’t normally. There are Patreon pin-up exclusives. The one for February is Sara, to go with the launch of Patreon as well as the new volume. For March though, Patreons get to cast their votes as to which pin-up gets drawn. For this month Alanna has picked 3 of the ladies from Chrono Trigger. This is a rare chance to see some fan art out of us. Certain tiers will get a copy of the hi-res .jpg. We will also be posting our art and comics there first before we release it to the general public.

Some Patreons will get the chance to see into the deep fathoms of the studio. Could be just the set up itself. The Cat Heater and whatever silliness we might be getting up to. As well as news and updates about the game. Getting to see our works in progress on it. As a matter of fact, just head on over there and see how each tier is broken down.

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Post author:Alanna Harpsong
Post published:February 14, 2020
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Studio News

And some cute sticker designs.

By Alanna Harpsong

We’ve been quite busy working on The Cat House comic as well as things for the game. Progress has come along greatly. We’ve just finally finished posting volume 3 of the comic. We’re well on our way with volume 4. Which you can anticipate coming out in February. Starting on the first Friday the 7th. We will continue our normal routine of releasing a new page every Friday until we run out of pages. This one’s pretty long at 30 pages. It’s also a pretty special one. The introduction of a new character as well as being sponsored by one our wonderful fans.

With the new volume we’ll also be re-launching our Patreon. This will be a great way that you can help support us in making more content as well as scoring some goodies for yourself. Patreons will get to see the comic pages as well as the other art we are working on before we release it to the general public. Nova and Alanna will be alternating doing a monthly pin-up that Patreons will receive copies of. Certain Patreons will get to vote on the pin-up. Might be the theme that we’ve chosen, or characters. Certain Patreons will get to peek into the studio as well as getting to see more in depth the progress of our visual novel.

We also have our eyes on a couple of conventions later in the year. Much to still be determined about them. When we know more of what we’re actually able to achieve, you’ll know. But we’re starting to build up some stock to hopefully have for a table. These little guys above are turning into some pretty cute fucking stickers.

Just wanted to give a general update.

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Post author:Alanna Harpsong
Post published:January 11, 2020
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The Cat House

The Cat House!

Plus other updates!

By NovaCaster

That’s right! After a long wait between volumes, The Cat House is back with Volume 3! We will be releasing a page every Friday until the volume ends! However, that’s not all the news we have involving The Cat House! If all goes according to our plan, we are going to try to just keep releasing pages after Volume 3 is finished. We already have a good head start on volume 4 and if we are able to keep the pace, we’re going to try to just keep going into volume 4 with minimal if any down time!

Now that our trip is over, we will be back at it full pace here! If you would like to see a mild photo log of our trip, join us on Discord! We are always fairly active over at our channel there, so if communicating with the artists behind the work you like is something you like doing, come join us! We don’t bite… much.

Alanna and I have also just finished putting together the official Studio Squid Ink work space! Not that all of us work here all the time since Kaho doesn’t in fact live locked in our basement <.< (Or does she!?). I also often work while I’m at… well… work. However this is absolutely at least Alanna and I’s primary creative space now that It’s finished! You can see a picture above of the finished studio! For now I think that covers the major updates to the studio! As always feel free to leave comments anywhere we can be followed!

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Post author:NovaCaster
Post published:October 24, 2019
Post category:Studio Squid Ink News

Studio on Vacation

Gallivanting across Germany and Iceland!

By Alanna Harpsong

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up that NovaCaster and Alanna Harpsong are going to be away for a while. Kaho will likely be lurking somewhere in her native state. We’ve got had a big vacation planed for some time to Europe. And we will be gone for a little over 3 week or there about. Alanna and Nova will be gone from the 16th of September to the 8th of October.

What does this mean for you? Well less art obviously. But more so to those that may have been noodling around with the idea for a commission. If you send an email and we don’t respond to you don’t worry. Chances are we’re reveling in geeky history things or drunk ….

We promise we’ll get to you as soon as possible when were home. We will try to keep an eye on the squid email, but no promises. See you when we get back.

~Alanna

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Post author:Alanna Harpsong
Post published:September 14, 2019
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Beer, Dakimakura’s and Commissions

Beer, Dakimakura's, And Commissions!

Oh My!

By NovaCaster

So Alanna did this fantastic picture of Rosalyn as a beer label and I decided that I should make one for myself too! This was amazingly fun to do and I’m really glad I did it. This is Yasmin strutting her mug of Hefeweiße-Dunkel! This bier is brought to you by the wonderful people over at Das Katzenhaus Brauerei! The Official Brewery of Studio Squid Ink*!

And now onto the Commission. This is a commission for DotorDweeb! Looks like Susan and Rhonda got themselves in trouble with the Mistress of Darkness… I wonder how they will get themselves out of this one… Drawing Elvira was pretty damn fun <.<;

*Note: This Brewery may or may not actually exist……

Yes! For all our fans of The Cat House out there, here you go! This is a fully scale-able Dakimakura for of Miyuki! I had a ton of fun working on this picture and I’m really happy with how she turned out on these.

Right now we don’t actually have plans to print these en masse, but that doesn’t mean a limited run isn’t doable if the interest in there. Let me know via email if this is something anyone is interested in. It would take some time to get it together, but if we can get at least 10 people wanting to get these for somewhere in the $50 range (although we’ll see), I will look into getting a limited run printed!

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Post author:NovaCaster
Post published:September 13, 2019
Post category:New Artwork

New Art by Alanna

Tentacles and Beer! Tentacles and Beer!

By Alanna Harpsong

So here are a couple of pictures I’ve had in the works. One of the lovely Rosalyn from The Cat House. Originally I had planed to do just a quick pin-up of her in a German dirndl dress. For the spirit of Oktoberfest and because we will be heading out to Germany very soon here. I however did not anticipate the way it morphed into a German style beer label. But it was a fun idea and I ran with it. Which became a lot of fun to work on as it is out of the realm of what I normally do. This in turn inspired Nova to do a label of his own with Yasmin. We’re now playing around with idea of doing more of them with some of the other Cat House characters. But we’ll see.

The second image here is my newest tentacle creation. I introduce to you Gerhard Von Wigglesstein. My gentlemanly Prussian tentacle monster. Yup. I’ve been on a German kick. I’ve also been on a WWI kick because of Sabaton. So this is how this beautiful creation came to be. While I had never considered making myself my own pet tentacle monster, I do believe I have a new pet.

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Post author:Alanna Harpsong
Post published:September 13, 2019
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Skydiving

Lyssa and Dickins Make their Triumphant Return!

By NovaCaster

As Lyssa pulled the cord on her chute, she was distinctly aware of Dickins sliding his tentacles out of the space between her pack and the small of her back where he had somehow managed to tuck himself away. She has pulled the cord early just to get the most out of the decent. As his tentacles slid across her skin it sent tingles up her spine. Then she felt a tentacle slide into her and that was the start of the real fun…

Hey everyone! Its been a while since I drew a picture of Lyssa and Dickins! So I honestly am only partially sure how I came up with this insane idea, but here’s the gist of it. I was thinking “what insane thing can I have Lyssa and Dickins doing for their triumphant return to my pages? I should do something really insane like that roller coaster image Erotibot did a while back…” Then this came into my head. So I’m pretty sure the idea of sex in crazy impossible locations brought on by the fantastic Erotibot is the sole reason for my coming up with this insanity lol. Thanks man!

Enjoy everyone 😉

Commissions are Open! The Commission sale ends on September 10th If you want a $60 character commission, act now! Check out the commission info here!

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Post author:NovaCaster
Post published:August 30, 2019
Post category:New Artwork

Latest Commission and Comm Sale Last Call

Latest Commission

And Final Call for the Commission Sale!

By NovaCaster

Hey Everyone! So this is a commission for Prevert-One! It’s an illustration of a scene from his story Alice Amoeba: Roy Boy Toy Which you can read here! If you do want more info on the picture, I highly recommend reading the story if you enjoy erotic horror! The characters are Alice and Roy and belong to Prevert-One!

Also, This is the last call for the commission sale I have going on! I will be closing the sale on September 7th! If you want to take advantage of the sale, now is the last chance since I do these incredibly rarely! Check out the sale pricing here! If you want our full commission information, check it out at this link here.

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Post author:NovaCaster
Post published:August 24, 2019
Post category:New Artwork

That Man Needs Coffee!

Delivered in the most absurd way possible!

By NovaCaster

As you feel yourself slipping into s deliriously tired state, a roar of an engine jolts you awake. Your coffee mug, which had sat empty for far too long is suddenly hit with a blast of fresh, piping hot coffee and just the right amount of cream! As you look up, you see one of the more confusing sights to meet your eyes… A cute girl salutes your from the top of the most ridiculous tank you’ve ever seen. “Hi there! I’m Coffee-chan! Here’s more go juice for you!” She says as the tank rolls on past. You blink a few times and then wonder just how little sleep you must have gotten to be hallucinating this badly first thing in the morning.

Hilarious Insanity. That’s what this image is. So The story behind this is that myself, Alanna, and 2 of our good friends were in the stream chat talking as Alanna and I were drawing (You can follow our streams on picarto.tv here!) and the idea came up that we should design characters based on coffee. We decided to call it Coffee-chan. So we both came up with some pictures for it.

My version of Coffee-chan (of which this is the second iteration because I didn’t like the first one) Has a lot of possibly subtle tie-ins to coffee. Starting her her hair. I wanted the color to be similar to the way espresso looks when its brewed. So I have the dark color at the bottom transitioning to the light at the top. The hat, adorned with her adorable Coffee-chan logo, is topped with whipped cream.

Moving on the the more ridiculous part of the picture… The tank: the chassis is a German Panther Ausf. D from World War 2. The turret is also based on that same design but obviously heavily modified. The coffee grinder on the back is crank operated by the commander with that handle next to the hatch. The tracks are made of stirring sticks, and the accessories include of course a sugar spoon, and a pair of sugar cube tongs. The cannon fires a constant stream of coffee witch has a spray of cream added in from the small launcher underneath. Last but not least, the tanks number had to be 42. Because surly the only true question to the answer to Life the Universe and Everything has to be coffee.

Enjoy everyone!

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Post author:NovaCaster
Post published:August 13, 2019
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What’s Alanna been up to?

What's Alanna been up to?

Mostly slaving away on scripts and inking comic pages.

By Alanna Harpsong

I did have a few things to upload. I finished a little chibi I did. She’s a mascot based on coffee. For now we’ll just call her Coffee-chan. It was an idea that my husband and room mate had. We all decided to design our own coffee themed lady. Though I think I’m the first to actually finish mine. Hopefully I do little pin-ups with her from time to time.

Secondly I finally caught up with my father and I was able to snag a picture of the other tattoo he got done of my art. The elven druid I did a little bit ago.

Still pretty wild seeing my art on the back of my father’s legs. O_O

Back to slaving on comic pages and game scripts.

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Post author:Alanna Harpsong
Post published:August 5, 2019
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