Welcome!
Hello to you, lords, ladies and other gentle folk! My name is Maia Kobabe and I am asking for your support in my creative endeavors. I am an author and illustrator with an MFA in Comics from California College of the Arts. I have worked on many stories, including~

The Thief's Tale
This is my main project. It's a medieval fantasy adventure story, which includes difficult friendships, queer characters and stolen treasure. There are over 90 pages available on tumblr, though I am currently on a hiatus from posting pages . You can read the whole story so far at thethiefstale.com. I do a lot of "extra" drawing for this comic including pages of location designs, character designs and celtic knot doodles. I usually don't post that work online anywhere, but I will be posting it here on Patreon. Those work sketches will be available to anyone who supports me at the Knight level or above!

Strength Through Unity
This comic ran on The Nib on May 4, 2017, and has become my most shared/viewed comic ever. The subtitle is "How to Spot Fascism Before It's Too Late." If you've never seen this before, it's available to read in full here. If you are just finding my patreon because of this comic, welcome!

Tom o'Bedlam
A 24 page comic adaptation of a medieval ballad poem of the same name, which was recently nominated for an Ignatz Award and accepted into the 2016 Society of Illustrator's Comic and Cartoon Art Annual. You can read the whole comic here. (This is a finished story).

Genderqueer Comics
This is a series of short comic strips about being genderqueer and what that means to me. These comics will be accessible to anyone who supports me at the Baroness Level or above about a week in advance of when they post on instagram :)

The Imperial Malady
This is a short comic about caring for a loved one with cancer. It's a 6 page wordless comic and you can read it on my website.

The List
A short auto-biographical comic about books and lists, which can also be read online!

The Three Golden Hairs of the Devil's Beard
Devil's Beard is a completed webcomic adaptation of my favorite Brother's Grimm fairy tale which can call be found here on DA.

Why Patreon?
I love making comics, and I am very committed to posting them online for free. Patreon is a platform which allows you, darling readers, to support me on a monthly basis so I can keep doing just that. Patreon is similar to a smaller, sustained kickstarter campaign, in which you send in money in advance of the things that you will later receive- in this case, access to the Patreon-locked posts, postcards, comics welcome packets, and other stuff which I will be sending out to you all. You can jump in for one month of support or multiple months, and you can change the level or cancel all together at any time. I've been supporting a handful of other artists on here for about a year, so I can attest that it's a very easy site to work with. I'm happy to answer questions about it if you have any! Thank you so much for concidering becoming one of my patrons~
All the best, Maia