Building a Hive Library

I have posted before about buying books by members of this community. This week I added a couple more.

You can see books by (going clockwise from top left) Hive account@arseniclullaby. Hive account@jrej, Hive account@katharsisdrill, Hive account@kommienezuspadt, Hive account@sidekickmatt, Hive account@drwatson. The latest additions are The City Under The Snow by Hive account@paolobeneforti illustrated by him and Hive account@silviabeneforti plus Running For My Life by Hive account@dragosroua. I put the latter on my Amazon wish list ages ago, but I do not order often from there. I got the two to save on postage. As with a couple of others I believe these are printed on demand in whatever country you order from. A few of these people have been less active lately, but I hope to see them return.

Paolo's book is short, but delightful. It is set in a dream where everything seems to have been buried under deep snow. The two artists have distinct styles.

I met them both in Lisbon at SF2 and they are both still very active on Hive producing wonderful art that brightens my day. I do have plans to buy some original pieces from them at some point. I am fortunate to be able to afford to support some artists, but any of us can do that on Hive by voting up their posts. I find it better for that than sites like Patreon where you have to commit to spending your money, possibly each month. Ideally I would like to be spending $HIVE to buy the physical items, but that is not always possible. Some of these have come via Kickstarter.

Also on Kickstarter I bought Drawn To Key West by Hive account@la-fumettista who is the illustrator of the Ithaqa comic written by Hive account@drwatson. I just got the PDF comic which I have yet to read. I did read all the Ithaqa comics that have come out so far recently after getting all the digital versions. I should be getting printed copies soon. I have been listed as a backer in the first issue of that and in some of the others.

I also have some physical records by Hivers.

So does anyone have a bigger Hive library than this? Not that it is a competition. I just want to see people supporting artists so that they can keep on entertaining us. Some will be offering downloads for supporters, some in the form of NFTs.

Hive five!