Important update on payment schedule! (Patreon)

Hello everyone! I want to start off by thanking you again for joining my Patreon. I'm so happy you like my comic enough to want to support it monetarily.  

Unfortunately I've had some trouble lately with people abusing the system so I've decided to follow my friend's advice and charge patrons up front. That means starting next month payments will be made on the 1st of each month rather than the end of the month.  I'm doing this because I've had people joining as $5 patrons, reading all the updates, then changing their pledge to $1 immediately after to avoid full payment. Then next month they changed it back to $5 and repeated the pattern. Of course you're totally entitled to change or withdraw your pledge anytime you want to, but doing it in that particular way seems a little calculated. "Stealing" your way to content is not only disrespectful to me but also to the patrons who actually pay full price for access. I won't mention names, but I hope the responsible parties will rethink their actions in the future and not do this to other Patreon creators. 

I hope that this update in the payment schedule will solve the issue. Just to clarify, you can still change and withdraw your pledge anytime and you'll be receiving the same content as before, the only change is that you'll now be charged at the beginning of the month rather than the end.  

Thank you for understanding and happy reading!