The Pilotside Chronicle is an anthology of comedic stories set in the fictional and sometimes-more-fantastical-than-other-times suburban town of Pilotside, Illinois. A sleepy Victorian town of secrets, lies, talking animals, monsters, an interdimensional vortex, and underground kingdom of mole people (though it should be noted they look more like opossums) and a delivery girl with a direct line to Hell. Much of the comic (pre-2018) is PG, with some small bits of violence and extremely light sexual content. Glowing Hearts is PG-13, and sometimes much, much dirtier than that, though much of that content is hosted off-site and comes with appropriate warnings. It also has a lot of LGBTQA+ themes, which aren't adult or particularly sexual, even if they do inform such things. It's PG-13 with Adventures in Babysitting rules, meaning I get two-f-words per book, and quite a lot of shits. Look, that movie probably was supposed to get an R, but it didn't and it's all arbitrary anyway.
The Author??? Penelope Merch (She/Her/Your Majesty) is a transgender Atlanta-based cartoonist from the greater Chicago area (note: specifically Hammond, Indiana, which is actually not great at all) who largely grew up in rural Illinois. They worked in the Animation industry in a professional capacity from 2007-2013, generally as a clean-up artist, or being the assistant to her spouse, despite being paid nearly twice as much as them (Please unionize the games industry). Since leaving Animation as a full-time endeavor, she has worked freelance doing sprite work, animation, illustration, and recently appeared in Iron Circus' Smut Peddler My Monster Girlfriend. Her goal was always to make comics, and it turns out you can just make them, and generally no one stops you. In July 2012, they launched this very website, with a massive chunk of their first graphic novel Spry's Adventure Comic, which she had finished most of by the time the site had launched, so she updated at an absurd 3 or 4 pages a week. Don't expect that ever again. It was originally the storyboard for a feature animated film with, lol, no, no one should try to make an entire animated movie themselves. The most recent on-going story is Glowing Hearts, where Penny accidentally designed one of the main characters to look more like them than originally intended, but it's fine, everyone does that. Get off my back. Also no one else is writing this and I don't like really using second or third person to write my biography but it feels professional.
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