Welcome to the Tea Dragon Society!
With that, our story reaches it’s close – that’s the last page! Thank you all SO MUCH for your support and kind words throughout this gentle journey, it has been such a privilege sharing my work with such a receptive and lovely audience. I’ve had a wonderful time making this comic!
For those wondering – the book version (which you can see pictures of here!) will be available in local comics shops from October 19, and in bookstores and on Amazon on October 31! You can even pre-order it on Amazon right here.
I was extremely happy that so many people were interested in hearing more tales of the Tea Dragons, and that’s exactly what I intend to make! I’ll be beginning work towards the next book in the next couple of months, and you’ll be able to see progress and character sketches over on my Patreon under the sketchbook tier! You can also see the work on my current book project, which is about magical seahorse-like guardians of the sea.
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Thank you once again for sharing this story with me, and be sure to take the time to enjoy a cup of tea today!
Katie
It truly is a beautiful and delightful comic! Thank you for sharing it with us here. I look forward to the future stories!
This has been wonderful; thank you so much.
It was so cute and pure!! I totally want plushies!!
Nice work
I can not thank you enough for making this comic. My two favorite things are probably tea and dragons, and it was so wonderful to see them combined in such a sweet, touching, and absolutely gorgeous comic every week. I can’t wait to have a copy on my shelf.
Thank you so much! I enjoyed this immensely, everything from your original concept, beautiful art, lovable characters, and the gentle kind-heartedness of the story. Looking forward to more!
I found this a morning and I love it! So cute!! It’s really heartwarming just like a cup of tea.
Oh, it’s been so lovely!! I hope to pick up a copy. n_n Good luck on all of your future projects and endeavors!!
I just finished this and it was absolutely wonderful – thank you so much for making and sharing this!! ;w; <3
This was so lovely! I bought Princess Princess as soon as it hit shelves, and I’m looking forward to doing the same with this one! I’m excited to see what you do next!
I somehow managed to find this for the first time just a few days after it finished. It’s a little sad that it’s over, but I really enjoyed my time with these characters and look forward to future stories involving tea dragons. Thank you for making such a nice story.
This was such a beautiful comic! Thank you so much for sharing, I looked forward to every update! Can’t wait until I can buy the physical version. 🙂 It’s so great to see a sweet, soft, queer story, and with dragons and beautiful art!
oh my goodness godness gracious wow wow wow wowsers i just now read through it all in one go and i am crying because this is so good, everything about this is so good. the world is so wonderful and interesting and the world building was done so beautifully, although i long for more and am filled with sadness that these particular characters will not get continue as a main focus in your aspiring projects (which i am now so dearly looking forward to), i am just so full to the brim with satisfaction and just.. warm love feelings,,, happiness? i haven’t felt this at ease and so softly inspired and just.. calm for such a long time. actually just.. i can’t even remember the last time. i’ve been having.. a real hard time for a real long time actually.. as most people unfortunately, in times like these.. things are just so hard. but.. this story, and i mean also the story telling!! it is so beautiful and inspires me so much!! the way you expressed moods and feelings of the scene and the characters with the flowers??? i….. i am so deeply in love with it. i feel like just reading this has meant so utterly much to me that i can’t even express everything that i am feeling and i am just feeling, for once it feels like… just…. how completely lgbt safe and full of love this story is. the characters are just….. the relationships are just……. and such grand and so very awesome representation and diversity this comic and story has…. everything about this i just love. it is just so much of everything i dream and love and want to create and think about..! katie…. thank you so incredibly much you absolutely wonderful creator and person.
katie this might be weird but… i just have so much love and respect for you. thank you for creating this.. everything with this. i can’t tell you how much this just made my life almost but it has definitely changed me for the better..
because also.. to portray a character that has such struggles with memory loss who feel like they can’t remember anything also just… that speaks to me so much. i have forgotten so many things, because of trauma, depression, and various other diagnoses that have blurred so much of my mind, and continues on doing.
i was also a bit afraid that maybe when minette would drink the tea (hadn’t got that far yet when I worried), that it would lead to her getting panicked or even getting mentally overloaded, or even worse.. idk i was in some ways “so sure” that the characters were going to have a fight or a misunderstanding and/or just for something traumatic to happen and for there to be a bit of tear on their trust for a moment, before it gets to the end like sort of the 3/4 there, as like the sort of.. the usual used way stories build up, which i just think more and more about how that isn’t.. that’s not the /ultimate way/. and there doesn’t even need to be the so called “ultimate way”. that every story does not have to be fit in the sort of confining way that that can be. and that webcomics, don’t have to run for 8 years to be good, or to force characters mistreat each other and be bad to each other, just to create tension or drama, in the sense i am meaning here.
these are obvious things to most maybe.. i thought they were to me too, but when i look at the content i create, sometimes i get stuck in some of these patterns thinking sort of that “this is the only interesting stories” but it’s not, and i don’t even believe that, but some parts of me just unconsciously feel bad whenever i stray from those concepts.
it is a similar feeling (not on the same level of course), about how i feel about my gender and attraction identities. i struggle with them, i unconsciously feel bad for not being a certain way, for example, i have struggled with feeling forced to be attracted to men. and i just… i don’t. and parts of me can be like “oh but maybe you’re just like that because of trauma. maybe you should not “lock yourself off” but i just..
….. just noticed how way off topic i have become. uh.. i can’t quite remember what i was getting at,,, or if i just lost the red wire on the way.. i never was good at sewing. (or having coherent thoughts AHEM)
anyway thank you thank you thank you for existing katie, and making but also sharing your wonderful creativity, imagination, kindness and just hard work.
i so in the future want to support you the best i can via patreon, buying your books and art and stuff like that!! you really deserve it so much. thank you, again. you’ve given me so much, and many others i bet too. KATIE YOU’RE A REAL INSPIRATIE!
Thank you for this delightful comic!! x
This was incredibly beautiful to read- both the art, and the story.
This comic is absolutely phenomenal!! I love you art style so much! The colors are so beautiful and the character designs are incredible! I will definitely be buying a copy of it when I can and I can’t wait to see more of your work!!
thank you so much for this wonderful work! what a beautiful story – i’m so happy to have read it.
This is such a beautiful story, both the writing and the illustration! I’m in love with your style!
Thank you so much for this story, it was absolutely beautiful…
The are and story are so beautiful! I love the idea, and the character, and the dragons (I’d love plushies). I really hope we have more stories about these delightful characters soon! I think I might be partial to the Peppermint Tea Dragons and the Chamomile Tea Dragons since that is my favorite blend. I’ve recommended the book to all my friends!
I just recently followed you today on Twitter because I liked your name (and your profile icon, strange I know) and it’s outstanding how wonderful drawn this book really is. I came across it on your Tumblr and I was instantly captive by your art style. It’s all the compliments put together. Like, you must spend hours trying to incorporate each scene. The story scenes, absolutely well written. You moved us with the story beautifully. I was quite upset that you finished too soon, but no matter.
I know you’ll catch up another story pretty soon!
10/10…no 100,000,000,00/1,000,000,000 Katie, I’m obsessed.
I read the book version and then shared it with my 6 year old the very next day and we are both completely entranced by it. I love the broader themes of the story, and it’s many beautiful moments, and we are both completely smitten by the tea dragons. He’s been drawing tea dragons and pretending to be one all day. Thank you for the beautiful experience we could share … and fingers crossed for plushies!!! I know a little dude who would be WAY into one.
The epitome of “short but sweet”. Charmed the pants of me. Thank you for this.
That was truly beautiful! You should be very proud of this work/art/masterpiece!
I love this book!!! I bought it for myself and my favorite dragon is the brown one on page 66.
It is amazing that you provide your comic for free! I absolutely loved your use of colour, it all blends so well together and makes it feel so magical! Absolutely stunning.
The floral details and the pastel colours enhanced the feeling of a fairytale even more and went so well with the story!
Will be recommending this to people who like comics and fairytales.
Oh my! I just discovered this and I fell in love! I love the story and the world. I love the characters and the dragons. I especially love the pastel colors, it gave such an easy, calm feel. Thank you for this story.
This was an incredibly amazing and sweet story! I love your art style, and I look up to you, Katie. I love your LGBT stories! They’re quite beautiful. Thanks for giving my something to look at with admiration!
Thoroughly enjoyed your beautiful work! I was so sad when I reached the ending. Please share more, it would be so wonderful if you did!