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About the Author
✿ For common questions about me or my work, please visit the FAQ.
Hello, I’m Hobart. I’m an Australian illustrator and writer living and working in Tasmania. I like machines, midcentury design and visiting new places. I studied as a journalist, but now work in illustration.
Vekllei has existed in some form since I was a kid, but I started working on it properly in 2017.
You can follow my progress on this project on Twitter, or join my subreddit.
You can write to me at 📧 [email protected].
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Sincere thanks to Jip and Ben R. R. for their contributions to this site. They volunteered their time again and again to help create new features that make Vekllei easier and more fun to read. Thank you!
News #
Last updated: 08 Jul 2023
July 2023
📔 July 7, 2023 New comic: Atomica 1: Cola
June 2023
🌐 June 28, 2023 Start of a major content update, including new and revised articles on Vekllei, its Basic Laws, and its Government. Part of a massive lore update I’m calling “Vekllei 2.0.”
📗 June 23, 2023 New post: Portrait of Tzipora & Cobian
📗 June 21, 2023 New post: The Dunes
📒 June 16, 2023 New sketch: Weirdo
🌐 June 14, 2023 MillMint.net now has comments enabled under stories, powered by Welcomments. It’s a great solution for static sites.
📒 June 12, 2023 New sketch: Friends
📒 June 11, 2023 New sketch: The News
📗 June 9, 2023 New post: Tzipora’s New Look
📗 June 8, 2023 New post: Saba Island Sneakers
📒 June 5, 2023 New sketch: Sulking
📗 June 3, 2023 New post: Anarchist Trams
📗 June 2, 2023 New post: An Intelligence Analyst and Her Medals
May 2023
📒 May 16, 2023 New sketch: Hardware
📒 May 2, 2023 New sketch: Downpour
April 2023
📒 April 30, 2023 New sketch: Natural Corners
📗 April 24, 2023 New post: Tzipora, the Wanderer
📗 April 18, 2023 New post: Atomic Main Battle Tank
🌐 April 1, 2023 MillMint.net now displays a closeable notice and badge when there’s a new story you havent seen! Nifty!
March 2023
📗 March 31, 2023 New post: General Infantry, General Issue
📒 March 22, 2023 New sketch: Short
📒 March 19, 2023 New sketch: Grey on the Mind
📒 March 18, 2023 New sketch: Hats
📒 March 16, 2023 New sketch: On the Stair
📒 March 15, 2023 New sketch: Sketch of Coretti Adoula
📒 March 14, 2023 New sketches: Jeep and Zelda
📒 March 11, 2023 New sketch: Health Vekllei
📄 March 8, 2023 I take commissions! I’ve added a commission page to the site, with terms and prices.
🌐 March 5, 2023 Added RSS to the site. Click her to follow Stories.
📒 March 1, 2023 New sketch: Dapper Soldier
February 2023
📒 February 28, 2023 New sketch: Revised Mail Uniform
📒 February 26, 2023 New sketch: Caught
📒 February 25, 2023 New sketch: Sand
🌐 February 24, 2023 Added lazy loading to images.
📗 February 22, 2023 New post: America, 2059
📄 February 21, 2023 Added a Vekllei Timeline
🌐 February 19, 2023 Added a DARK MODE to millmint.net. Debugged by Jip. Click the lightbulb at the top of the page!
📗 February 16, 2023 New post: A Government Jet
📗 February 15, 2023 New post: New Ruins
January 2023
📒 January 31, 2023 New sketch: Sketch for a Friend
📄 January 28, 2023 Added an article about Sagas
📄 January 28, 2023 Added an article about Universal Cotton
📒 January 27, 2023 New sketch: Constable Zelda
📒 January 26, 2023 New sketch: All That Glitters
📒 January 6, 2023 New sketch: The Veranda
📗 January 3, 2023 New post: Department Commerce
📗 January 1, 2023 New post: The Prime Minister(s) of Vekllei
December 2022
📗 December 31, 2022 New post: Tannin Rivers
📗 December 23, 2022 New post: Sepia Interests
📄 December 20, 2022 Added an article about the Moshel St School
✏️ December 20, 2022 New blog post: Getting Back to Basics
📒 December 10, 2022 New sketch: The Friend
📒 December 9, 2022 New sketch: The Look
📗 December 2, 2022 New post: Silica Rivers
November 2022
📒 November 30, 2022 New sketch: Sleep
📗 November 9, 2022 New post: Teachers
October 2022
📒 October 29, 2022 New sketch: Tee Shirt
📗 October 26, 2022 New post: The Riot
🌐 October 20, 2022 The Vekllei character creator has entered beta! Programming contributed and debugged by Jip, clothing assets by me. Go check it out at /dolls/!
📗 October 17, 2022 New post: Uniforms for All the Commonwealth
🌐 October 15, 2022 Added the Vekllei Dictionary, a feature to show tooltips over Vekllei phrases and words (e.g. Bureau System). It’s a massive site upgrade, and once again it was contributed entirely by Jip in his free time. Thank you again!
📗 October 14, 2022 New post: Five Years
🌐 October 7, 2022 Added a new floating dynamic TOC with active states, coded entirely by Jip. It looks fantastic and works great – thanks for your help!
📗 October 6, 2022 New post: The Rifles Section
September 2022
🌐 September 29, 2022 New website section: Blog
📗 September 21, 2022 New post: The Scouts
🌐 September 19, 2022 Made a huge update to the colour of the site, and fixed a lot of small nav bugs and inconsistencies that had been around for a while.
📗 September 16, 2022 New post: Lola, Borough of Genesisr
📗 September 15, 2022 New post: Story Trailer
📗 September 1, 2022 New post: Stories from the Horizon
August 2022
📄 August 29, 2022 Added an article about the Finance of Vekllei
📄 August 23, 2022 Added an article about the Metaphysics of Vekllei
🌐 August 16, 2022 Painstakingly moved all 315 posts from /posts/ to /stories/, complete with custom aliases (e.g. millmint.net/stories/crown)
📄 August 10, 2022 Added an article about the State Assets of Vekllei
📗 August 6, 2022 New post: The Crown and the Gi
📗 August 5, 2022 New post: Caught Sketching
📗 August 4, 2022 New post: Waiting for a Movie
🌐 August 3, 2022 Added sidenotes! On wide screens, footnotes will now appear in the right margin of an article adjacent to footnoted sentences. A really nice improvement to readability. On mobile, they appear below an article as usual.
📓 August 2, 2022 Added a new /state/ section in /society/ and split up the Government article into smaller pages, in preparation for its public release.
July 2022
📄 July 29, 2022 Added an article about Computing in Vekllei
🌐 July 22, 2022 Added the first Studio Spotlight! A behind-the-scenes look at what goes into a post, accompanied by a timelapse. Visible below the School Cape post.
📗 July 22, 2022 New post: The Government School Cape
📗 July 21, 2022 New post: Little Hyderabad
🌐 July 19, 2022 Overhauled the site colour system with Jip, who did an awesome job transforming my clunky CSS into javascript
📗 July 12, 2022 New post: Café Diplomacy
June 2022
📄 July 29, 2022 New borough article: Pharos
🌐 June 24, 2022 Added lazy-loading to images on the site, improving performance.
📒 June 22, 2022 Drew a sketch of Tzipora and Cobian before their school formal. Just some fun between comic pages
🌐 June 15, 2022 Added a swish animated cover for the home page, and moved the great existing parallax to Intro in preparation for an overhaul
📒 June 7, 2022 Drew a uniform reference to keep clothing details consistent between chapters
🌐 June 6, 2022 Added auto-numbering and anchors to the headers on the site for easier navigation
📒 June 4, 2022 Drew a height reference sheet for the comic characters so I stop drawing Tzipora and Cobian the same height
📒 June 2, 2022 Finished a Zelda reference sheet, now featuring eyelashes