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About the Author

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โœฟ 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 ๐Ÿ“ง [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

๐Ÿ“” July 7, 2023 New comic: Atomica 1: Cola

June 2023

๐ŸŒ 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.”

๐Ÿ“— June 23, 2023 New post: Portrait of Tzipora & Cobian

๐Ÿ“— June 21, 2023 New post: The Dunes

๐Ÿ“’ June 16, 2023 New sketch: Weirdo

๐ŸŒ June 14, 2023 MillMint.net now has comments enabled under stories, powered by Welcomments. It’s a great solution for static sites.

๐Ÿ“’ June 12, 2023 New sketch: Friends

๐Ÿ“’ June 11, 2023 New sketch: The News

๐Ÿ“— June 9, 2023 New post: Tzipora’s New Look

๐Ÿ“— June 8, 2023 New post: Saba Island Sneakers

๐Ÿ“’ June 5, 2023 New sketch: Sulking

๐Ÿ“— June 3, 2023 New post: Anarchist Trams

๐Ÿ“— June 2, 2023 New post: An Intelligence Analyst and Her Medals

May 2023

๐Ÿ“’ May 16, 2023 New sketch: Hardware

๐Ÿ“’ May 2, 2023 New sketch: Downpour

April 2023

๐Ÿ“’ April 30, 2023 New sketch: Natural Corners

๐Ÿ“— April 24, 2023 New post: Tzipora, the Wanderer

๐Ÿ“— April 18, 2023 New post: Atomic Main Battle Tank

๐ŸŒ April 1, 2023 MillMint.net now displays a closeable notice and badge when there’s a new story you havent seen! Nifty!

March 2023

๐Ÿ“— March 31, 2023 New post: General Infantry, General Issue

๐Ÿ“’ March 22, 2023 New sketch: Short

๐Ÿ“’ March 19, 2023 New sketch: Grey on the Mind

๐Ÿ“’ March 18, 2023 New sketch: Hats

๐Ÿ“’ March 16, 2023 New sketch: On the Stair

๐Ÿ“’ March 15, 2023 New sketch: Sketch of Coretti Adoula

๐Ÿ“’ March 14, 2023 New sketches: Jeep and Zelda

๐Ÿ“’ March 11, 2023 New sketch: Health Vekllei

๐Ÿ“„ March 8, 2023 I take commissions! I’ve added a commission page to the site, with terms and prices.

๐ŸŒ March 5, 2023 Added RSS to the site. Click her to follow Stories.

๐Ÿ“’ March 1, 2023 New sketch: Dapper Soldier

February 2023

๐Ÿ“’ February 28, 2023 New sketch: Revised Mail Uniform

๐Ÿ“’ February 26, 2023 New sketch: Caught

๐Ÿ“’ February 25, 2023 New sketch: Sand

๐ŸŒ February 24, 2023 Added lazy loading to images.

๐Ÿ“— February 22, 2023 New post: America, 2059

๐Ÿ“„ February 21, 2023 Added a Vekllei Timeline

๐ŸŒ February 19, 2023 Added a DARK MODE to millmint.net. Debugged by Jip. Click the lightbulb at the top of the page!

๐Ÿ“— February 16, 2023 New post: A Government Jet

๐Ÿ“— February 15, 2023 New post: New Ruins

January 2023

๐Ÿ“’ January 31, 2023 New sketch: Sketch for a Friend

๐Ÿ“„ January 28, 2023 Added an article about Sagas

๐Ÿ“„ January 28, 2023 Added an article about Universal Cotton

๐Ÿ“’ January 27, 2023 New sketch: Constable Zelda

๐Ÿ“’ January 26, 2023 New sketch: All That Glitters

๐Ÿ“’ January 6, 2023 New sketch: The Veranda

๐Ÿ“— January 3, 2023 New post: Department Commerce

๐Ÿ“— January 1, 2023 New post: The Prime Minister(s) of Vekllei

December 2022

๐Ÿ“— December 31, 2022 New post: Tannin Rivers

๐Ÿ“— December 23, 2022 New post: Sepia Interests

๐Ÿ“„ December 20, 2022 Added an article about the Moshel St School

โœ๏ธ December 20, 2022 New blog post: Getting Back to Basics

๐Ÿ“’ December 10, 2022 New sketch: The Friend

๐Ÿ“’ December 9, 2022 New sketch: The Look

๐Ÿ“— December 2, 2022 New post: Silica Rivers

November 2022

๐Ÿ“’ November 30, 2022 New sketch: Sleep

๐Ÿ“— November 9, 2022 New post: Teachers

October 2022

๐Ÿ“’ October 29, 2022 New sketch: Tee Shirt

๐Ÿ“— October 26, 2022 New post: The Riot

๐ŸŒ 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/!

๐Ÿ“— October 17, 2022 New post: Uniforms for All the Commonwealth

๐ŸŒ 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!

๐Ÿ“— October 14, 2022 New post: Five Years

๐ŸŒ 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!

๐Ÿ“— October 6, 2022 New post: The Rifles Section

September 2022

๐ŸŒ September 29, 2022 New website section: Blog

๐Ÿ“— September 21, 2022 New post: The Scouts

๐ŸŒ 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.

๐Ÿ“— September 16, 2022 New post: Lola, Borough of Genesisr

๐Ÿ“— September 15, 2022 New post: Story Trailer

๐Ÿ“— September 1, 2022 New post: Stories from the Horizon

August 2022

๐Ÿ“„ August 29, 2022 Added an article about the Finance of Vekllei

๐Ÿ“„ August 23, 2022 Added an article about the Metaphysics of Vekllei

๐ŸŒ August 16, 2022 Painstakingly moved all 315 posts from /posts/ to /stories/, complete with custom aliases (e.g. millmint.net/stories/crown)

๐Ÿ“„ August 10, 2022 Added an article about the State Assets of Vekllei

๐Ÿ“— August 6, 2022 New post: The Crown and the Gi

๐Ÿ“— August 5, 2022 New post: Caught Sketching

๐Ÿ“— August 4, 2022 New post: Waiting for a Movie

๐ŸŒ 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.

๐Ÿ““ 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

๐Ÿ“„ July 29, 2022 Added an article about Computing in Vekllei

๐ŸŒ 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.

๐Ÿ“— July 22, 2022 New post: The Government School Cape

๐Ÿ“— July 21, 2022 New post: Little Hyderabad

๐ŸŒ July 19, 2022 Overhauled the site colour system with Jip, who did an awesome job transforming my clunky CSS into javascript

๐Ÿ“— July 12, 2022 New post: Cafรฉ Diplomacy

June 2022

๐Ÿ“„ July 29, 2022 New borough article: Pharos

๐ŸŒ June 24, 2022 Added lazy-loading to images on the site, improving performance.

๐Ÿ“’ June 22, 2022 Drew a sketch of Tzipora and Cobian before their school formal. Just some fun between comic pages

๐ŸŒ 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

๐Ÿ“’ June 7, 2022 Drew a uniform reference to keep clothing details consistent between chapters

๐ŸŒ June 6, 2022 Added auto-numbering and anchors to the headers on the site for easier navigation

๐Ÿ“’ June 4, 2022 Drew a height reference sheet for the comic characters so I stop drawing Tzipora and Cobian the same height

๐Ÿ“’ June 2, 2022 Finished a Zelda reference sheet, now featuring eyelashes