About
I have two sons who read a lot of comics, so a zillion years ago I discovered that while writing pays dirt, some webcomics actually support the authors. One of those is called Questionable Content by Jeph Jacques and it began as a hobby that he updated twice a week. It inadvertently became his full-time job when he got fired from whatever his day job had been and he began selling t-shirts on his comic.
If your life is "in a cave" even more than mine: He is (or was at one time) the highest paid webcomic artist on the planet. And he sells clothes as part of his monetization scheme.
I don't really want to do t-shirts, but I do want to sell clothes: November West Wears.
The first time I bought the domain name November West, I had a corporate job and I was in a lot of pain and had no life. I was too sick to do anything other than my job and tend to my health, so I proceeded to make a comic ragging on my job. I soon stopped because I needed my paycheck and figured this would be an excellent way to get fired.
One comic was titled "I work for The Borganization" with a drawing of a boxy black building. This both did and did not reflect real life.
The building where I worked was actually enveloped entirely in mirrored glass such that you could only tell where the windows were after dark. Most of it was one story tall, plus a two story addition where I worked. So it was relatively low to the ground and mostly reflected the asphalt parking lots around it, making it seem black.
The building next door -- also property of the sane company -- had the EXACT SAME exterior but was three stories tall. It tended to reflect the sky and the trees. It typically looked like something magical and surreal and futuristic.
So my portrayal of the company was not outright making stuff up, but my generally dark mood was helping to frame my experiences in a particular way and it wasn't a flattering portrayal.
Also, Borganization is a Star Trek reference, but probably not the right kind to try appeal to trekkies because Star Trek trends idealistic and I was referencing it in a very dystopian manner.
The origin story of the name November West:
I was telling someone I wanted to do a semi autobiographical comic with a character like Mae West, only not. So maybe Mae East. They suggested November West and I liked it.
I actually kept both names. Her maiden name is November Mae East and my plan was to do a comic called East Meets West about how I met my husband.
This was never intended to be a comic about a little girl. It's a comic about me and my life and life through my eyes.
Some of the descriptions it has had include:
1. A semi autobiographical fantasy.
2. About a girl and her demons.
But I was a little girl at one time and that is part of my life. The original comic about my corporate job is long lost but the parts about me as a child happened to survive.
I had it set up under the name Lil November for a time then renamed it The Cute and the Dead and recently realized there's already a comic by that name which predates me coming up with that phrase independently. The domain name November West was available, so I bought it and changed the domain name to that.
So that is why I have a comic about a little girl named November Mae East titled November West.
A Note About Navigation
As of 14 April 2026, I finally am happy with the navigation: Click on the comic to go forward and the pink back arrow to go back.
15 April 2025
If your life is "in a cave" even more than mine: He is (or was at one time) the highest paid webcomic artist on the planet. And he sells clothes as part of his monetization scheme.
I don't really want to do t-shirts, but I do want to sell clothes: November West Wears.
The first time I bought the domain name November West, I had a corporate job and I was in a lot of pain and had no life. I was too sick to do anything other than my job and tend to my health, so I proceeded to make a comic ragging on my job. I soon stopped because I needed my paycheck and figured this would be an excellent way to get fired.
One comic was titled "I work for The Borganization" with a drawing of a boxy black building. This both did and did not reflect real life.
The building where I worked was actually enveloped entirely in mirrored glass such that you could only tell where the windows were after dark. Most of it was one story tall, plus a two story addition where I worked. So it was relatively low to the ground and mostly reflected the asphalt parking lots around it, making it seem black.
The building next door -- also property of the sane company -- had the EXACT SAME exterior but was three stories tall. It tended to reflect the sky and the trees. It typically looked like something magical and surreal and futuristic.
So my portrayal of the company was not outright making stuff up, but my generally dark mood was helping to frame my experiences in a particular way and it wasn't a flattering portrayal.
Also, Borganization is a Star Trek reference, but probably not the right kind to try appeal to trekkies because Star Trek trends idealistic and I was referencing it in a very dystopian manner.
The origin story of the name November West:
I was telling someone I wanted to do a semi autobiographical comic with a character like Mae West, only not. So maybe Mae East. They suggested November West and I liked it.
I actually kept both names. Her maiden name is November Mae East and my plan was to do a comic called East Meets West about how I met my husband.
This was never intended to be a comic about a little girl. It's a comic about me and my life and life through my eyes.
Some of the descriptions it has had include:
1. A semi autobiographical fantasy.
2. About a girl and her demons.
But I was a little girl at one time and that is part of my life. The original comic about my corporate job is long lost but the parts about me as a child happened to survive.
I had it set up under the name Lil November for a time then renamed it The Cute and the Dead and recently realized there's already a comic by that name which predates me coming up with that phrase independently. The domain name November West was available, so I bought it and changed the domain name to that.
So that is why I have a comic about a little girl named November Mae East titled November West.
A Note About Navigation
As of 14 April 2026, I finally am happy with the navigation: Click on the comic to go forward and the pink back arrow to go back.
15 April 2025