MTJ GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE!

[MTJpub]

MTJ GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE!
418 Publications 20% off!
All other publications (212) RETAIL PRICE REDUCED BY 50%

Fans, friends, and supporters:

It is with both a heavy heart and a profound hope for the future that we announce today that the MTJ website will be closing down as of May 11th, 2025.

For 25 years you all have helped us build MTJ Publishing. It was born from the vision of wanting to create an entire book and comic store filled to the brim with the best tickling art and fiction we could create. All of you helped us create hundreds of comics and novels spanning tens of thousands of pages. Together we got to recruit the finest artists and writers in this community and create a seemingly-endless stable of ticklish characters to bring all our fantasies to life.

Ultimately a discontinued shopping cart service, an aging website, and a changing marketplace are a few of the reasons leading to this change. And in the end, we need to reinvent MTJ Publishing so that we can continue bringing you the best in tickling art and fiction for many years to come.

So what comes next?

The website will be open until May 11th, 2025 and all our current publications will be available (many of which will be heavily discounted!) until then.

After May 11th the vast majority of our titles will be temporarily unavailable while we investigate what our next evolution will look like, and many of our titles will be archived indefinitely. So, if there are titles you’ve always wanted and have yet to purchase - you will need to buy them before May 11th.

Our Patreon page will remain open and will be the only place to see our content for the foreseeable future. Your support would mean more to us now than ever before as we enter into an unknown future. If you would like to see more of Pepper Parker, Operative Kyu, Trish the Ticklish Temp, Runa the Ticklish Warrior Maiden and all your favorite tickling characters - please consider supporting us there THE BANDITO CORPORATION

Thank you all for your generous support and partnership over these decades! We could not have done any of this without you!

Please join us on Patreon and help us determine what the next chapter in our story will look like. Let’s build the future of tickling comics and fiction together.

Your friend, always,

Jim

 

[Jessy_Jay]

JIM NOOOOOOO!!! 😭

 

[Kyle 1989]

" My God Bones, What Have I Done ?? "

" What You Had To Do....What You Always Do....Turn Death Into A Fighting Chance To Live..."

 

[player 0]

I haven't had a chance to access your patreon yet, but if i do subscribe to that, will i get access to your back catalogue?

I'm a massive fan of your old school works, especially from classic artists like BAC and Mandell and your Tales from the Asylum series, i'd hate to see that lost forever.

 

[detritus]

Thank you for all your astonishing and pioneering work over the last 25 years.

I wish you all the very best in your next phase.

Detritus

 

[MTJpub]

I haven't had a chance to access your patreon yet, but if i do subscribe to that, will i get access to your back catalogue?

I'm a massive fan of your old school works, especially from classic artists like BAC and Mandell and your Tales from the Asylum series, i'd hate to see that lost forever.

The MTJ Back catalogue is not available via Patreon. We hope to offer an alternative for select portions of the back catalogue but in what form and when, it is too early to know. However, I can say that it will not be happening in 2025. As mentioned in the announcement many of our titles will be archived indefinitely. Which means they will no longer be available.

Here is a link to a description of what we offer on Patreon currently.
https://www.patreon.com/c/banditocorporation/about

Thank you!
Jim
MTJ Publishing

 

[Sun80]

Your site has been an amazing platform. I’m heartbroken to see it go.

 

[player 0]

The MTJ Back catalogue is not available via Patreon. We hope to offer an alternative for select portions of the back catalogue but in what form and when, it is too early to know. However, I can say that it will not be happening in 2025. As mentioned in the announcement many of our titles will be archived indefinitely. Which means they will no longer be available.

Here is a link to a description of what we offer on Patreon currently.
https://www.patreon.com/c/banditocorporation/about

Thank you!
Jim
MTJ Publishing

Why indefinitely?

 

[MTJpub]

Why indefinitely?

We have 630 titles in our catalog and we plan to bring that down to a more manageable number consisting of our best selling titles. What that will look like we cannot say at this time as that will be determined at a later date.

 

[player 0]

We have 630 titles in our catalog and we plan to bring that down to a more manageable number consisting of our best selling titles. What that will look like we cannot say at this time as that will be determined at a later date.

Well i really hope that doesn't mean you'll pull them from the market altogether, i'd gladly buy them when i have more money available, maybe sell them as a bundle to make it more manageable for completionists.

 

[suikoden]

The end of an era. I've enjoyed a bunch of your publications over the years and of course you have always been a huge support to me in all my art and writing activity here. Thanks so much for everything and I wish you all the very best for the future!

 

[kurchatovium]

 

[alex]

"The end of an era" is a cliche, but sometimes it's true, and this is one of those times. Thanks for everything.

 

[TicklerKoops]

I'm so sad to hear this. I've bought so many titles from y'all. Probably an embarrassing amount XD I hope you can figure out a solution!

 

[wetwill69]

NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

 

[MTJpub]

The end of an era. I've enjoyed a bunch of your publications over the years and of course you have always been a huge support to me in all my art and writing activity here. Thanks so much for everything and I wish you all the very best for the future!

It's been a long road my friend. We knew each other before MTJ and the TMF.

Thank you so very much for all of your support over the years.

It's not over, just a new beginning. We will be around in some form for years to come.

 

[Studious_Hustler]

MTJ has been such a gift to the world and a huge influence on my life. I look forward to see what the future holds after this death and rebirth.

 

[spikedpsycho]

NOOO
or is this April fools prank?

 

[Oblesklk]

MTJ GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE!
418 Publications 20% off!
All other publications (212) RETAIL PRICE REDUCED BY 50%

Fans, friends, and supporters:

It is with both a heavy heart and a profound hope for the future that we announce today that the MTJ website will be closing down as of May 11th, 2025.

For 25 years you all have helped us build MTJ Publishing. It was born from the vision of wanting to create an entire book and comic store filled to the brim with the best tickling art and fiction we could create. All of you helped us create hundreds of comics and novels spanning tens of thousands of pages. Together we got to recruit the finest artists and writers in this community and create a seemingly-endless stable of ticklish characters to bring all our fantasies to life.

Ultimately a discontinued shopping cart service, an aging website, and a changing marketplace are a few of the reasons leading to this change. And in the end, we need to reinvent MTJ Publishing so that we can continue bringing you the best in tickling art and fiction for many years to come.

So what comes next?

The website will be open until May 11th, 2025 and all our current publications will be available (many of which will be heavily discounted!) until then.

After May 11th the vast majority of our titles will be temporarily unavailable while we investigate what our next evolution will look like, and many of our titles will be archived indefinitely. So, if there are titles you’ve always wanted and have yet to purchase - you will need to buy them before May 11th.

Our Patreon page will remain open and will be the only place to see our content for the foreseeable future. Your support would mean more to us now than ever before as we enter into an unknown future. If you would like to see more of Pepper Parker, Operative Kyu, Trish the Ticklish Temp, Runa the Ticklish Warrior Maiden and all your favorite tickling characters - please consider supporting us there THE BANDITO CORPORATION

Thank you all for your generous support and partnership over these decades! We could not have done any of this without you!

Please join us on Patreon and help us determine what the next chapter in our story will look like. Let’s build the future of tickling comics and fiction together.

Your friend, always,

Jim

You're not just a pillar and inspiration in this space, Jim. You're a god. It's hard to even start to describe how much you've inspired an literal generation (25 years of MTJ!!) of budding artists pursue their dreams.

On a related note, I went through a significant amount of pain getting deplatformed from Patreon and Gumroad this past year. Fast forward to the interesting part, I have my own webhost and payment provider set up to accommodate digital catalogs. If I can help you transition, let me know. Or if you just want to talk and vent, I'm here for that, too.

 

[MTJpub]

I'm so sad to hear this. I've bought so many titles from y'all. Probably an embarrassing amount XD I hope you can figure out a solution!

It's that kind of support that helped us do this for nearly 26 years.

Thank you!

 

[MTJpub]

You're not just a pillar and inspiration in this space, Jim. You're a god. It's hard to even start to describe how much you've inspired an literal generation (25 years of MTJ!!) of budding artists pursue their dreams.

On a related note, I went through a significant amount of pain getting deplatformed from Patreon and Gumroad this past year. Fast forward to the interesting part, I have my own webhost and payment provider set up to accommodate digital catalogs. If I can help you transition, let me know. Or if you just want to talk and vent, I'm here for that, too.

We have both been here since the very beginning and in some ways it feels like it all began just yesterday. I can't believe how fast 25 years sped past us.

I very much appreciate your kind words as I have a great deal of respect for you and what you have built over the many years of serving this community. It's been a fun ride and it's filled with many cherished memories of the people that I have had the honor to work with and the many folks that have supported us and made all of this possible.

Thank you for your generous offer to help. We have a plan on what we want the future to look like and while it will not happen in 2025. I'm sure you will be hearing from us again in the not too distant future beyond that.

BTW... You're new site looks great!

 

[TKLR42]

😱😢...Surely as passing of an era. What does this mean for the TMF?

 

[milagros317]

MTJ Publishing has been a great part of this community since before I joined the TMF long ago.
It is very sad to hear that you will be gone this May.
You will be greatly missed.
I wish you the best of luck with Patreon and all future endeavors.

 

[MTJpub]

😱😢...Surely as passing of an era. What does this mean for the TMF?

The TMF is owned and operated by Jeff and MTJ closing will have no effect on the TMF.

Additionally MTJ will still have a presence on Patreon and we plan to return in some other form sometime in the future.

 

[TicklerKoops]

It's that kind of support that helped us do this for nearly 26 years.

Thank you!

Of course! You introduced me to so many great artists that I follow up to this day! MAGGS artist Rocio Zucchi I still follow on IG! She always talks about how great it was having publications on there! I love her art style!