Daisy Bell is, arguably, the MOST adorable song. How many other pop songs from 1892 you see people beltin' out, still?

After writing today's strip, I started doodling out what I wanted Arthur's spirit-fish to look like. And again and again, I kept sketching out the same type of fish. It took me a second to realize what was happening...but I was sketching out little homage images to one of my favorite comic strips of all time: Sherman's Lagoon, by Jim Toomey.

It's a wonderful, sarcastic, joy-filled strip -- that's perfect for kids and adults -- and I can't recommend it enough. It's just all kinds of wonderful. Sherman's Lagoon, guys.

For years now, you guys have been asking me to offer prints of Sheldon strips. And now, I finally can!

Just enter in the date of the comic-print you'd like, HERE, using YYMMDD format, and you're good to go!

...Don't know the date of the strip you want? Search for the strip, HERE, using key words or punchlines.

Hey guys! Remember last year when I got nominated for the "Best Humor" book for the Eisner Awards, and was super complimented, and got super excited, and then totally lost big-time? WELL LET'S DO IT AGAIN 'CAUSE THEY NOMINATED ME TWO YEARS IN A ROW!

My book, "Coffee: It's What's For Dinner" was nominated for the "Best Humor" category of the Eisner Awards!

Woohoo!

And to celebrate, I'm giving the book out for free, with no DRM limits on it. Here's your FREE COPY (24 Mb, PDF)!

My thinking is: I may not be represented by a big ol' publisher, and may not have their giant marketing budget, but I do have the work itself. So I'm just gonna get out of the way and let the book do the talking for me. And in the meantime, what a great chance to give you guys the book for free...to say "thank you" for reading the strip!

So THANK YOU, guys, and enjoy the book!

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(And Pssst: Hosting for this PDF kindly provided by Sheldon reader and software artist Wil Shipley of Delicious Library. Repay his kindness and check out his excellent media cataloguing application)!

Good news for fans of my second strip, DRIVE: All throughout April, we're going to have two Drives a week...all thanks to the game masters at Star Pirates! See, the folks at Star Pirates are huge fans of the strip, and like so many of you -- they were jonesing for more of the story.

And when they read that I had to take time off from Drive in order to manage my obligations on Stripped and Sheldon, they had a proposal. What if they sponsored Drive for a whole month, to make sure a whole big chunk of the story could spin out? It's a brilliant idea...and guys, it's happening all throughout April.

So while you're enjoying the double-dose of DRIVE, give Star Pirates a go! It’s an in-browser space MMO you can play anywhere for free. You play as a star pirate, scratching out a living mining asteroids, raiding other players’ ships for cargo, or teaming up for fleet-on-fleet combat! There are even fleets named after factions in the Drive universe...which I've always thought was super cool!

There are a handful of Batpug prints left from Emerald City Comicon. It's first-come, first-served, my friends: Get 'em while there's still gettin' to get! (I promise that was English.)

I just got back from Emerald City Comicon in Seattle, and hot diggety: What a great weekend. Seattle: You know how to show wandering cartoonists an amazing weekend. Thanks for coming out, and thanks for the many kind words for Sheldon & Drive. You have no idea how much that kind of thing powers me through the rest of the year.

Thank you!

I'll be at Seattle's Emerald City Comicon this weekend, givin' out free sketches like a mad man, and just generally bein' A FRIEND. Won't you join me? Here are the deets:

WHO: You 'n Me
WHAT: Emerald City Comicon
WHERE: Washington State Convention Center, Downtown Seattle
WHAT BOOTH: #102 "Halfpixel". Right up front! WHEN:
Friday: 2:00pm - 8:00pm
Saturday: 10:00am - 7:00pm
Sunday: 10:00am - 5:00pm
WHY: Because we are gonna have super good times, and laugh, and laugh, and have fun.

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ALSO! Check out that exclusive poster we're gonna have at the show...The BATPUG!

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1.) I'll be talking more about it on Wednesday, but I'm in Seattle this weekend, signing books & givin' out free sketches at booth 102 at Emerald City Comic-Con. Come out!

2.) Today's the last day to try for this super rare copy of my first book, AND the original cover art for it. It's the first appearance of Sheldon!

3.) For all the backers of our documentary, Stripped, there's a new video update here...with some sneak-peak footage from the film!