We’re nearing the end of 2010, so I thought it’d be fun to go over the 10 most popular strips for the year. These are the strips that garnered the most pageviews overall.

We’ll go through them, one by one, between now and Dec 31st…which should be a nice way to lead into the new year.

So let’s start at the top! #10…click image for larger version:

If you ordered from the Sheldon Store, and didn’t receive a shipping notification by e-mail, drop me a line — [email protected] — and we’ll double-check that your order is out the door. All the orders in right now are packed up and ready to go…so this is just my final check that everyone’s gift-givin’ goes off without a hitch. 🙂

Sheldonistas in the U.S! Attention, please!

Saturday is the last day to order from the Sheldon Store for Christmas orderin’.

We’ll still be taking orders after that, of course, and shipping ’em out as soon as they come in. But we’d recommend ordering by Saturday if’n you can.

For those of you who’ll be picking up a book, artwork, etc., in the Sheldon Store, let me share the Christmas orderin’ deadlines: WITHIN THE USA W/ PRIORITY OR 1ST CLASS MAIL

For orders headed within the U.S. using Priority or 1st Class Mail, the deadline to order is:

Saturday, Dec. 18th

INTERNATIONAL/CANADA

(Deadline has passed.)

We’ll of course be taking orders right up to Christmas, and shipping ’em out as soon as they come in. But we’d recommend ordering sooner rather than later, and using the above dates as your deadline of last resort.

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Also! There are just 50 Artist Editions left for the new book Delightful Jokes for High-Class Folks, if you were hopin’ to get one!

Ever since this strip on knitting appeared, the knitters among us have been clamorin’ for a shirt version of it. Better late than never…the shirt is here!

(Knitting: It’s Sitting, For Creative People)

Likewise, this strip is finally gettin’ its due with this shirt:

(Fantasy Football: It’s Dungeons & Dragons For Dudes Who Won’t Play D&D).

If you have knitters or Fantasy players in your life (and Lord knows I do), then its giiiiiift time for them.

It is awesome-time, my friends. Time to announce two new things in the store:

1.) Because 10 gajillion people requested it, we’re doin’ prints of the famous “Should I Have a Cookie?” strip.

2.) Also, in bigger news, the next book collection is here! Delightful Jokes for High-Class Folks is the follow-up book to last Fall’s “Still Got It,” and is available now!

I’ll be honest and say this one might be my favorite book…just for the cover alone. But so many of my favorite jokes and storylines are included in this book: Stuff like the big trip to England, Sheldon’s war on fax machines, Flaco abusing the central heater, Arthur’s invention of Mega Butter, the invention of “Thooonk”, Arthur’s mid-life crisis, Sheldon getting dragged in to Mathletics, the Spontaneous Awesome-Off Competition, and SO MUCH MORE.

I really think you guys are gonna like it. A lot of love went into this baby.

Along those lines: I and my family want to thank every last one of you who order the books, as they are a direct line to Sheldon continuing. As you know, we give the strip away every day for free on the site, RSS, and in daily e-mails. So when you treat yourself to a book, you’re not only getting a cool collection, you’re directly supporting *new* Sheldon strips being created tomorrow. So thank you, guys!

I’m turning on my studio camera right now, if you’d like to come watch me draw HERE.

The camera’s mounted over my shoulder, so you can see the Sheldon strip come to life like you’re hangin’ out in the studio with me…like we were best buds. WHICH WE TOTALLY ARE. So swing by over HERE.

(Edited to note: Arrival changed to Friday.)

Guys, I just got a call from “The Printers” in Canada: And much to my surprise, a few hundred advance copies of the eighth Sheldon book are gonna be here on Friday! Hot diggety…that there’s some cool news.

“Delightful Jokes For High-Class Folks” is the follow-up book to last Fall’s collection, “Still Got It”, and has what might be my favorite book cover so far. So keep an eye peeled for it on Friday! New booooooook!

Hey-ooooooo!

It’s sale time! Yessireebob: All nine Sheldon books in the Sheldon Store are on sale!

Individual books are just 10 smackers, three-packs are similarly reduced to 30 clams, and the nine-pack of books is at the lowest-ever price of 90 bits of cheddar.

I totally asked my wife if these were good prices and she totally confirmed that these are good prices, guys. She totally confirmed it.

(Sale ends Monday at midnight: Los Angeles/Pacific Standard Time.)

Guys, it’s Thanksgiving! Happy Thanksgiving, guys! I know 30% of you read Sheldon from outside the U.S., but you know what? I WISH YOU AN AWESOME THANKSGIVING, TOO. 🙂

That’s the kind of stand-up guy I am.

For my American cohorts, I hope the day is a restful and peaceful one, full of much pie, good board games, turkey-induced comas, and the like.

New strips will be running throughout the week, even though web traffic this week essentially falls through the floor. So! When you get back from post-Thanksgiving shopping, there’ll be new Sheldons awaiting. Along those lines: I should mention that, on Friday, there’ll be a bunch of special deals going into the Sheldon Store…so keep an eye pealed for those.

But in the meantime, enjoy your Thanksgiving! And thank YOU for reading Sheldon: It means the world to this li’l cartoonist. 🙂