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Jun 24, 2026
Jun 24, 2026

Root Beer

The best thing about root beer?

…That it’s made from sassafras root. Because there is no sentence in the English language that isn’t improved by having the word “sassafras” in it. <–IMPROVED


Nice DRIVE Write-Up

In today’s “well-isn’t-that-nice-of-them” news: This Random House site has a nice write-up of DRIVE on their blog. It’s pretty random (ha!) that Random House would have anything on DRIVE at all…so I’m kinda touched.

In general, it’s been so nice it is to hear that DRIVE is working out for so many folks. It’s super encouraging.


Nice DRIVE Write-Up

In today’s “well-isn’t-that-nice-of-them” news: This Random House site has a nice write-up of DRIVE on their blog. It’s pretty random (ha!) that Random House would have anything on DRIVE at all…so I’m kinda touched.

In general, it’s been so nice it is to hear that DRIVE is “working” for so many folks. It’s super encouraging.


Find that man!

See the stumpy, egg-shaped Yoplait employee in today’s strip? First Sheldon reader to find and link to the Sheldon strip where he’s appeared before gets an internet high-five.

It’s been yeeeears since I drew that guy, and it’d be fun to see the last time I used ‘im. He’s got a fun shape.

Link it below, in the comments!


Drive

For anyone who missed the news, our Saturday sci-fi feature, DRIVE, now has it’s own site: HERE.

It includes all the archives, the encyclopedia entries, fan-made extras, and more. Best of all: Your Sheldon forum sign-ins work over there.

And now that that site’s done, I’ll be starting work on a long-overdue Sheldon site re-design. With a caveat: I have one other BIG creative project (the secret one) that’s sucking up all my time. So no guarantees on when the new Sheldon site will be launching. End-of-year, I’d imagine.

But! In the meantime, check out the new DRIVE site!


Kale

Today’s Kale Haiku:

Kale, you nasty. Guhhh.
Somehow, your PR is good.
But you nasty, Kale.

Feel free to top that haiku with one of your own, below. Let’s see who can best summarize this beloved land-coral.


Double-Tall Strips

I realized, recently, that I’ve been creating a lot of double-tall strips rather than my normal, horizontal, 3- to 4-panel strips.

It’s interesting to notice, now that I have: Go back over the last two weeks, for example, and notice how many times I’ve done it.

What is my subconscious trying to tell me, I wonder, that I’m creating bigger comics?



Questions that have popped up…

Since the site launched, a few questions have popped up, and I thought I’d try to tackle ’em:

@Lonely Goatherd “The RSS link at the top right is broken.”

Should be fixed, now! Showin’ up for me on Google Reader — but let me know if there are problems.

@nanitadequatro “(site) won’t let me use my Sheldon info to sign up. A bit confusing, but I’ll live…”
That’s no good. Did you try logging in with your normal Sheldon details…and it still didn’t work? If so….e-mail me your details, and I’ll see what’s happening.

@ taeraresh “There’s a typo on the ‘cast’ page – “press-ganged into a uniqe mission”.
…fixed!

….workin’ on that. Should be do-able.

@RArcher “Is there anyway to add in the ability to sign up to recieve the Drive Comic on the same email I get Sheldon on? Like maybe a selection form of comics I want to recieve in my profile manager?
Yep! Just do this:
– Log in to the DRIVE site, here: http://drivecomic.com/users/login.html?destination=/forums/drivetalk/
– Then, go to your account info, here — http://www.drivecomic.com/users/ — and click the little-little box indicating you’d like to receive “stuff” from DRIVE. (We’ve made that term un-helpfully un-specific.)

@modlin “I’d prefer it if the forward/back arrows were moved up on the comics, or placed at the top and at the bottom. Or something.
For example, after reading the current Drive comic, I find myself wanting to scroll past the last ‘Machito’ storyline comics to the previous ‘Maker/Continuum’ ones to refresh myself, and I have to scroll down at each page to go back again to get to the arrows on my laptop screen.”

The good news is there are three ways to navigate the strips, forward and backward. On either side of the strip, you’ll see arrows going in either direction. But! Above AND below each strip, in the red bar of links, you’ll find links for “First”, “Previous”, “Next” and “Latest”.

Hope that helps!

Dave