Do you guys remember this strip, where Arthur pitches Flaco on the “best Venn diagram ever”?

Well, Sheldon reader Doug sent me this riff on that idea…which I found pretty awesome:

Because he was intentionally drawn with a lighter ink stroke, I thought I’d give you a close-up of Larry in today’s strip.

Also: It’s entirely possible that this is Larry’s second appearance in the strip. (I can’t find the strip, but there’s one where Arthur’s explaining flight to Flaco, when Larry bonks right in front of them. Know the one I’m talking about? Link to it, below, if you do!)

Edited to add: Sheldon forum user “LizardKirk” found Larry’s earlier appearance. Thanks!

Today’s strip isn’t the first time Arthur’s written a “helpful” letter to God. Here are some earlier ones — 1, 2, and 3 — with this one being my favorite.

A few dozen of you e-mailed and tweeted me, today, to share this patented “Amazing Banana Secret”*…which I hadn’t heard before:

Apparently, apes, gorillas and monkeys peel bananas from the bottom-up, not from the stem-down…as it takes care of the the string cheese problem aaaand the weird GI-tract nub in one fell swoop.

Thank you all for sharin’ that! I been doin’ it wrong all these years.

*PS: If I may quote from Dave Barry, doesn’t “Amazing Banana Secret” sound like a punk-rock band name?

There’s nothing more satisfying, as a cartoonist, than taking one of the most compact, powerful and breath-taking poems written in the English language…and making it a cartoon about kids and video games.

I think, in my heart of hearts, that’s what Dylan Thomas always intended, really.

here’s here’s another blast from the past… techno addiction

Hey! It’s Saturday! That means it’s time for our sci-fi series, “Drive”. For this week’s installment, it’s probably a good idea to refresh with last week’s, first.

And here are the full archives in order:

#1, #2, Text Entry: Continuum, #3, Text Entry: Secrets, #4, Text Entry: Veetans, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, Text Entry: Memos, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23, #24, #25.

Open the above links in tabs to read ’em in order. Hope you’re enjoyin’ it.

This will be a treat for one true-blue fan of the strip: It’s the first appearance of Sheldon anywhere!

Sheldon, you see, originally appeared as one of four characters in my college strip, “Four Food Groups of the Apocalypse.” That strip was collected into book form in 1996, titled “A Well Balanced Meal.” You can see Sheldon on the cover, there:

4,000 copies were printed up, but sold out pretty quickly…and remaining copies are very hard to find — even for me! But I recently found a few pristine, pristine copies, and decided to part with one.

So if you’re interested in it, I started the bidding at $.01, as I’d rather have you guys decide what it’s worth. And if you’d like, I’m happy to put a signed, personalized sketch in there for you.

….might I direct your attention to THIS little slice of the internet?

EDITED TO ADD: Thanks to the kindness of Phillip at Dumbrella Hosting, my e-mail’s back up! Basically, we’re moving around some DNS for sites of mine (like the upcoming DriveComic.com), and had the usual 12-24 hours until everything fully propagated. But we’re good to go, now.)

Just a quick note: I’m moving DNS stuff for a few of my sites, and as a result my incoming e-mail seems to be messed up.

If you can hold off e-mailing me, please do. Should be up ‘n running in a day or two.

Thanks!