Hi all!

I need to find a specific Sheldon reader who bought this original art at the ALA convention last week.

The reader who bought it was:

1.) And immensely kind woman, and
2.) An employee of the State Department, if I recall

As it turns out, I’ve made an error and saved that strip image at the wrong resolution. (A mistake I’ve only made once or twice in my 3,000+ strips.)

I’m hoping to catch this reader before they frame up their artwork, and ask if they could rescan it for me! Yikes!

Librarians! I’m going to be at the ALA show all this weekend in Anaheim (booth #678).
Come on by! I’ll have all the books, all the prints, free sketches, and copious amounts of high fives.

I’ll be there all four days of the show, directly across from my friends at Unshelved. And maybe do me a favor, while you’re at the show: Drag a friend over to introduce them to the strip. The last time I did the ALA show, five years ago, there were a ton of librarians that did that — and I really appreciated it!

Librarians! I’m going to be at the ALA show all this weekend in Anaheim (booth #678).
Come on by! I’ll have all the books, all the prints, free sketches, and copious amounts of high fives.

I’ll be there all four days of the show, directly across from my friends at Unshelved. And maybe do me a favor, while you’re at the show: Drag a friend over to introduce them to the strip. The last time I did the ALA show, five years ago, there were a ton of librarians that did that — and I really appreciated it!

Hi all! As you probably remember from this blog post update, the production schedule on Drive is taking the hit while I finish the documentary film I’m making.

As expected, the film is taking up very large chunks of my work week. But happily, this should *start* to ease up right around San Diego Comic-Con in mid-July. My thanks for your continued support of Drive in the meantime. I miss the regular updates as much as you do — maybe even more! And I’m really looking forward to diving back into with full force. We’re just gettin’ to the good parts!

Thank you for indulging me in the past few days’ stroll through Tolkien.

Every time I’ve finished Return of the King, I’ve always found mysel wondering about the royal gardener assigned to the new White Tree…just sweatin’ it out, terrified of root rot, etc, etc. So this was a fun little character arc to indulge in.

Everyone else in Gondor all happy ‘n excited that Sauron’s gone…and this one dude just FILLED with anxiety.

You may have heard me mention my love for George McManus’ great pre-War comic strip, “Bringing Up Father”. Apropos of nothing in particular, I thought I’d do an homage in his style, today.

If you’d like to see past homages, you can check out my versions of Krazy Kat, and Goodnight Moon.

This weekend, while giving a talk to the National Cartoonist Society, I had a realization onstage: My scifi comic strip DRIVE might end up being the thing I’m most proud of, career-wise. Even moreso than Sheldon or the feature film I’m making, DRIVE just generates such joy in me. I love working on it, love seeing people’s reactions to it, love seeing that universe take shape.

If you haven’t yet read it, and like Dune/Asimov/Hitchhiker’s Guide…check it out. It might be right up your alley. It’s rapidly becoming the thing I’m most proud of.

PS: At the National Cartoonist Society meeting, this weekend, Jim Davis name-checked me three times during his talk! Oh man, that qualifies as a good weekend, hearing a childhood hero say nice things about you. 🙂

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

First, the good news: I’ve just finished the DRIVE installment for this Thursday. For those that like insider hints, let’s just say it involves a species that sounds like “Smesskans”.

Secondly: I needed to check out a date in the Drive universe, and thought I’d try the Wikipedia entry on the strip…and found it kind of a bummer. It’s missin’ a lot of stuff! So if any of you are into Wikipedia, feel free to go to town on that entry!

I’d love to see you guys flesh it out!

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.