A year ago today, we explored various practical manifestations of canine intelligence.

Do you guys remember the strip about wild buffalos eating marshmallows? Well, Sheldonistas John & Laurie S. did, and forwarded me this awesome pic, today, with the attached note:

“We went to the Olympic Game Farm near Sequim (WA). It is a wild animal park but a lot of the animals have been used by Hollywood in movies. You can feed the animals bread from your car window as you drive through. They recommend when you drive through, you keep moving through the elk and buffalo herds or they surround the car and start nudging it for bread. This one (see photo) reminded us so much of your Yellowstone Sheldon series that we had to send it to you.”

Remember the documentary film that I mentioned? The one I’ve been working on? Just wanted to give you the heads up that there are two new video updates added to the site. So! If you’ve only seen the trailer, be sure to check out the two new “rough-cut” video updates. There’s no color-correction or sound-correction, but if you love comics — they’re really neat snippets!

After he saw Friday’s strip, Sheldonista Hans S. e-mailed me with this older pic. I find this cat’s choice of placement far more terrifying than Lil’ Butter’s.

I just noticed something I need to correct: I will *not* be attending SPX in Bethesda Maryland, this year. I just noticed that I have it listed on the website’s calendar of events (…on the front page, down on the left).

We’re crack-a-lacking on the film, at the moment, and I can’t spare the time away from the studio. Which is a HUGE bummer, as SPX is a great show.

But you should go, anyway! There are a ton of great cartoonists there, this year, and the atmosphere at the show is always wonderful!

Sheldonista Annie H. sent me this awesome pic of her Sheldon-themed facepaint. It came out awesome…check it out:

After working on our comics documentary secretly for two years, the public response to the trailer these past ten days has floored us: People really, really want to see this movie. And it’s super encouraging.

But every time someone new watches the trailer, and gets passionate about it…it just makes us want to get the trailer in front of more people. Especially while the Kickstarter fundraiser is still going on.

Can you help with that?

There are a few of you, and you know who you are, who have a sister who works at a major newspaper, or a cousin who edits for Wired, or a neighbor who writes for a major blog site. Can you forward them the trailer and (kindly) suggest they watch it? With a few kind e-mails from you guys, we could really expand our impact.

And I know that 99% of us won’t have that big-time media friend. But 1% of us just might…and we’d really, really appreciate help from that 1%.

And for the rest of us: Please keep tweeting news of the film, or blogging it, or sharing it on Facebook. Every bit helps!

The entries for the DRIVE propaganda poster contest were so fun to see! (Read them all here.) There was so much creativity on display — it was clear you guys had fun doing it.

There were like six or seven that just blew me away, but one group really caught my eye: The three submissions from Jackie Schutza. And moreso than the others, this one in particular:

Something about that mix of vector and existing art really worked perfectly. And it caught that socialist-realist sensibility so spot-on. So congrats, Jackie: You’ve won both DRIVE books!

And to all the entrants: Thank you for the work and joy you put into these. They all looked amazing!

And if you want, we’ll do another contest down the road.

I like how, seeing the sheer physical wrath the Tesskans have mustered in the last two strips…it gives you a sense how effective the Veetans must’ve been in ending the war.

I’m drawing today’s DRIVE right now, if you want to watch ‘n ask questions ‘n be friends.

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