Category: Blog

If you’re a Sheldonista who loves getting their Sheldon strip for free every day…here’s the best way to pay that forward:

Please, take a minute and e-mail 10 friends, family, or co-workers…asking them to try Sheldon at https://sheldoncomics.com. You’ll know immediately what people in your life to send it to: they’ll be the awesome ones.

It’s such a simple action…but sending that e-mail is the nicest thing you can do for this li’l cartoonist. And, you’ll have new Sheldon readers to talk over the strip with!

(To make it easy, here’s a basic e-mail you can modify and send. Just click here.)

And so begins the new Saturday-Only Storyline. For those new to the strip, the basic idea is to tell a separate story that runs only on Saturdays. It lets us stretch our legs a bit and go in new directions.

I’m looking forward to this one. I hope you’ll tune in.

Over the years, two or three dozen readers have sent me pictures showing off Sheldon in their lives. Most of these are unintentional-but-still-kinda-neat photos:

“Hey Dave, thought you’d get a kick out of this. My wife snuck in a picture of me reading ‘Pure Ducky Goodness’ under the Eiffel Tower.”

“Hey Dave, I took this picture of my pug sleeping on top of my copy of ‘The Good, The Bad & The Pugly’…it’s pretty funny, etc., etc.”

I decided today that I’d make a place for all those photos, over at the Sheldon Store. I’m still looking through my hard drive to find all these pics, so the page will be expanding as the days go on.

But I’ll be honest: if you see that a pic you sent in previously is not up there, please resend it. These have trickled in over the years, and I haven’t done a *ahem* stellar job of *ahem* filing these as studiously as I *ahem* could have. *Ahem*.

Which basically means I’ve lost some. (Just bein’ honest!)

And if you have a funny shot but have never submitted it, by all means send me your pic now, and we’ll add it in over at the store.

I’ve had a half-dozen people e-mail me today saying they also confuse Harold Ramis and Ivan Reitman. It’s good to see I’m not the only one!

(Oh, also: I’m trying out a new blog-specific social bookmarking link (below). If folks like it, I’ll keep it. If not, it’ll probably quietly fade away — like Paris Hilton’s omnipresence from the news headlines.)

1.) Wednesday’s strip is one of my favorites in a long, long time. If it could get away with it, I would turn Sheldon into an
all-Flaco-all-the-time show. He has really grown on me.

2.) My buddy and fellow Blank Label Comics stablemate Howard Tayler is celebrating his 7th anniversary with his excellent sci-fi strip Schlock Mercenary. Haven’t read it yet? Do yourself a favor and dive on in. And tell Howard congratulations!

3.) I have no idea why, but for some reason my mind has combined Harold Ramis and Ivan Reitman as the same person. And this is not a recent thing. Anytime anyone said “Ivan Reitman is directing” in the last 15-20 years, I would always think, “Oh, it’s that nice man from Ghostbusters.” It took a 30 minute conversation with my screenwritin’ buddy Joe before he finally said to me, “You do realize those are two separate people, right?”

I clearly am the lamest person alive.

4.) A new Saturday-only storyline is startin’ up this week! Be sure to tune in. And if you missed it, make sure you catch up with the last Saturday-only storyline.

Lest you were among those who were worried: Oso’s name has not been changed to “Buddy”. It’s just a playin’-in-the-yard-nickname, as I assume 90% of people have for their pets.

The Human Race: adding to our pets’ overall sense of confusion by changing their names every two weeks.

I was cleaning up my computer this morning, and stumbled on this picture from a few years back. It is, by far, my favorite Halloween costume I ever built.

Just thought I’d share, as it made me laugh to see it again….

If you’re like me, and you partially make your choice of coffee shops based on which one has free wifi, might I humbly suggest this awesome Google Maps mashup:

http://www.hotspotr.com

….pretty awesome.

Two bits of news to announce in the Sheldon store:

1.) I’ve added a feature where you can zoom in on the book covers for “Pure Ducky Goodness” and “The Good, The Bad & The Pugly”. For folks that have never seen the quality of a Sheldon book first-hand, this gives you an idea of the awesomeness that’s in store for you. In the days ahead, I’ll also be adding a “Peek inside the book” feature, which will show you a few sample pages. Neat!

2.) And in bigger news, the price of original art for a Sheldon Sunday strip has been permanently lowered by $44! For the last few months, I’ve been drawing the Sundays at a slightly smaller size — and rather than charge one price for the older, larger size; and a different price for the new format — it’s now just one, better price for everything! That’s how we roll at the Sheldon Store.

(And remember: to buy the original art from your favorite strip, just click the blue text under the comic that reads “Buy Today’s Original Art!)

Greg Cravens put my back yard in today’s “Buckets“. Thanks, Greg!