SALE TIME!
If you’ve been holding off on treating yourself to the big, gorgeous DRIVE book, here’s your chance! The hardcover is $15-off, the softcover is $5-off, and items new and old are all on sale in the DRIVE store!
Here’s the link!
https://sheldonstore.com/collections/the-complete-drive-collection
If you’re a fan of original art, I put the TREE PUGS OF MADAGASCAR illustration up, starting at 1 penny! Go snag it!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/292340378464
For those of you who like original art: I did a fun illustration of the Fillipod Royal Astronomer. If you’d like to snag it, I started it at one penny!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/DRIVE-Original-Art-Are-you-a-Parking-Ticket/292296036105
If you’re on the fence about supporting Drive on Patreon, check out these two exclusives only for Patreon backers!
1.) Thing #1
..is the full DRIVE panel talk from San Diego Comic-Con! It’s 46 minutes long, appears no where else online, and has a ton of secrettttts! Here’s the secret link to the talk: https://www.patreon.com/posts/1343374
2.) Thing #2
Aaaand, if you support Drive on Patreon, you’ll really really want to read this secret link. We’ll be Kickstarting the new ANATOMY OF ANIMALS book on Tuesday, and there are two exclusives, only for Patreon backers! But they’re time-sensitive! Here’s the secret link to the book exclusive news: https://www.patreon.com/posts/13433741
For DRIVE fans who want something special for your walls, a fun piece of original art! An ink illustration of Nosh and a Monk of Yanta, starting at just one penny!
[link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/292174662393]
The cardstock itself measures 13.5 x 9.75 inches, and the image is drawn in lightfast, archival inks on acid-free, vellum Bristol stock. There are no mistakes or corrections in the artwork itself, so it will frame up especially nice.
During the 4th of July week, the Drive Wiki is going to have a little software update — so just a heads up that it might be down for a bit!
Ha ha ha…this is amazing to watch, now: It’s my 1996 interview with NBC, about my college comic strip! In May of that year, I had just self-published a collection of college cartoons (…featuring the *first appearance* Sheldon!) It sold on the Notre Dame campus exclusively, and went on to sell through three printings. This NBC interview was conducted the day following its launch. It’s super fun to see.
Also: I look 10 years old.
Huge thank you to my friend Kevin McShane of Buzzfeed for digitizing the beat-up ol’ VHS tape on which this resided for the last 21 years! He really cleaned up the sound and made it all look purty!
Oh! And if you wanted to snag one of these rare, rare items, I have one of my last ten copies up on eBay for one more day: [LINK: http://www.ebay.com/itm/292150954788]
Drivers!
If you’ve been enjoying reading the story for free these many years, I want to pitch you on something: Supporting the comic with a few dollars on Patreon.
For the price of a single coffee, you can support the story you love, help hire amazing “Tales of the Drive” artists, pay for web hosting, and make all of this possible.
What is Patreon? It’s like Kickstarter, but for long-form, continuing projects, like Drive. Basically, you’re saying “This is art I enjoy, and I’ll support it by giving a few bucks each month.” And in exchange, you get to see all the strips *early*, get access to convention exclusive items, and enjoy a super lively comments section that I chime in at ALL THE TIME.
If you love DRIVE, I hope you’ll consider supporting it on Patreon!
We’re making cool DRIVE pins! All the “gray” you see in the image above will be shiny silver metal. And they’ll be available exclusively at San Diego Comic-Con!
UNLESS YOU’RE A PATREON SUPPORTER, IN WHICH CASE YOU TOTALLY GET ACCESS TO THEM, TOO, BECAUSE PATREON SUPPORTERS MAKE DRIVE POSSIBLE!
Want one of the pins? Join us on Patreon and become a supporter of DRIVE — patreon.com/drive! The pins are coming this summer!
For those of you with long memories, you’ll recall THIS BLOG POST from 2015, where I talked about slowly creating an “Anatomy of Animals” book.
Well! I just wanted to tell you that we’re only 10 animals away from it being done! I plan to Kickstart the hardcover book in early Summer, and have it to all the backers by Christmas. It’s gonna be a fun book: We’re designing it to look like a 1920’s science manual, with all the accompanying paste-ups, typed out descriptions, and more.
