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In good news: After 4 years of working on it, Stripped will release April 1st! You can even pre-order it on iTunes RIGHT NOW if you wanted! That’s how exciting this news is! It’s EXCITING!

Boy, though: All the work related to the release has meant 60-hour weeks at the moment. Turns out, it’s very tricky to release a feature film, plan an 800-person premiere, send out rewards to 5,000 Kickstarter backers, and do a bunch of press interviews! I’m very sorry Sheldon’s taken it on the chin, but it’s not permanent, rest assured. I just need to midwife the film for a few weeks. 🙂

Anyway, check out the trailer, and maybe treat yourself to a pre-order copy!

Aaaaand, in case you didn’t hear, the amazing Bill Watterson of Calvin & Hobbes kindly drew his first cartoon in 19 years, and produced the poster for the film! Here it is! He’s the bestest-bestest!

Because it requires a little more time and patience, I haven’t used a sable brush to draw a strip for a while now. Working on the film has pretty much precluded that. But the tree in Tuesday’s strip just seemed to call out for a little brush work…so out it came.

We’re at Day 3! And today’s offering might be the best o’ the bunch: For ANY Sheldon or Drive books you get before midnight tonight…I’ll sketch in ’em.

My drawing hand might regret this promise, come Monday, but I really wanna do this as a “thank you” to all of you. When you guys buy a book, or poster…you make my job — my livelihood — possible. To say thank you for that, I always give out free sketches any time I meet folks in person, but there are tens of thousands of you I’ve never met. So here’s your chance: Get a sketch in any book you pick up today!

*(Oh! And no specific sketch or dedication requests, please. That’d be a logistical nightmare, on my end. But have no fear: Imma put in book-appropriate, awesome sketches in your books!)

This is the best price for original art all year…and it only lasts today.

Every piece of Sheldon Original Art in the archives is $50-off the normal price for the next 24 hours.

Here’s what you do:
1.) Find your favorite strip in the archives
2.) Directly underneath it, click on “Buy Today’s Original Art”
3.) BAM. Your walls are now 78% cooler looking!

I waited ’em out: Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Whatever-It-Is-Tuesday’s-Called. Waited ’em all out.

And now it’s time for the once-a-year, Sheldon Sale-Stravaganza ( <–professional writer).

Over three days, we’re gonna have stupidly good deals that only last 24 hours. And they start on Wednesday.

Donnnnn’t miss it. For real-sies. These are gonna be the best sales I’ve ever done.

– Dave

Reminders!

1.)
Wednesday is your last day to get a FREE copy of the Sheldon book, “Still Got It”. We’re moving the Sheldon Store to a new warehouse, and I’m giving out a ton of free books to help with the move.

Buy one or more Sheldon/Drive books between now and Nov 20th, I’ll throw in, FREE, a copy of “Still Got It”! (You don’t need to enter any code or do anything tricky. WE will manually add the freebie to ANY book order before Nov 20th!)

So head over to the store, grab a book, get your freebie!

2.)
I put up a piece of Original Art up on eBay, called “Duck the Halls,” with a starting bid of one penny. But the whole thing ends in like a day…so head on over if you’re interested!

1.) I’ve put up a piece of Original Art up on eBay, called “Duck the Halls,” with a starting bid of one penny. There’s just a boatload of holiday ducks in this piece, just duckin’ it up. The piece is drawn in lightfast, archival inks on acid-free, vellum Bristol stock. The cardstock itself measure 11″ x 14″ inches while the drawn image is roughly 10.5″ x 13″ inches.

I’m starting the bidding at $0.01, because I’d rather leave it up to you guys to decide what it’s worth. So if you’re a fan of Arthur — go throw your hat in the ring for a penny!

I just wanted to thank DreamWorks Animation for inviting us to screen our comics documentary for them, tonight, at their Redwood City studio. Aaaand for the followup invite next week at their Burbank studio! We’re so close to being able to bring the film out into the world, that the wait is painful. But a private screening like this, for one of the most incredible studios in the world — is so rewarding in the meantime!

Thanks, DreamWorks: For the invite, and the super kind reception!

For the original art collectors among us: Just one day left to pick up this piece! Possibly the single greatest artwork of a lizard carrying a duck EVER. Check it out!

…is that you’re not wed to one format, one way of doing things, or one style of communication. So, for example, Sheldon has had lovely character arcs, fun adventure arcs, pokes at literature or pop culture, non sequitorial children’s literature, fake magazines, nods to pre-War comic strips, post-war industrial films, and the surreal.

So don’t worry: Today’s strip is not Sheldon turning into an editorial strip. Like all the other genres and styles listed above, it’s just nice for a cartoonist to try out a different arrow in the quiver, from time to time.