While touring around the old Disney animation studios in Burbank (…got to go into Walt’s office!), I took this pic with Walt & Mickey. I kinda want this on my driver’s license, now.
While touring around the old Disney animation studios in Burbank (…got to go into Walt’s office!), I took this pic with Walt & Mickey. I kinda want this on my driver’s license, now.
I had the pleasure of having my friend and fellow cartoonist Brad Guigar stay over right before San Diego Comic-con. And in the process of trying out my new stand-up drafting table, he also drew this most excellent guest strip for Wednesday’s Sheldon.
Thanks, Brad!
It’s been a long time a-comin’, but the new Sheldon site is live. We were shooting for a cheerier, cleaner look that streamlined the site…and I think it came out pretty great! I hope you like it.
Speaking of which: I need to publicly thank Tyler Martin for the excellent design work, and Phillip Karlsson for the hosting implementation. As with any new site, there will be bugs a-plenty, so please bear with me (especially as this is launching while I’m away at SDCC, and can’t fix much until next week). But we’ll get to any bugs, I promise!
A few notes on the new site:
– As you may have noticed, all the strips will be growing larger, from 800px wide to 900px wide. It’s gonna make for a much better reading experience. But! We’ve only upsized about 3,000 of the 3,500…so those won’t go live just yet.
– One of my favorite new features is the “5 years ago today” section, which shows you what strip ran way back when. Just click the image to read that strip!
– There’s now a “permalink” button for linking to today’s strip, and social media links! Woo! 2007, here I come!
– On the “Extras” link, you’ll see I’ve started adding in videos. I’ll be adding more, as we go…especially as trailers for the movie start appearing!
– The formatting of the store and forums are both still wonky, as we go live. I’ll attend to those next week. Be patient if you notice something weird: We’ll get it fixed.
– Previously, if you missed grabbing the original art, you were out of luck. But now, you can grab a print of it.
As always, bug catches are appreciated, either below in the comments (…if they’re working! Ha!) or via e-mail to me. Thanks, all!
I’ll be there all five days in booth 1228, with TWO new books (new Pugs books & new Drive book)! Here’s what you need to know:
Here’s the breakdown:
1.) New Pugs book is debuting at the show! The original Pugs book just went into a second printing, and the new book will be joining it at San Diego. It’s called “Pugs: They Think They’re People. Really Old, Retired People.” Here’s the cover:
2.) New Drive book! I’m really excited for you guys to see this one. The advance copy that I have looks sa-weet.
3.) There’ll be a few posters new to San Diego, as well. Like the Batpug poster and the Wine Spectator poster!
4.) Friday night, please don’t miss my panel for my documentary movie, Stripped! 7-8PM, Room 25ABC. We’ll be screening over 8 minutes of the film, as well as sharing behind-the-scenes stories, and answering any questions you have for us! It’s gonna be a pretty fun panel: We’re pretty fun guys. (Aaaaand, we have one huge bit of news that comics fans are going to go nuts for.) Come on out! Friday, 7/13/12, 7-8PM, Room 25ABC!
5.) ONE LAST THING! If you’re coming to the show, and want to snag a piece of original art at $25-off the normal price, please e-mail me. I can’t bring all 3,000 strips to the show, so I really need you to e-mail me with the one you want. T’anks!
I’ll be there all five days in booth 1228, with TWO new books (new Pugs books & new Drive book)! Here’s what you need to know:
Here’s the breakdown:
1.) New Pugs book is debuting at the show! The original Pugs book just went into a second printing, and the new book will be joining it at San Diego. It’s called “Pugs: They Think They’re People. Really Old, Retired People.” Here’s the cover:
2.) New Drive book! I’m really excited for you guys to see this one. The advance copy that I have looks sa-weet.
3.) There’ll be a few posters new to San Diego, as well. Like the Batpug poster and the Wine Spectator poster!
4.) Friday night, please don’t miss my panel for my documentary movie, Stripped! 7-8PM, Room 25ABC. We’ll be screening over 8 minutes of the film, as well as sharing behind-the-scenes stories, and answering any questions you have for us! It’s gonna be a pretty fun panel: We’re pretty fun guys. (Aaaaand, we have one huge bit of news that comics fans are going to go nuts for.) Come on out! Friday, 7/13/12, 7-8PM, Room 25ABC!
5.) ONE LAST THING! If you’re coming to the show, and want to snag a piece of original art at $25-off the normal price, please e-mail me. I can’t bring all 3,000 strips to the show, so I really need you to e-mail me with the one you want. Thanks!
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.