If you can't tell, by the big old banner above, I'm excited to say that my art book is finally on sale at our shop. I really hope it's well received as it will give me reason to make more books like this. I finished it last October but due to complications it hasn't been available till now.

I broke the book up by characters and themes, so you'll find a lot of content on characters such as Malakym and Risu. Good news if you like cat girls and ninjas. I also tried to include as much concept and rough art as I could so that you not only see the stuff from our old works but the skeleton work that went in to making them, as well.

The works go from as early as year one Mac Hall to comics not three months ago. So it really stretches the gambit. There's even some of my concept art from Whirled in there. I worked rather hard on getting this book together, given it my first attempt at such a thing. If you you get a hold of one, let me know what you think.

There's also a few other new things in the store, so take a look. If you enjoy our work, the best way to support us is just a click through that store banner.

Topatoco has gift certificates up and running. Good for last minute gifts, you know?

Theoretically the giftee could spend it on our stuff, but every time we load up the pages of Topatoco's other clients, we just groan and go "Those guys are kicking our asses.

Not my best comic. I've been relying on the 'cute' style too much lately, but I've lacked the inspiration to break from it seems.

A few readers have been voicing their concern that I haven't been posting rants lately. My apologies. Truth is, a lot has been on my plate and my energy low. I continue to strive to get a certain project out into your hands and I hope that will wrap up soon.

However, what's even more pressing to me is that very soon, exactly 6 months since I asked her the question, Jessica and I will be married. Happily it seems everything is coming together and all that's left to worry about is making sure everyone gets there safely. I'm really excited, to be put simply and it's been on my mind perpetually. I can only imagine the hours I've spent on the phone making arrangements to Ohio with friends and family, and Jes's phone time probably doubles mine.

See, currently, we live and work in San Francisco, as been seen in the strip. However, the wedding is in Ohio, our home state. Makes things a little harder to assemble.

What this means to you, the readers, though, is that I'm going to have very little time to update in the two weeks I'm out of town. I'm trying to get something done ahead of time so you can at least see a fresh post each week, but I've learned these last 9 years, never to promise anything.



Thank you to for all your emails and support. And thank you for letting me share with you this happy time in our lives.

A short chat with Felicia Day of Dr. Horrible and The Guild.

For Christmas orders out of the store, Jeff has encouraged us to give "a gentle nudge to International Customers to order before 30 November if they want to ship using International First Class. After that, we'll encourage International Priority or better."

I know, I know, it's not even Black Friday yet, but better early than late for shipping information.

Once again, it's Wednesday, and here's your comic. Wish I had more to say.

And here's the comic.

On the down side, I'm probably going to lose a $5 bet that Obama would not reach 375 electoral votes or +10% of the popular vote. The final states haven't been called yet, so we'll see.

On the up side, I'm due $50 from Pontus Madsen, who was convinced that there was no way in hell that the U.S. would ever elect a black man with "Hussein" as a middle name. Take that, Sweden!

I have a new bet with Dom on how movies will demonstrate that they take place in an alternate reality now that the president actually is black. He says Asian president. My money is on female Muslim president.

Problems in matching sets.

Tuesday night, I finished the project that canceled last week's comic and backed it up. I then started working on the comic for this week and my computer shut down. I haven't been able to get it to start back up.

I get passed the beginning bios boot screen then it hangs at a blinking cursor on a blank screen.

Until I can figure this out, I'll try and do the comic on Jes's computer Wednesday night. I'm sorry for the double delay on updates. I really want to show off my latest accomplishment so you can understand what my time has been feeding into, but it'll continue to wait until it's designated time, regardless of the comic's status.

Poor XPS, how many more years do you have left in you? You've served me so well... er... Ignoring the three fried video cards and four HD wipes... Besides that it's a spotless record.

I dunno, don't read too much into this. It's just funny when people whose job involves cultivating a respectable image flip the hell out. Which seems to be a good summary of the past couple of weeks.

Speaking of good summaries, here's a non-stick figure writeup of how we got here.