Blank It

We’re coming up on August, a very, very exciting month for us and you guys.

The books are almost done being printed, at which point we get them, and I scribble all over them like a 3 year old. Then we mail them out to you special preorder folks by mid-month. The rest of the books will be available at Minneapolis Indie XPO, along with some other exclusive, quality goodies Aric and I are making just for the show. Attendance is free and we’ll have a ton of stuff there, so it’s worth travelling to attend. Consider this our two-year-plus-book-release party. It’s August 21st. Don’t just come to see us, we won’t be the only awesome people there.

July 1st is your last day to preorder the Blank It Volume 1 book! And if you’re thinking “Oh, well I’ll just buy it when they go on the store later”, that might be a bad idea. See, I’m going to save whatever inventory doesn’t go to preorders for selling at the Minneapolis Indie XPO first. And if they sell out at MIX, then you guys are out of luck until we run another printing.

It’s not a threat, it’s just the way of things. Preorders, then MIX, then you guys can pick over the bones. I want you to have a book, so don’t delay, you have one day left.

So, it looks like my laptop is on the blink, which means no comic tonight (See update below). I’m going to see about getting it repaired tomorrow, or at least recovering the data off the hard drive so I can get back up and running on my desktop system.

I’m pretty sure it’s the GPU or the motherboard. But it’s not a hard drive crash, so let’s hope the Blank It comic and unprinted book are slumbering safely on the drive until I can get at them again.

You know I hate missing an update. I’m going to have something up tomorrow, even if it’s just the comic in a goofy, non-complete form.

Update: Because I love you guys and hate admitting defeat, I installed Photoshop and my tablet drivers onto my desktop (which was a herculean feat if you knew the details), recovered my comic templates thanks to the wonders of Dropbox, installed my fonts and junk, and voila! You don’t miss out on a comic tonight. Now I’m exhausted. See you guys later this week.

Technical problems with my podcast attempt last night. Fixed those, and am starting again this evening. It will stream live on Thursdays from 9pm to 10pm Central. It’s called My Dictionaric. It’s a call-in show. So, call in. That is all.

Hey folks. I’m staring a new podcast this evening, and it will actually stream live on Wednesdays from 9pm to 10pm Central. It’s called My Dictionaric and it’s a call-in show. So, you know what that means. Call in. To the show. Hopefully everything goes off without a hitch. See you tonight!

Pre-orders for the Blank It book are closed. Pre-orders will be sent out in early August, and the rest of our stock will be open to orders starting in late August.

We will also have them available for purchase at the Minneapolis Indie Expo on August 21st.