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TechTV appearance The brave souls at TechTV had me on The Screen Savers Monday Oct 20th and somehow managed to avoid having the FCC yank their license. I had a great time, and they were all really nice to this TV newb. Theyve posted the segment online in Windows Media format for those of you with strong stomachs. Patch released A few gazillion readers have written to express concern about Jasons C code in my 10-3-03 strip. Click here for a patch to bring the strip up to version 101 New book! This book was supposed to be ready in August, but apparently the printer kept running it through the presses in the desperate hope that clothes would somehow get printed onto Rogers naked body.
Ansel Amend I had a great time with family and friends in Yosemite recently. Perfect weather, lots of water in the waterfalls, cold beer aplenty, and I used all my tiles to make an eight-letter triple word-score word in Scrabble. Still, I couldnt shake the sense that my strips deadlines were looming just over the horizon. I also got to see the unveiling of the new G5 Power Mac cheese grater edition at Apples Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, which was cool. Reuben Awards The National Cartoonists Society held its annual Reuben awards weekend May 23-25 in San Francisco. Most of my pictures ended up featuring drunk cartoonists doing embarrassing things, so Im going to hold off on posting those until I get a pay-per-view site going. Meanwhile, heres two pics of Cartoonist of the Year winner Matt Groening accepting his award and a shot of the Reuben trophy itself. Category award winners included Darby Conley Get Fuzzy for best comic strip, and Dave Coverly Speed Bump for best comic panel. Formerly live chat with yours truly The good people at the Washington Post were kind enough to invite me to participate in their program of live online chats with the various cartoonists they run. For any of you who participated, youll know how similar my typing skills are to watching paint dry. For those who missed it, well, you can always read the transcript if youre really bored. Funny links These have nothing to do with FoxTrot, but I find them amusing and its my site so I can link to whatever I want. First up is the answer to the question, what happens when something cool like Star Trek meets something cool like Tolkien? Second is this indescribable Kikkoman soy sauce animation from Japan requires Flash. Why cant we get ads like this during the Super Bowl is what I want to know click here for a loose translation of the lyrics. You can still get my latest anthology through most bookstores, or by ordering online at either Amazon or Barnes and Noble . As Ive mentioned before, this book sports a new dense-pack format that gives you more total strips for the same cover price, which is fun for me, too, since itll keep my kids quiet for slightly longer stretches of time as they read. Heres a pic I took to show what I mean: About the changes at UComics Several of you have e-mailed me about UComics recent announcement that they would be limiting their free archives for FoxTrot and other comics to fourteen days.
From what Im told, and I have no reason to doubt, the trickle of ad money UComics currently gets doesnt cover this, and the choice for UComics was pretty much to re-jigger their business model into something that would stop the money loss or shut down entirely. I know its no fun for comics readers, but if you think about the availability of free comics archives seven years ago zero, two weeks is still better than it used to be. Cool FoxTrot sighting Who knew the Soprano family started their Sunday morning reading FoxTrot? Its a little fuzzy, since its from video, but the strip Tony and AJ are looking at in this scene from the season opener is from Assorted FoxTrot, p.
Ever wonder what a big-shot cartoonist does for fun on weekends when hes not touring with Bruce and the band? You can download the new OS X version here , or the old Mac OS version here . A big thank you to Apple for making their Project Builder and other development tools freely available to pros and hobbyists alike. And an even bigger thanks to Mark Pazolli for porting the game Glypha III, which makes up the underlying code for SlugMan. Id have tried to do it myself, but he beat me to it, which is just fine by me. Reader Buddy KinkaJoy Fischer passed along this great image generated by a raytracer program hed written in Visual C. Its based on my little Escher ripoff Quincy tile that I use on this site, if you cant tell.
Its still less complete than Id like, but its better than nothing. For those of you with questions about me or my work, check out my new Frequently Asked Questions page . About the New Book Format: Not QUITE actual size Some of you may have noticed my books, beginning with Death By Field Trip , are smaller than past collections. This was done at my request to better accomodate my Sunday strips, which changed format a couple years ago. Ive always hated the way Mutts and Baby Blues and Boondocks which use this format also have to juggle their Sundays around in the books to fit on the square page. We went with the dimensions we did to keep it from sticking out on the bookshelf, especially when placed alongside previous FoxTrot books. So whatll happen now is well put out a small book every six months or so until weve done three, then well have a big color treasury containing all those strips, similar to the books of the past. So while the small books have fewer strips than in the past, the treasuries will have slightly more than they used to. A couple people on Amazon have groused that this was a big ripoff move by Andrews McMeel, and I assure you, I had to haggle with my publisher for months to get this change through. It came down to the Sunday strip issue and a desire on my part to put more of a separation between collections and treasuries.
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