I bought the new Hitchhiker’s Guide book on Monday… For whatever reason I haven’t finished it yet (ordinarily I would have read the whole thing that night), but I suppose maybe it’s a good sign that when I picked it back up I noticed I had stopped at page 42? I don’t think it’s going to be my favorite Hitchhiker’s Guide book (which is actually So Long And Thanks For All The Fish), but it’s not bad so far.

In other news, there’s a new voting bonus up today! It’s a sprite strip in which Neap tries to get Linton to rescue Violet and the Plant.

And there’s also a new PodWarp 1999 episode up now! (Or at least one you haven’t heard before!) Mark Mekkes and I discuss holidays in science fiction (last December).

Last night I attended another Sequential Artists’ Pub podcast. This week’s main topic was books – preparing things for print, where/how to have them printed, where/how to sell them, etc.

In case you’re wondering, I save the full-size 300dpi scans of my strips before I resize them and save them for the web, and I used those files when I put the first book (Get Yours Today!) together. I took the print-on-demand route for publishing, with lulu.com, so it’s printed (and sold) through them. I’ll most likely put out the second book (which I’m currently working on) that way too.

And in unrelated news, today’s voting bonuses are the rough drafts for yesterday’s strip, today’s strip, and tomorrow’s, and a bad translation of today’s strip. Enjoy!