After a very long time with no appearances, I’m pleased to say I’ll be in Juneau, Alaska this weekend with books, trinkets and sketches!
The 2024 Alaska Robotics Minicon takes place on Saturday, April 27 at the APK Libraries, Archives, and Museum building.
I’ll also be doing a presentation the night before, Friday 4/26, at the kickoff variety show at the Mendenhall Valley Library. The full events schedule is here!
I’m excited to remind folks that we are in the LAST FEW DAYS of the Pintopia campaign!
Most of the pledge tiers are for various numbers of pins, as you might expect.
But I’ve ALSO just added a new tier called PLEDGE MANAGER ONLY:
The best deals on groups of pins can be found in the regular pledge tiers (where every additional pin is cheaper than the last, as volume pricing does its magic).
But, if you’d prefer to peruse everything later and/or make à la carte selections, you can now opt in to the Pledge Manager tier for just $2.
This will give you access to the pledge manager after the campaign (with $2 credit already on board, natch), where you can then build your own reward of individual items, including:
Pins – of course!
Stickers – individually OR in sets
Wondermark greeting cards
But also, a few extra things will show up in the pledge manager as well:
Wondermark books and prints
Stickers of each of the NEW pin designs
T-shirts! I’ll be using this post-campaign order period to determine the long-term interest in making shirts of the new designs… So an initial, limited number will be made available.
If you haven’t joined the campaign yet, you have until APRIL 18, 1PM to pledge at any level, and gain access to these items! Here is a colorful button to click:
Today’s comic revisits another of the heroes from my #Pintopia campaign! This time, it’s that famous satellite of the planet on which most of us live – Luna, the Moon.
We first heard from this celestial character in the classic comic #302.
I have also gone back through the archives and added the new tag #astronomy to past comics involving our various friends in the heavens.
In doing so, I realized there are also quite a few comics featuring the moon in a supporting role, in the context of werewolfery — but that is another topic altogether.
I will let you know when I have completed the assignment of a #lycanthropy tag.
Meanwhile, the loud round one is also the subject of a brand new pin design, once again part of…
They originated in comic #729 (with a brief cameo in #730 as well).
For each of my book collections, I have colored a handful of strips to make them special for the book. Occasionally I have then run the colorful versions later on the site, but I never reposted this one, until now!
I’ve shared it online a bunch this week – such as on Reddit – and I’m pleased to say that, despite being 13 years old, it still hits.
AND…if you’ve backed any of my Kickstarter campaigns before (and you use the same BackerKit account for this project), you will automatically get a free sticker set added to your order. A computer will figure this out!!
Launch Livestream
Peter hosted a livestream on our launch day, and I joined him for the first hour or so. We discussed my work, his work, the travails of both, and all kinds of interesting topics.
Before & after the launch time (which is 10AM Pacific time on Thursday), I’ll be livestreaming with my Pin Partner™ Peter™ over on his campaign page:
What will we be talking about? Maybe pins??
I imagine the topic will come up!!
What is “Pintopia,” anyway?
Wait, what is this whole project about? The sponsoring organization (BackerKit) describes it this way:
🎉 Welcome to Pintopia — a celebration of creativity and collaboration from a diverse group of artists collectively running enamel pin crowdfunding projects from March 28th – April 18th.
The more Pintopia pins you back, the more FREE pins you can earn ✨
⚔️ 2 FREE Cross Collaborative Pins if you back both pins from a cross collab project pair
💯 1 FREE Full-Color Pintopia 2024 Pin once ALL projects are 100% funded
🏆 1 FREE Gold Pintopia 2024 Pin if you back 5 projects or more
So, in other words, it’s a ton of different artists – over 125 of us! – all launching collections of enamel pins, all at the same time.
BackerKit is really pushing the cross-promotion angle, so I hope it works out for us all!
Early bird bonus gifts
One of BackerKit’s features is to automatically assign bonus gifts to certain backers.
For example, I have it set so all backers (at any level) in the first 48 hours will get a free postcard set added to their order!
Returning backers (anyone who’s participated in one of my crowdfunding campaigns before, such as on Kickstarter) will get ANOTHER bonus gift, a free Wondermark sticker set!
This is all tracked in the backend if you have a BackerKit account.
The old pins are showin’ up too
My existing pin designs are available anytime from my online store. But, sometimes a campaign like this will nudge someone off the fence into participating!
So, all of my existing designs will ALSO be available, as add-ons to any order of the new pins.