On certain days, when I pass by a trash can full of rotten fruit and children's vomit, I get a very strong sense memory of being inside Jambalaya Jim's

This storyline started with Part 1.

Wondermark’s free for school papers!

School’s back in session, right? I don’t even know. Kids, once you graduate and your life is freed of the time-markers of the scholastic calendar — semesters, finals, summers — years start buzzing by in a blur. So, you should want to make your school-days drag by as sloooowly as possible. Well, now I can help, by filling your school newspaper with lowbrow comics! Since time flies when you’re having fun, that is.

For the first time, I’m offering a full semester of weekly Wondermarks to your school paper for free! Here is all that has to happen for you to start seeing Wondermark on your campus before you can say jack-sprinkletoes. The editor (or AN editor) of the paper should email me the following information:

1. Who you are and what school you’re from
2. How many weeks worth of comics’ you’d need (i.e. how long is your semester)
3. Name and contact info of a faculty advisor
4. Favorite mammal and why

If you ARE the faculty advisor, you can leave out the third part. And that’s it! I’ll write back and we’ll go from there. All I ask is that the comics be printed with the header and wondermark.com URL intact, and you can have comics in your paper for free. If you would like this to happen, but are not an editor of your school newspaper, you should politely inform someone who is.

I am especially hopeful that someone from a foreign nation might like to put Wondermark in their paper in a different language! You’ll have to do the translating, but I would very much like to see it when you’re done.

p.s. if the mammal thing is a deal-breaker with your crusty old faculty advisor then don’t worry about it. but geez lighten up seriously

Drawing: IT’S BEARS IN ILL-FITTING HATS TIME

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My new best friend ‘halcyonsnow’ has a Flickr set full of bears in ill-fitting hats. As you know, said ursines avec chapeaux are part of my plan to dominate 2008. I don’t know if this is one of those Flickr things that you people can add to, or however it works, but all I want for Christmas are more pictures of bears in ill-fitting hats floating around on the internet. Seriously, that’s it. Go to it.

I’m pleased to announce that my bears-in-ill-fitting-hats meme is starting to take off! There’s now a public Flickr group, to which Ape Lad (of the great Laugh-Out-Loud Cats) and others have made delightful contributions, and I’ve just been told that there’s a Facebook group as well. I don’t know what Facebook groups are for, but if they’re for anything at all, then dammit they need to be for bears in ill-fitting hats. You guys are making my holiday dreams come true, one bear in an ill-fitting hat at a time.
’08 IS GONNA BE GRRRR-EAT

Writing: My words in the New York Times

Niche audience alert! I’m guessing MAYBE 0.1% of readers will be served by the following bit of trivia: in this week’s New York Times “Stuart Elliott’s In Advertising” email newsletter, the anonymous spoof question — the one Mr. Elliott called “delightful” and “a good note on which to end the Q&A’s for the year” — was written by me.

New York Times, baby!


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