blog: product announcements

New ways to get Bolted!

In addition to buying things directly from me, the normal way, my game Bolted! is also now available on Amazon dot com.

On that famous website, you can also get the Creature-Crafting Magnets Set, which is made of the same artwork from the game, but is just a weird little trinket (not a playable game).

My kiddo made the elaborate version below to show off just how many magnets you get in the set (it’s 150 pieces in all — this isn’t even all of them).

Also now on Amazon is my set of Multi-Purpose Greeting Cards — a full dozen cards with envelopes in a fancy, unbranded, foil-stamped box!

Event alert!

I’ll also be showing off Bolted! at Greenwood Games, an event in Seattle this Saturday:

Greenwood Games is a free, all-ages community game event that invites players to spend the afternoon walking Greenwood Avenue from 65th to 80th, collecting clues, cracking puzzles, and discovering games made right here in Washington.

Think of it as Pride Hop, ArtWalk, and the Gumshoe all rolled into one,  except the whole thing is built around games and puzzles.​

Local game designers will be set up at different places along Greenwood Avenue in Phinney Ridge (near Ballard). My specific spot will be the “Holy Mountain Phinney Ridge Taproom”. All the information about all the different games & venues is on the website!

(If you’re in Seattle generally but not free tomorrow, Bolted! is also stocked at Blue Highway Games in Queen Anne.)

Next week, I’ll be at Gen Con! I personally will be hanging with my buddy Sam Logan at BFE Webcomics, booth #1217… but I have it on good authority that copies of Bolted! will be available at the CRWN Studios booth, #2549.

Visit one booth! Then the other! The order…is up to you.

New stickers & shirts now available!

I have submitted the manufacturing order for my new set of pins!

They are at the factory now — I should be receiving my stock in the month of August sometime.

Here are the final designs. Pre-orders are still open!

This project has been really fun! I enjoyed the challenge of designing a bunch of new stuff (which I haven’t done in a while), and it’s been really interesting seeing which designs have hit and which are are little less popular.

I can already tell that a few of these are going to be one print run only. So, this is your best chance to grab anything you like while they are all guaranteed to be available.

I’ve also made available sticker and T-shirt versions of all these same designs! Likewise, they are all available now, although some of them may not be available after this campaign (or anyway, I’m unlikely to reprint them after I sell through the first print run).

The shirt versions of these designs will be made to order, so basically any color is available, not just black!

But for simplicity’s sake, here are all the designs on black:

I am also taking this opportunity to reissue some of my older shirt designs as one-offs… So there are a total of 20 (!) shirt designs available.

Finally…I am also offering my books, games, and other miscellaneous things too (like greeting cards). This is a great opportunity to pick up some things at a discounted shipping rate!

And many of these items will migrate to my online store later on, but likely not all of them, so if you see something here you like, please don’t hesitate!

A hearty thank-you to everyone who has already placed an order!! Rest assured I am using your money to manufacture these actual things, and then shortly, I will be mailing them to you.

[ LINK TO PINTOPIA STORE ]

Free WORLDWIDE shipping? Is such a thing even possible??

Today’s comic is a newly-colored version of a Classic Wondermark – one of the many comics appearing in color in my newest book!

Wondermark turned SEVENTEEN years old this past April, and the date passed without me noticing.

I’ve been extremely busy during this lockdown, juggling both full-time work and sharing childcare duties, so the days tend to blur together.

But I wanted to do SOMETHING a bit special to mark the occasion.

I’ve worked out a special deal with the warehouse in China that is storing copies of my latest book, FRIENDS YOU CAN RIDE ON.

They are moving to a new warehouse soon, and they want me to clear my inventory off their shelves as quickly as possible.

So, before they palletize my remaining books and ship them to the US, we have worked out a limited-time deal for economy shipping to the following countries:

UK • Ireland • Australia • New Zealand • Austria • Belgium • China / Taiwan / HK  • Croatia • Cyprus • Czech Republic • Denmark • Estonia • Finland • France • Germany • Greece • Hungary • Indonesia • Latvia • Lithuania • Luxembourg • Malta • Malaysia • Netherlands • Poland • Portugal • Slovakia • Slovenia • Sweden • Thailand 

Orders to these places, of just this book alone (or multiple copies of it), will ship FOR FREE through May 27 only. 

$30 USD gets you the book sent to anyplace listed above, via some kind of intercontinental train or something.

(USA and Canada orders will ship from me personally, but for the same limited time, I’ll honor the free shipping deal for those shipments too.)

The book also ships to other countries besides those listed above, but I can only offer free shipping to these places. Regular shipping prices apply elsewhere.

A small operation like mine offering free shipping to Europe or Australia – or even to Canada – is basically unheard of, and will not be repeated anytime soon, so please take advantage of this deal while you can!

After May 27, the warehouse packs up the remaining books in their possession, and they’re headed onto a boat.

(Note that the VERY BEST DEAL OF ALL on this book was had by the original Kickstarter backers. The book is more expensive now than it was in the Kickstarter, because it got much, much bigger in the making. This is basically the NEXT-BEST deal ever offered on this title.)

You can also download a PDF version for $6 – in fact, all my books are available as PDFs now.

New Wondermark book now available as hardcover and PDF download!

Above: A new sticker to accompany my new pin!

For worthwhile and obvious reasons, Emerald City Comic Con was cancelled this past week. (It’s been tentatively rescheduled for August.)

So, like many folks for whom that convention is a tentpole of their business year, I did all the usual prep for the show, but didn’t go to the show itself! No one did!

It was to be the first in-person opportunity for folks to get a copy of my latest book, the 300-page monstrosity Friends You Can Ride On:

Which I’m pleased to say is now complete, in stock, and taking up quite an impressive number of shelves in my studio. Each copy is safely nestled in plastic, waiting to be sent to its new home.

This book collects over 500 Wondermark comics (it’s three times as thick as my previous books), plus as per usual I’ve included dozens of pages of bonus and previously unpublished material.

As long as the post office is running, I’m still shipping. So please feel free to claim your own copy now!

For those who don’t want anything to come in the mail, I’ve also now made available:

PDF Downloads of All My Books

For just a few bucks each (or more if you’re feeling generous), you can download all the Wondermark comic collections to date, to read on the digital device of your choice.

Or print out, I guess! Once you have the file, I can’t stop you! (Probably cheaper just to buy the printed editions, though.)

I’m also still shipping all these handsome pins.

A Few Public Service Links

• Washington Post has a great visualization of why staying home and away from people is vitally important right now.

• Twitter thread about why the time to do it is right now, even if you don’t feel sick.

• And now we check out the latest update from the world of sports:

Update on cards, books, calendars, and more!

Here’s a new holiday card design for this year! I have only a limited supply of them, but the choices on offer for Wondermark holiday cards are myriad.

This year, I am not making a printed 2020 calendar.

What I have done, though, is re-issued four of my previous calendars (from 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2017) and updated their dates for 2020.

So if you’re a calendar fan, but missed any of those prior calendars – or, just want to revisit them again! – you can download the PDF file and print them out, no shipping required.

Three of them were first reissued in downloadable format last year… And now, the Roll-a-Sketch Yearbook, originally released in 2014, joins the family!

All enamel pins are presently in stock as well, and shipping immediately:

Lookin' sharp!

I’m also running a clearance sale on some leftover convention shirts. They start at $15 apiece; then quantity discounts kick in immediately.

In addition to Wondermark shirts, there are designs by some of my esteemed cartooning colleagues as well. We put ’em all in one place to maximize savings for you.

Sizes and quantities vary, but you can check them all out here!

The reason I didn’t do a calendar this year is that all of my time recently has been spent finishing up this:

Wondermark: Friends You Can Ride On ended up clocking in at a whopping 304 pages of comics.

You can read a bit more about the coming-together of this book here.

Kickstarter backers have already had their address surveys emailed to them, and those copies will start shipping out this very week. If you backed the project last year, and haven’t seen the survey, check your email!

If you missed the Kickstarter, you can still order a copy now – just be aware you that you will not receive it until January.

I’ll have much, much more to say about this book in the coming days! I’m just so glad it’s finally done, and will be getting into backers’ hands very soon.

I am extremely proud of it. Not just because it is a cool THREE TIMES AS THICK as any of my previous collections… But that sure helps!

I’ll be shipping store orders every day this week, and then closing up shop for the year after Friday, December 20. Thanks, friends!