Remember that article series I wrote about that horrible vampire B-movie Revamped? You know, the one that isn't on the site anymore because the director/writer/producer/star/doofus sent me a cease and desist letter? Well, it got me thinking: I could make fun of vampires for ages. So I did.
Dracula is a Racist: A Totally Factual Guide to Vampires is the 100% bona fide totally real and not made up at all truth about vampires. It's a handbook of sorts thats deals with everything you could possibly ever want to know about the world of vampires. From vampires being able to do their hair without reflections to regular people dressing in all black and acting snobby to fake being a vampire, this book has it all.The book also features a bunch of amazing illustrations by the fantastic DJ Coffman.
I'll be posting excerpts over at Robots with Feelings up until he release date. The first two can be read over here and right here!
The book comes out April 1st (I swear, it's not some elaborate April Fools prank). There's even a Facebook event to remind you! Or you can be like all the cool kids and pre-order it right now from pretty much anywhere: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Borders, Books a Million and IndieBound.
P.S. Suck it, Twilight.
Kris and I will be attending South by Southwest in Austin TX next week.
Kris'll be on a panel Tuesday at 12:30, and we'll both be signing books at 3:20 in the South by BookStore (hey that's catchy) upstairs in the convention center.
Those of you at the festival, be sure to come by!
You may have noticed by now that while surfing the comic pages, you may get a popunder every once and a while. This is intentional. Let me first say that Rob, Dave, Kris and myself were VERY wary of adding this and only did so under specific circumstances.
We've been putting a lot more focus into the C&H shorts. Speaking of which, why not subscribe to our YouTube channel? We absolutely love doing them and have gotten a fantastic response so far. There's just one catch: they're really costly to make. We've hired our good buddy Chase to help animate full-time, an honest to god music composer and a slew of professional voice actors. We decided to add a popunder to help finance this endeavor for the time being.
Here's the facts with this thing:
1. It should only ever show up ONCE every 24 HOURS.
2. It should only ever show up on the comic pages.
3. It should silently pop behind your current window; you shouldn't even really notice until you close the window.
This is just a temporary means of putting out a high quality short much more frequently. Again, we were very apprehensive to add it in, but we feel it's worth it.
If you truly can't stand it, by all means, go ahead and block it. The page that loads it is http://www.explosm.net/gid.html and the root script that loads it is http://mg.dt00.net/*, so block those urls and you should be fine. For those of you who don't block ads, thank you. This is a full-time job for all of us, and while we get by, we're not rolling in cash. We'll be sure to let you know when that happens, though.
We hope it's not too much of a bother. I'm generally a strong supporter of advertising-supporting-free-content, but popups are usually too much. Hopefully the intrusion isn't too much.
