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Update #21: More Awesome Guest Artists!

Posted on March 2

I have three more incredible reasons you should help push this project over $50,000 so I can make a comic book with my friends... more artists!

I'm not sure which Diesel Sweeties characters they'll be drawing yet, but I am pleased to announce that the dream team just grew a little:

• Jeffrey Rowland, deposed King of Oklahoma and artist of Wigu and Overcompensating.

• Dylan Meconis, wan wizardess of Family Man and Bite Me!

AND!

• Chris Piascik, master of all lettering and daily drawings.

Jeff and Dylan both count as having slept on my couch and Chris was my best TA back when I did some professoring. It's crazy just how many really talented people I know.

I really hope we hit this goal. I should have figured out the cover artists by next week. One is confirmed and incredibly sexy by some demented standards.

Secret Origins:

Here's the panel that started this snowball. It's from a crazy sexy guest comic that Erika Moen did for me back in 2007. When we passed the $35k goal, I racked my brains trying to come up with the next thing to add to the project and this image popped into my mind, causing me to imagine Erika drawing a story about Nipples the Bear.

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DON'T CALL IT A BOOK TOUR! All of the above, plus I'll come deliver up to ten of the signed thumb drive editions of the book in person. Need a day of icon consultations at work? Want to do an event at your local book or computer store? I'll bring coffee. (USA only)

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THE WINDOWMAKER: I have never, ever, ever in my twenty years using Photoshop drawn a comic on a Windows computer. I have turned down jobs with benefits because they didn't have Macs. Choose this reward and I will draw my comic strip using a Windows computer every night for a month. THERE WILL BE SUCH CUSSING… unless you prove me wrong, Mr. Billsworth J. Gates.

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I draw robots and girls and music snobs in pixels. I was briefly tricked into drawing comics for newspapers, but it almost killed me. I'm glad I had more faith in the internet than in a big company.

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