Volume 4!
Shaenon: The moment has arrived! The Kickstarter drive for Skin Horse Volume 4 has begun! Head over to Kickstarter for a sneak peek at Volume 4 and all the rewards available to pledgees. This volume will feature all the comics from “If I Ran the Zoo” through “A Wrinkle in Time,” plus an intro by io9.com writer Lauren Davis, a bonus story by Hugo-winning author Seanan McGuire, full-color bonus art, and basically it’s going to be an awesome book. So check it out!
Channing: It should be mentioned that this volume contains the entirety of “Once and Future”, a.k.a. probably the single best storyline in the history of the strip. If you disagree, please let me mention that it contains (a) a clockwork owl named Joe Lovebody and (b) Unity and Doctor Lee simultaneously smooching Tigerlily Jones. I think this should satisfy any challengers to my claim. It should also convince you to give us money to print the book.
Shaenon: I disagree, because this volume also contains “Choose.”
I can’t help but agree with Shaenon.
Yeah, I also have to go with Shaenon.
“This place has too many ways to die” should totally be made into an actual CYOA book.
Typo: “Volume 3 will also include…” – I assume that should be volume 4.
Corrected!
Aw man, _I_ was gonna say it couldn’t contain the best Skin Horse story because it didn’t have Choose, and then you go and put that in. Clever comic artists.
Well that didn’t take long! It’s funded already!
Congratulations on funding. From my point of view the stories just keep getting better, so you can carry on using that line (hopefully for many volumes to come).
51st backer, and funded before I got there. I should have gotten up earlier than 0645 this grey Sunday morning.
Then again – I’m sure I needed the sleep.
(TUNE: “Manic Monday”, The Bangles)
The readers love the comic strip, they loved the books we made before!
Loved Volume One and Two and Three, so now it’s time for Volume Four!
We have to get the funding first, before we print a single line …
We started it at midnight, and we made our goal by half-past nine!
[CHORUS:]
We achieved our goal in one day!
Started on a Sunday,
Didn’t wait ’til Monday!
Enough to buy a Hyundai!
Project we will fund, a
Total that will stun in one day!
Parts of that scan well to “the song that does not end” as well.
I’ve got it stuck in my head now.
Now that you’re already fully funded, are you going to be setting new goals for the Kickstarter?
We may just do that!
Thank you, everyone! Now we can totally make a book!
Odd technical question out of curiosity more than anything:
Since You generally use the three panel horizontal format – Do you build as you go (filling a blank book template) or do you have to build from scratch every time you build a volume?
Our designer, Pancha, has been handling the book design since Volume 1, so she has a template set up now. She’s really good at making any changes that need to be made from volume to volume.
Shaenon could have a “I need Tiki Furniture for my Tiki Office” fundraiser and she’d get enough donations to fund an office and a tiki car for Sunday drives before the week’s out.
Someday I would like to do a Kickstarter whose goal is “Give Jeff Money”. The reward listed for donating $30 would be “You get to donate $30 to Jeff”. I bet it would be awesome.
Just as a personal suggestion…I’ve been hesitant to buy the books before because of crappily high (international) shipping fees ($10 on a $14 book?).
I mean, I love supporting you guys, I’m not that keen to support the US Postal Services.
The lowest level where I can get all 4 books is $100. Getting the three-book deal through Couscous is $55, plus $30 for the cheapest way to get book 4 is $85.
A donation level which would be just the 4-book-deal (incl shipping) for $65 or $70 might be quite succesfull – I imagine there’ll be a 4-book-pack in the Couscous store eventually anyway, for probably $50 + shipping; a similar price point would certainly entice a lot of filthy foreigners to buy now instead of later.
Of course, the $100 point gets me more, which is better.
Even better: combination SH 1-4 and the Perfect Narbonic COllection, which for some reason has a *separate* $20 shipping cost, even if you order together.
Wait, there shouldn’t be separate shipping costs for multiple books. Could you email me or submit a support request to the store and show us where you’re seeing that?
And I’m sympathetic to international fans, I really am, but shipping out of the U.S. is expensive. I don’t have any way around that. I’m sorry.
Amusingly, I’m not sure I can choose between Shaenon and Jeff’s favorite stories. CYOA mechanics vs. Joe Lovebody. Not an easy choice to make.