KITTIES
Shaenon: The newest Couscous Collective anthology is out, and it is KITTIES! Every Couscous anthology includes either a Narbonic or a Skin Horse story, and KITTIES has a Skin Horse story, “Career Day,” written by Jeff and drawn by me.
I also wrote “Cat Politics,” a story about my cat Tesla, drawn by the wonderful Andrew Farago, and illustrated “The Story of a Cat-Loving Girl,” written by my seven-year-old cousin Joselyn. I was kind of into the whole kitties theme.
But not as into it as I am the theme of the next Couscous anthology, SPIRITS.
Anyway, KITTIES and many other fine books are available at the Couscous Store.
Channing: I just want you all to know that this is a freaking great bonus story. And I am terrible at self-promotion, so when I actually get around to complimenting myself, brother, you know it’s good.
It took me half an hour to order, because the Couscous store has Paypal set to INSANELY PICKY. Wouldn’t accept instant-transfer from bank account, and because I didn’t have the exact same address (down to choice of “Street” vs. “St.”) it kept refusing my card. I finally gave up and told it I had no account and re-entered everything from scratch. Next time I doubt I’ll bother.
I’m sorry about that, Dave! I’ll tell Pancha, who runs the store.
Let us know when it’s fixed. I gave up on the Narbonic ebook set yesterday.
Best way to describe it is that it treats your shipping address like a password. If you don’t get it exactly right, the transaction fails. If the store is going to insist on A) no instant transfers and B) only PP-confirmed addresses, then it should have an option to leave the account’s address blank and a “use PP address” checkbox.
Okay, we’ve changed some settings, and it should be better now. Pancha’s planning to update the whole shopping cart system soon.
(TUNE: “Piggies”, The Beatles)
Have you seen the little kitties
Here in our new book?
You can see the little kitties!
Come and take a look!
Please don’t be a shnook,
Just buy this volume!
Have you seen the store of Couscous,
Selling merchandise?
You can buy the book of Puss-Puss!
Comes in just one size!
(Takes a couple tries
To get it right, though …)
Extra work by Jeff and Shaenon
Makes us readers happy!
Writin’, drawin’, sweatin’, strainin’,
Look at us, we’re not complainin’!
Give a cheer for them, let’s hear it!
Jeff and Shaenon rule!
Next will come a book of SPIRITS,
That will be so cool!
Ev’ry guy and ghoul
Should buy a copy!
Leo looks adorable in that panel above. 🙂
I used to love it when I was in grade school and the guest speakers would be lions.
The half-hidden “Mell W. Kelly, Attorney” under your names made my day.
Leo is probably checking out the class thinking, “Which one for lunch?”
It just clicked that Artie would probably be a good teacher. The skills required to deal with the mad transfer to dealing w/ large groups of children.
Children (toddlers at least) after all have that mysterious ability to be freshly bathed and dressed, placed in a clean, sterile room, and somehow achieve filthy, and sticky.
It’s the drool. I swear it’s all in the drool.
I went to Malcolm X Elementary…
meow.
Hmm… Spirits is still available in the Store, but Kitties is not. 8-(