Author: Wil

Author, actor, producer. On a good day, I am charming as fuck.

happiest days sells out – thank you!

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We’ve just taken down the ordering page for the Happiest Days of Our Lives at Monolith Press, because the entire second printing is now sold out. It’s unlikely that I’ll do another Monolith Press printing in the near future, because Subterranean Press will have the special edition in just a few months.

Before I get back to work, I want to thank all of you who have made this moment – the end of one journey and the beginning of another – possible. I’ve been able to sell through two printings of my book entirely via word of mouth, and that’s just un-fucking-believable to me. From the people who told me way back in 2001 to hurry up and write a book, to the people who bought that book, to everyone who bought Happiest Days, to the 300 (holla!) and especially to everyone who told friends and family and helped get my work in front of new readers . . . none of this would be possible without you, and you all have my gratitude.

Once these final orders are processed and shipped, the serious work will begin on the next big Monolith Press project, something super awesome that I’m not quite ready to announce, but I hope will be worth the wait. Feel free to speculate in comments, because that’s always fun.

@BarackObama, @GregGrunberg: We’re totally in a comic together!

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This is just awesome.

Three thoughts:

1) HijiNKS Ensue joins Something Positive to be the second comic in the last week that’s made me feel more awesome than I deserve, or will ever actually be.

2) Greg is probably famous enough to actually get to meet him, but this is likely the closest I’ll ever get to Barack Obama, who I think is going to be our first geek president.

3) Yes, this title is optimized for Twitter. It’s meta, it’s funny.

it’s a big hat. it’s funny.

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Ryan was home for Thanksgiving, and he just kept walking up to me and saying, “It’s a big hat, it’s funny.” He mimed the chewing of the gum and everything, and we just started randomly saying it to each other all weekend.

I mention that so you have some context for this:

Of all the Celebrity Jeopardy sketches on SNL, this one is my all-time favorite. Norm MacDonald is just perfect.

Here’s an alternate link to funny or die for those of you who are outside the US.

(And as long as I’m linking to SNL videos: Extreme Challenge. I was “meh” on this at first, but it gets funnier every time I watch it.)

happiest days of our lives only available from me until friday december 5

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Holy shit, it’s already December 2nd! How did that happen?

(I know, Earth rotates, time marches on, etc. It was a rhetorical question. Jeeze.)

Why do you care? Well, most of you reading this probably don’t, but if you want to get a copy of The Happiest Days of Our Lives from Monolith Press, and have it arrive in time for the holidays, you have until this Friday to place your order.

I’m not sure how many copies are left, but I think it’s less than 100. I’m not sure if there are even that many potential sales in the universe at this very moment, but if I run out of books before Friday, I’ll update this post. Either way, after Friday, it’s probably gone forever because I’ll be working on something new.

The special expanded edition from Subterranean Press is still available for order, and will ship sometime early next year.

Edited to add: This afterthought is for people who are interested in the audio version. It is damn close to being done, and will probably be out VERY soon. Like, very, very soon, if you get my drift. I mention this today so you don’t think I’m pulling one of those “buy this now but guess what here’s something else hahaha I got your money like a Whammy on Press Your Luck” moves that are so popular with jerkfaces who have the face of a jerk these days.