Last year Webcomics Weekend was the hottest show in Easthampton, MA or any other town. It sold out almost immediately. Tickets for the sequel go on sale Thursday. Paul and I are guests, along with dozens of our best cartooning buddies. Don't think! Just act!

We've had a large influx of new readers lately, including a big batch of folks who signed up for free comic strips at the Unshelved booth at Comic Con last week. Here's some quick information for you:

• This is a comic strip about the funny people who make software for a living. Read more about them (and us) here and consider starting at the beginning.
• You can change your email subscription to just Unshelved or Not Invented Here, or both, by clicking the "update profile" link at the bottom of your email.
• You can also get updates by RSS, Twitter, and Facebook
• Good night, and have a pleasant tomorrow.

Sorry, we don't have a Not Invented Here book yet. Look for that sometime next year. It'll be awesome.

Meanwhile I have this other comic strip I'm involved with, Unshelved, which I draw and co-write. We just released our new book Large Print, but we might as well have called it Paul Southworth because he wrote the foreword, drew several pages of strips, and even donated photos of his house for use in the sequence where Dewey goes house shopping. If you like Not Invented Here there is a 63% chance that you'll also enjoy Unshelved, so go buy my new book for only $11.95.

If you're reading this blog, odds are good that you like comics. Odds are also good that, like me, you are a huge nerd. There is no shortage of places where comics and sci-fi intersect on the web, but so few where it is done well. Jon Rosenberg, creator of the long-running, universe-hopping, sprawling sci-fi epic Goats is one of the precious few cartoonists who got it right, and now he has a new project called Scenes from a Multiverse.

So if you like science fiction, crude humor, and poorly-mannered tentacle creatures wearing trucker hats, I implore you to patronize this gentleman's webzone immediately, if not sooner.

A hearty congratulations to my Not Invented Here co-creator Paul for his tiny, tiny part today in creating a new human being, Isaac Thomas Southworth. Mother and baby are doing well, father is freaked out and taking way too much credit. In lieu of gifts please tell everyone you know about our comic strip so Paul can eventually afford to pay tuition at what will presumably be a very expensive art school.