Yay!! Hooray!! We finally made it!!
It took us a little while this time, huh? Well, for the record, I just wanted to give a short account of why we kept you waiting for so long. I actually was quite close to finishing this book last spring, but then I spontaneously moved to a new apartment and totally got out of the layouting and editing process. By the time I got my new office set up and found enough time again, summer was almost here. But since we couldn't release it right IN summer, because Mike was all over the place and wouldn't have been able to handle the orders, we decided to launch it in fall, just in time for Christmas. So we put in some more material and completed the layout in about September.
It was a tight schedule, but if everything worked out fine with printing and shipping, we would make it! Well, guess... everything didn't work out fine. Setting up the print job took longer than expected and when we started sending sample prints back and forth with our printer, we decided that there was no point in rushing now, just to release it a week before Christmas and compromise on the quality. So we decided to release it after Christmas! But since my brother came here to Austria for vacation, we had to time the delivery so that it would arrive when he was back in the States again.
So, now you got a glimpse of the hardships of a cartoonist! Well, a self-published cartoonist, that is... (Oh, and I didn't even mention the hauling of over a ton of books up into my apartment!)
And since in this whole process we couldn't really foresee when exactly we would have the books, we didn't want to make a preorder phase this time and then keep you waiting, or something like that. In turn we have decided to give you all a discount in the first month!
Anyway, we're very happy with the final result! The printing and binding quality of the book is just awesome, we feel we get better at delivering the punchlines and drawing, and, last but not least, the book has almost twice the content for only a very slight increase in price compared to the last one.
Well, the orders already keep pouring in! As soon as you guys have read the book, we'd be very interested in your thoughts!!
