Something I've been working on
an update from the cartoonist
Good evening!
Some of you may have noticed an unassuming little link at the top of these daily posts lately -- “the next small thing is here.”
Today I wanted to actually tell you what it is.
It’s called The Poet Quarterly - a printed comic book that arrives in your mailbox four times a year. A mail club, but with comics.
You’ve been reading The Poet every morning on a screen. This is an invitation to see what it looks like when it’s made into something you can hold.
Each 24-page issue is printed in full color on wonderfully tactile paper - larger than the daily strips, and meant to be kept. There’s a curated selection of comics, a letters page with actual human correspondence, behind-the-scenes notes, bonus material, and even a coloring page for when the spirit moves you.
There’s also The Official Bulletin of the Poet’s Park Bench Appreciation Society. Your favorite benches, in print. Might be my favorite page in the whole thing.
It’s $75 a year, shipping included, and arrives with the changing of the seasons - January, April, July, and October. The July issue is already printed and beginning to ship, along with a special bookmark.
The Poet Quarterly is not available in stores. It does not exist online. You, reading this right now, are exactly who I made it for.
Let’s get offline for a bit. Well, after you click that link.
Thank you so much for reading.
- Todd
Thank you for your company.
To support a fellow artist is certainly a worthy cause, and as soon as my insane medical bills subside, I'm there. But Todd, at this moment I regret to inform you that I am unable. These books will make great gifts too! Soon, my friend, soon - if all the procedures go according to plan and I am free of the pain, you bet I will buy them! Your comics are a brief respite from it all, in other words, I owe you.