xkcd Book? The Internet Approves

Did you hear? The Internet was buzzing yesterday about the New York Times' announcement of xkcd's book deal. The breadpig couldn't have been more pleased. Now we need get those books ready for the summer. Thanks to all of you who helped spread the word, left encouraging comments, or already started trying to place orders. There's a mailing list if you'd like to be notified on the day they're for sale.

We also had a number of independent booksellers contact us to get the xkcd book on their shelves; we're happy to supply you!

And now for a buzz recap:

The story ran on the front pages of reddit (OK, not a huge surprise there), digg, and Hacker News.

Longtime breadpig loyalist, Scott Beale shared some linklove, as well as Cory "I sometimes wear a cape and goggles" Doctorow, who first convinced Randy to publish under a CC license (yes, the book will be under it, too). And our close friends at Wired wrote that we were promising summertime laughs with this dead tree edition of xkcd.

Robot 6 at Comic Book Resources included a link to the article in a roundup -- we'll see you all at Comic-Ccon, I'm sure.

The breadpig never expected to grace Gawker's frontpage, but there it is. What was Gawker's response to their first breadpig encounter?

"Randall Munroe, creator of the awesome (and popular) Web comic xkcd, skipped past the overtures of large publishers when it came time to publish his work on paper. Instead he's working with "breadpig." WTF?"

Hug.