Last Sunday, Breadpig threw a book launch party for Zach Weiner's Save Yourself, Mammal!, the first-ever English collection of SMBC comics. We filled Public Assembly with dinosaur toys and about 100 nerds. Zach did a marvelous Q&A, Alexis ran an auction of rare SMBC goodies, and when the dust settled we had generated >$5000 for supplying science and math classrooms in NYC through DonorsChoose.org! For you curious types, the breakdown of profits & costs is at the bottom of the post.
Breadpig would like to thank our friends at DonorsChoose.org (Katie, Zach, and Charles) for coming out and participating with such great senses of humor; Ben and the rest of the Public Assembly staff for graciously hosting us and accommodating all of our silliness; Jeff & Elissa for running all kinds of promo assistance; Matt for the, uh, progressive dinosaur interactive installation pieces; and, of course, the Weinersmiths, Zach and Kelly, for being the hardest-working couple in webcomics/parasite studies.
The full set of our photos is here; highlights are posted below. If you also have photos of the event, please tag them with "smbcsym" on Flickr!
Charles Best, Founder & CEO of DonorsChoose.org, addresses the crowd
Zach Walker of DonorsChoose.org takes advantage of his name's similarity to run a competing commission service.
The drink special for the night was the T-Rex on the Beach
Fans couldn't stop themselves from reading!
Zach fields questions from his fans
Zach and Alexis auctioning off an original SMBC shirt
Zach does signings
Zach takes (terrifying) pictures with fans
The Weinersmiths show off their dinotattoos
You just need a lot of signs to make a nerd party work
Ticket sales: +$3701.59
Commissions, cameos, and book sales: +$1484.78
Auction: +$491.69
5% of the bar (thanks, Public Assembly!): +$41
Venue, food, decorations: -$660
NET PROFIT: $5059.06 to DonorsChoose.org!
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Dang, a ginger AND a lefty? Sinister & hawt hawt hawt. Â
[…] Super cool writeup on the party by Christina. Thanks again to everyone who came out and helped out. It was truly an awesome evening. […]
now I wish went.
@quintushalls:disqus Maybe for the book 2 party, when we all know each other better. Besides, did you see those dinosaurs??