Breadpig Blog: Purveyor & Publisher of All Things Geek — Announcements

Thank you! I'm not sure if this would rank xkcd: volume 0 on the New York Times bestseller list, but we're certainly pleased with your response to the book. Our events in New York, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley were all packed with eager xkcd fans and we hope you had as much fun at them as we did. Photos to come. We're still getting final numbers on how much money we've raised for Room to Read to build our xkcd school is Laos; in the meantime, here's a photo of the first signing Randall ever did for a robot....

When the book was first announced in the New York Times, the very first bookstore to email us to stock xkcd: volume 0 was Borderlands Books, a San Francisco geek institution. Not only were we thrilled to have our book on their shelves, we could hand-deliver the first batch -- they're only a few blocks away from breadpig HQ. The cats were feeling frisky when we dropped off their shipment and it seemed fit to mark the occasion with a few snapshots. If you're ever in the Mission neighborhood of SF, there's no shortage of independent bookstores, but there's only...

It's out! xkcd: volume 0 is available for $18. We came in $1 under our target price. There's also an option to get your copy with an autograph from Randy (ideal if you can't make our initial fundraiser book tour). [Sorry for not making it more clear in this entry, but it was a limited time offer. It was so popular, though, that we're thinking of doing it again near year's end.] And yes, as you may have heard, all of breadpig's profits are going toward Room to Read. Our aim is to have enough money raised by the end...

Can't make it on the tour? Grab the book here, get a bunch of friends together, and roleplay. Dates of the xkcd book tour: Sept 19th @ 18:30 - New York (R2R event) [waitlist online] Sept 21st @ 18:00 (VIP), 19:00 for all - San Francisco (EFF event) [get tickets] Sept 22nd @ 19:00 - Silicon Valley (R2R) [get tickets] We're looking at a mid-September release date for xkcd: volume 0. Now that it's in the hands of the printers, we thought it was time to announce the xkcd book tour, a series of stops where you'll not only get...

The auction got another bump from ScienceCommons before bidding ended this afternoon at $455. I trust they'll enjoy the ROFLDNA. This is breadpig's second ROFL-success (last year's ROFLaptop contest ended at $521 raised for OLPC) but this one-of-a-kind-DNA-artwork was the idea of Erik Martin, reddit community manager, troublemaker, and member of the breadpig honor guard. And the folks at DNA11 were all-stars for accommodating our rather unorthodox request -- delivering a gorgeous final product. Also, we couldn't have done it without the great folks of ROFLCON and of course, our fabulous DNA-donating Internet celebrities: A.J. "HatPerson" Mazur of Lil' Jon-Lazy...