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SMBC & xkcd bundle! 3 great books at a fabulous price

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Together at last! Now you can have all three of our breadpig publications for one low price: $50. That's right, you can trade in one musty piece of green paper with Ulysses S. Grant on it for three of the greatest webcomic books ever made. That's way more, way funnier, paper. If you insist, you can still buy each of these individually: Save Yourself, Mammal! and The Most Dangerous Game. Or just the SMBC bundle.

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A Tale of Two Zachs

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Zach Weiner and Zach Anner team up for an evening of entertainment, 01/26/2012 in Austin, TX.

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3 Startup Lessons From XKCD & SMBC

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1. Be funny (useful) or die Webcomic artists can't delude themselves like we can about our latest tech innovation. Millions of dollars are invested in little more than ideas, whereas finding success as an artist comes down to making a comic people want to read. Simple as that. They're competing with every cute animal photo for attention. Take Perry Bible Fellowship, by Nicholas Gurewitch, who hardly spends any time hustling his comic, yet it's one of the most popular online. Don't waste time networking or fundraising when you could be building stuff people want.   2. Never forget who pays...

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ZOMG A NEW SMBC BOOK...and monocles?

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SMBC's newest book is out, as are our single-use Gentlemen's monocles!

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Veni Vidi Weiner: SMBC's Cambridge Tour

Posted by Christina Xu on

We've long known that Cambridge, MA was home to the largest number of SMBC fans, so it's no surprise that Zach got a hero's welcome this Monday on his one-day book tour through the geek capital of the world.

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