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

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.

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...

About a year ago, we asked you, our faithful Breadpig legion, to decide where we should donate $53,000 of profits from the XKCD book sales. We're now proud to show you where your money has gone: into a cheerful new preschool in Sri Lanka and an awesome new library in Nepal!

First, an update from Sri Lanka! Here are some pictures from the construction site of the Tharumal Singhithi Preschool that is being partially paid for with money from sales of XKCD, Volume 0. One day soon, this building will look like this and be full of happy children! Construction begins despite the rain Lots of progress! Next, the continuation of the (now very delayed) travel log! Of the four countries I was visiting, Sri Lanka had the highest literacy rate at 90.8*. According to my guide Chandima, Sri Lanka had a proud tradition of literacy that was visible just 20...

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