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Today's comic is not too different from my typical morning.

The number of tonight's comic is a palindrome but that doesn't mean you're allowed to read it backwards.

Coffee lovers: Robot Juice shirts are officially in stock! All the pre-orders are on their way.

It's that lovey-dovey time of year again, my droogs.

Fun Fact: Pennies are no longer mostly copper, but my cat likes to fetch them.

Waking Up With the Diesel Sweeties is a tiny little free ebook for the iPad. It contains all my comics from last month with a few tweaks, formatted in iBooks Author. This version only works on the iPad. It's not in the iBookstore, so you'll need to download the file and sync it to your iPad.

Four easy ways to do that:

+ Click the book link below while using Mobile Safari on your iPad.
+ Download to your desktop machine and email it to yourself to open in iBooks.
+ Toss it in your Dropbox and open it in iBooks from there.
+ Add it to your iTunes library and sync the book to your iPad.

I've wanted to put a comic book on the iPad since they first came out, but wasn't super jazzed by the existing tools. Would you read more or find it easier to keep caught up if there were monthly editions available? (If this became a regular thing, of course there would also be PDF versions.)

As I home in on comic number three thousand, I've been doing a lot of looking back and thinking about allllll the material I've made in nearly twelve years. I've also been thinking about just how awesome it would be to get a full collection into your hands somehow— something searchable, sortable by character and with the major storylines plucked out for easy absorption. Now, I have no idea how I'm going to fund the hundreds of hours it would take to do all this … but we'll figure that out later.

Download Waking Up With the Diesel Sweeties here.

Don't have a Dropbox account yet? If you sign up, use rstevens3 at the gmail dot com as your referrer and I'll get extra space.

Today's comic is the spiritual sequel to this one. Bzz!

I shouldn't play favorites with characters, but I love Torpor. (DS #1138)

Things which are back in stock this week theater, starring: I Loaf Bread aprons

A Steaming Pile of Brownout

Firstly, hats off to everyone helping to prevent bills like SOPA by blacking out their sites for the strike today. Obviously, I didn't because you're reading this.

I try to do my best to exist outside of copyright bullshit and DRM mechanisms by putting out my comics freely and under a Creative Commons license. I don't feel comfortable blacking myself out for the day for this any more than I would impose my beliefs on people by taking Christmas or the 4th of July off. I come from the old school of comic strip cartoonists who would probably die if we took a day off before the series ended.

I hope you'll respect this decision, and if you're an American citizen you will use that position to complain to your member of Congress or the White House. Any creative industry that needs legal help to survive deserves to die. There's nothing a big media company can do which a small group of people can do just as well these days.

Macaroni and peanut butter is one of my favorite things to cook late at night. I've never done it in a crock pot, but I assume it would work.

You start with pasta suitable for mac and cheese, but add peanut butter, something buttery and curry powder. The whole mess becomes gooey, savory and warming. All the protein and comfort, none of the cheese. Either this is incredibly dumb and obvious or I am Earth's Greatest Culinary Genius.

Have you ever made this? Do you want to? I started a thread on the Google+.

Windows to the sole.

My computing arm is extremely ouchy today, so I'll be taking the birthday sale down tomorrow morning. You get a little extra time!

Prepare yourself. Nipples may stick around for a day or two because he is my favorite.

Here's a little advice about being an artist from the bear himself.

Happy Monday! These two have a very long, convoluted relationship.

Based on a true story about running out of coffee and being very sad, except I don't have an espresso machine.

Fun Fact: It counts as recycling when you turn a bottle into a weapon.

Happy Time Sphere, Legionnaires

Men's M is already gone, but everything else is in stock. There are still a few left of his cousin Gigi Zeitgeist, too.

See you next year. We last saw Future Suzie way back in DS #2432 as part of a little story.

I still refuse to bow to arbitrary chronohegemony.

The first 20 people to use code "treatyourself" on checkout from my store will get 20% off orders or $20 or more. (anything, going anywhere)

I firmly believe in buying yourself presents after Christmas and hope to sneak out and do the same today. LET'S BOXING DAY!

Depending on how the holiday and my office move goes, I might run some rarely-seen-in-years Sunday comics next week. Not sure if I'm emotionally capable of taking a breather, so we'll see. Have a great weekend, whether you celebrate or not!

I put Suzie and Charles together in a panel and they wrote this one for me. Weird when that happens.

This is the most marginally literate comic I've ever done.

Never trust a smiler.

Christmas is ON.

Americans! Please shop by today and I'm on the case! (Priority and Express Mail is best.)

I feel almost guilty for being so caught up on Christmas shipping while other people are buried under. Sock packs are flying out the door and kitty butt totes are super-stocked! Time to go catch up on some portrait drawing!

I'm still shipping like a maniac if you need sexy super sock packs or t-shirts for the War on Christmas Shopping.

Howdy! We're getting down to the wire. I've got a few updates:

Kitty Butt tote bags are back in stock, as are Red Robot and Pixel Skull neckties. I don't have a ton of either, but they're ready to ship same-day.

A big load of Elitism Diagram shirts and Pixel Skull Ringers just came back in, too.

I'm extending the big Pixel Sock Multi-Packs until the end of December. People really seem to like them! Fill a bunch of stockings with stockings for one low price.

Also! I found a few Crush The Cook and Bacon is a Vegetable aprons while moving some stuff in the office. I thought they were all gone.

Lastly! Play Old Video Games shirts are $13 until they run out! I want to clear these out and make a new version in 2012.

I always come up with the title about a second before I upload. It never works if I plan ahead.

This might be the first one of my own comics in a long time that I don't actually identify with.

Because I hate sleeping and love making gifts easier: $12.99 Bacon is a Vegetable shirts for 12 hours. Starts now.

I can't believe it's already Christmas. My store is holding up really well this year... so far.

Email me if you have questions. I'm working on portraits as quickly as possible!

Porn star to young adult novelist is probably still an untread life path.

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I have one dozen handmade wooden pixel kittens by Chris Yates available today! They're really beautiful little pieces.

I'm putting six up now and six up in at 3:00pm my time in case they sell out too quickly for some time zones.

Kitty Alert! I have a small number of handmade wooden pixel kittens going on sale Friday. (today) I'll put half up at noon Eastern and the other half at 3:00PM.

I'll put a link here in my feed when they go up!