November 15th, 2009

Book Prototype

Now that I’ve been updating my Mad Science Comic online for over one and a half year, the next step seems pretty obvious; publishing a book. As I quickly found out, there was a lot more work involved in this than I imagined; from laying out the pages to finding a printer, when you’re doing something like this for the first time, everything is new and mistakes are easily made. So, I decided that before I was going to print a large number of books, I needed to do a test – a prototype, to see if I could achieve the quality I wanted to.

To make a long story short; yesterday the first print of this prototype arrived in the mail, and… it’s awesome. So, the decision to go ahead with making a proper book and making it available for you was an easy one; over the course of the next few months I’ll have amassed enough strips to fill the amount of pages I need, and hopefully somewhere in the beginning of next year you’ll be able to buy and own the first book collection of this comic.

3 comments to “Book Prototype”


  1. Ajonos:

    Heya, I just found this comic and tried to browse the archives, but I keep running across errors.

    I was completely unable to view the following pages:
    http://www.madsciencecomic.com/43/19-mind-trick
    http://www.madsciencecomic.com/72/41-company-slogan
    http://www.madsciencecomic.com/201/82-merry-atheistmas
    http://www.madsciencecomic.com/268/100-one-hundred
    and since the “next comic” button doesn’t show up on the bugged pages, the only way to move on to the next comic was to guess a url that would bring me to the next comic. (the archives button doesn’t seem to work either)

    I gave up trying to guess the next comic after /268/ after a number of failures… could you fix these problems please?

    PS sorry if this is the wrong place to comment, but I couldn’t find a general forum for this.


  2. oppie:

    Thanks Ajonos! :D I wasn’t aware of this problem, and I think that if you hadn’t pointed it out I might have missed it completely. I’ve been able to put a (possibly temporary) solution in place but I will take another look at what may have been causing this issue.

    My apologies to everyone who has experienced this error in the past, and another big thank you to Ajonos for notifying me of it. I hope this inconvenience won’t stop you from reading the rest of the archives. :)


  3. Paul Willen:

    Please, may I be your first customer?

    I would like to buy the first book which is printed and you have to sign it for me ;-) .

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