Wednesday, August 04, 2004 Hey, nerds, free comics! From Neil Gaiman: Dave Sim has made an extremely generous offer to readers of this journal (and indeed, to readers not of this journal, but just people who simply hear about his offer elsewhere on the Internet. Memes propagate, after all), which is the kind of offer that I found as interesting as he did. It's this: If you'd like to read one of the Sandman parody issues of Cerebus, Dave will send you one. He'll send it to you very happily, free of charge. He will sign it for you, too. And he won't charge you a thing. Not even postage. And if you're wondering what the catch is, it's this: Dave wants to know (as, I have to admit, do I) how many of the people out there in internet-land will actually go and do things that don't involve passively clicking on a link and going somewhere interesting. So what you have to do is write Dave a letter (not an e-mail. Dave doesn't have e-mail) telling him that you read that he'll send you a signed Cerebus, and telling him why you'd like him to send you a copy. It's as easy as that. And, quite possibly as difficult. The address to write to is: Aardvark Vanaheim, Inc P.O. Box 1674 Station C Kitchener, Ontario, Canada N2G 4R2 Here is the text of the letter I'm sending: Dear Dave Sim, I would like very much to receive a signed copy of the Sandman parody issue of Cerebus. Because this is a very generous offer, I include below a sketch of an armadillo as some vague form of repayment. It isn’t an aardvark. But aardvarks are even harder to draw than armadillos. I hope the internet people’s laziness means you do not get too many of these requests. It would be nice to be special. Sincerely yours, Liz Miller I can't scan in the picture of the armadillo here. But I assure you that it is very cute indeed. | permalink blog • archives • photos • about • contact This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. All content © 2004.