So during the madness of the book tour, some cool things happened online. Things I would have liked to geek out about in a proper fashion here on the blog if only I’d had the time.
Unfortunately, for the vast majority of that month, I was too busy to get a full night’s sleep, let alone write any sort of cohesive blog.
So, somewhat belatedly, here’s a few of the things I wish I could have mentioned then:
Real Life:
The lovely Greg Dean over at Real Life gave the book a week-long mention in the comic, where he had some fairly cogent (if geeky) musings on the similarity (heh) between sympathy and string theory, among other things.
Here’s the beginning of that cameo.
Goblins:
Back in the long-ago. Back in the beforetimes. One of my favorite webcomics helped me spread the word about the paperback release of The Name of the Wind.
When The Wise Man’s Fear came out, we collaborated on another comic where I got to make a few good old-fashioned D&D jokes.
Girl Genius:
I’ve been fairly open and honest about the amount of love I feel for Girl Genius. I wrote a rather effusively gushy blog about how much I loved Phil and Kaja’s stuff not too long ago.
So it’s not entirely surprising that when I stumbled onto a charity auction on ebay that contained some Girl Genius Swag, I was delighted. I hovered on ebay, and crushed all who dared oppose me in the bidding.
As a result, I was the proud recipient of:
1. Signed copies of all the Girl Genius books.
2. A personalized sketch that I’ve been looking for an excuse to show off for months now….
(Guess which piece of art was the first thing I’ve ever had professionally framed…)
3. The promise that my name would appear in a girl Genius comic at a time and a place of Phil’s choosing.
I was expecting that my name might appear on a street sign, as he’s done occasionally in the past. Or perhaps he might name a disease after me, or something.
Much to my delight, I actually appeared in a brief cameo….
If you aren’t reading these comics, you might want to consider giving them a lookie-loo, as they’re some of my personal favorites.
Later all,
pat
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:( link to Real Life has no link…
Fixed.
You totally missed a golden opportunity to tell Pat his blog has no link to Real Life. :D
(We love you, Pat!)
I am not the first. I am so not the first I feel it my duty to slink away and die of shame. But before that fateful moment I will require a serving of tapioca pudding. Or cheesecake. Yummy yummy cheesecake with some manner of fruit goodness on top. Fruity Oaty Bars are good too.
I wouldn’t rule out delicious candy, if I were you.
I want your case of Wonka Bars.
That’s awesome!!
I love finding more webcomics to read.
I was reading those webcomics the first day the book came out and I was trying to squeeze reading time into my day! And I was filled with delight! :)
Also, it made me really realize how awesome you are, Pat.
Diana
Congratulations – these are awesome comics. You clearly deserve it!
Wow the art in Girl Genius is really quite exceptional! I had no idea webcomics were of this class
AWESOME. And I can’t wait to see the photos picked for the contest.
The last panel of Real Life really should have been “Kvothe kills a king.”
“EVERYBODY dies.”
I can see you saying that to someone who asks :)
… and then they all rise as zombies. Not just zombies, but Zombies with Sympathy.
Wow, does that make them Sympathetic Zombies? thus leading to the straight line “How do you make a sympathetic zombie?”
It worked for Joan Frances Turner in “Dust.”
Hah I remember the Goblins comic – it’s that one that actually got me to start reading your books in the first place!
I have a Master Elodin in my university. This is my first year, and I guess I’ve never seen him walking barefoot because it’s cold, but now that summer’s coming I’m pretty sure he will do it. Could Master Elodin have a baby and teach her things about bees by the way? That would be such a coincidence xD
points for “lookie-loo”!
Who granted me the power to unload points on unexpected blogsmen?
I guess everyone knows about the Penny Arcade comic about WMF. But if anyone is interested in seeing a video how they created that comic:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/pa-the-series/222/
Thought this would fit in today´s blog´s topic.
Yeah. I was going to include it, but I already mentioned that in a previous blog…
This is completely off topic, but I just saw that Joss Whedon wrote the script for and is directing The Avengers. I thought you may like to know that.
Yes! Coming out May 2012.. will be epic
I don’t know if you were setting a trap for pedantic physicists, but the comic in Real Life talked about entanglement, not string theory. Quantum entanglement is in normal vanilla quantum mechanics.
I have one single question to ask: Are you thinking with Portals?
I think the best part of the Real Life comic might be that you are wearing a Blue Sun shirt at the end.
Pat Rothfuss, riding high on the ever rolling cavalcade of coolness ! Now to get a guest villain spot in the Dark Knights’ gallery of rogues, yes ? Lets face it, who wants to be a good guy ALL the time….
Congrats Pat, you rock the biggest one !!!
Ok .. this is totally unrelated, but I just had to comment.
I just opened up the June issue of Romantic Times … and you’re on page 15. Apparently, you are one of the “Eight Awesome Authors to Watch.” And, a reviewer says this about your books: “…And they’re just so poetic in places – the opening and closing chapters of each book are just gorgeous…”.
I was surprised to see you in Romantic Times (which I only look at because I’m a librarian, and they have reviews for SF/F books, which I select for our library) …. but it was pretty cool to see you mentioned (with a photo, too!). I’ll have to point this out to one of our patrons who is a rabid Rothfuss fan (he was at your signing in Oakbrook, IL …. and I’m sure you would remember him). :)
Did you hope we would forget about your previous appearance on Real Life Comics if you didn’t mention it? Never!
The Lockless box with no apparent openings…perhaps made from the wood of the Cthaeh… Congrats on the comic appearances!
Are Phil and Kaja the same artists who did a strip for “Dragon” magazine (an old D&D mag) years ago? The artwork seems very similar.
If so, they had one piece I love to this day in which they talked about how hard the D&D world would be in real life, toting around hundreds of gold pieces, wearing armor, walking miles and miles, etc.
Totally OT, but in the interest of Oot, must share a review of the coolest little book for tots, Press Here by Herve Tullet. Goes like this: I spotted this book on Sunday, bought it, gave it to my nephew Harry (age 22 months) on Memorial Day. His review:
“Ooooh.” [giggle] “squeal! squeal!” [blows on it, giggle] “Squeal! squeal!” [giggle, shakes all over] “Squeal!” [claps hands] “Squeal! Ooooh, oooooh! Squeal!” [giggle] “Again, yaah!”
His mom and I were asked to read it with him approximately 20 times in under 24 hours. The Book Auntie scored a home run. :D
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