...
And there will be pictures on the pages. And words. And maybe the pages will be really aerodynamic or something. I haven't really decided what all of the hi-tech features are going to be yet. It's tough to choose.
Anyway, I've been wanting to tell you guys about this for a very, very long time, and now I finally can!
Touchstone (a division of Simon & Schuster) will tentatively release my book in Fall 2012, which sounds like it's a long time away, but really, it's only the gestation period of two slightly premature babies. And if you're a time-traveler, then it can be as soon as you want it to be. It can be now!
If you're not a time traveler, here are some helpful time-frame comparisons to make the book's publication date seem not as far away:
So really, it isn't actually that far away. And I'll keep updating here in the meantime.
The book will contain roughly 50% new material. The other 50% will be posts I've published on this site already, but some of the posts that did not previously contain illustrations will be illustrated. It will be basically just like my blog in book-form (illustrated short stories, guides, etc.), but it will have at least an attempt at an organizational structure, probably.
There isn't really an appropriately climactic way to end this announcement, so here's a picture of some shapes:
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«Oldest ‹Older 601 – 800 of 1176 Newer› Newest»That is awesome! We are so impressed! :)
HOW DO YOU GUYS KEEP FLOODING THIS!?
Also, YAY! BOOK!
I LOVE SHAPES!!!!
(sometimes? I could just hug you. But, you know, not in a creepy way....)
I'm SO EXCITED!!!!
Does it come with a free version? Oh yeah it does, this blog! Cool yeah I'll be checking it out for sure :D
Woohoo!!! Book! With pictures?! And SHAPES?!!
Full of win!
Also, I love your blog.
Could you add an comment to the end of your post to let us know if the publisher will be releasing the book online where it can be purchased and shipped overseas? (Places like Amazon.com but not necessarily them).
I'm sure I would not be the only one to appreciate having this knowledge. Thanks. :)
So, my boyfriend is Italian, and could probably grow a 14cm beard in 6 hours... if that happens, will the book come out? Or, do I also have to digest 400 pounds of meat?
Fricking awesome! If I don't get your book for my birthday 2012, then heads will roll. Or I'll just take my lazy ass out and buy it myself. Congrats! Hug yourself and do the happy dance one more time. :)
Problem. You could also accidentally time travel to the past and then the book would never come out. Those damn machines are so hard to control...
I'll try not to do that :D
I'm so proud of you! In that overbearing-mother-type way. Congratulations!
I know what I want for Christmas 2012 ^_^
Though I may just buy it when it comes out and hope that it destroys some of the soul crushing frustration that election years bring on poor defenseless political and social bloggers. *tears* Save me!
Are you including the Black album and New Power Soul? How about Kamasutra? 1-800-NEW-FUNK? There's a lot of Prince albums out there that people don't count as Prince albums...
WHOAH YAY! I'll be buying this for sure! And I will love it Alot! :)
YES!! WANT! NAO! Must... develop... time machine... *.*
In lieu of that, I'm totally doing the potato thing.
It's funny you mention peaches.. on my last project at work, we made bets on whether we would go live before the cup of peaches expired. We didn't. Here's hoping your book fares better!
I would buy an entire encyclopedia of stories about the Simple Dog, so as long as you include those I'm sold :)
Best news EVARRRR!
Oh, sweet! I'd totally buy that book. Trying to explain you and your blog would be so much simpler with something in physical form.
Plus, I love books.
*_* Albuquerque. It amazes me how much my wonderful city, despite the fact that 40% of the US seems to think it isn't part of their country, will find its way into things. I better get started driving to Disney World.
Allie, you crack me up. I gotta get started on listening to the entire discography of Prince...
I cannot wait to buy and then read your book! :D
This is an automatic win in my mind!! I can't wait, Ali!!
Yep. This will be on the To Buy list. I'm excited. Tempted to try the potato rot trick to pass the time.
So completely awesome Allie!
This is a serious win... WAY better than winning the alphabet game while driving!
Potatoes!!! I'm on it.
CONGRATULATIONS!!! This is totally exciting. I cannot wait until you are a book.
Thank you for the shapes..i needed that
I"M SO EXCITED! It shall be like my bible
I'm beyond excited!! :0
THIS IS ABSO-FREAKING-LUTELY FANTASTIC!!!!
I am soooooooooooooooooo happy for you!!! I am a recent fan of the blog, but I have sent it to nearly everyone I know. Ali Brosh is COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!
I'd preorder this right now if I could... :)
hmmm... perhaps you could make a post for the blog called
'how to pass the time with 400 pounds of meat'
to keep us entertained in the mea(n)time!
YAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY!!!!! :)
I'll take three. Three for me. And then when you come to town, you can autograph them all! :D
Oh and then I'll have to buy copies for all my friends and relatives too...Christmas is solved! :) So, really, I'm going to be buying like 15 copies here.
I also want more Spagatta Nadle! :) And Simple Dog.
Love you Allie! You are the best!
...and I shall measure my time in potatoes until then...
I've actually driven from Albuquerque, NM to Disney World, so that's totally a meaningful comparison. However, does it count the 6 hours of sleep we got in Houston?
I will soooo buy your book. MAKE IT FASTER!!!!
AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! I WANNA PRE-ORDER NOW!!!!!!!!!
I'm a time traveller and as such read your book just yesterday. I would have read it earlier but I had some nasty business with a few dinosaurs. You know how it is. Anyway, I thought your book was great. It did need a few more dinosaurs though. 4 chapters simply isn't enough.
Thanks
Andy
Congratulations! I can't wait to buy a copy and display it proudly on my bookshelf. Your book will have friends there! YAY!
I'm with Ducky on this one .......possibly the best news ever !
Yay I can't wait!! But alas I am going to have to lol.
Quick! Butters, bury me in the snow!
SQUEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!! High pitched noise of pure excitement!!!!! So excited, so excited, random noises of extreme excitement! So excited, so excited, happy, joy, jumping, gleeeeee!!!!!!
648 comments. I am never to be heard.
Yet, CONGRATS on the book
YOU CAN DOOO EEEEEETT.
Cheers!
I'll buy it!
In fact, I'll tell all my friends to buy it!
I say: "hooray! I can't wait for your book!" My son, who like me has some serious ADD, says "Wait, what's Neptune Coffee? I want to see Neptune Coffee."
Cool shapes. Cool book taking shape.
I am so stoked. I was going to say "I can't wait!" but yes, yes I can. You could potentially be a millionare. This is exciting.
THIS
I am going to BUY THE SHIT out of that book! And also, YAY, happy for you!
I promise I will buy the book, if it has that better pain scale on it.
Actually I will have to buy three.
Pft, Called it! Thats right- I knew. Either you were working on something big... or you were dead. And given the fact that you have managed to post once a month, it made me lean a little closer to the working on something big...
I didn't entirely throw out the idea of you actually being dead and a Zombie Allie- a 'Zomballie' if you will, had taken over in your place... It makes some sense... Zombies by nature(or complete lack of nature) are slow, so (un?)naturally, it would take Zomballie a month to write a post... Right?
You have 654 comments. WOW. I hope the rest of those comments make sense? And possibly congratulate you on this fine accomplishment. Cause obviously you didn't find that here... just some incoherent ramblings about zombies... awkward.
PS. Um.. did I really just write to you about zombies? Im...sorry...? Its late...
will there be alots? Please say there will be alots!
Complete and utter AWESOMENESS!!!!
(will it be G or PG-13 rated?)
Congrats Allie!
This is awesome, not only are you writing a book, but you've taught me that I'll only spend 3 years in jail for arson. I'll get to read your book while I'm in prison.
THANKS ALLIE~!
BEST NEWS EVER!! I'm soooo happy for you! (And sooooo happy for me!...*new* material?!!)
Congrats!
I will buy it :D
I am Australian and I will buy it.
People in Australia will read this in book form.
Woohoo!!
I died of happiness when I read this, was revived, and then my Zombie died of happiness when he read it!
yey!!! This is wonderful news :) Even if it does take a while, that is totally OK. Enjoy it. Don't let it stress you out too much. yey!
Wow. Pictures of shapes AND the news that your book will have margins!? How will I handle the excitement!?
Awesome! I'm going to buy it as soon as my beard reaches 14cm!
British potatoes and Australian peaches, if stewed & preserved together, will be edible at the exact time Allie's book is published. By the time Amazon sends it to Australia tho, the peaches and potatoes might be screwed - so I just won't eat until the book arrives in my Aussie postbox.
Yes. That's what I shall do.
I can NOT wait!!!!!!!!! eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!
this..makes me..so...HAPPPPPPPY -splode-
1.I am going to have to force myself to forget this news so I don't expire from unsatisfiable excitement so can you remind me again right before it happens?
2. That Christmas, assuming the Mayans were wrong, will be just like that year I discovered Heifer Intl and everyone 'got' goats, except instead of goats they will each get a copy of your book and a box of Depends (for when they wet themselves laughing). Yay, shopping already taken care of! (Assuming non-apocalypse of course)
Thanks!!
ok
Zamre Bin Ab. Wahab
I am really not the book reader, I readed like.. 3 books in my life, but I am going to buy this one, that's for sure! Do you think it is possible to buy your book in Czech Republic? I mean, somewhere in the shop? I doubt it :( .. but there is still amazon and other ways to buy it, right... but taxes and shipping costs.. >.< damn
So glad to read this! I hope you have a good time writing it. :)
SHAAAAPPPPES!!!
Book? Oh yeah, I remember those.
Yesss!!! I can't wait!!! I am so getting a copy!! I love your posts :D
I almost killed my husband with your post. I read out the ebola line while he was trying to eat his breakfast and he choked.
I will totally buy that book.
The excitement I'm feeling right now, is comparable to the amount of phlegm and snot which is exiting my flu ridden body. HUGE!!!!! This just made my lousy, sick day better. I'm going to go and get out potato 1 of 3, right now!
I can't wait! Hope it'll be available on Amazon too, for people living in Europe :)
Maybe you can print a special edition that has odd page numbers too. And then I can buy one of each! (for everyone that I know or have ever met/ever will meet!)
Awesome. Congrats and good luck with the book! :D
yeah!
I need this book. I guess I need to find a women to impregnate to keep track of when the book comes out.
BEST
NEWS
EVAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Well, of course, we, your fans, knew that it was only a matter of time :D
Congratulations, and well done indeed.
I will certainly buy your book, and I will tell all my friends to buy your book too. Though if it's as much as 288 pages long, some of them may not read it all, because they can't read books with more than 16 pages. I will read it all though, because I am a proper fan of yours.
I am writing a book too, but it won't be as good as yours because it won't have any pictures in it.
Linda.
Brilliant brilliant news, I can't wait :)
Yes! That's pretty fabdamnulous! :D If it wasn't nearly 2:30 in the morning I'd most likely be running through my house dancing and screaming/singing in completely incoherent babble-speak! Darn family and their sleeping habits!
Do we HAVE to do all those time-killing activities, or can we pick and choose? I only ask because I'm a woman and it will be difficult to grow a 14cm beard. I could probably attempt the premature babies, though.
This is so exciting! I usually wait until book prices go down before I buy them, but I'm definitely buying this one straight away! :D
Congratulations!! That is awesome. I can't wait to be able to buy your book!
I would buy that for a dollar. No, I would buy that for several dollars. HUNDIDS OF DALLAHS!!
Woahh, you're famous now. :>
How exciting! A must buy when it's released :D Also, it's really fun to watch you gain momentum. Every time you post a new blog entry, more and more people on my facebook feed re-link it! AND I found a cross stitch craft of one of your drawings today while on Pinterest! You're so awesome.
I'm getting me two copies - as it is likely that the first one will become unreadable after I have drenched it with various bodily fluids whilst laughing uncontrollably all over the show... REALLY looking forward to it - it's lucky I am an incredibly patient person!
My prayers have been answered. Roll on 2012!
YAYYYYYYYYYY! SHAPES!!!!!!!
AH! This if FABULOUS!!!!
Can NOT wait for this!!! :D :D :D So happy for you.
Hurrah! I've been keeping up with your blog posts and now I can buy the book! I feel rewarded. I cannot wait and I am going to do the potato experiment. You've got only 3 potatoes in time to finish your book!
wooo hooo i cant wait allie!!! you've made me laugh my ass off when i've been down - now i can have your book to do the same as terry pratchett!!
rock on allie!
YAY!!! omg im soooooooo excited!!!! I'm so happy!!! IM SCREAMING BLOOD!!!!!!
hi allie,
first of all, I have to say I love your blog since I first seen it (which was actually yesterday).
secondly, and you would probably not believe this (but most probably you would not even read this), I wanted to suggest you to write a book with all those perfect funny pictures you draw! I know, you can say I made it up, but I didn't and I needed to share it with you.
so I hope everything will work out well and I am already extremely impatient to see it and, of course buy it.
good luck girl!
can't wait
Does this potato thing apply to a genetically modified potatoes?
HUZZAH! Proof that sometimes talent *is* rewarded!
Congrats! That's great news! Huzzah!
This makes me very happy!
I will definitely buy it!
I couldn't help but notice you seem to favor sharp, pointy shapes....
Congratulations! Put me down for two advance copies!
The best news so far today! Although I will admit, once I realized my arm was broken, the bar wasn't terribly high. But great news!! Yay!!!
OH MY GOD *dies from joy* *starts writing wish list for 2012 which primarily consists of 400000000 BAJILLION copies*
Congratulations, Allie! One book leads to another, and then a tour, and then movie-of-the-week on Lifetime!
Woot!!
I am so putting this at the top of my 2012 Christmas list :D :D :D Yay, finally! I have wanted this for so long...now I only have to digest 400lbs of meat :D
YAY! What an awesomely happy-making post on my birthday! I WILL GET MY HANDS ON THIS BOOK AND NOTHING SHALL STOP ME!!!
This is amazing! I'm so happy for you! You totally deserve your own book and more!! Kisses :)
I AM SO EXCITED!!! ajghfjuosd;foudssdf
Hoooooray!
Here's another bit of "book" technology to consider: COVERS!!! You could put one on the front and one on the back. Maybe with pictures or words or both; you're the artist, you decide.
Meanwhile, I will totally grow a 14cm beard to pass the time!
Wait. I'm female. That might not work.
excited to find out whether there will be page numbers or not!!!!!
PS how will we comment on your book? UMM you need to fix that.
Does that Tae Bo calculation include the rewinding of the VHS?
Holy hell! That's exciting! I'm totally buying a copy. And not a used Amazon copy either. I'm going to buy a sparkly royalty earning copy. Yay!
CONGRATULATIONS.
Now. How do I pre-order?
*Stares at potato*
YEEEEEAAHHHHH GIT IT GURL.
I am most certainly buying your book when it comes out and braggin--er, showing it to all my friends!
<3 <3
Kudos, girl. Hope your advance was HUGE!
As a time traveler I feel it is my responsibility to inform you that I have gone to the future, and read your book while there. It was great, but there was a typo on page 57. Please correct it. Thanks. :)
OMG YESSSSSSSS
WOOP!! Yay!! I am SO SO SO SO SO looking forward to your book!! WOOHOO!!
omgomgomgomgomg! YAAAAAAAAAY! This made my whole week, seriously! Good for you and can't wait to read it!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! E!
I'm getting a potato right now!
Hey, super huge fan. i just wanted to say that if you are ever in southern cali, hit me up! you seriously have the best blog i have ever had the pleasure of reading, so it would be, like, amazing to meet you.
also, i am a rapper/producer, and i want to make you a theme song. if you have any ideas, email me at poly_pride_2010@yahoo.com
thanks
Yay for books! Er, book. Hoping for cake-scented scratch-n-sniff pages...
Woohoo! Hmm...I'm definitely going to ask for the book for the birthday of mine. Yep. Best gift ever.
Woot!
I kept wondering about the longer time between posts, but my partner said you were probably writing a book instead. She was right! Félicitations!
This will be one of those books I will buy for my friends and family. It will be a perfect coffee table book. Congrats Allie, your ROCK!
This is fantastic news. Definitely a great move -- I think the following/comments/interest your blog gets is already phenomenol (can't spell that word..) and most people don't even read blogs. In fact, I think about 53000 people read blogs, and 52269 of them follow you using Google.
So it's great that your art, your personality, your humour (English spelling of humour, I also spelt 'your' the English way, but you'd never know) are going to reach even more people.
You are the best there is at blogging/making people happy/being inspiring -- and I can't wait for it to reach book form!
Fantastic news.
I'm so excited! Will this also come out in eBook format? Please, pretty please? With sugar on top? :D
Finally! I've been waiting for you to get famous, and now I feel like it's happening!
First I was happy cause there was a new post. Now I'm super happy cause there's a book! Although I hope "fall 2012" will be early November at the latest, cause I want enough time to enjoy the book before the world ends in December.
Can't wait for the book, congrats!! Get it into e-book format asap. Lots of sales to be made there.
How exciting! Congratulations! Can't wait to read it.
Yay! I was hoping this would happen. Congratulations, Allie!
That's awesome! Congratulations! I'm the 747th person to say something here so I'm sure you're not even gonna really read this, but you deserve ten million book deals. Except that sounds like a lot of work on your part...
You rule Allie!
This is great news! I am brandnew to your blog and I am in love. I will probably spend a good part of the work day reading through your older stuff. Great work!
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This is my first post ever on your blog, even though I've been stalking you forever (since February). But I am going to really need my copy of your book signed, so I've decided to stop being a lurking stalker and become a trying-to-get-your-attention stalker so maybe you'll know who the h*ll I am when I beg you for your signature next year.
By the way, I get really, really angry when you don't post for a long time, and I go over to the Onion and I think about un-bookmarking your blog because the Onion knows how to make me laugh every single day whereas you only do it once in a while when you feel like it. But then I find out that you're making a book that I can put on a shelf and look at and sometimes make my friends read while I watch them to make sure they're laughing hard enough, and it makes everything okay again. And I don't un-bookmark your blog.
And by the way, I will make them look at your signature too so they can see that not only am I stalking you, but you like it. And then I will gloat.
This is awesome! Will there be booksignings
Exciting news! I'll be picking up a copy when it comes out! :D
Exciting news! I'll be picking up a copy when it comes out! :D
Exciting news! I'll be picking up a copy when it comes out! :D
Exciting news! I'll be picking up a copy when it comes out! :D
So excited for you, and MUST tell you that the shelf life of a can of peaches is more like 20 years. Promise. You don't even want to know how I know this....
really?? I will definently be getting one thats for sure! Hell I should get one for my mom too XD congrats on getting your own book :)
Oh my gosh, I'm so excited! I a) am really happy for you and b) can hardly wait (but I will, because I have no time machine). Congratulations!
YAAAY SHAPES! oh ya, and the book's pretty exciting too...
Congratulations!!
Mother of GOD this is mor exciting news then my pregnancy! YEAH!!!!
Deserved. Now decision-making begins! Glad you're looking at making money from this (how's the merch going?).
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Congratulations! The Boyfriend needs to start growing a beard so you can keep track of time. Think of the photo ops!
Wow - congrats! Maybe you wont have to clean all the things yourself.
Omg I want! :O I hope it'll be able to purchase from outside the states, or I will show the sadest face there can ever be. :C
Love you! from sweden <3
"Dude, what the hell kind of art is this? It looks like a lizard puking up Skittles."
WILL THEY DELIVER TO INDIA?!?!?!??!
I'm not surprised! I love your humor and have turned many people onto your blog. Congrats!!!!
I am very excited for you! <3
Deborah says:
Yeaeaeaeaeaeaeeaeaeaaah!!!!!!
About time.
I can't wait for your book to come out. I'm going to buy a copy for my mother, so she can understand ME better.
:)
you've made 3 new fans in 1 cubicle in Burbank, Ca!
are you a fan of Don Hertzfeldt's work? check him out if you haven't already.
congratulations on the book, Allie, don't succumb to the laws of diminishing returns...you are hilariously talented!
AWESOME!!! i am totally going to buy your book and love it times a million.
Exciting! I wish I had beard-growing abilities so I could keep track!
I'm curious if I'd be able to buy it in Czech Republic... in English of course.
I. AM. SO. GOING. TO. BUY. THAT. BOOK.
cans of peaches have an expiration date? Seriously? Does everyone know about this already? Why am I out of the loop AGAIN?
Can we pre-order? So they will know to increase the print run of the first edition! Yay! you so rock
ZOMG! Only 3 extremely premature babies' births away from total, physical-form hilarity. Can't wait!
that's amazing. congrats! :D. can't wait for the book to come out
KEWL!
Can't wait to preorder it!
I'm gonna go with listening to Prince...sexy Mutha F-ah!
Oh my gosh! Hyperbole and a Half BOOK. That is awesome news. I would love to buy a copy when it comes out. :D
Enormous congratulations!!!!!
I am so excited! :) It will be worth the wait!
Omgomgomgomg! D: It makes me a little (just a little) sad. It would have been an awesome gift to get for my wedding @ summer 2012 =( Oh well.. Can't wait! *waits*
Did I hear "50% new material"???
[Goes off to start crossing off days on a calander and to make a reservation at Cryogenics Inc.]
Holy Mary Mother of God! This is great news. I can't wait until fall of 2012! Congrats...really...this is awesome! (And I don't even know you. I can only imagine your real life family are friends are so excited that they are pooping rainbows)
I'll buy two copies: one for me and one for my Ebola virus.
yayyyYYYAAAAAYYYAYYAYAAAAAAAyyyyy! This makes me happy:D
Hey, congrats! I've been reading your blog since sometime last fall. The one about Texas (since that is from where I am) is still my favorite, but the ones about your dogs are excellent as well. Keep on being hilarious! :)
I WOULD LIKE TO REGISTER MY APPROVAL OF THIS IN ALL CAPS.
I am totally growing the beard. Actually, my beard is currently 10 cm long, so I'll be growing a 24-cm beard to document the book progress. Metal.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!! :D
now you can say that YOU'RE AN ADULT WRITING BOOKS when they ask.
but we all know the truth, and we couldn't be more happy for you <3
YAY!!!! SO HAPPY!
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
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GREAT!!!! I'm from Brazil and I really like your blog =D
I'll buy your book as soon as it's possible for me =DDD
Each time I read your posts in the past I would think to myself: this is not only hilarious but also really well written...she should write a book! And now you are. :D indeed.
I will buy copies for myself and many others.
YES!!!
Holy crap, after reading the Oatmeal's book I kept thinking "Allie should also have a book!" and now you are! I'm SO HAPPY!
And I'll definitely buy it!!! :D
Hurray! Let us know when we can pre-order, pleashe.
Dude.
DUDE.
Yay! cant wait!! love ur blog allie!! :D
You're just too adorable for words!! :D
Super excited for you, good job! I'm just wondering how will I be able to get a copy of your book from a generic Eastern-European country (yes, you have fans even in the a$$-hole of the world)... Please answer back,cheers
Congratulations! What wonderful news! It was pretty much inevitable :)
My potatoes start looking weird after only a week or two :c
I'm so excited! I hope that there will be many more dog stories in the book - those are my favorites!
Oh my god.
Oh. My. God.
I'm gonna get a starfish right now to keep track of the time.
CONGRATS!!!!!
are you planning on doing signed limited edition copies?
YAYYYY!!!! Couldn't think of a more deserving person, and I'm TOTES buying it the day it's released!
That is incredible!!! CONGRATS!!!!! I can't wait to see this book!!! Best of luck!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Woohoo!!! Congrats!!
YAY!!! This is the best news I've heard since unemployemnt decided to pay me after all for being unemployed!
Fall of my senior yeaaaar. <3 I'm buying this for my friends birthdays once it's out. All of them.
Maybe for Christmas too.
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