THE DAILY MONSTER

HEADS UP: NEW DAILY MONSTER® COMING TO SAN FRANCISCO & CHICAGO TOMORROW

Good evening! How are you? I just wanted to give you a quick advance warning: If you live in the San Francisco or Chicago areas (respectively or bi-housily) or have access to a nationally-stocked newsstand, please pick up a copy of the San Francisco Chronicle or the Chicago Tribune tomorrow -- Thursday, March 24th -- and look for a brand new Daily Monster® as part of McSweeney's THE GOODS, edited by my fellow 826LA TIme Traveler Mac Barnett. I'm really happy with the way it turned out, and I hope you'll get to see it in its natural pulpy habitat! Please let me know what you think! And remember, please, that 344 LOVES YOU

Look for the red corners:

 

DETOUR: ALPHABETS IN THE WORKS

Good morning. Just a quick Hello from me today. I have 12 days to finish my new book, make revisions, and send it to the printer for an August release. Among many other things the book will feature three new custom alphabets I'm furiously drawing up just for this. I thought you'd enjoy a look at the process. Take it as yet another sign that 344 LOVES YOU

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The initial pencil sketches:

Stage 2 -- The Inkening: