December 21st, 2009: I received some amazing winter footers! I'll leave this up one more day and put up the winner tomorrow. Thanks every! And here's what I'm talking about (from Friday): Okay so it's WINTER and I've still got that fall footer at the bottom of the page. Just like what I did for fall, I'm having a winter footer contest. Send me your best 1000x96 (it can be a bit taller if you want) image that loops, and I'll pick the winner and put it up on the site! Also, if you send in a URL I'll link to your URL with your submission.

Here's the fall version and the fall background image I use for looping. When I say "loops" I mean that the left-hand side of the image is the same as the right-hand side of the image, so when they're tiled horizontally they go together nicely. The background image is just repetitive part of the larger image without much detail to it that I can use for tiling.

Send them in if you're interested, and thanks!

– Ryan

December 18th, 2009: Here are some dudes playing classic SNES games for charity this weekend! You can watch them play and you can donate if they defeat Andross. You don't have to wait until they defeat Andross though!

Okay so it's WINTER and I've still got that fall footer at the bottom of the page. Just like what I did for fall, I'm having a winter footer contest. Send me your best 1000x96 (it can be a bit taller if you want) image that loops, and I'll pick the winner and put it up on the site! Also, if you send in a URL I'll link to your URL with your submission.

Here's the fall version and the fall background image I use for looping. When I say "loops" I mean that the left-hand side of the image is the same as the right-hand side of the image, so when they're tiled horizontally they go together nicely. The background image is just repetitive part of the larger image without much detail to it that I can use for tiling.

Send them in if you're interested, and thanks!

– Ryan

December 17th, 2009: Thanks to Steven, an almost-lawyer who set me straight on the bear-punching clauses! The legality of spend-a-night-in-an-actually-haunted-house clauses remain an enigma.

The Child's Play charity auction for a T-Rex Squishable raised $241.51 for Child's Play. Nice work, you guys!

– Ryan

December 16th, 2009: ITEMS OF NOTE:

The Child's Play charity auction for a T-Rex Squishable is ending in just a few hours!

Dinosaur Comics stuff ordered today isn't guaranteed to make it in time for Christmas, unless you're shipping to the States and you choose USPS DOMESTIC EXPRESS shipping. You can still order to non-US addresses however, and some of it still might get there in time! CHRISTMAS IS A TIME OF MIRACLES. (NO PROMISES ON THE MIRACLES THOUGH)

The Project Wonderful ad to the right is currently showing this image which links here, and I've got to say that I find this entirely charming and I love all my readers, but ESPECIALLY the ones who do stuff like this.

I hope you enjoyed these three ITEMS OF NOTE.

– Ryan

December 15th, 2009: So um hey OCTOPODS ARE USING TOOLS NOW

Thanks to everyone who wrote in to warn me!! Only one emoticon can capture my feelings right now: >:|

– Ryan

December 14th, 2009: My talented street artist friend Posterchild came into possession of a Batman mask to disguise his identity during a recent talk he gave (which you can see here!). After the talk he thought it would be a great idea to make a series of photographs of all his friends wearing the mask and call it "Superfriends", so we all gathered at his place to watch Turtles Forever and then take Batman photos! The bad news was that Bruce's mask was too big for women, but the good news is that we got a Catwoman mask for them!

Check it out, you guys! They're SUCH GREAT PHOTOS. There's also some alternate photos that are also awesome. If you woke up this morning with the question "Holy crap, what would Ryan from Dinosaur Comics look if he dressed up as Batman?" floating in your head, now you know</a>.

also I want to link to Posterchild's subway-ad-covering Andross face because it is RAD

– Ryan