Unshelved Webcomic

Unshelved is one of my favorite web comics. It's about the staff of the Mallville library and the daily shenanigans that they got into with their patrons. For the uninitiated, I would call it Dilbert for libraries, but it's so much more than that.

I had the great pleasure of meeting Unshelved artist Bill Barnes at the American Library Association Midwinter meeting this last January. I contacted him later via e-mail about Logorrhea, since the strip does a Sunday strip that is a book review. Bill said that Logorrhea sounded interesting and that he would love to see a copy. I sent off a copy of the book and a few issues of the zine.

I'm at my parent's house for Easter right now, and I thought I would check my e-mail since it'd been a few days. There were a bunch of sales in there and my web stats were soaring higher and higher. When I invesigated a litte, I found this quote on the Unshelved website about issue 13 of Electric Velocipede:

So it's to my great surprise that I tell you that I enjoyed every single story, of which there were many, and even one or two of the poems. This is high quality writing indeed. I know my standards haven't gone down, just the opposite, so editor John Klima must just be that good. In any case, if you like sci-fi, or "speculative fiction" in their parlance, it's well worth your time and money.

Hot damn. I have to say, to get such a great, genuine review from Unshelved makes me happy beyond words.

Thanks Bill!

Thanks Unshelved readers!

I'm out of town through tomorrow, but I'll get stuff out in the mail in the next day or two.