DOKTOR SLEEPLESS: The Coupon

April 20th, 2007 | Work

Please print off, cut out, fill in and hand to your local comics store. DOKTOR SLEEPLESS #1 is released in July — exact shipping date will be given when I get it.

23 Responses to “DOKTOR SLEEPLESS: The Coupon”

  1. Wonderful, I can’t wait for my local comic purveyors sneers. And also possibly jeers. “suprise, suprise” they will say, as yours are the only funny books I buy.

  2. Beauty.

    I have obeyed.

    :)

    YAY!

  3. Don’t forget to check box #3.

  4. I’d like to see somebody try to pass this coupon in Blacksburg, VA. (USA) There’s probably a lack of humor around Virginia Tech right now.

  5. I will certainly OBEY when I make my weekly trip out to Dr. No’s.

    http://www.drnos.com/

  6. Great idea; my wife and I run a comic store in Washington State, and — though we’re already promoting the hell out of the good Doktor (and Crecy, and Black Summer, and…) — will happily use this to encourage our customers to check it out.

    Looking forward to the book!

    -E

  7. Mr. Trautmann,

    Where are you in WA? If in the Seattle environs I would be more than happy to convey the coupon to your fine emporium.

  8. That’s hilarious! I usually don’t buy comics by the issue, but the chance to deploy the coupon may change this.

  9. Hey, I run a comics store in Athens, OH, and we’ll give anyone who uses this coupon in store a little discount.

  10. Which store is that, then?

  11. Yes my good man, i will obey but i’m afraid that the shop owner will just shrug his shoulders since i live in Sweden ;)

  12. I shall do you nefarious bidding Mr. Ellis! I was waiting for the order codes anyway.

  13. Re: COMTE’s request

    I am not Eric.

    The comic store is Olympic Cards and Comics, located in Lacey.

  14. Sweden has a thriving comics scene. There must be import stores, as there are in Norway and Denmark.

  15. Universe of Superheroes
    19 W. Washington St.
    Athens, OH 45701

    Transmet is the shop’s official favorite comic, (i even got a tattoo of spider). So yeah, we’ll do what we can to promote this book over the next couple of months.

  16. In fact:
    Pocket the Bookstore
    Skomakareg. 9
    223 50 Lund
    http://www.pocketbookstore.com

    will be carrying DS.

  17. Oh my gawd…I was just in the process of coming up with something like this. My tagline is “Looking for something different? Try something ELLIS!” Okay…don’t all groan at once…but hokey works! My customers will get a kick out of this.

  18. Sadly, I can’t get see this undoubtedly glorious image. Is it hosted on some other site I need to run javascript for?

  19. My local comic shop sneered at me when I wandered in and tried to order Black Summer a week before it hit their previews book, and eventually told me to come back later. Somehow I don’t think they’ll be so receptive.

    But I’ll give it a shot when I wander in to attempt to collect my standing order on Monday.

  20. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/178/465289887_2f4ad28d40_o.gif

    It’s an inline image hosted on Flickr.

  21. I expect after reading the first issue “A terrible beauty is born” …

  22. My comic shop tries to stop the single issues and more and more onbly offers trade paperback. I’ll need this coupon !

  23. I work at a comic shop in Atlanta Ga and will definitly be handing this to my boss.

Miss Piggy?s Teaches of Peaches

Coilhouse - 20 Nov 09

Every time an issue of the magazine goes to print, things somehow turn Highly Inappropriate here at Coilhouse. This is apparent to anyone who was there on Twitter during the hours of our final revision deadline yesterday night. And it’s only going to get worse before Issue 04’s out. So to celebrate, a video of Miss Piggy singing “Fuck the Pain Away” by Peaches. It’s that kind of day.

[via Shannon]


Post tags: Madness, Music, Puppetry

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claytoncubitt:

Will Blanche, ?The Newly Constructed Towers of the World Trade Center Seen From the South Side on West Street, May, 1973? (via These Americans)

See also: Mitch Epstein, ?West Side Highway, New York City? [looking towards World Trade Center] 1977

Percy Jackson trailer

Kung Fu Monkey - 20 Nov 09

Seriously, if I were 12, this would have melted my brain. I love this trailer.

JOURNAL: How to Break and Open Source Insurgency

John Robb - 20 Nov 09

Short Answer:  divide it.

It's long been my contention that Iraq was stabilized at an acceptable level of controlled chaos due to a happy accident by al Qaeda (in an attempt to expand/lead the loose insurgency in a new direction).  What did they do?   They blew up the Golden Mosque in Samara in 2006.  This act of symbolic terrorism did indeed disrupt social networks as anticipated, however the consequences were ultimately disastrous for the Iraqi open source insurgency.  

Baghdad_Ethnic_2007_late_smThe reason for this is it broke the dynamics of the open source insurgency in ways the US and Iraqi government's COIN efforts could not.  First, it created a permanent split between Sunni and Shiite insurgent groups/militias.  Coopetition ended.  Second, it motivated large Shiite militias to start an ethnic cleansing of Sunni areas.  This put acute pressure on Sunni guerrilla groups who were too small (by design to avoid US counter-pressure) to defend themselves against large militias operating in the open.  The result was an opening, very close to the one I described in my 2005 NYTimes OpEd, that allowed the US to convert Sunni guerrilla groups into militias that were not loyal to the central government (in direct contradiction to its COIN manual).   

It's a nice example of the dynamics of many to many conflict, social network disruption, and the development open source counterinsurgency.

See this excellent description at the blog, "Musings on Iraq" for more detail on the ethnic cleansing operations.  It also includes this money quote: "the majority of the Sunni insurgency gave up and switched sides to align with the Americans rather than face annihilation at the hands of the Shiite militias, Al Qaeda in Iraq, or the United States."

NOTE:  it's pretty clear from the above that social network disruption (either through attacks on symbolic targets or blood and guts terrorism) is like playing horseshoes with live hand grenades.  It's ultimately a losing strategy for advancing an open source insurgency.  Social network disruption is very likely to break standing order 6:  don't fork the insurgency.

Twitter Updates for 2009-11-20

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John Robb - 20 Nov 09

Some random items of interest:

  • Vigilante militias in Rio are displacing the drug gangs -- favelas under the control of militias has grown from 108 in 2005 to 400 in 2008 (out of 965).  Why?  They have a better (albeit parasitic) conflict/business model than the drug gangs since they act as a substitute for missing public goods/services normally supplied by the government.  First, they provide a minimal level of security and conflict adjudication.  Second, they make more money than the drug gangs by "taxing" everything from propane to cable TV to the gray market.  
  • US gray economy estimated at $1 Trillion (not including criminal, outside of the evasion of taxes and regulation, activities) and growing faster than the "legal" economy.  
  • Proposal and wiki for an open source fabrication lab.
  • Somali pirates are expanding operations into the Indian ocean.  The combination of positive feedback loops (maritime insurance + rapid payoffs by crisis negotiators) and legal ambiguity (the biggest fear of a western navy and governments is that they might arrest a pirate -- prompting a massive/expensive legal tussle with few certain penalties and the forced extension of a visa to the former pirate once he is released from his short incarceration).  Is a franchise model for other locales possible?
  • Yes-we-can-secede
  • A business group in Ciudad Juarez asks for UN peacekeepers.  Hilarious. "Ciudad Juarez, population 1.5 million, has an average of seven homicides a day, with the total at 1,986 for this year through mid-October."
  • Seccession.net.  County based secession effort.  

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Beautiful (and simple) site design featuring the illustrative work of Yorifuji Bunpei. Via Paul Baron.

Kodai

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Coming up at the Kakitsubata gallery in Nakameguro is the show “Kodai,” running from November 25 until December 6.

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