👋🏼 I’m David Malki !, the author of the comic strip Wondermark.

🖋️ Since 2003, I’ve been taking woodcuts & engravings created by LONG-DEAD ARTISANS and reassembling them into contemporary comic strips, such as this:

✂️ In other words, I scan illustrations from Victorian-era books & magazines, then take them apart in Photoshop and turn them into comics! Here’s an example of HOW it gets done:

🗞️ You may have seen Wondermark comics in newspapers (such as the print edition of The Onion); or printed out and taped to your professor’s door; or – who am I kidding? – online. If you’ve seen it, you’ve probably seen it online.

This campaign is for a new hardcover collection of comic strips!

🏆 It will be the latest volume in a book series that has garnered reviews such as these:

📖 The new volume will collect Wondermark comics starting with #556, up through comic #1007. (304 pages total!)

📚 SO, if you have previous volumes of Wondermark in print, this book will pick up right where the last one (Emperor of the Food Chain) left off!

🏁 If you don’t have any Wondermark books yet, you’re in luck: this is a great place to start. This was a very good run of strips (IN MY OPINION), and contains some CLASSIC EPISODES as well as some of my absolute favorites:

🐘 NOTE: Since, with the book collections, I am progressing through the archive in order, I’m sorry to say that this book will contain no sea lions and no sick elephants. Those strips will have a home in future books! And if this campaign does well, it’s all the more likely that we’ll get to those books before too long.

🏭 PRINTING SCHEDULE: As of December 2019, the books are finished and off the press. They are presently in transit from the factory. Backers will be receiving them starting in January 2020. Check out our updates on Kickstarter for pictures and more details!

🎨 As I always like to do in my books, a generous number of the strips have been NEWLY COLORED, and are being shown in color here on this very webpage for the first time ever!

🎁 All my Wondermark books are chock-full of extra goodies you can’t find online, and this one will be no exception.

💎 In addition to the comic strips themselves, look forward to enjoying:

• A table of foods matched up with the appropriate atypical utensil to use
• A text transcript between a pair of naughty Cold War reënactors
• A list of impressive epitaphs for your own personal use
• And many more peculiar things!

🥇 Format-wise, this book will match my previous volumes: a cloth-bound hardcover, with gold foil stamping on the cover and spine.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but it will DEFINITELY MAKE YOUR OTHER BOOKS JEALOUS.

🌮 Right now, the plan is to make only a hardcover edition of the new book. I know some of the older books are only available (at present) in paperback, so a FULLY MATCHING SET is unfortunately not something science can achieve without seeking out used copies of the previous volumes (which, by the way, you are free to do on eBay or Alibris or Abebooks).

📘 At the base level, you can get the book, of course!

📌 You can also get the book paired with a FRIENDSHIP PACK of three enamel pins for $25 more:

✏️ You can also commission an ARTIST EDITION, which will come with an original hand-drawn illustration (by me) on an adhesive-backed bookplate. You can stick the bookplate into the book, or keep it separate as a frame-ready drawing!

📚 You can get various MEGA BUNDLES with copies of my PREVIOUS BOOKS, in case you need to round out your collection...

📦 Here’s a brief summary of each of my previous books, so you can decide if you want to add any of them on to your pledge!