Tuesday, 17 June 2025

SDoAR 3.22: Two New Pages Unlocked & A New Raffle Begins!

1) Two pages unlocked since the last update!

2) I'm finally getting caught up on life and SDOAR items, so expect an announcement on the winner of the last raffle next week!

3) The new raffle will include all donations since the last raffle, meaning since May 29th. And I would like to propose a change to how we run raffles around here. I am proposing that a raffle ticket is generated for every $5 donation. So donate $25, that's five raffle tickets. Everyone cool with that? It means everyone who donates gets a shot at the prize.

4) Speaking of which, to make up for the lack of updates and progress of late, I'm going to up the ante on the raffle this time around.
Yup. That's a full-page Silverspoon strip from The Buyer's Guide for Comic Fandom #321, January 11, 1980!

Just the GoFundMe Facts, Ma'am

  • $18,410.00 raised to date from 319 donations
  • 116 pages released so far as mocked up and/or drawn by Dave Sim through 21 Jan 2022.
  • $190.00 away from unlocking page 117

The Strange Death of Alex Raymond New Mockups Preview 

If you haven't read The Strange Death of Alex Raymond before, we have an eight-page trailer that Dave did back in 2018: Part One | Part Two

Then the Dave Sim portion of the hardcover, presented four pages at a time:

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If you want to see how Carson Grubaugh finished the hardcover, well, you're going to need to purchase a copy of your own. HOWEVER, if you want to see how Dave Sim continued the story in the blue pages -- bring me the blue pages -- mockups that appeared in blue ink in final section of the hardcover can be found here...

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This, and this.

Then in June 2021, Dave picked up the story again and it continues herehereherehere, and here.

If you enjoy the journey, you can join us for all the new pages on Dropbox by donating $5 or more. 

Jen x 

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi all. I was one of those last 2 unlocked pages. I'm excited to try to delve into SDOAR this year. However, I noticed something in my SDOAR hardcover (I was a backer so I got one of the signed first prints and the california test market edition): so pages 59 through 74 are actually printed with the pages from 74-90, which are then printed again (catching up with the numbering). Is this just MY copy or is this a known defect? Thanks!

Jen said...

This is the first I've heard of it. You might want to reach out to Carson or Sean or through the Living the Line website.

Michael R. said...

Hi Anonymous!
If you look up Matt Dow's AMOC post for Monday, November 15, 2021, you find that there were misprint copies made of SDOAR HC.

Anonymous said...

Hi Michael R. - yes I was aware of the "missing blue ink pages" misprint, but my copy has all that fixed. The error in my copy is something I did not recall seeing anywhere before. Admittedly, I am not a regular follower of "anything Sim related," so I was reaching out here in case anyone had seen it as well. I guess not a lot of people want to admit they didn't fully read their HC SDOAR copy when they got it, LOL. But seriously, *I* fully admit I didn't - I spent so much time away from home between 2021 and 2023 I didn't read ANYTHING not work-related.