Hey you! It has been a busy month and that is why I have not been vlogging much and oh
my goodness lets talk about it. It's been awesome crazy wild. Urgh UURGH URGHH!!
So, this is gonna be the last time I talk about Art Is Dead the asdf book because I
just finished the book tour because I went on a book tour and we are just about to have
the rap party and I wanna announce some competition winners and just it was cool and I wanna share
that with you because it was awesome and i'm so grateful to everyone who came and just
made things good and fun.
So first of all lets talk about the book tour. It started a day before release in London
and it was so weird and quiet it just felt very wrong meeting people in a book store
because you gotta be quite loud and excited but it's a bookstore. What was really amazing
though was the only other time I stood in the spot standing was about 7 years prior
which was about a couple of weeks before asdfmovie 1 came out and then to be standing in the
same spot 7 years later signing a book. Arghh it was really amazing. So that was quite a
believe in your dreams kind of moment for me yeah that was nice. I also brought sweets
for everyone because I was late.
The day after the book launch was MCM Comic Con Vidfest the convention with far too many
names and as per usual it was incredible and it was great because we had Matt Ley there
the illustrator and he got to meet lots of people and it was lovely and I met so many
people and I can't really describe Comic Con because If you haven't been you should because
ha! What an experience.
After that Matt and I headed up to Cambridge our home town and that was lovely and everyone
was so excited to be there and my family showed up and took selfies and that threw me off
my game. Just a little bit. Thanks Grandma. I'm on instagran. And I also visited a spot
where a couple months prior I got drunk and fell off a car park and gave myself a scar.
And then the travelling really began. The next day I was up to Birmingham which was
actually a little disappointing there were not nearly enough hilarious Brummy accents.
Come on guys please try harder.
But then I was straight over to my university town of Lincoln... Go woop! *Cheer* And then
Chris Hainstock. And I did a talk there with Matt and that was very very strange but exciting
and they mostly laughed at the genocide jokes so... Lincoln!
That same evening Stephie and I, who works for the publishing company and was there to
kind of make sure everything happened and I didn't get drunk and lost, began our journey
over to Liverpool. Which again a little disappointing not nearly enough accents. Come on guys please.
My first cross country tour.
But then we headed over to Manchester and I had a really really great experience meeting
someone I wanted to meet for a very long time. One of you peoples behind the camera called
Sophie and it was very nice. Ahhh! It was good. Feels! Feels!
And then finally the next morning we jumped on a train up to Glasgow and let me tell you
old Glaswegian who don't know who you are and don't understand why you are meeting people
in their bookstore they can give you some real dirty looks. Just... "WHO THE FUCK ARE
YOU!? WHO IS THAT?! GET OUT OF MY FUCKING STORE!!"
And that was the tour. Now so many of you gave me these lovely handmade gifts. Yknow
letters and just things that you've made and they were all wonderful, but unfortunately
I couldn't take them back on the plane with me to England. So, I had to get them shipped
here instead! Hello! A box! This box makes it look like there was more things than there
really were.
Speaking of shipping things before I open up that box we are cleaning the office at
the moment and we were dusting off a very old unopened box and inside we found a bit
of a mistake. 4 years ago in time for Christmas 2011 I sold a bunch of the original asdfbooks.
These little paperback things for about 5 pounds each and turns out about 20 of them
never got shipped... So... My option was to throw them away or what I actually did which
is now that I've sent them all off. And i'm sure that everyone who is going to receive
those either isn't a fan anymore or has moved... I'm sorry!
Moving on! Lets go through this box! Starting off really high brow... Thank you so much.
Why would I want this? Fantastic. This was given to me in revenge for my awkwardly shaped
book it's fair.
It's Steggy! Ouch! Hehe!
It's a muffin!
It's Crash Zoom! Hahaha! I love it. Tiny Mine Turtle.
I can't go through everything, but also all these letters and other things. It's all so
lovely thank you so much! Okay! Now lets talk about the book competition. If you have a
copy of the book you'll know that on the inside there was a blank page for you to draw your
own comic in and I said that the winner would get a Mine Turtle plushie. There were so many
people who sent them in and some of them were amazing, but I do have a favorite, but Matt
also has a favorite so what I've decided to do is that both favorites win Mine Turtles
because I can't pick.
Matt's personal favorite is this one by Anna Or Something. I'm not being rude that's actual;ly
her username and here is what it would look like if we actually illustrated it into the
book. Congratulations have a Mine Turtle!
And my personal favorite is this one by King Penguinator sure. And here is what this one
would look like if it were in the book and honestly i'd be very happy for this one to
go in the book because I think it is very much in keeping with the theme and the style
and the tone. I think it's good I think it's clever congratulations! We are gonna print
off both of these comics now and sign them and send them to you with your Mine Turtle
plushies. So thank you everyone for entering and i'm sorry for all the people who have
lost. I don't like being the bad guy but I just like these ones more I'M SORRY!
Alright, thats it! I'm done! I'm done talking about the book you can breath in a sigh of
relief we won't talk about it again at least until it comes out in America in which case
I will probably have to make a video then but still it's over. Now we are gonna go to
the wrap party which is kindly being hosted by YouTube at the YouTube Space there is a
bunch of you guys coming and I'm very much looking forward to it. I'm gonna go get very drunk. Just so drunk.
And so drunk he did get.
Thank you everyone. TomSka out!