DarkSquidge! (Cutey Voice)
Hey you! So, it is very rare that I am actually genuinely excited for something and a man
just came in a few minutes ago and gave me an envelope and I have to make a video now
because oh my goodness.
Inside the envelope was this! It is my book! It is real! It is a real thing! And I am very
excited and very happy and I feel like i'm actually some kind of artist for once. ARGH!
I'll show you what's inside the book in just a moment, but first I should recap what the
book is and why there is a book. What is book? Erm.
So, because i'm a YouTuber naturally my management company, Flipside, and a book publishing company
called Little Brown Books were like Hey Tom, you should write a book because y'know everyone
needs to know what you have to say! You are a beacon of self-fulfilment and the word could benefit from you! (Laughs)
So, instead I was like Hey! I could just reboot the comic series that turned into asdfmovie
because jokes and comics. That's one thing that maybe, maybe I can actually offer the world is comedy jokes.
So, I took some of the old jokes from the original asdf comics and a bunch of jokes
from the asdfmovies and also wrote some new jokes and my artist friend Matt Ley-
What you have to do here is you have to get your fedora and squeeze it! Squeeze it until
the juice comes out like this. There we go that's nice.
-Drew the comics and that's pretty much how the book came to be. This is pretty much what
all of the sketches I drew for Matt look like. So, y'know. Mild improvement. Just a little.
But lets get back to the book! It is an awkward shape because I y'know hate your shelves.
It's a hard back because I think it's important that you can kill a man with literature and
also it's quiet thick. I was really worried it wouldn't be but it's like 120 pages and
it came together pretty well and i'm very proud of it. It's my little baby. This is how you treat babies right?
I don't want to give anything away, but let's take a quick look inside... Done!
It's about 120 pages long which makes up 100 comics and then a bunch of extra drawings
and jokes and words, whatever they are, but I wrote everything in this book. Everything
in it. Everything on it. And I'm just very proud of it. I'm actually proud of myself. And it's good! It's good!
It's coming out in about a month and a half on October 22nd and it's currently available
for preorder in the UK and Europe and Australia and hopefully US soon. There are links to
that in the description. I'm also gonna be doing a bit of a signing book tour thing with
BOOK SHOP, which I will tell you more about later because that makes sense. Obviously
I belong in bookshops as an author. Yep. I'm as surprised as you are.
I want to take a quick moment to thank Mike, one of my managers over at Flipside, and also
Hannah, my publicist and contact from Little Brown, who I believe also worked on Carries
book, because they kind of just kept up all together and held my hand as much as I needed
through the process and finally I need to thank Matt, but first I have to show him the
book. So, let's have some fun with that.
Goodies! Aww! Look at it! Aww it's so pretty! Look how shiny it is. It's real! It's real!
We did it! It's a real thing!
He washed his hair today. You make it sound like it's a rare occurrence. It is.
That's the sound bite. He washed his hair today? It's a special occasion. I'm getting
a book I have to wash my hair. That's how it works.
So, that is an update on the book. I am very consciously trying not to over hype it because
it is just a book, but it is my book! And I am very very proud of it and i'm very excited
and I wanted to share that with you very much and I really hope you like it when it comes out.
Please don't buy it for children. It is not for children.
Thank you very much for watching and I will see you next time. TomSka out!