Good Ol’ Frad Chick’n

Pre-Order

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, children of… well not all ages, that’s not really appropriate, what, with all the swearing and knives and booze going on around here but, look, I’ve got an announcement.  First, I would just like to say that I hope you enjoyed the April Fool’s recipe.  Judging from the reactions I think it ended up seeming a little more plausible than I intended, but that’s fine.  I assure you nothing about the style of the strip is actually changing.  Secondly, and this is definitely NOT a joke (amazingly)…

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THE BOOK IS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER ON:

AMAZON

INDIEBOUND

BOOKS A MILLION

BARNES AND NOBLE

POWELLS

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It is 192 pages of reasonably priced comic-recipe goodness.  There are 35 recipes total, the majority of which are completely new and will not be available on this here web space.  And not only that, but you also save a healthy chunk of change (at certain places) by picking it up early.  So now if you want to throw your wallet at the screen, something will actually happen. That’s a thing. (At least I’m pretty sure these places accept wallets…)  Anyway it is still a little ways out from being released, but seeing as how you’re a good and smart person that thinks just a little under 6 months ahead, I trust that deep down in your heart of hearts you know what must be done.

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-Tyler

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Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

Potato Time

Hello 2013

The Store Update

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Hey so, remember that time I asked who would be interested in shirts and/or aprons?

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Well, if you’ll direct your attention to the navigation bar you’ll notice that I now have a store. It’s been a long time coming, I know. I said it would be happening over the summer, but a lot of things ended up taking precedence. But it’s up now! And within said store the first round of t-shirts and aprons (one t-shirt design and one apron design) is all printed up and ready to go. They both feature the design to left. I really hope you guys like it.

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You should know up front that this first run is very limited. I don’t have much money up front to throw at the production right now and that means limited quantities. I’m hoping that once the current stock sells I can turn around and invest in more apparel and eventually build up a supply that is in balance with demand. Heck, this limited quantity may already be in balance with demand. Or there may not be demand at all or I might sell out in a day. I just have no way of knowing for sure until everything goes live.

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I had every intention of making this stuff available in time for Christmas, but the aprons took their time getting to the printer and there wasn’t much I could do. Sorry about that. I’m working on a few more shirt designs now and I may even be able to put out that Daft Punk one people have been asking for. I’m also going to look into completely custom designed aprons, but that’s probably a ways off. What else would you like to see in there? Besides a cookbook. That’s still got a little ways to go.

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Also. How have you guys felt about the advertising you’ve seen on the site so far? Has it been acceptable? Off-putting? I’ve been using it for a couple months and not much has come of it, so I’m curious to see what you think while I decide what to do.

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That’s about it. I hope you had a good Christmas and have a great New Years. Thanks for your patience with the recipes, a new one will be out really soon.

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-Tyler

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Peanut Butter and Banana Strike Again

Slow it down

A Cabbie’s Recipe

What have we here…

Sheesh

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Hey guys.

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I just wanted to acknowledge that there has been some turbulence in the up-time of the site as of late. Unfortunately this has been out of my hands and in my hosting provider’s. DreamHost (who I have used for years and years without trouble) decided to change up the server hardware that my site is hosted on without warning and this caused a couple of days of intermittent service a little while ago. Then after all that was finally said and done the mandatory auto-upgrade of WordPress that DreamHost does crippled my ability to edit the site for a day. Then the rollback/restore that fixed that ended up jacking up the site’s file structure so I had to shuffle some things around and reupload some images. I wanted to apologize for the shoddiness and assure you that I’m working on moving towards a more stable system. Thanks for your patience guys. There are new recipes in the works and another exciting development brewing that I’ll be able to tell you about shortly. Stay tuned.
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-Tyler
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A Dip of Legends

Wherein Shit Gets Real

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After highschool I planned to go to art school, but I ended up in the Navy.  After the Navy I planned to go to school again, but I ended up traveling the world on my own for a bit.  When I came back I planned to save up some money and travel even more, but I ended up going to school.  I planned on transferring and then I made a silly comic about chili and put it on the internet.  If there’s one thing about my life that I can always count on, it is that I never end up where I plan.  And really, that’s been the very best part about it.  I can never know what’s going to happen next. And what follows here is probably one of the craziest detours I’m like to take.

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Yep.  Today’s the day, folks.  I’ve known for a little more than a week, but now I finally get to tell you.

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It is my sincerest pleasure to announce that Perigee Books will be publishing the very first Cooking Comically cookbook in the Fall of next year.  That’s happening.  Officially.

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If you told me a year ago that I would be publishing a book I would’ve thought “Ok that’s weird, but vaguely plausible…”  But, if you told me it was going to be a cookbook, I would’ve assumed you were on some kind of hard drugs (as opposed to a time traveler who bounces around telling people random facts about their future).  But here we are.

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Thank you to everyone who has been reading and cooking and sharing.  It’s been amazing and I expect it will continue to be so.  The website will continue on as it has (with some eventual improvements) and in the background I will be working my hardest to produce a book that is worthy of the people that make this endeavor possible.  That’s you, by the way.  I know next fall is a long ways off, but designing, fabricating and distributing a book is an unavoidably long process.  I hope you’ll stick with me.

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-Tyler

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As we walk and make plans in the dark.

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Dem Layers

Maple Bacon

Yet another quick update

Hey guys, here’s a boring video of me tiredly explaining why there hasn’t been a recipe yet this month and how that’s not going to last much longer.

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-Tyler

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An update and thoughts on advertising

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Hey guys.  I just thought I would throw out a quick update for anyone who may have missed it on facebook/twitter.  The book proposal is officially done.  Not only that, but on Thursday this week it was sent out to various publishers and editors who will review it, discuss it, decide on it, etc.  In a few weeks time I should have something to report on the fate of a Cooking Comically Cookbook.  I know it’s something that a lot of people want and a publisher’s help would be welcome, but one way or another I’ll find a way to get it out to you.  As a small celebration, here are 2 concept covers that I did for the proposal.  One here.  The other here.  Wallpaper of the second one here.  Edit:  I should stress that these are in no way final designs.

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On another topic… I’ve now been approached by a number of advertising services and so far I’ve turned them all down.  It’s not that I’m against advertising–I do think it can be an effective business model– I just have some strong opinions on the subject.  I want more control over what is displayed on the site than I think many people are willing to give me.  I demand the final say in who advertises, the size of the ad, the type of ad, and what the ad is for.  There will be no pop-ups (fucking obviously, this isn’t 1997), no commercial site takeovers, and no sound nor video in ads here.  When ads do come to this site I will insist upon them being simple, effective, tasteful and, as best as I can determine, relevant to the interests of my readers.  If you think you can provide that for me, then my email is in the about section, you have my ear.

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One last thing.  Who’s interested in shirts/aprons?

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You know you want it

RSS Feed = Sorted

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Hey guys, I just wanted to get the word out that the subscription link has been updated as I have moved the feed over to Feedburner.  Current subscribers shouldn’t need to change anything, but now Chrome users can also subscribe using any of the readers listed in the link or by downloading Google’s extension.  Sorry it took so long to get that sorted.  Your patience is ever appreciated.

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Also a new recipe is en route.  I’m about to change your breakfast forever.  Again.

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-Tyler

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A Sauce that’s Red

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Everything’s under control. Situation Normal.

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A few hours ago a reader (thank you Ryan) emailed me to let me know that Google has placed a “This site may be compromised” warning beneath the site’s name when it comes up in search results.  Turns out they were right.  I discovered that someone, unbeknownst to be, was able to slip three .php files into the site’s main directory a few days ago.  It looked to me like these files were supposed to add sketchy drug advertisements onto the frontpage.  Thankfully they didn’t work, but Google still picked up on them and flagged the site.  I’ve removed these files and changed passwords and all that jazz.  So that’s the end of Hack Attempt #1.  Everything’s back to the usual and I’ve submitted a revision request to Google to get them to remove the warning.  Hopefully that’ll go through in the next few days.

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So as you may have picked up on I know enough about HTML, CSS and WordPress to make a very basic site function, but it is not my forté.  So, I’m probably going to look into bringing an extra person on board temporarily (there’s no way I could afford an actual employee right now) to help me get the site up to the standards that it should be at.

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Anyway, sorry for the brief downtime today while I sorted that mess out.  New foods are coming soon.

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-Tyler

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Hungry? Why wait? Grab a Fajita.

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