Amazing chart-artist (chartist?) Jessica Hagy, who has previously done guest comics for The System, has come out with a new book with Workman Publishing called How To Be Interesting (In 10 Simple Steps). If you’ve ever read her blog This Is Indexed, this book is everything you love about her comic (“written as the coffee brews”) but with the time and thought given to give her thoughts time to mature into bigger ideas. There’s even a tumblr with some highlights (http://how2beinteresting.tumblr.com/) that you can follow to see some of the highlights.

No, I haven’t read the book yet, but I don’t have to in order to know it’s going to be good. Jessica is a very smart cookie, and you should buy her book because you’re gonna like it.

H2BI on Amazon »

This comic, co-written by my mom (Rossmom) in the comments of The System 626. You can see where I get “it” from.

And I’m just gonna leave this here…

Last night, as we were in our weekly Super Art Fight staff meeting, we struck gold. You see, for years Jamie Noguchi (also on wikipedia) has been giving the same advice to everyone. It’s the advice that helped me to start this comic, helped us to start Super Art Fight, and has generally helped a lot of people get things done. That advice, in it’s purest form, is this:

Fuckin’ do it.

So, armed with Adobe Illustrator and 5 minutes, I set out to do Jamie proud and created the Jamie Noguchi System (™). The outcry for a poster available was immediate, and who was I to say no? So, taking the JNS to heart, I submitted it to the HilariAwesome.com store. Now you too can get things done the Jamie Noguchi way.

I encourage all of you to stop what you’re doing now and start doing what you need to fucking do already. Then do it.*

“I wasn’t getting anything done. Now I am.”
—Ross from DC

“With the FUCKIN DO IT system, I’ve gained 30 pounds, incurred thousands of dollars of crippling debt, and my family refuses to look me in the eye, but I can finally say, without a doubt - I did it!“
 —Marty from Baltimore

“I used to just sit around thinking about if I should do it. I’d spend days thinking about it. It was damn near crippling. Then Jamie came along and gave me the strength I need. Thanks to the Jamie Noguchi System now I FUCKIN’ DO IT!”
—Brandon from Baltimore

“The Jamie Noguchi System™ helped me self publish my first print collection! thanks Hilariawesome!”
—Lee from Indianapolis 

“I met a girl once…”
—Greg from DC

Buy the poster here »

#fuckindoit

SEE ALSO: The System 554: The Laundry Cycle

Systemics, what’s your laundry cycle like?

Also, be sure to check out the other comics about charts and underwear. Because I know that’s a big thing with you, right?

SEE ALSO: Prevalence of Smart Phones / Pee on Toilet Seats in Men’s Rooms

This was my morning. I’m still recovering.

In addition to the famous “Moore’s Law” of computing, did you ever think about the other Moores? Alan Moore, Roger Moore, and Michael Moore have their own laws. Or rather, they do now.

If you like this one, check out my other reference to Moore’s Law, Rosscott’s Law and The Inverse Law of Computing.

Oh, and expect moore of these soon.

I was brainstorming with my friend Amy, and we came up with a bunch more:

• People either think what you do is awesome or scratch their head and walk away
• Nobody expects to pay for it
• Involves lots of berating
• Nobody gets the dress code
• You always have to beat the client into submission

Also, I had to look up the plural of “dominatrix”. There’s two theories, and honestly the math minor in me wanted to go with “dominatricies” but this is the more colloquial answer.

For future reference. Coming soon, the half-life of spoiler alerts.

Valentine’s Day. That’s a thing.

Happy Valentine’s day! I am doing nothing on the site to celebrate it, but I did something great to celebrate it last year. So go forget you maybe saw it and check it out all over again!

Come see me at Katsucon THIS WEEKEND!

I’ll have a table and be signing things / meeting people / selling wares at Katsucon all this weekend, and performing two (count ‘em, TWO) shows with Super Art Fight. The table will be in section GG 13-15 with Dern, Jamie, and Mikey, which should be fun. If you don’t want to buy a damn thing, stop by and mention you read the comic. I don’t mind, honestly. I’ll probably even give you something free, because I’m a nice guy like that.

As for the shows, on Friday night we are doing Super Art Fight: UNLEASHED which will be a complete shit-show of ridiculousness. Let’s put it this way, no pictures are allowed and it’s 21+ 18+! to get in. And considering what goes on at other shows, this will be… something. On Saturday, we’ll be performing in the Main Events area, with a big extravaganza of a thing! We have a super secret special guest that I’m really excited to meet. He won’t be at the Unleashed show, which is probably for the best.

If you like this comic…

Also check out these other chart-jokes here. Aaaaand if you like making fun of clients, here’s all those comics! If you’re a huge chart fan, you may want a print of this or any other comic on the site, and chances are you’d also really like this t-shirt:

Buy it from the store for only $20!