Sorry, guys. As it says above, work is looking particularly hectic this upcoming week, so instead of missing updates I’d rather just tell you all to come back next Monday. I’ll be here for you then.

In the meantime, I’ve made a lovely archive, both by subject and by date.

Just glad we survived Tuesday.

Have you ever had a cup of Chemex coffee? If you haven’t, you should. This beautiful and elegantly simple piece of technology and art produces a wonderful cup of coffee and is a go-to for many of the coffee afficianados I know (though I’m more of a french press man myself).

Here is an article all about the Chemex, and its inventor Dr. Peter Schlumbohm. Turns out it’s been around for 70 years, with the design largely unchanged. The thing has been in the freakin’ Museum Of Modern Art. Since you like my site I have a feeling you like 50’s advertising, elegant design, a story of invention, an interesting read, and above all coffee nerdery. This article has it all.

Read the whole thing here »

Good morning.

What’s your biggest life accomplishment?

More Shirts Soon

Keep your eyes peeled to the site because I’m going to be reordering a bunch of shirts that I am now out of over in the HilariAwesome.com store. If you want a women’s shirt in any size, I don’t keep them in stock but am happy to order them for you. Just email me at systemcomic at gmail dotcom with which one you would like and what size and we’ll take it from there.

It’s not often I can fit guns, knives, and coffee in the same comic.

If you like Jimmy the Murderdog (who doesn’t?), limited quantities of the Jimmy The Murderdog shirts are still available here.

Super Art Fight in LA! This coming weekend! Meltdown / Nerdmelt Comics! Be there! Tickets here!

Life. She is a mad bitch.

Thanks to Helen (who does awesome design) and Boum (Samantha? who does awesome comics) for the help translating this into french! Merci!

Btw if you like this one, be sure to check out the other existentialism and coffee posts using those big yellow buttons below.

UPDATE: Changed the name. I don’t want to be too close to the existential cat.

I guess I should put a psot here. Fine.

Like numbers 500, 400, 300, 200 and 100, another recap of what we’ve learned in the last 100 comics. I enjoy putting these together, but they do take quite a while. All the panels are from comics from the last 100 comics. Can you name where all of them are from?

Also, we have something else to celebrate! We also recently passed the four-year anniversary of the comic as well. 400 comics! That’s pretty good, right? That officially makes The System my longest-held job / relationship.

<I’ll insert more words about what it’s like to do 600 comics here soon.>

Anyway, if you want to help me celebrate, there’s a few things you can do:

• Share your favorite comics from the archive with friends.
• Comment on posts.
• Buy prints of any comics you like from HilariAwesome.com, our online store.
• Buy shirts from HilariAwesome.com, our online store.
• GET READY to give me more money, because I’m going to be launching a Kickstarter for The System Book 1 in a few weeks. As soon as the book is mostly built and I have a quote for the number of books, it’ll all come together. Stay tuned!