Hey all! I am 90% sure the RSS feed issue is fixed. As a way of confirming, here’s a treat. A ton of cool Twitter icons for you to use. Clearly I made a template and copy/pasted in a bunch, but that makes them no less cool. Use them, then tweet me at @Rosscott!

Oh, and also let me know if you weren’t seeing images and still aren’t/are now so I know the problem with RSS is in fact fixed.

There’s more Twitter icons here.

Not much to say about this one, except “See what I did there?”  I do recommend someone posts it to Reddit’s Comics feed (just not me). Laziness? Authenticity? You decide!

PREORDER SALE CONTINUES: The great new “My Body Is Just a (Coffee) Filter” shirt is still available cheaper for a few more days. Preorder the crap out of that thing, or at least post it to your site. I assume everyone has a website of some sort, yes? LINK »

COFFEE WINS SHIRTS CONTEST CONTINUES: There’s a few days left to send me any piece of coffee-related artwork in exchange for a chance to win above-mentioned shirt and other such things. You should do that! DETAILS HERE »

As for the RSS feed issue, still annoying for all. Still on the case. It seems to be bigger than just the RSS, and I’m working on it. I know it’s annoying, trust me. UPDATE: I made an edit that I believe fixes the issue. Can you guys confirm with a comment? Also, if you’re having other problems, let me know that too.

If you’re ever looking for something to do on the days when I don’t update, here are two comics worth checking out:

The Mighty Monkey-Men

My old friend Terry Biddle has been illustrating and drawing comics for a long time, but just recently posted his first online. The Mighty Monkey-Men, a 12-page story, has some really great art and a fun story. He says he’ll post more soon, so if you like it, post him a comment on his site and tell him you want more. I’m sure that’ll speed things along. LINK »

The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal

Back when I used to be much more of a LiveJournal user, I would follow the work of E.K. (aka BigBigTruck). She was a great artist who would post some music mixes every once in a while. She frequently posted sketches from a comic she assured everyone she was working on, a road trip story about two guys named TJ and Amal. Comics and music, I could get behind that. After a while I lost track, probably around when I stopped using LJ so much.

Flash forward to earlier this week, when I see that she’s bid on the Project Wonderful advertising space on this here website. I was thrilled and immediately went through all 10 chapters of the comic currently available on her site, and downloaded every music mix I could find therein. The story is still mounting but the artwork is great and she clearly has this all worked out in her head. She has, after all, been writing this story for something like 5 damn years. Go check it out, tell her Ross sent ya. LINK »

A followup to yesterday’s comic.

BUY A COOL SHIRT: Remember, the “My body is just a (coffee) filter” shirt is still in preorder sale. Preorder Now »

WIN A COOL SHIRT: And the Coffee Wins Shirts contest that kicked off yesterday is on like Donkey Kong! I’m hungry for entries! Seeing as how I’ve received 0 so far, as of now any 3 entries are garuanteed a win. So now might be a pretty good time to do so! Learn All About It »

Did you see Wednesday’s comic about latte art? Did it hit a little too close to home? Now’s your chance to win something for all that frivilous frothing time, that precious pulling, that precise pouring.

Here’s what you do:

1. Look at the awesome “My Body is Just a Filter” Coffee Shirt you can win.
2. Make some awesome art made with or about coffee (latte art, coffee grind sand art, coffee comics, whatever it takes.)
3. Send a cool picture of it to me (systemcomic at gmail, with the subject “I WANT COFFEE”) by June 11th.
4. Sit back and wait.

What’s at stake? The best one wins one of the new and awesome “My body is just a (coffee) filter” shirts (shown here):

2 runners-up will win 25% off any order from HilariAwesome.com, The System’s online store. Results will be announced on June 15th. I’m not letting the winners go as long as I did the last contest. No, we’re getting this shirt together! Some other details:

If you have already preordered this awesome shirt and win the contest, I’ll contact you and you can choose to get your money back for the one shirt, or just have 2 shirts (the one you paid for and the one you won). If you have already pre-ordered the shirt and are a runner-up in the contest, I’ll count that discount towards your already-placed order as best I can.

Don’t feel like you have to be a barista to qualify! You totally don’t! Any piece of art (photo, illustration, etc.) captured in an image will do! Need some inspiration? Check out all the coffee comics I’ve done over the last 2 years. I’m sure one will get you started.

Now go! Start arting! Spread the word! Other things!