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User Friendly book from O'Reilly

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ain't-that-spiffy dept.

Geoff Romer writes "Illiad just announced a book deal for his User Friendly comic strip, and the publisher is none other than our good friends O'Reilly and Associates! Three cheers for both of them! Details are here. " Congrats to both of them. It would be awesome to do an animal cover of dust puppy ;)

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  1. That's great news! by Jerky+McNaughty · · Score: 2

    O'Reilly is an excellent publisher. Getting a book published by them means you've definitely doing something right!

  2. Congrats to Iliad, but ... by Yosemite+Sue · · Score: 2

    I probably won't be buying the book ...

    I do think it is great that the strip will be published by O'Reilly, but unless the comics are new, and not published on the web, I can't see why I would buy them. One of the things I really like about the online strip is that I can read them for free, and print out the ones I want to stick up in my cubicle ... It's not that I don't want to see Iliad getting some financial rewards for his work, it just isn't common sense for me to spend the $$.

    If they are _new_ comics, though, it is a different story!


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  3. It was tough enough before... by rebrane · · Score: 2
    ... to stay up-to-date with a useful, adaptable, free operating system without giving oneself over to the insipid world of the 'Linux community,' 'it's cool to be a geek,' 'Linux on every desktop,' 'Bill $ux...' and at the center of it all, the universal rallying point for this world that runs Linux because it's 'hip,' this pandering, ridiculous comic strip. O'Reilly was seemingly one of the last frontiers---no nonsense *NIX information, information without having to enter a world of Microsoft mockery, Quake in every geek's dreams, and hip references to sci-fi movies. I guess O'Reilly knows which way the tide has turned. But it's just depressing, you know.

    --neil
  4. New stuff? by dmorin · · Score: 3

    I'm definitely impressed by the book deal, and my congratulations go out to him. Does anybody know if there'll be new stuff in the book, though? I mean, haven't we all read through all of the archives? What fun would that be? I know that, in the old days when I would buy the Calvin & Hobbes books, the worst thing in the world to see was "Some strips previously published." Oh boy, I bought it once now I can buy it again :).

    I realize that this is the first print book for UF and there'll be zillions of people that haven't seen any of them yet, but to those of us who have read the archive, it is like reprinting previously released stuff.

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  5. Congrats to Illiad by telos · · Score: 2

    It is about time that the internet based comic strip got the recognition of a print deal. Illiad's work has a fresh humor about it that actually engages the sense of humor of informed people and the general populace.

    May he sell a hundred thousand copies in the first week. Now, where can I put my order in for one?


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  6. The press release by Ron+Harwood · · Score: 3

    You can read the full press release here.
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