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The cover for issue three! In which Rickets and Prester find out where Bill Watterson has been all these years, and why he hasn’t been writing more comics- He’s been the prisoner of Jim Davis, who has had him locked in a basement, forced to draw Garfield comics! Can Rickets and Prester rescue him?! 

This idea- that Jim Davis had imprisoned Bill Watterson and was forcing him to draw Garfield, in the style of Stephen King’s Misery- was the original idea that I had years ago that set off this whole storyline. It grew from a few strips into my statement about commercialism in art and my satire of the whole comics industry… It’s part of the reason I was doing the Douchebags of Comics cards. But it grew from a little thing into a graphic novel, and it’s taken me this long. When they find Watterson and he’s trapped by Davis, it’s supposed to be a surprise, but since we’re serializing this monthly I need to do solicitation blurbs for the later issues before people have even read issue one, and at some point I have to get around to telling people what the book actually is. And when I’ve told people the story, they’ve liked it and thought it was funny, so this stuff I haven’t been saying is the whole selling point of the thing… so here it is. 

Of course, there’s more to it than that and their adventure to rescue Watterson should be pretty entertaining for people to read!