Things We Saw Today: A New Book By Kate Beaton!!!!!

Drawn & Quarterly is publishing the follow-up to Kate Beaton’s wildly-successful Hark! A Vagrant! Step Aside, Pops even features our favorite sassy velocipedestrienne on the cover. (via LA Times)

• Our friend Alan Kistler is a New York Times Best Seller! His book, Doctor Who, a 50-year history of the series, cracked the top ten in nonfiction ebook sales. Way to go, Alan! (via NYT)
• Astronomers make the best acronyms for serious things ever, including SAURON and POOPSY. (via Space.com)

Delightful ladies with ukeleles Summer & Eve explain the birds and the bees—and are incredibly scientifically accurate. (via Neatorama)

• Fantastic illustrator Gemma Correll demonstrates the hazards of winter. So, so true. (via Laughing Squid)
• In France, Bartman comics are outselling Batman comics. (via UPROXX)

These temporary Firefly tattoos from Pop Geek will probably last longer than the series did. Ouch. (via Fashionably Geek)

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