The story is this: Chris Muir's last fundraiser for Day by Day was outrageously successful, and it looked that the results of that would carry him through this year. Then he lost his day job, which is terrific in the sense that he'll be able to do more research for the characters, work on the story lines—perhaps even go back to Iraq—but has the obvious downside that he'll need to rely even more on reader contributions.

The current fundraiser will go on for a month.

The "silver lining" here is that for each level of support (yes: the levels are Jan, Zed, Sam, and Damon), you get special goodies such as old sketches of the characters, posters, and a deck of DBD playing cards. (These are downloadables, except at the Damon level, which is supposedly sold out. I think the goodies at that level are sent out on archival paper.)

Personally, I think Muir should find a printer for the playing cards, and offer 'em on an ongoing basis. T-shirts, too.

I'll be sending him some money as soon as my next invoices get paid (which might be too late for me to get playing cards), but the good I get out of syndicating his site for free compels me to kick some dough in, as soon as I, like, have it.

And, yes: I'll be doing my own fundraiser, which will probably also last a week, in the second half of September.

UPDATE: Hey, Chris! Why posters of Sam, and not Zed? I want a Zed poster . . . or maybe a Damon one.

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