to Malki's Patreon subscribers. The Making of Wondermark The Making of Wondermark is a facetious behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the comic strip. It satirizes the committee-rules process that creates many newspaper comic strips as well as other elements of popular culture (such as movie trailers, which Malki used to edit as his full-time job). It also presents a humorously exaggerated view of the time, effort, and number of personnel necessary to produce the comic strip. Ask Gax In this blog series, the Wondermark character Gax, an alien being who hates humans, answers advice questions sent in by actual Wondermark readers. Roll-a-Sketch At comic conventions, Malki creates sketches at his table using a dice-based random phrase generator. Photos of some of the sketches are posted on the Wondermark blog after each show. Me vs. Comic-Con: Who's Better? In July 2007, Malki brought a video camera to the San Diego Comic-Con and asked his fellow comics creators, "Who's better, me or Comic-Con?" The result was a 16-minute documentary film that explores the question in depth. Books Comics The first Wondermark strip collection, entitled The Annotated Wondermark, was first printed in December 2004. It contains Wondermark episodes 1–100 and also includes many pages of ancillary material, such as rejected concept pieces and reader-participation features. The book has since been revised twice. The second edition added an introduction by Dave Sim, while the third edition featured remastered artwork and an introduction by Ryan North. In 2008, 2009, and 2010, three Wondermark hardcover collections were published by Dark Horse Comics: Beards of Our Forefathers, Clever Tricks to Stave Off Death, and Dapper Caps & Pedal-Copters. Each book contained around 100 comic strips, plus several pages of new material written just for the book, as well as reprints of graphic-novel-style Wondermark stories that did not appear on the Wondermark site. In September 2012, TopatoCo published the hardcover collection Emperor of the Food Chain, featuring the joyously mythical creature the piranhamoose. Malki has also collected the animal-themed comic strips into a small "Pocketbook" volume entitled Classy Lady Like You Will Love the Smell of My Butt. Prose There is also a trilogy of prose books entitled Dispatches from Wondermark Manor (513 pages in total). They were released over three years between 2007 and 2009. The books collect chapters of short fiction originally published by Malki in his twice-weekly Wondermark email newsletter, from which an overall