We can hardly believe it, but the campaign closed at nearly $165,000– that’s 550% of the original goal!! Your donations to Facing Hunger are going to impact thousands of individuals and families in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio. That’s really, truly, wonderful, and we’re so, so glad that this donation is going to such a fundamentally important cause.



This project wouldn’t be possible without several thousand wonderful people, so here goes:



To our 6,000+ donors, and to everyone who applied, supported, promoted, and talked this project up online and in person; to the TAZ fan communities on reddit, facebook, tumblr, & twitter, and to everyone who shares their own thoughts and wonderful TAZ fanworks on all those platforms: thank you all so, so very much. This project couldn’t have happened without you, and it wouldn’t have been nearly as successful without how devoted you’ve all been to pushing it forward– thank you so, so much! You’re what makes this fandom amazing. You’re an amazing community, and we’re so happy to be a part of it.



To Daniel Solis for your excellent layout and design work, to Justin Gray for the fantastic campaign graphics, to Dani Barstad for your cover of Deja Vu in our campaign video, and to Stuart Wellington and Dan McCoy for your foreword drawings: thank you! It’s the details like yours that made this campaign (and will make this book!) stand out.

To the MaxFun network, for giving us the green light on this ambitious fan project, and for hosting so many fantastic, fun shows- thank you!

To the Generosity funding platform & staff, for running an amazing no-fee service that allowed us to maximize the amount of the donation to Facing Hunger and get the funds directly into their hands: thank you!



To the team at Facing Hunger, huge thanks for your tireless good work, patience, and logistical know-how! All of us are so, so glad and honored to be able to put this donation into the care of an organization that’s going to do so much good with it.

On that note, the campaign is over, but you can always donate to Facing Hunger through their website! You can also use Charity Navigator to learn more about similar food bank organizations and other charities in your own area and find out how you can contribute to those!



All of the artists featured in the book, for your generosity, patience, selfless devotion of time, and willingness to put up with our near-constant email barrage – thank you! Your work is this book!! We love it all to pieces, and we can’t wait to share it all with everyone who donated to this campaign. So thank you from the bottom of our hearts to all of you:



Alex Graudins - Alison Wilgus - Ani Mackie - Christina Dacanay - E Jackson - Feriowind - Glip - Hannah Holmes - Hanni Brosh - Jenny Calabro - Katie Tiedrich - Michael Rapa - Rosemary Travale - Ross Taylor - Sarah Winifred Searle - Taylor Fourt - Taylor C - Aatmaja Pandya - Abby Howard - Alex Gilbert - Aliza Layne - Amanda Scurti - Andy Hirsch - Autumn Haynes - Blue Delliquanti - Bridget Gibson - Brigitte Woltjen - Caitlin Scannell - Caleb Cleveland - Carey Pietsch - Ceri Giddens - Claire Hummel - Coleman Engle - E.K. Weaver - Evan Palmer - Gale Galligan - Hannah Fisher - Hannah Kennedy - Jay Jacques - Justin Gray - Kate Leth - Katy Farina - Kevin Budnik - Kevin Jay Stanton - Kiku Hughes - Leon Rozelaar - Liz Parlett - Mari Costa - Matt Cummings - Matt Hansen - Megan Brennan - Molly Ostertag - Morgan Shandro - Natalie Riess - Ned Hugar - Onsta - Rhys Bobo - Rian Sygh - S.M. Vidaurri - Sally Cantirino - Sam Beck - Sander Berg - Sara Goetter - Steven Sugar - T Zysk - Taylor Robin - Val Kung

And finally, to Griffin, Justin, Travis, and Clint McElroy: thank you for your gracious willingness to let us put together a book about your fictional world and all its fantastic inhabitants, for thinking of Facing Hunger and connecting us with that amazing organization, for your kindness, support, and promotion throughout this project despite impossibly busy schedules, and for making the kind, thoughtful, funny, and brilliant show that inspired it all.



Our next step is to complete book layout, which will be done by mid-October- then it’s off to the printers and prep for PDF distribution in November! (Even the vaguest thoughts about a hopeful Volume 2 are gonna have to wait until Volume 1 is for-real completely and totally finished!) We’ll keep you updated here and on twitter, so stay tuned for notes about fulfillment progress. We can’t wait to get these books into your hands!



Until then, one more time:



Thank you, thank you, thank you.



Love,

Megan & Carey

