Kickstarter Launch!

An SMBC "ad comic" promoting a Kickstarter. A yellow top banner addresses "Hey geeks!" and explains this is an ad for a Kickstarter offering a new collection of parenting comics and copies of a new kids' book with signed bookplates, inviting readers to check it out or click back for the regular update. The comic itself is a sequence of panels featuring a man with bright flame-like red hair and beard. Panel 1: he excitedly says that about 15 years ago he was talking with a friend about doing a compilation of parenting comics — "We make the baby jokes, then we get the cash! It's easy!" Panel 2: "He raised a good point" — the friend asks, "Shouldn't you, like, have kids before writing a book about parenting?" Panel 3: with a determined look, "And so a plan was hatched." Panel 4: he turns to a woman in glasses (his wife) and announces, "Wife! I need your help to make a book!" and she replies "Huh?" Panel 5, captioned "12 years later": the man, now older with gray in his hair, holds two small children and declares "Now for profit!" The joke is that he literally had children over 12 years just to qualify to write the parenting book. The final panel shows two book covers and promo text: "Parenting, an SMBC collection" and "Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home," available on Kickstarter during May 2026.