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Emily Gordon writes:
It is with great pleasure that we announce the release of The Wavy Rule: 2009 Annual, the entire 2009 collection of cartoons by Pollux in one convenient paperback!
“The Wavy Rule” has been running every weekday on Emdashes since June 2008.
We are pleased to offer you the opportunity to get your own copy of the 2009 anthology signed and illustrated by Pollux and shipped right to your door. The 278-page anthology includes all the cartoons that ran in 2009. It’s a bargain for only $8.50 -in honor of the 85th Anniversary of The New Yorker.
To order, all you have to do is send payment for $8.50 online through PayPal. You may make a payment there to emdashes [at] gmail [dot] com.
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Dashes, some say, “are particularly useful in a sentence that is long and complex.” Emdashes—like an em dash itself—provides a thoughtful pause amid the hubbub.
Emdashes, founded in 2004, is written and drawn by Emily Gordon, Martin Schneider, Pollux, Jonathan Taylor, and Benjamin Chambers, as well as occasional guest contributors. All posts before October 2008 are by Emily Gordon.
The site was designed by House of Pretty with illustrations by Jesse R. Ewing.
Additional drawings are by Carolita Johnson and Pollux (author of our web comic, "The Wavy Rule"). The Emdashes pencil logo is by Jennifer Hadley, based on a 1943 Dorothy Gray ad.
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