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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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