h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I hope the special incentive will pick up speed now. Very flattering, too.

Three drawings done so far, all to be found in this gallery. I'll add new ones there as they're requested and finished. http://public.fotki.com/Malabarista/hootoo-entry-challenge/

Ahem - seems I'm not subscribed to my RR.

You're very welcome, Mala. Your artwork is fantastic, and your attempt to convince some more people to write for the EG is great, too.

Let's hope you'll get some more requests for new entries.

Thanks!

When I illustrate one, I'm trying to post in the PR threads themselves, to advertise

Sounds like a plan.

Blob still not applied to my entry. They're not in 'coming up' either.

Same with the others I've drawn

That's different, the other entries haven't been picked and approved yet, but mine are pending.

Think I should go e-mail the Eds about it again?

Not on my behalf, no.

We'll see whether they materialise as they hit the FP

Yes, I guess we will.

The Eds did respond to my mail when I uploaded the blob, and they're aware of the Special Incentive thread, so it should be fine

Yes, the eds are great. I guess they've probably just been really busy, what with the meetings, the new FP features, and all those bug reports which keep them occupied. I only wondered whther they had got your email in the first place, as one of Rich's emails hadn't reached them.

The Artists have been unusually busy, too, so maybe it just got lost in the rest. If the blobs don't appear on the Entries when they get to the FP, I'll send a reminder.

Does this mean we'll have the promised new s soon?

I don't know. If I told you that I'd have to kill you.

>>The Artists have been unusually busy, too<< is a dead give away, Mala. Am I dead now?

Will they release the new smileys on hootoo's birthday?

I really don't know about the smileys. But both KB and I had time on our hands and have been doing blobs.

OK, I'll let you off.

We have too few artists for all the smileys, anyway. I hope to change that at some point.