Sweet little post over on the art blog powerhouse that is the BOOOOOOOM about our new sketchbook anthology GO FOR THE GOLD! 3. Because of how Jeff designed his BOOOOOOOM logo with the square formation, I was able to visually pick up quickly the correct amount of “O”s to add in every BOOOOOOOM I type. Two “O”s then three “O”s then two more. With FFFFound! on the other hand I’ve always found myself just mashing in a bunch of “F”s into the browser then punching the search button, even though now looking at it it should be easy to remember there are four “F”s. I believe that it was Jeff’s ridiculous amount of “O”s that forced me to really examine and count them in the first place.

If you are on the fence about buying the new Meathaus sketchbook anthology GO FOR THE GOLD! 3 for monetary reasons, maybe free shipping on one copy from lulu.com will push you off. According to their promotion:

Enter coupon code MAILSHIP1 at checkout and receive a discount equivalent to free shipping (up to $3.99 USD) on any single paperback book.

That is today only, Monday, December 7th. Also the book will ship from Lulu, not Meathaus, so you wont get the weird photocopied doodle zine or a sketch in the book, etc. But $3.99 off is yours to be had over there, today only.

Oh yes, here it is. We’re getting back to our roots with a new eye-searing design. The meathaus.com site has been a lot of different things over the last near-decade. We’re taking it back to a standard party-tray of blog, read, buy and about, with a new tasty option, hire.

Blog or MEATLOG is what you have come to know meathaus.com for for the last year or two, a daily source of cartooning, comics and art inspiration that you wont find simply regurgitated from other blogs out there. No, these juicy fruits are picked fresh by our visually stimulated editors.

READ COMICS & ARTICLES is the place where we stash original items that deserve more than just a casual blogging. Indeed, these humorous and informational pieces demand to be read.

BUY COMICS & ART is our resurrected store – old geezer Meathaus fans may remember the Warehaus. Here you’ll find a pared down selection of only our finest items ready to ship anywhere in the world via convenient Paypal transactions.

ABOUT MEATHAUS is a page which may expand in the future, but for now does a nice job of summing things up, despite a few 2006-era pop culture references (from when it was written).

HIRE MEATHAUS is recommended reading for all art directors, producers and rich people.

At any rate, we’ve got BIG NEWS. That’s right, a new surprise book has been published, GO FOR THE GOLD! 3. An aptly named follow up to 2005’s GO FOR THE GOLD! 2, GO FOR THE GOLD! 3 collects together into one volume an unholy amalgamation of 35 artists’ deepest sketchbook secrets. Check the preview page for more, and pre-order in the store for a free mini doodle zine to be included. They will ship out to you first week in December via Priority mail. Also available again for the first time in three years, GO FOR THE GOLD! 2.

Comment here or contact us with any problems with the site. Things will be getting tweaked over the next few weeks, but this baby was finally ready to roll out.

These people at BOOOOOOOM! are right. We are one of the 17 creative sites that you should bookmark and look at, or else you are dumb. They are also right about our fine selection of inspirational cartooning and comics (and art, illustration, photography, etc.) links. These babies are found deep in the link mines and are unearthed just for you. We remove megatons of useless internet garbage links just to get the sweet shiny ones to post. While we are on the subject, check out the rest of their list. Your bookmarks bar just got fattah.

A few new things to note on meathaus.com. For 2009 we have stopped making links pop a blank browser window as I had been doing out of habit for years for no good reason. The user should have that control to decide to launch a new browser window with a simple right click.

The front page has been restructured again in a three column format to allow for Blogads on the left and soon more Meathaus content, and Google ads and other Meathaus content on the right. You can advertise on the left column by clicking the “Advertise Here” link below the Blogads. I am not sure if the Google ads are specifically target-able or not, but you can certainly advertise with them as well. The ad revenue has been enough to support the server rent which houses multiple Meathaus dude’s personal sites, so that has been great for the last year or so.

The body font size has been increased by a point and the line height increased in order to be less eye-shredding.

Best of all, we will be creating longer form articles and other original content which will be posted under the top-left Meathaus Articles header. New today is our first in a series of miniature biography pages about our various Meathaus artists. First up, Jay Sacher.