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2015-2020 Steve Rude "The Dude" Sketchbook

Created by Steve Rude

Presale store for the Steve Rude 2020 Sketchbook Kickstarter! Many of these items are exclusive and can only be ordered while quantities last. Please note that INTERNATIONAL shipping is not accurate. We charge a base fee of $35 for Canada and $50 for Everywhere else. We will contact you in August for final shipping costs. The most we will charge you is $50 for Canada or $100 for Everywhere Else.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Shipping and Batman Update
over 3 years ago – Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 08:30:58 PM

INTERNATIONAL ORDERS

I'm getting ready to ship out another round of international orders on Friday after the Thanksgiving holiday.  I'm just doing the customs forms now.  All the Canadian orders should be done unless you had a Batman book.

BATMAN BOOK UPDATE

I heard from the printer yesterday that they are ready to ship out the books, but I have not yet received tracking so I am just waiting on that.  I could have them as soon as next week!

ORIGINAL ART UPDATE

Steve is just about done with all the original art sketches.  I should have those orders ready to mail out by Monday.

TRACKING

Everyone is sent tracking.  We have had intermittent problems with DHL emails going out.  Check your spam and make sure you're checking the same email as your Kickstarter.  If you still can't find it email us at [email protected] and we will get that tracking resent to you!

Shipping Update
over 3 years ago – Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 07:09:45 PM

US ORDERS

All the US orders should be processed as of this morning.  Email confirmation comes via [email protected] to the email you used during checkout.  It will not go through Kickstarter.

EXCEPTIONS:

  • Orders that need a valid mailing address - There are only 2-3 that never completed checkout and never got back to me with a valid shipping address so their orders are on permanent hold.  I've contacted them both via the email and via Kickstarter.
  • Orders with sketches.  Steve gave me more blank sketchbooks that I will be processing today.
  • We've actually had a few shirts we were unable to locate.  I'm sure they are buried in the wrong box.  We have 7 boxes that were filled with shirts.

INTERNATIONAL ORDERS

I am starting to process International orders.  They are slow going as I have to triple check the HS codes on each one and make sure the value is what you actually paid then decide which shipping company will be best.  I am using UPS Standard for Canada, DHL for most European orders (I have had issues with USPS taking 6-8 weeks).  So far I am just paying out of pocket the extra $10-15 in postage instead of going through the hassle of billing everyone.  International postage estimate right now is $3,000 with average cost being $45, most people paid $30.

If you have a Batman book with your order,  I set aside a few specifically for International orders, but I will be unable to fulfill most of them.

  • 49090090 Illustration Postcard
  • 490199 Printed Matter
  • 42029900 Drawstring Bag (Promotional)
  • 71109000 Souvenir Coin (Promotional)
  • 8523.51.0000  USB Drive (Promotional)
  • 48201090 Notebook w/pen (Promotional)
  • 490110 Printed Single Sheet
  • 61099090 T-Shirt, other
  • 490290 Newspaper
  • 970110 Drawing done by hand (for separate commissions, if it's on the blank cover I'm adding the value to the printed matter)

BATMAN BOOKS

The last update from the printer was 7 days ago when they said they were looking into where the missing quantity went.  Looking back over the shipping logs it never left Canada.  I ordered 2,000 books and customs has !,750.  We need 60 more Batman books to fulfill orders and were shorted a total of 225.  Thankfully we can fulfill all the blank sketchbook orders but we were shorted 25 of those as well.

My sincerest apologies to anyone who upgraded.  Once we find out what is going on we will either give you an in house ETA, option for a different item along with a Wonder Woman book, or a refund for the upgrade cost.  

Steve Rude Livestreaming to End off Gourmando Kickstarter
over 3 years ago – Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:29:58 PM

With about 30 minutes left we are $2,000 short of adding over 20 pages to the trade paperback version of Nexus: The Coming of Gourmando.  Steve is livestreaming - See one of the blank covers in progress.  This one a Superman color!

https://www.facebook.com/steverudethedude/videos/822373465180830/

Shipping Updates
over 3 years ago – Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 05:32:48 PM

We are down to about 250 US orders.  Steve just finished the last of his May Free Comic Book Day commissions and is moving onto getting those black covers finished and I'll be posting them here as they're finished!  He plans to do a few via LiveStream as well.

So far we've had to reorder shipping supplies twice (it's impossible to guess the size of the boxes with each order customized) and batching in groups of 30 orders at a time seems to be working great with zero errors so far.  The post office has destroyed a few packages which we have replaced at no charge (they're all insured!), but 99% of packages are arriving unharmed and perfect.

So onto a bit of bad news.  Sorting through all the different boxes today we discovered that the printer shorted us just over 200 Batman books leaving us not enough to fill orders with.  I have a call into them and hoping they can rush those out.  In the meantime, we will be short about 10 books to fulfill the balance of the USA orders so we are going to send those 10 backers a Wonder Woman sketchbook, so they still have a book to read, with a note that their Batman book will be delayed.  When the books arrive we will gets those out priority.

I'm really disappointed.  Newprint in Canada was doing a fantastic job until the books actually went to press then their 5 day turn around was 5 weeks, an addition 3 for binding then finally the wait for shipping.  The printing is really good quality, I just think the large order was more than they were capable of handing.

Getting to the end.  Thank you for your patience and we hope you are very happy with both the quality of the order and customer service.

Love you guys!

Jaynelle Rude

Typos courtesy of my iPhone

Shipping Updates & 1st Blank Cover Finished
over 3 years ago – Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 02:21:36 AM

We've converted the garage into a temporary shipping area.  We're processing 30-60 orders per day.  We're double and triple checking the orders.  Better to do it slow than do it wrong!  If you've received your order we would love to hear from you about what you think about the book.  Print quality, how you liked the extras, what you'd like to see us offer in the future, etc.  

First blank sketch cover.