In honor of our second anniversary (and in honor of our noble tradition of doing random contests whenever we damn feel like it!) we’d like to announce our extra-special Geekify Me! contest! (That’s short for “Puleaze, Rick, will you Geekify Me, I’m Begging You!”)

Here’s the skinny:

We’ll select a lucky winner who will receive a one-of-a-kind, hand drawn, The World According to Geek version of themselves by our resident penciller, artist, and all-around stand-up bloke, Ricardo Santiago (plus some other assorted goodies!) This special artwork will be signed by the three of us, free of charge, at zero cost to you. (Dirty talk costs extra, though.)

To participate, all you need is to leave a comment here, at the anniversary comic’s post or at our Facebook page or send us an @reply in our Twitter during the week of March 7 through the 14. We will then contact the winner through Facebook, email, Twitter DM or psychotelepathic suggestions and announce the lucky (or unlucky!) participant on Sunday, March 28th.

Contest Rules:

Contest winner will be selected randomly from all comments submitted at the aforementioned web areas from March 7, 2010 to March 14, 2010.

Contest winner will be announced through http://www.twatgeek.com and will be notified through email, Twitter or Facebook message.

Once a winner is selected and notified, he/she will have 72 hours to reply by email, Twitter or Facebook message. If the participant fails to respond in the allotted time, he/she forfeits the prize and another winner will be selected.

Winner will be announced on March 28, 2010.

Arpeegee retains the rights to all material produced by the contest

By submitting a photo, participants relinquish all rights to the picture and allow Arpeegee to use it for publicity purposes.

No purchase necessary.

Void where prohibited.

Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

Hey dudes and dudettes! Do you want to show your geek side on the racetrack? Well, you can! In the Forza Motorsport 3 storefront, search for keyword picardoel. You may then download the official The World According to Geek sticker for your car! It’s FREE! Check it out below! Turn on your Xboxes right naw!

As we announced a couple of months ago, by popular demand, we’ve been working on bringing you all the geeky goodness of our comic strip translated into Spanish. Well, here it is!  The World According to Geek: En Español! We’ve set up a gallery where you can browse Spanish versions of our weekly strip. Right now, the first three comic strips are online. We’re going to be translating a couple of them a week, from the first one onwards, so you can look forward for weekly updates there as well. It’s sometimes hard to translate jokes into a different language, but we’ll give it a shot.

I’ve always been fascinated by stories of writers who have the experience of meeting their creations in real life. For example, I read a long time ago that Neil Gaiman was once served by a waitress that was the real life equivalent of his fantastic Death character. William Faulkner, upon meeting Juano Hernández for the first time at the set of Intruder in the Dust exclaimed his amazement at meeting the personification of Lucas Beauchamp, his own creation.

While most of our characters are loosely based on people we know, they are still spawned from our imagination. So it is still a very weird experience to meet our exact creations in the flesh. This happened to me this week. I was lecturing during one of my classes, when David, my research assistant, stepped into the classroom. You probably know that David is the basis of Dave, Charlie’s long suffering research assistant. Rick has never met David, he designed the character with his own interpretation of my description of him, so our Dave was meant to be a loose, TWATG version of David. Until that moment. David had, unwittingly, cosplayed as Dave.

As David came into my classroom and he ceased to be David, my assistant. He was Dave. Charlie’s assistant Dave. I had to stop the lecture from laughing. Later, while doing some work at my office, I took a photo so I could share with you my weird experience.

Meet Dave. Dave in real life.

Cheers,

Pete

The fantastic netcast produced by the staff at The Webcomic Beacon recently featured The World According to Geek in their Impressions section, a moment in the show where they look at particular webcomics and give their feelings and opinions on them. Their impression of TWATG was very positive, calling us “awesome.” We loved their reaction to our URL, which regular readers will know is completely intentional, with host Tanya calling it “the funniest ever.” We have to agree with that.

They also praised our weekly titlebar, something we three are extremely proud of. One detail that warmed our hearts was that they seemed to “get” us. Unlike more famous webcomics, like Penny Arcade, which mainly focuses on gaming, TWATG isn’t easily boxed into a genre. It is really about three guys and how they live their geeky lives. So, one week the comic can be about gaming, the other about relationships and the next about how hard it is to be a parent. All framed from a particularly geeky world view.

The hosts did offer some constructive criticism with the art, something we are always working with and really appreciate any feedback on. Needless to say, we will take their suggestions to heart and strive to continue to make our art better and better.

We would like to thank the staff at The Webcomic Beacon for featuring us on their netcast. It made our day to know that you guys enjoyed our work.

You can download this specific episode here. And, if you enjoy webcomics, remember to listen to the Webcomic Beacon’s netcast regularly. It’s a blast.