Well, the past four weeks HAVE been a tight squeeze.

Just before I left for a 10-day, 2,200-mile Great American Research Roadtrip up to Boston and across New York and through Ohio, Google notified me that someone somewhere in some dark basement had inserted malware onto this website. My brilliant webmaster, Brian Korte, and I reacted quickly. The internet companies involved did NOT.

It was frustrating to spend weeks in limbo — with so little to tell so many concerned customers who wrote to ask about the health of their favorite crustacean historian. But Brian kept attacking the problem (with the same dedication he put into his own artwork, building beautiful wall portraits out of LEGOS! ). And after he scrubbed the site and files 2,311 times, Google this week allowed us back onto the World Wide Web.

We have boosted security so this won’t happen again. We’ve regained our respect and admiration for the power of the Web — you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s been hacked! And we are very thankful for the patience and dedications of all of Chester’s fans.

I used this blank time in the digital realm to work hard on putting more ink onto paper, so we will have more announcements in the near future about fun new Chester Comix content. STAY TOONED!

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