Run this strip

If a Mostly Working strip made you laugh, or made you wince because it happened in your office last Tuesday, you can run it. Put it in a free newsletter, on your blog, or in your team’s Slack. It costs nothing. Keep my name on it and link back.

You can

• Run any strip in a free newsletter.
• Put it on your blog or your website.
• Drop it in a Slack, Teams, or Discord channel, at work or anywhere else.
• Put it on a slide for a talk, a class, or an all-hands.
• Print it and tape it to the break-room door. I would love that, honestly.

What I ask

• Keep the credit line on the image, or use the embed code, which carries it for you. It reads:
  Mostly Working by Joseph Lapin · josephlapin.com/mostly-working
• Link back to the strip’s page or to josephlapin.com/mostly-working wherever you can put a link. In Slack, pasting the strip’s link does the work.
• Run the whole strip as it is, headline and all.

Please don’t

• Change the words, swap the headline, cut panels, or crop off the credit.
• Run it in a paid newsletter or behind a paywall.
• Sell it. No mugs, no prints for sale, no paid course built on it.
• Use it in an ad, or in a way that suggests I endorse your company or product.
• Make look-alike strips and pass them off as mine.

How to run one

1. Open any strip and tap Run this strip under it.
2. For a newsletter, copy the embed code, or download the image and link it back.
3. For Slack, paste the strip’s link. The preview shows the strip with the credit on it.

Every new strip, automatically

If your free newsletter runs on Kit, beehiiv, Mailchimp, or anything else that reads RSS, add this feed and new strips show up on their own, credit and link already attached.

The fine print, in plain words

I keep the copyright; this page is my permission, and it costs nothing. I may change these terms for strips you run later, but anything you have already run under them can stay where it is. If you want to do something this page doesn’t cover, ask me on LinkedIn and I’ll probably say yes.

And if you do run one, tell me where. I like knowing which office it landed in.