I talk to cartoonist, mathematician, and librarian Jason Shiga about his book Meanwhile. This choose-your-own-story, or what Shiga refers to as an "adventuregame comic", was self published in 2001 as a handcut black and white booklet. Amulet published a full color deluxe edition in 2010. Shiga wasn't selling copies at APE, but was instead giving them away to patrons who could solve 3 difficult logic puzzles by the end of the day. Only three attendees managed to solve those.

Filmed at the 2009 Alternative Press Expo (October 17–18 — Concourse Exhibition Center, San Francisco)

From Andrew Plotkin's site: "Meanwhile began as a series of seven increasingly complex flowcharts. Once the outline of the story was structured, a computer algorithm determined the most efficient way to transfer it to book form, using a system of tabs to interlink the panels and pages. The problem proved to be NP-complete; it was finally cracked in spring of 2000, with the aid of a V-opt heuristic algorithm which ran for twelve hours on an SGI machine.

The first page-and-tab edition of Meanwhile was (self-) published by Jason Shiga in 2001, as a hand-cut black-and-white booklet. In 2010, it was re-released by Amulet Books in a handsome full-color hardback edition. Now the 10th anniversary edition is available."