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That's an awesome cover, it sure is!

That's a neat pack of stuff you've got in that photo. But don't wait for me at Cardiff. I'd surely go, but fear rowing through the Atlantic won't get me there before next year. Well, now that I think of it, I could make it for volume 2, right?

Comicsy sounds far closer to my fingertips.

Ooooh, I'm eager to see the complete stuff!

Got my contributors copy. Read it all through. Should I say I didn't expect this quality? Terrific job you've done guys. I just hope you can keep the beast alive for as many issues as possible.

I've got a finished one-page story. Shall I send it or is it too late?

So how's this going? Is it getting on time for Halloween?

Hope it is.

I had already seen your art somewhere. It's strong and original stuff. I'll be following this. Kudos for you, man!

but it supports those profit making companies who aew demanding protection who will then profit from theft of small-people's work.

Exactly. It's not the defense of copyright what lies at the heart of this proposal, but the right to make profit. The view proposed is that the right to make profit should come before the right to own one's own creations. The philosophical and political worldview behind this is one that cannot conceive a world in which not everything is marketable.

good blog on use of environments in layouts

http://dresdencodak.tumblr.com/post/823055970/environments-are-people-too

Interesting approach. I'm still wondering whether it's right to analyse comics having audiovisual art as the model; but it seems to work in the article. I'll be pondering this for a while.

Trrrremendous art!

For the more theoretically minded: Neil Cohen is one of the few cognitive psychologists and linguists studying the comic medium. In his blog, he posts reviews/summaries to papers he's reading or writing, and has no problem in answering questions about comics from his academic point of view:

http://blog.emaki.net/

Some of his papers are also very interesting:

http://www.emaki.net/readings.html

On a side note, Ive always hated a symmetrical 8 panel layout. Its like looking at a tv shop window - is that just me?

Hehe... well, yes, I guess it's just like that for many contemporary readers. Perhaps it didn't call readers' attention that much in the past, when symetrical panel grids were the rule (I'm wondering now how much influence may films have had for this old-school convention), but now, they act like a self-referential marker --you can't avoid thinking of the panel layout when you meet that kind of arrangement.

In connection to Terrapin's link, let me share this also interesting analysis I found some weeks ago while researching a bit on panel density:

http://www.pandadogpress.com/2010/04/panel-density-pacing-in-invincible-iron.html

CrazyFox, I sent you an e-mail and PM some days ago. Have you received them? Let me know if any problem.
Thanks!

Nice! I'll be pondering about this over the week.