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Well, it was really just a dealer table, so if no one was buying then...

Saw that Button Man album for the first time - very nice.  Now just for the money...

Wake up, take off the VR goggles and make sure that the character trait you demonstrate over the first few panels of this adventure don't come back to bite you.

Watch out for the irony!

I was very pleased with my convention visit.  I collected a nice bunch of sketches for my girlfriend's birthday:

(Fred the Clown) Roger Langridge
(Super Andrew caricature) Al Davison
(Judge Bear) PJ Holden
(Tom Tom) Paul Grist
(Stranghaven - sinisterly romantic) - Gary Spencer Millidge
(Cosmic Ray) Mike Molcher
(Thrud) - Carl Critchlow

Big thanks to all those - your labours have greatly improved my reputation as a thoughful, sensitive boyfriend.

I also met a whole load of people for the first time, or at least, for the first time I, or they, could remember.  This includes Dave Evans (Bolt-01), who has drawn quite a few pages for me.  Hopefully, meeting me won't end this collaboration.  No doubt, I will introduce myself afresh at Winterfest 2004 - which will be on my birthday, by the way.  Sketches for me, this time?

I also won Headache from the Solar Wind table raffle, and have been significantly cheered by the adventures of Mike Neville and the 10p Al Ewing comics, sold to me by the sinister Rasputin-like mystic of mad mesmerist methods.

See you all October, at London.

Bartlett.

You're not the only one, BV.

The sketches that I was generously given will be visible when I find [1] a scanner and [2] web space.  But remember children, my sketches had a purpose, oh yes.  To keep the love of a women, indeed, on the day of her birthday.  Did it work?  Indeed it did.

I also gave her PVS's copy of 'Ethel and Ernest', which he sold me at a knock-down price.  She finished it today, and it made her cry.  Which is a good thing, but I won't spoil what happens with the alien robot sex-fiends for all of those of you who haven't yet read it.

Bartlett  

I've used Illustrator to letter comic pages.

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Ah, a bit of trawling the threads and I find you are now 'citizen'.  Congratulations.

I thought that you had lost your passport?

Yes, but a novel can put ina whole range of description of the dialogue, including the motivations and manner of delivery that are outside the scope of a comic book without resorting to large 'caption' panels.

Yes, it's a brain-off between Dr X and the House of Usher...

Mind you, my Trout awarded doctorate will be treasured.

Okay, GSCE 2A*, 4A, B, C, E; A-levels, 2A, B, C; BSc Biology (York) 2.i; MSc Human Genetics (Leeds); currently finishing an MSc Social Science Research Methods, to be followed by a PhD in the Sociology of the Human Genome Project.  They will never get me out of my ivory tower.  Bwahhahahaha

I very much enjoyed the only episode I have seen.

I got a set of postcards for calling for Big Dave's return as Blunkett's Bulldog.

Hasn't that Kermode chap out in the Orient built his paper house out of 2000AD postcards?

And remember, there are boarders who have received substantial payments from Tharg.  That's a prize and a half.

I've heard that Cameron Douglas story too...

Celebs eh?  Don't see all that many - often see Howard Marks strolling round York, looking far more lined and leathery than he does in his promo shots.  Victor Lewis Smith used to drink in our college bar - he was big mates with our provost who appeared on that late night TV 'discussion' show he did the other year.

Last time I went to London, I couldn't move for Jerry Sadowitz.