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HEY!!!!!!!

evenin Jim!

are we the only ones here?

seems so

I just got back from dinner with my wife and mother-in-law

ah. cool

We went out to celebrate the birthday of my late father-in-law

oh nice

he would've been 81 today!

wow

So, in his honor, I had this seafood and pasta combination that he always liked called zupa de pesce, I believe it's called!

mmm. now I'm hungry. lol

it's linguini, with a white garlic and butter sauce with clams, mussels, shrimp and scallops covering it up!!!

yum!

man, it was enormous! I couldn't eat 1/3 of it! Had to bring the rest home!!!

anyway, how are things with you and SOD?

yeah, many places serve such huge portions

worked on some of it last night

once I get past tightening up this gun fight panel, I'll finish inking pg. 12 real quick

I've gotten out of my publication slump I was in for a little while since SPACE...I've got 6 mini comics, 1 comic book and now a fiction mag done!

cool cool

Yeah, thanks to Dan Taylor, my mini comics as well as digest comics, are back in order...

it's great that you have Dan back on board

sounds like DOC won't be at SPACE next year

Marc Haines did what he could for awhile but he has less hours now to help out with things, but he's doing my comic books and comic mags still...

Oh,really? When did you hear that about Doc?

emailed him a couple of days ago

he's decided to take a break from comics

Well, hopefully I'll be there as well...

I'd like to be

Liz emailed me about DOC but wouldn't go into detail

I hope he's okay!!!

maybe I'll email Liz and see if she wants to split a table at SPACE. sounds like Liz and Shawnti might go

He contributed to two issues of my mini comic series ZEROES! recently...

he was stressed by feeling obligated to owe people art and stuff

I have both of those ladies as my sponsored guests at a show in November!!

real cool

WOW! Did he actually say that?

that was the gist, yeah

Geez...if he had a problem not doing the material he said he'd do, then he should just come out and say it, don't you think?

that's what I'd so

can't really say the same about him

Everybody should know what they are capable of...

he said something to the effect that it was driving him into depression too

egads!

I think he needs a break, not unlike my trip to the Oregon Brew Fest

I'm sorry to hear this...I hope it's not something I caused...

no. I think he was putting the stress on himself. I've been there/done that

I like to give people opportunities to see their work in print, but not if it's going to make them suffer to get it to me by the deaadline!

right

deadline..lol...

But,if someone takes up the assignment, they should know right then and there if they can accomplish such a thing in that given space of time

true enough

what I don't care for is a person who gives me a days notice prior to a deadline that they can't get it done or haven't even started it yet! LOL...

that's annoying

yeah, and I've had my share of it!

kinda reminds me about starting that little Haloween contrib for WTF!?!#3

when are you going to bring back BRIGADE?

um. more like never?

long story

drat!

I thought of a new supe team tho. done as a mini comic

great!

You like that mini format,eh?

I'm liking it a lot!

nice and quick and affordable!

dunno why I didn't do it sooner

Has Terry been by here at all?

haven't seen him here in a long time

I catch him on FB now and then...we have a couple projects we're working on

ok. I've actually been seriouly toying with the idea of jumping on FB

Is Michael's show this coming weekend?

no. this last weekend

I guess he's still decompressing from it

I was hoping to hear about it tonight

Oh,it came and went? Hope he did okay!!!

me too

I would've gone but I couldn't convince anyone else to travel with me!

same weekend as the Brew Fest for me

This weekend at the new venue for SPACE is a great show called PULPFEST or PULPCON, I believe...I wish I was going to that show, but alas, I'm working!!!

I'm there in spirit though as some dealer bought a huge back issue run of my Doc Savage fanzine just to sell there!

oh, nice

He almost cleaned me out of my back issues!

Currently I'm trying to adjust to my books being printed by Ka-Blam

how's that going so far?

My first book by them was BOOT HILL #2

The paper and overall quality is quite nice but you really got to watch those specs closely or you get a trim job really close to the sides...

it wasn't too bad, but just makes you more carefull...

I also like the set-up they have with their distribution arm, Indy Planet!

ok, cool!

anyway, I got some stuff to take care of...see you later. Good talking with you!

gnite and take care, Jim!

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