hello again, and would anyone be interested in a new site I am considering?

I've not been around here for a while, but some probably remember me. Even farther back, I used to edit a comics fanzine called FA, which was well regarded in its day. I am toying with the idea of starting a website to do some of the same stuff - reviews, articles, news, interviews and so on. I'm looking for potential contributors and ideas. Can you email me from here now? If not, martin dot skidmores at btinternet dot com.

Hi Martin, nice to hear from you!

I'd volunteer to contribute to your new site, but I don't think my English is professional enough.

I have nothing to contribute except to say that over the years I have always enjoyed your posts here and at freaky trigger and your opinions about many of my favorite singers and writers such as Tyrone Davis and M. John Harrison. Good luck!

Hello, Martin. Long time no see.

I could possibly be talked into some writing but am woefully out of touch with what's hot and happening.

Just posting to welcome you back, if you're planning to stay. I missed you.

Let me add to the chorus of welcome backs! I'd be very interested in reading such a site, but am afraid my writing is probably not up to snuff.

Martin S!!! Good to see you!!!

(it's j0hn d. btw)

Another very welcome back, and hope you stick around and post some.

If not a comics webszine, I imagine you could at least make some decent money off a dot com with the unabbreviated name of FA...

Dropping you an email now!

hi martin, i was gonna ask you if i cld mention this on ilx, glad you've done the work for me!

Thanks for the welcomes!

Tuomas, your English has always seemed good to me, and this is NOT going to be a professional enterprise.

Matt, I'm kind of out of touch myself, to be honest. Obviously if you don't read comics at all now, you are less likely to have anything to contribute, but don't let a lack of the big picture deter you.

EZ Snappin, I have no idea what your writing is like beyond that post, but I am keener on people who have interesting things to say than those who write beautifully (though both is best, of course).

Don't know who ACKACKETC is, but I dropped the full name very quickly when I took over FA, since, as you suggest, Fantasy Advertiser sounds less like a comic fanzine than a contact mag.

One final point: I am still just pondering this, but it is looking more likely as more people show interest. One regular contributor to the old mag who is still a very good friend is now a web designer, and he has offered help, which is a big step in the right direction, as I am a rubbish designer.

MARTIN! HI DERE

(Dan P)

Hi Martin! Very glad to see you here. What are you reading these days?
I will be glad to read, and maybe someday contribute.

Hi Dan!

I don't read so many now - some manga (Black Jack and Nana are huge favourites), a few writers in the US mainstream (Morrison, Millar, Bendis), some of those nice cheap reprint collections (most Showcases, the occasional Essential, the Dredd collections), less cheap comic strip collections (recently Bringing Up Father and Captain Easy), other things by old favourites like the Hernandezes or Bagge.

Oh man, I am fiending to get more Black Jack

I'll take this under consideration - heaven knows if my writing is worthy (currently esconced in Life, A User's Manual, which every few pages causes me to lay my head down for the hubris of ever considering my prose decent), but I may submit an idea or two sometime in the next few days (presuming I don't get distracted by something shiny).

Also, if I may add to the chorus, very nice to see you back (which sounds strange, considering I'm kind of a dilletante on this board myself).

Hi Martin, good to see you back.

Tuomas, your English has never struck me as being problematic.

R Baez, I think we're all dilletantes now.

If you've expressed an interest in maybe contributing and haven't received an email from me, please send me an email (address in the question above) so that I can send some more info.

I'd definitely be interested in reading, though I doubt I'd have anything worthwhile to contribute. My only comic writing so far has been a dismal blog that was unceremoniously abandoned before starting even one of the long-form articles I had meant to use it as a venue for.

Hi Matrin!

Will drop you an email, but not sure what I can add to the party.

Anyone who thinks Tuomas' English isn't a problem never read the 'on ILX that's where I'm a viking' thread.

It's very nice to see you here again, Martin.

I thought I'd post here to say I just got a very kind email from H in Addis Ababa, but since it came through here I am unable to actually reply to it. I wouldn't like him to think I am so impolite, and he clearly looks in here...

Hey Martin!

Don't know who ACKACKETC is,

It’s Kit in Australia, if you remember me at all. I actually ran into C3fn Rid0ut at the Opera House afterparty on Saturday night and thought of you and this thread! But I dunno if you guys did know each other, and he was talking about the difficulty of getting paying editors to commission pieces, so didn’t say anything.

^unhelpful post

I wish I were a paying editor again! Not that FA paid much, but it did start turning a profit so I paid contributors. Since my costs are so tiny in starting a website, I am not even thinking about money for it. I won't be thinking about anything like advertising unless it gets big, and we haven't even started yet.

Hey Martin, just saw this, sent you my email, otherwise will still try to track down the arabic teen titans for you once i get a moment

Is that Arabic Teen Titans the comic about the rather large team of superheroes where each one embodies one of the 500 virtues of God?

Hi Martin, I was on away from ILX for a while, but I just sent you an email about the new site.

i think that was the 99
i was referring to the arabic dubbed version of the teen titans cartoon

FA site is now 'live', may I direct ppl to my Charles Schulz biog review:

http://comiczine-fa.com/reviews/schulz-and-peanuts/

I have a review there too, but you will have to guess which one it is.

The Neonomicon one?

I did manage to write an article too, but it's not on the site yet, I think Martin will put it up this weekend or something.

Happy to see this happening. Well done gents - off to read.

Haven't sent anything yet - in fact, not sure I ever even got around to emailing Martin.

i'm moving hella slowly toward a gasoline alley piece that i'd like to be biweekly

Curses - Tuomas has discovered MY SECRET IDENTITY!

MY SECRET IDENTITY... you're Jerry O'Connell?!?! Damn, yo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLuXJL2GCgk

My article is online now, you can find it under "revies":

http://comiczine-fa.com/

Some of you might notice that the article is partly based on a discussion we had here on ILC: Why do so many male comic artists draw women that look like each other?

The is beginning to look quite nice! I loved the new comic strip ("The Receiver"), you should check that one out.

I'm browsing the site right now and it's pretty cool! I'll bookmark it.

My review is up!

Check me out - I'm like Andrew Sarris or Jog or something like that.

QUOTH MARGARET MEAD:

Never doubt that Deadpool Max can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. 0

2100 words on the new-ish Darwyn Cooke/Donald Westlake thing, if you're innarested.

I have every intention of writing some reviews this evening.

i've been agonizing over a few pieces and feel like a shitheel for not working on them.

A good chunk of the way through my current review. And I don't think it'll be 2000 words. Or at least I hope.

We could maybe rename this the thread where people post links to things they have written for Martin Skidmore. Here are my two latest:

DMZ #60

Berlin #16

I took so long to write the first of these that the following issue had already come out by the time I submitted it. Ho hum.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5025/5562222425_1e234d07ea.jpg

excellent review by ward fowler of the schulz bio -- he nails it, the good stuff and bad.