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the like, interacting with the folks and basically keeping my toes in the water. As a publisher, I believe it’s my responsibility to my own work and to that of the creators we publish to be a visible and accessible guy. Sure, I write, and market, and advertise and do production and graphic design and strategize and basically run the whole damn thing under the watchful eye of Mimi Rosenheim and over the prostrate form of my cabana boy, Josh, but that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t be available if somebody’s got a question about how we run things. So if you’ve got a question about any aspect of AiT/Planet Lar’s publishing or marketing or creative direction or licensing opportunities or… or what ever, you’ll get an answer from me anywhere from right now to no more than twenty-four hours later. If you don’t get an answer from me by then, parenthetically, I’m either out of the office or your question’s answer should be immediately obvious or I didn’t get your email. Either way, these things happen. The point is, even if you may not like the answer I give you, you’ll get an answer right away nonetheless. "What are your submissions guidelines?" We don’t have any, because we don’t accept outside submissions. "‘Outside submissions’? What the hell does that mean?" It means if we want to publish you, we know where to find you, and we will generate some internal correspondence for you asking you what you’ve got going on. But sending me an email saying "What the hell does that mean?" doesn’t make me want to publish your work, just for the record. Have some manners. "Why don’t you collect (fill-in-the-blank), and make a nice trade paperback of my favorite out-of-print work?" Believe me, if you’ve thought of it, we’ve thought of it, and it’s either in the works, not the sort of thing we would publish, being published by another company, or otherwise unavailable. "How do you make the decision on what you’re going to publish?" Well, that’s the beauty of being me; I don’t have to be able to explain it, because I know good stuff when I see it. "What’s the deal with you and Alec Baldwin?" Hey, just because two guys share a common love of spacesuits, everyone starts to talk… So, earlier this week, I was spending my morning fielding these sorts of queries from the inbox, and I went over to my browser to see what, if any thing, had happened of interest overnight. I checked the boards at not news.org, and the guys over at iFanboy. I read some stuff at Newsarama, and slid over to Splash, while reading up real quick at the ComicCon boards. I read the daily stuff at Jonah’s, and checked in on the ol’ Loose Cannon message boards. I zipped over to The Comics Journal boards, even though those guys are nutty over there; I read some DC stuff, and some Marvel stuff. I like to hit Comics Continuum, and, depending on what day of the week it is, I’ll read Savant, or Sequential Tart, or Bendis’ boards, or

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