Editorial: Cassandra Complex - Innovation & Incarceration
11th July 2003
Should artists play it safe or take a chance? Antony argues the case for being unreasonable, especially when progress is at stake, and does some pre-San Diego shilling into the bargain.

Editorial: Cassandra Complex - Festivals & Finds
13th June 2003
Returned from this year's UK Comics Festival, Antony ponders the nature of conventions in a country that no longer has an industry of its own; and points readers to a few comics that don't need or care about the industry, anyway.

Editorial: Cassandra Complex - Dates & Dustjackets
16th May 2003
Someone left Antony locked in a room, going slowly mad - and it turns out it was Antony. It looks like he'll be let out in time for the Bristol comics convention, but in the meantime he's been staring at book covers. Just staring and staring...

Editorial: Cassandra Complex - None More Black
18th April 2003
They're a strange social minority who are shunned by mainstream society for their peculiar ways. But unlike comic readers, they have their own nightclubs. Antony Johnston revisits the goth scene.

Editorial: Cassandra Complex - Compact & Bijou
14th March 2003
The first CrossGen Traveler Edition has arrived at Ninth Art Towers; Antony Johnston offers his considered opinion on the digest-sized MERIDIAN: FLYING SOLO. Plus, a fine notion from Montreal retailer Paul Stock on shifting that backstock

Editorial: Cassandra Complex - Minorities & Multicultures
21st February 2003
They say 'Write what you know', but where does that leave the issue of minority characters? Antony Johnston makes a case for inclusion without prejudice - good or bad.

Editorial: Cassandra Complex - And Now, The Good News
24th January 2003
The comic industry isn't always doom and gloom. Antony Johnston looks at a triple whammy of good news in the form of comics sales in bookstores, how those same stores are racking them, and CrossGen's new Traveller editions.

Editorial: Cassandra Complex - Brickbats And... Well, Mostly Brickbats
27th December 2002
Old toys were trendy, panties didn't sell, everything was a movie, bold new strategies were traded for old, and everyone - but mostly Marvel - got sued. Antony Johnston makes his pick of the headlines from 2002.

Editorial: Cassandra Complex - Trades & Travels
29th November 2002
Recently returned from a book signing at Travelling Man in York, Antony muses on the loss-leader approach to OGN publishing, and the problem posed by the monologue in comics writing.

Editorial: Cassandra Complex - Filth & Fury
1st November 2002
In the first of the new look Ninth Art Editorials, Antony Johnston takes issue with the insipid state of comics cover design, and gives you the skinny on the ass-kicking zombies of INFINITE KUNG-FU.

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