Article 10: Another Year Older
By Paul O'Brien
Another year wiser? Paul O'Brien looks back at the lessons learned in 2003, the year in which manga dominated the bookstores, Marvel's Bill Jemas was shown the door, and CrossGen crumbled.

Editorial: Face It, Tiger - No Uncertain Terms
By Andrew Wheeler
You may well read comics. You may even love comics. But can you really 'talk' comics? Ninth Art presents Wheeler's Glossary Of Comic Book Terms, because it's no longer enough to just know what you like.

Discovering The Elephant: An integralist approach to understanding graphic novels, part three
By Rob Vollmar
In the third part of Rob Vollmar's attempt to arrive at a working definition for the term 'graphic novel', he turns to the subject of formalism, and the questions thus raised about serialisation, length, sophistication and complexity.

Things To Come: Previews December 2003 for comics shipping February 2004
By Chris Ekman
Ninth Art's Chris Ekman makes his final picks from the Previews catalogue in his last Things To Come, bowing out with a selection that includes ATTITUDE and Leland Purvis's VOX, and asks the important question, THE PAIN... WHEN WILL IT END?

Article 10: The British Aren't Coming
By Paul O'Brien
Com.X promised great things when it arrived on the scene in 2000, but has thus far produced fewer comics than Brian Michael Bendis on a wet weekend. Now it's making noises again, but do they signify anything?

Editorial: Camera Obscura - Nothing New
By Alasdair Watson
When an industry's in decline, isn't that a good time to take risks? There are talented writers out there with great stories to tell, according to Alasdair Watson, who will never get the chance if publishers continue to chase the same shrinking audiences.

Beyond Borders: Not That Innocent
By Marcos Castrillón
Ninth Art looks at another comic from beyond the confines of the English language - but this time there may be a reason the book hasn't made it into print in America. Is the US children's market ready for something like TITEUF?

Editorial: Cassandra Complex - Previews & Perishers
By Antony Johnston
The Direct Market needs the Previews catalogue, whether we like it or not - but that doesn't mean there isn't plenty of room for improvement. Antony Johnston offers his reccomendation for the one change that might have the biggest impact.

Article 10: Vis A Viz
By Paul O'Brien
Viz's SHONEN JUMP has been a huge industry success story - but can its success be replicated? Paul O'Brien looks to the example set by another Viz; the British humour comic that briefly stole the mainstream, but failed to change the market.

Editorial: Face It, Tiger - Pervert Suits
By Andrew Wheeler
With the cry going up in Michigan, 'Won't somebody think of the children?', Andrew Wheeler looks at a greater obscenity than nudie pictures, as he explores the world of real grown adults dressing up in superhero long johns.

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