Guest Editorial: Show, Don't Tell
By Andy Diggle
What use are stories? Is there a point to them beyond pure entertainment? In the second of Ninth Art's guest editorials, former 2000AD editor Andy Diggle explains why he thinks stories can achieve so much more.

Minority Report: A Brief History Of Women In Comics, Part 1
By Rob Vollmar
Continuing his series of essays on minority voices, Rob Vollmar traces the presence of female creators and the market for girl's comics through the 1940s, 50s and 60s, to see how economics and censorship helped drive both close to extinction.

Editorial: Face It Tiger - Hellbent For Leather
By Andrew Wheeler
A cowboy with a thing for chaps? Andrew Wheeler considers the true meaning behind Marvel's provocative announcement. Plus, an introduction to Argentinean creators Trillo and Mandrafina, and an exclusive update for Olav Beemer fans!

Article 10: A Catalogue Of Errors
By Paul O'Brien
See that bigger-than-a-phone-book catalogue sitting on your floor? The one with hundreds of comics listed in it, that you're supposed to read and order from? Paul O'Brien takes a closer look, and tries not to get too depressed.

Editorial: Camera Obscura - Superhate
By Alasdair Watson
Stand back, Superman. There's just one thing dominating Alasdair Watson's thoughts this month: His consuming hatred for that sexless, simplistic, immoral and inferior icon of a sci-fi subgenre: the superhero.

Everybody Be Cool: The Dress Up Longbox
By Kieron Gillen
There's more to the iconic power of comics than Superman. Comics are a great resource for iconic images; yet only in rare cases does the 'look' make the crossover into fashion.

Things To Come: Previews December 2002 for comics shipping February 2003
By Chris Ekman
If you?re of a Christmassy inclination and you?ve enough shopping to worry about already ? or even if you just hate wading through Previews ? let Chris Ekman take some of the dread out of ordering comics with his monthly review.

Editorial: Cassandra Complex - Trades & Travels
By Antony Johnston
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.

Article 10: Creative License
By Paul O'Brien
Image, Dreamwave and Viz have all discovered in recent days that they don't hold the licenses to sell some of their best-selling titles overseas. An easy mistake to make, or a typical example of why some people just can't take the comic industry seriously?

Guest Editorial: Lost In The War Zone
By Jamie Delano
In the first of Ninth Art's new guest editorials, the original HELLBLAZER writer and the man behind OUTLAW NATION offers us his "confessions of a minor writer fallen out of love with The Word".

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