Four-Colour Crack: How to cope with a comics addiction
By Adrian Brown
Are you having trouble dealing with your comic issues? Nurse Adrian Brown presents seven signs that you may be comics dependent - and offers some advice on shaking off your addiction.

Article 10: On Comics On Comics
By Paul O'Brien
One of the major preoccupations of comics appears to be... comics. This can lead to some fascinating insights for established readers, but it also makes a lot of books - like the recent nine-cent FANTASTIC FOUR - inaccessible.

Face It, Tiger: SPX Before Marriage
By Andrew Wheeler
Ninth Art's first SPX is also the last in the convention's current incarnation. Andrew Wheeler reports back from a comic convention with a difference - where the art comes first, and everyone seems to be smiling.

Camera Obscura: Design For Life
By Alasdair Watson
Coffee. It's cheaper than comics and it's got a better kick. Instead of just competing with each other, comics need to compete with the more affordable pleasures in life - and that means offering a spectacle that coffee beans just don't have.

Craig McGill Is Still Mentally Ill
By Craig McGill
PART TWO: The plan was to break in to comics by creating a web-publishing venture. The method would involve a little Grant Morrison and a lot of controversy. Craig McGill continues the story of the little site that never was.

Things To Come: Previews September for comics shipping November 2002
By Chris Ekman
Double the pleasure for Milligan converts. Triple the fun for Trondheim fans. There'll be plenty to give thanks for this November, including the final INVISIBLES collection and the latest from Leland Purvis.

Article 10: Press On
By Paul O'Brien
Wizard is the loudest voice in comics journalism. It's puerile, it's adolescent, and it knows its audience. Thankfully, there are more alternatives now than ever before - but there are still a couple of gaps in the market.

Salacious Illustration: Home Of 'The Brave And The Bold'
By Nick Locking
America is home to some of the finest serial fiction writers in the world. But they're all working in television. Are all America's best comic writers now past-it old men with beards?

The Occidental Tourist: Manga By Name
By Rob Vollmar
When is a manga story not a manga story? Rob Vollmar tries to pin down the real identity of manga with a look at some of the 'titular mangas', such as the works of Yoshitaka Kiyama, Sanho Kim and Lea Hernandez.

Cassandra Complex: Good Word
By Antony Johnston
In a special edition of Cassandra Complex, Antony Johnston reports from this year's Caption, possibly one of the smallest of small press conventions, where the sun shines and the marker pens run free.

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