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------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Protect your PC from spy ware with award winning anti spy technology. It's free. http://us.click.yahoo.com/97bhrC/LGxNAA/yQLSAA/bGIolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> +++++ Alan Moore's 'Literary' Pornography This story originally appeared in PW Comics Week on May 2, 2006 Sign up now! http://www.publishersweekly.com/index.asp?layout= eletters&industry=PW+Comics+Week by Douglas Wolk, PW Comics Week -- 5/2/2006 Already a star in the world of graphic novels for wildly successful and critically acclaimed books like Watchmen and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, British writer Alan Moore reached a new level of mainstream fame this spring with the success of the movie V for Vendetta. So what's he doing for his next act? Pornography. For nearly 16 years, he's been working on Lost Girls with American cartoonist Melinda Gebbie. It is, everyone involved with it declares, beautiful, literary and moving. It's also bluntly pornographic, with explicit sex scenes on almost every page. Beyond couplings of every combination of women and men, the story involves fetishism, incest and even a touch of bestiality, as well as a whole lot of sexual activity involving minors, all depicted in Gebbie's sensuous pastels and paints. Set in the period leading up to the outbreak of World War I, Lost Girls centers on three women who meet at a European hotel: an aristocratic British lesbian in her late 50s; a middle-aged, middle-class, unhappily married English woman; and a 19-year-old farm girl from the American Midwest. Amid increasingly heated bouts of debauchery, they tell each other the stories of the early sexual experiences that formed their fantasy lives and worldviews. Oh, yes: the three women are, respectively, Alice from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Wendy from Peter Pan and Dorothy from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The story also incorporates tributes to Moore and Gebbie's favorite moments in the history of X-rated writing and artwork. "You've no idea how tiring the research was on this book," Moore jokes. "It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it." Set to debut this summer at Comic-Con International in San Diego, the book is the latest move by a creator known as much for his provocations as for his talent. Moore is an anarchist and an occultist, and (most shockingly to Americans) refuses to accept money for the film adaptations of his work. Whatever the critical reception or commercial fate of any of his projects is, he's one of the most sought-after writers in his medium. But for Lost Girls' publisher, Top Shelf Productions, a small indie house specializing in literary graphic novels, the book has the potential to elevate the company to a whole new level-or financially cripple it. "This is the single most expensive publishing project Top Shelf has ever done by a factor of almost 10," says co-publisher Chris Staros. "We're putting the whole company on the line, but it's the book I personally want to be remembered for as a publisher. It's one of those books that's going to challenge our system to live up to itself." Top Shelf is planning a 10,000-copy first printing for Lost Girls as a set of three oversized, 112-page clothbound volumes with dust jackets, packaged in a slipcase and shrink-wrapped. To cover the heavy production costs, the book will be priced at $75. But for all of Moore's popularity, the book has a number of things against it, in addition to its daunting price. Given the explicit content, it will largely miss out on sales to libraries, an important channel for graphic novels. At least one major book chain, Borders, is passing on the title, says Kurt Hassler, graphic novel buyer for the chain. (Hassler says the explicit content was not the sole reason for the decision, but declines to elaborate.) Concerns about running afoul of law enforcement or offending community sensibilities also have some independents refusing to order the book. "We like to be an all-ages-friendly store; generally, we won't sell anything that's porn. We definitely try and avoid that at all costs," says Phil Boyle, owner of Coliseum of Comics in Orlando, Fla. Likewise, one owner of a small bookstore in the Bible Belt, who declined to be named, told PWCW that while her store sells both erotica and a growing selection of graphic novels, she won't carry a book that's billed and promoted as "pornography." That's the term Moore deliberately, defiantly uses to describe Lost Girls, though. "I didn't want to call this 'erotica' because, for one thing, erotica is material relating to love," he says in a telephone interview from his home in Northampton, England. "What we wanted to talk about was sex, and so I thought that the word 'pornography' was probably blunter and more honest." Still, in the U.S., any comics that involve nudity&mdash:let alone graphic sex-carry the potential for censorship or even prosecution. Paul Gravett's reference work Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics was recently removed from California's San Bernardino County Library because of nudity, and Georgia comics retailer Gordon Lee was arrested in 2004 after accidentally giving a minor a copy of a comic containing nudity. To date, the nonprofit watchdog organization the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (the comics equivalent of the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression) has spent more than $40,000 defending Lee. Top Shelf knows exactly what it's getting into with Lost Girls- Staros is the president of the CBLDF. According to Staros and his co-publisher, Brett Warnock, CBLDF lead attorney Burton Joseph has vetted Lost Girls, and claims that if the book is prosecuted in any state, it's defensible. Not all retailers are scared off by the book's explicit content. Michele Sulka, v-p of marketing at the Ohio-based bookstore chain Joseph-Beth Booksellers, which has stores in Ohio, Kentucky, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, says, "It certainly looks like [Top Shelf] has put a lot of effort into making this not just another book, but an art piece, really. It would definitely be something that we'd want to offer to our customers. But would it be something we'd be bringing in in tens? No." (She notes that it will help that the book will be shrink-wrapped.) Cliff Biggers of Dr. No's Comics and Games in Marietta, Ga.&mdash:where Top Shelf's Staros also lives-says that his store "will be cautious and prudent about how we display and market the book. Every store owner has to be careful to make sure that they're making it available to the intended audience, and not to people thinking that it's a perfect follow-up to Watchmen or The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen." Why is Top Shelf willing to bet so much on this project? Top Shelf also publishes the current edition of Moore and Eddie Campbell's From Hell, and recently made a deal to co-publish a future volume of Moore and Kevin O'Neill's successful League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series after Moore broke with DC Comics (in a much-publicized dispute over the film adaptation of V for Vendetta). Perhaps the publisher is just trying to please a superstar author. But Top Shelf's agreement to publish the super-deluxe edition of Lost Girls was the tiny company's first deal with Moore, back in 2000. Both Staros and Warnock were rabid fans of the project, on the strength of a few early chapters that had been serialized by several long-defunct companies in the early '90s. "I'd been a fan of Alan Moore my whole life," Staros says, "and I realized I'd gotten my first Alan Moore autograph, and it was on the contract to publish Lost Girls." Top Shelf has spent years and thousands of dollars on the grueling process of preparing Gebbie's fragile artwork (Moore had been paying Gebbie to draw the book; they are now engaged to be married) for publication. But all the financial risk has an upside: a $75 book with a name as big as Moore's attached to it has the potential to be an enormous moneymaker. As for his own intentions, Moore explains, "Lost Girls originally came about because it had struck me that there really isn't any good, serious artwork dedicated to sex, given that it's a human activity in which most of us have some interest. There are whole genres of books dedicated to the fields of, say, being a detective, or being a space patrolman, or being a zombie back from the dead, which are fairly rarefied in terms of their actual human application. But the only genre that is actually dealing with sexual material is this gritty, unpleasant, under- the-counter kind of genre, where there are absolutely no standards." In 1990, when the project began, Moore had already written Watchmen and V for Vendetta, but he wasn't well known outside the comics community. He and Gebbie initially intended to collaborate on an eight-page erotic story; the idea quickly ballooned into a three-volume, 30-chapter opus. The first few chapters of Lost Girls appeared in 1991 and 1992 in three issues of Taboo, a comics anthology edited by Stephen Bissette, in which Moore's acclaimed graphic novel From Hell-a collaboration with artist Eddie Campbell, another influential comics creator-was also being serialized. Bissette says, "We didn't censor any content. The whole premise of Taboo was to provide a venue for work that was problematic-to present the most cutting-edge, disturbing and confrontational work we could." At that time Taboo was being co-published by Bissette's SpiderBaby Grafix and by Tundra, a comics publisher headed by Kevin Eastman, co-creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But friction developed between Bissette and Tundra over an incident that prefigured the more recent flap concerning the film adaptation of Moore and David Lloyd's V for Vendetta. It seems that at that time, a California film production company took the liberty of creating a short film based on the Lost Girls stories, but turned Alice, Wendy and Dorothy into California Valley girls gabbing on the phone. "If I was trying to come up with a worst-case scenario," says Bissette today, "I wouldn't have gone that far." Moore says ruefully, "I never saw it and I think that people made sure that I never saw it." In any case, Tundra collapsed soon after; Taboo ceased publication; and an attempt by legendary comics publisher Denis kitchen to publish the work also failed when Kitchen Sink Press folded. For the next few years, Lost Girls was in limbo, but Moore and Gebbie continued to work, slowly, on the project that they had initially thought might take a year or two to complete. "The way that Melinda works," says Moore, "even if it's upon just a simple flesh tone, she will probably put down six or seven layers of colors. There were times when we wondered whether it'd ever be finished, but on the other hand, the beauty of the work that was being produced kind of spoke for itself." In 2000, Top Shelf Productions' copublisher Chris Staros flew to England for a comics convention in Bristol, and Eddie Campbell, another Top Shelf artist, arranged for him to meet with Moore and Gebbie about reviving Lost Girls. "They'd been quietly tinkering away with the book all these years," says Staros. "They were maybe 120 pages away from finishing." Two years ago, the main body of the story was done, and Staros and co-publisher Brett Warnock flew to England to visit Moore and Gebbie again. They arranged for the work to be scanned in the U.K., and Warnock recalls: "We'd say 'some of it is kind of X-rated,' and they'd say 'well, your name's Top Shelf!' because 'top shelf' is what they call porn in the U.K." But the finished product is meant to be "top shelf" in the American sense-the best stuff in the house. Moore says the publishers "are being meticulous in following all of my and Melinda's unreasonable demands about the loveliness of the packaging. At one point I suggested we should perfume each edition of it-a lovely idea, but sadly terribly impractical." Lost Girls' third volume includes this eminently quotable line: "Fiction and fact: only madmen and magistrates cannot discriminate between them." It appears on a page with several images whose content can scarcely even be alluded to in a family magazine, the largest of which is lovingly rendered in the style of the Decadent artist Franz von Bayros. "That probably will be the chapter that gets us burned," Moore jokes. "We've accompanied it with a narrative that is allegedly by Pierre Louys. This is stuff that appears in the later parts of the book, because we figured that, really, if any genre should build to a climax, it has to be pornography. We set ourselves this goal of doing something that works as art and as literature; however, with pornography, you have the problem of a kind of brain-genitalia blood balance. If all the blood rushes to your head, it's probably nowhere else." +++++ Johnny Ryan's ANGRY YOUTH COMIX #11 Hey Comics Fans, Big news in Fantagraphics land. After a few months in development, ANGRY YOUTH COMIX #11 has finally shipped to the printer, and will be hitting stores in May! This will be quite an expenditure for Fantagraphics, with the first printing costing us over $1500 to print. Why so expensive? Because AYC uses only the most cutting-edge staple technology known to mankind. All 24 pages will be folded and bound with the greatest care by the finest stapling artisans known to Canada. The entire issue will be published -- all at once -- as an art object for the ages. And to help raise the money to pay for this print run, we've decided to distribute this issue to comic book stores worldwide as well as via the World Wide Internets. This is a Fantagraphics exclusive, and the money raised through this distribution will allow us to finance the project and defray our enormous costs. Advance orders of this special issue will ship out as soon as they arrive from the printer. But please note that this special issue will likely sell out before the summer release date, and quite possibly within days of this announcement, so pre-ordering is highly recommended. ANGRY YOUTH COMICS #11 -- $3.50 (US) + Shipping, FOR ADULTS ONLY PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS BOOK CONTAINS EXPLICIT MATERIAL AND IS FOR ADULTS ONLY. AT THE WEBSITE YOU MUST CERTIFY THAT YOU ARE OVER 18 YEARS OF AGE TO PURCHASE A COPY. *************************************** DESCRIPTION: ANGRY YOUTH COMIX #11 by Johnny Ryan 24-page B&W comic book . $3.50; more in Canada . MATURE READERS For most of this century, Loady McGee an Sinus O'Gynus have been our guides through the Wonderland, Neverland and Land of Oz of our childhoods. Now, like us, these two lost boys have grown up and are ready to guide us again, this time through the realms of our sexual awakening and fulfillment. Through their familiar fairytales they share with us their most intimate revelations of desire in its many forms, revelations that shine out radiantly through the dark clouds of war gathering around a luxuriously spooky graveyard. Drawing on the rich heritage of erotica, Angry Youth Comix is the rediscovery of the power of ecstatic writing and art in a sublime union that only the medium of comics can achieve. Exquisite, thoughtful, and human, Angry Youth Comix is a work of breathtaking scope that challenges the very notion of art fettered by convention. This is erotic fiction at its finest. *************************************** Gary Groth, Kim Thompson and I would personally like to thank everyone for helping us get this project off the ground, as this is, without a doubt, the single most important issue of ANGRY YOUTH COMIX we've ever published. And with eleven issues to our credit, that's saying something. Why is this release so important? Because it does something that's never been done since at least the last issue of Angry Youth Comix: reinvent pornography as something literary, thoughtful, exquisite, and human. A singularly unique and layered story, Angry Youth Comix #11 is a commentary on the intimate wonder of human sexuality, the undeniable value of free speech, and the vulgarities of war. In an era and political climate when most would shy away from taking such a stand, this particular issue of AYC champions freedom of expression and puts that ideal to the test. As a tightly knit community of fans, creators, retailers, publishers, distributors, and press we all believe that the pen truly is mightier than the sword, but we also know that the power of the pen lies not in the author so much as the audience. As such, Angry Youth Comix needs the support of all of us. It has often been said, "If it's worth reacting to, it's worth overreacting to," and you can be sure that this fully-inked epic will get a reaction from everyone who reads it -- and more than its share of over-reactors as well. The literary, political, social, and sexual aspects of Angry Youth Comix are going to challenge our system to live up to itself. Get ready. Angry Youth Comix #11 is coming in May! Your friend thru comics, Eric Reynolds Fantagraphics Books 7563 Lake City Way NE Seattle, WA 98115 USA (206) 524-1967 x218 tel. (206) 524-2104 fax www.fantagraphics.com +++++ DARK HORSE DONATES ADIDAS ROYALTIES TO CBLDF Dark Horse Comics, an industry leader in publishing and entertainment, has announced that they will be donating the proceeds from the upcoming limited edition adidas adicolor apparel to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. The donation to the Fund will total $18,000, creating a substantial boon for the organization's casework in defense of the industry's First Amendment rights. "As one of the most diverse publishers in the industry, Dark Horse maintains a strong commitment to artistic freedom both internally and publicly," says Dark Horse Publisher Mike Richardson. He adds, "As diverse as the books we publish and the creators we work with are, the one point that can be agreed upon by all is the importance of free expression in any artistic medium. When Dark Horse was honored in being selected to participate in the adidas adicolor program, which celebrates the endless boundaries of personal expression, it was clear that we had to do something special." Dark Horse called upon a diverse pool of licensors and creators to participate in this special project. Participants included Frank Miller (Sin City), Eric Powell (The Goon), Fredrik Malmberg of Conan Properties, Joss Whedon (Buffy/Fray), Yasuhiro Nightow (Trigun), Mike Mignola (Hellboy), Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira), and Katsuya Terada (Monkey King), who lent their extraordinary talent to the project. All players have agreed to donate all of their profits from this project to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Richardson says, "It is our hope that not only will the profits donated from our participation in this unique program help the CBLDF to continue to accomplish these goals, but that our donation within this program will gain attention for the Fund's important work outside the comic community." The Dark Horse adicolor shoe and jacket will be available May 20, 2006 at select adidas retailers around the world. The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund was founded in 1986 as a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of First Amendment rights for members of the comics community. Donations and inquiries should be directed to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund at 271 Madison Avenue, Suite 1400 New York, NY 10016. For additional information, call 800-99-CBLDF or e-mail info@cbldf.org. +++++ A.C.T.O.R. RAISES OVER $9K AT PARADISE COMICS TORONTO COMICON THANKS TO SUPPORTERS, ARTISTS AND FRIENDS LOS ANGELES, CA (May 5, 2006) - A.C.T.O.R. Comic Fund, the only nonprofit dedicated to helping comic book veterans in need, raised over $9,000 at last weekend's Paradise Toronto ComiCon. A.C.T.O.R. couldn't have accomplished such an awesome feat without our amazing booth guests: Dave Johnson, JG Jones, Ty Templeton, Mike Mayhew, Darwyn Cooke, David Lloyd, Talent Caldwell, J. Michael Straczynski and Frank Cho and George Perez. Also, Paradise Comics Toronto Comicon founder and promoter Peter Dixon agreed to get his head shaved at the con if fans donated $1000 to ACTOR. The generous Toronto crowd donated just over $1200 for the shearing, and Peter got his head shaved. "For sale, one tube of hair gel, slightly used, and one hair brush. $5 bucks or best offer," said Dixon. Legendary artist and A.C.T.O.R. Board Member George Perez commented, "As an A.C.T.O.R. rep, I really want to thank Peter Dixon, who was a really good sport. It was a real gas watching the crowd gathering around to cheer him on as the shearing festival commenced. I'm especially grateful that Gail Simone -- amazingly enough, a trained hairstylist!-- was also a guest of the show, and she took on the lion's share of the clipping. That must have saved Peter a lot of torture. With me doing the final passes I actually had my first collaboration with Gail. Hopefully, there will be more. I guess I can thank Peter for that as well." A.C.T.O.R. will be back next year with even more guests and events! Please visit Paradise's Website at www.TorontoComicon.com. A Commitment To Our Roots (A.C.T.O.R.) Comic Fund is the first- ever federally chartered not-for-profit corporation dedicated strictly to helping comic book creators in need. A.C.T.O.R. creates a financial safety net for yesterdays' creators who may need emergency medical aid, financial support for essentials of life, and an avenue back into paying work. It's a chance for all of us to give back something to the people who have given us so much enjoyment. For more information, visit www.ACTORComicFund.org or call 310-909-7809. +++++ Comic Fans Become Superheroes Unique Offer From Zoom Suit Creator Raises $1,000 for Florida Humane Society Palm Beach, May 3, 2006 - On May 1st Zoom Suit writer & director John Taddeo made a unique offer to comic fans via an Ebay auction. In exchange for a $100 donation to the Florida Humane Society five fans would have their names spoken by a play by play announcer in the June Shipping Zoom Suit #3. Within 8 hours of the offer all five donations were received. "It's a fun idea and supports a fantastic cause, but I wondered if it would sell", said Taddeo. "Eight hours later it was sold out. It's great to team up with fans and members of the comic book community for an important charity". Jenny Goguen, a Zoom Suit fan and Manager at Silver Bullet Comics was the forth fan to act on the offer. "I think impersonating a male football player in Zoom Suit #3 is a huge plus for me. I mean, I'm 5'3'', a girl and I run about a 10 minute mile. I don't see anyone offering me any college scholarships to play on their team any time soon" joked Goguen. "This is the chance of a lifetime!" Next something even bigger happened. Long time comic fan Mike Avila contacted Taddeo explaining that although he had missed the auction, he was willing to make a $400 donation for the opportunity to be drawn into the comic book as a background character. Taddeo instantly agreed, and added $100 of his own money, bringing the total to $1,000 in support of the animal charity. "I had read about the offer on Newsarama.com, but by the time I got there it was sold out", explained Avila. "As a lifelong dog lover I think this is awesome. Plus, I figure this will make up for never getting a letter printed in a Marvel Comic. Zoom Suit is making comics fun again". "400 bucks to the Humane Society for a walk on role? Done.", said Zoom Suit creator John Taddeo. "This whole idea turned out to be a good time with good people". The last names of five fans will appear in the script. Originally the players were named after the artists on the project - Layton, Tucci, Sears, Grant, and Patton. However, Taddeo and the rest of Team Zoom thought it would be a fun idea to give fans the chance to be immortalized in the comic as well as help animals in need. As for Mike Avila, Zoom Suit Super Villain Simon Bane will kick the snot kicked out of him on page 21. Simon, an alien enhanced Rogue NSA agent with a penchant for oxymorons referred to the event as, "A Good Beating". All six fans will also receive a complete set of Zoom Suit #2 comics including Cover "A" by Bart Sears, Cover "B" by Keron Grant as well as two retailer incentive special editions. The Armored Legend Edition features a cover by Bob Layton, while the Suspended Animation Edition Features artwork directly from the animated short film. All four covers feature the latest break through in "Glow in the Dark" printing technology. Fans can see the covers at the Superverse website, www.superverse.com 100% of the proceeds will benefit the Florida Humane Society. +++++ Bristol International Comic Expo 2006 - May Update For the eighth successive year, the Bristol International Comic Expo (www.comicexpo.net) is back in 2006, on May 13 and 14 at the British Empire & Commonwealth Exhibition Hall coupled with talks at the Ramada Plaza Hotel. With just ten days to go, here's a wrap up of the new announcements since last time. All these and more, including the signing, sketching, panels and Expo schedule can be found on the main website www.comicexpo.net plus Eagles voting until midnight GMT May 7th at http://eagleawards.paxinterstellar.net/ ITEM! A-list artist David Lloyd - V For Vendetta, Hellblazer, War Stories - has confirmed attendance at the Expo, signings all weekend. ITEM! Hypotheticals (http://www.hypotheticals.co.uk/) - Saturday 5pm - will feature Geoff Johns, Liam Sharp, Shelly Bond, Jamie Boardman and Tony Lee, plus a UK retailer. Remember that the Hypotheticals rule is what is said in the room, stays in the room. Your only chance to hear what they have to say on topics written by Budgie, spoken by Dave Gibbons, is to be there. ITEM! Bryan Talbot's Alice in Sunderland has just been added to the Virtual Bristol Anthology, direct link to Bryan's work: http://www.engine4.net/bristolpreview/?q=node/248 There are now twenty-six different UK publishers featured in the anthology, all of which available at the Expo or via mail order, it's the largest single preview resource of modern UK comics on the 'net. ITEM! XBOX360 and X-Men: The Official Game on freeplay. Six pods of Microsoft's newest console, XBOX360, will be installed and working in the Ramada Jarvis throughout the Expo Weekend, providing unrivalled access to X-Men: The Official Game. Co- written by Zak Penn (X-Men: The Last Stand) and legendary comic book writer Chris Claremont, X-Men: The Official Game immerses players in an original storyline that provides the back-story for the upcoming X-Men: The Last Stand feature film. For the first time, the game enables players to truly command the powers of roles of Wolverine, Nightcrawler, and Iceman as they wield and upgrade their signature powers and maneuver through unique environments. Assisted by other X-Men characters, players will unleash Wolverine's combat rage, experience Nightcrawler's acrobatics and teleportation powers, and glide through the air on Iceman's ice slide. ITEM! Monkeys With Machineguns (http://www.monkeyswithmachineguns.com/) are looking to expand their team this year, in order to keep up a quarterly shipping schedule on their flagship title as well as developing other projects. Anyone with a portfolio is welcome to come and meet with them - they'll have a card up with the times on their stall - and see if they might want to become part of the MWM team. www.thecomicsreview.com said about MWM: In Heaven And Hell: "If Stephen King, David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick ever did a book together tripping on acid this would have been it". ITEM! Engine Comics (www.enginecomics.co.uk) will release two new projects at the Expo, Voodoo Macbeth by Norris Burroughs, and Seven Sentinels #1 by Marc Olivent and Barry Renshaw. Artists from both books will be sketching on Saturday at the Engine Comics table - Norris is flying to the UK from the US specially for the Expo. ITEM! Sam Hart (www.samhartgraphics.com), artist for Markosia's Starship Troopers, is travelling over the UK from Brazil for the Expo, and will be signing and sketching at the Markosia table throughout the weekend. ITEM! Flying Monkey Comics (www.flyingmonkeycomics.co.uk) will release their first two trades at the Expo, collecting issues one through four, and five through eight of Hope For The Future, an ongoing series in which three relatively normal students constantly find themselves facing up against all the weirdness of the world. ITEM! Bevis Musson's Queen of Diamonds #6 and now #7 will be available at the Expo for the first time, as well as a new 80- page collection of the Oddcases shorts by Bevis and Alistair Pulling, pulling previously published stories into a single collection. +++++ Thanks for subscribing to the Comic Book Network Electronic Magazine (CBEM) --------------------------->Disclaimer<--------------------------- This is an ANNOUNCE only mailing list, only the Editor can send messages to the list. No one else has access to the subscriber list. Replies to these messages will be received by the Editor ONLY, so you must CC: individual contributors if you want them to get your E-Mail. 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