Tom Tomorrow has a new book out and Salon has an interview with him. (I think you need to sit through a Salon ad to get a Salon "Day Pass" to read the interview - it's not as big a pain as it might seem to be though).

In this edition of Permanent Damage, we get a breakdown of the Marvel/DC market share and how Wizard cannot and should not rely on that market share to justify it's almost exclusive coverage of Marvel/DC to the exclusion of all other publishers.

The issue here is the use of Paypal. You see, Paypal doesn't list some countries in their databases, and my country is one of them not listed.

What can this budding comic artist do without it?

Also, there's a lot of rash of complains about Paypal's service. Try checking it out on Alexa.com and read the reviews. If I am wrong about Paypal's service, I don't know what to say. But how can I trust a payment service that does not list my country on its database?

Warren Ellis drops his art bomb review of the new Get Your War On! book.