I discovered this poster recently which include a Black Panther shot from Sal and my work from Black Panther#36 (2001) and, me being the completist that I am, I checked with my local retailers to see if they could get it for me and they regrettably could not.  I've seen it on eBay but, honestly, I don't have an eBay account anymore so that would be more complicated than I want going that route.  So if anyone can get this for me please This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and I can reimburse you via Paypal for the poster and shipping ($10 plus $6 rolled in a tube) AND I can ship you $35 or so in merchandise from my store or art from my rep's site Comic Art House and I'd handle the s&h fee.  Thanks!

In 1999 I finally got my first computer, the first iMac model (tangerine for those who care) and within a year I had created my Bob Almond Inkwell thanks to the vital assistance of Craig Rousseau and helpful guidance of Christopher Griffen.  Eventually I was able to ween off of the savvy tech guys and handle stuff solo.  But as time went on my program hot old and outdated and I never upgraded.  This led to my new operating system not being able to accomodate the program so I had to do all my updating on an old Mac G4 and use a flash drive to transfer the files to my Mac OS10 in order to fetch and upload the items online.  This is why many of my updates in 2008-9 were so tardy and sporadic, thus testing my efforts to acchive monthly updates as stated on the site.

Enter the generous Rich Lane who handles sites for a living.  He offered to use an efficient program that would not need FTP and help me rehaul my site which, left on it's own, would have eventually collapsed in on itself.  So now we have, on the site's anniversay natch, an upgraded website as well as the old site archived for those nostalgists: the best of both worlds!  For those sections that never need expanding, like the Sal & Bob Gallery and Altered Art Gallery, the pages are the original pages.  For those areas that get the occasional updates like Special Features, once there's an update, which could be in a month or in 2 years, we'll create a new page for the new material.

Everything else will be self-contained new pages (Bio, Contributors, etc.) or slowly expanding sections like Credits, Weblinks, Store, Photos, etc.  The lastest updated section, previously known as Gallery2, the commissions gallery, will now be simply the Commissions Gallery and you can check that out here on the 15th page (the previous 14 pages are accessible through a link on the page to the archived gallery section).  So no more galleries one, two, and three.  This site will always be a work in progress and things will still be getting tweaked in the coming weeks but for the most part it is now ready to roll and interactive as well.  So kick the tires and  give it a roll and let me know what you think!

Bob Shaw has resumed The Inkwell Awards auction fundraising (they ended late fall for the first Dave Simons Scholarship) and you can bookmark this link to check them out: http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/theinkwellawards
The initial week, having begun as of Sunday December 27th, is an ALL CARD theme from the various donations made from within the community at the Boston Comic Con, Dragon*Con, and Baltimore Con. The artists this week include Tim Sale, Warren Martineck, Jim Calafiore, Geof Darrow, James Nguyen, David Peterson, David Mack, Walter Simonson, Stephane Roux, and Steve Lieber! New auctions will resume every Sunday for the near future and they will consist of more sketchcards, sketchcover variants, original art, signed prints, and remarked & signed comics and trades.