Sat, 19 May 2001 Hi, Serendipity led me to "Jane's World" for the first time yesterday on the comics.com site -- I was scrolling the list of strip titles and was intrigued because Jane is my girlfriend's name. I've enjoyed all of the strips that are posted. Your bio says that "Jane's World" runs on the web. Is it web-only, or is it syndicated to print outlets as well? What sites is it on in addition to comics.com? I am a writer/illustrator/graphic designer (the design work is presently paying the rent), and have been developing strip ideas. I was very heartened and impressed to find a syndicated strip featuring lesbian characters (that is, in addition to Alison Bechdel's work, which I greatly admire). Has it been hard to syndicate the strip? Now that I've found "Jane's World", I'm looking forward to keeping up with her escapades. Cheers, Wesla Sun, 20 May 2001 11:12:12 -0400 (EDT) Congratulations, As a fellow artist, with a day job, I realize what a wonderful opportunity this is for you I hope things go well for you and the strip. You have a wicked sense of humor and keep up the great work:) - Jami Fri, 11 May 2001 Best regards, Paige Braddock. Thank you for the reply. It is very interesting that your father was a Forestry Service man. My father, a MSG in WWII went to work for the forestry service after the War. He than moved laterally to the Department of Agriculture, where he worked until he was medically retired many years later. I have great respect for the environment, and I agree that some areas should be protected. But that does not mean leaving them untouched by human hands. Drilling an oil well through the tundra (which my father had intimate knowledge of) will not destroy the arctic. In fact, it would disturb only a very small area. With modern drilling methods, very little damage will be done, and it may even be possible to drill at an angle from outside the protected region. And to top everything else off, much old growth timber has been destroyed by wildfires which were far worse than they should have been because the Forestry Service had overprotected woodlands from the fires that nurned shrub and new growth but left the old growth healthy and with more growing room. It is a great branch of the government, but like all the other branches, they can really mess things up. As a retired military man, I can tell you, there was a saying, "There is a right way and a wrong way for everything, or even worse, the Army way." And it would often have "government" substituted for "army". We live in what may very well be the greatest and most free country in the world, but I despise the rich, 2-faced "liberals" like Rosie and Ted Turner, who make more in a day than I have made in my entire life and who want the "downtrodden" to be aided while trampling on my rights. Streissan even wants to start a broadcast company that will exclude conservatives. Talk about trampling freedom of speech. Especially since they already have ABC, NBC, and CBS. Sorry. I am getting a little worked up, but I wanted you to know where I was coming from.  Best of luck, and God be with you, Bruce Tuesday, May 8, 2001 7:13 AM Subject: congratulations hi, i just wanted to say congratulations on being syndicated, i love jane's world and i have even gotten my girlfriend looking forward to looking at the strip everyday. keep up the good work. peace and love  tara  Monday, May 7, 2001 1:41 PM Great article, Paige. I emailed Jay and told him so too. I have my fingers crossed that Jane will gain rapid steady readership in the United Media way. Hope you're doing fine. I'm very busy on deadline works. Catch ya later. Oh, Happy Belated Birthday! and Congrats on the new launch! and I love little weiner dogs!!! Terry Note to Jane readers: If you haven1t seen Terry Moore1s work you should definitely check it out. Terry writes and illustrated beautiful, complicated female characters in his monthly installments of Strangers in Paradise. http://www.strangersinparadise.com Monday, May 7, 2001 Subject: Just heard! I just popped in to Jane's World and saw the announcement about the strip being picked up by United Media! That's so awesome! Much congrats! YOU ROCK! :-). I'm really happy for you sweetie, hopefully some of your luck, not to mention pluck, will rub off on me! :-) Take care, Irene Monday, May 7, 2001 Subject: Waiting for the Big Move Hey Paige! I've been so busy I haven't had time to let you know how much I'm looking forward to Jane's World moving in on the Big Time (it won't actually fully arrive til you get syndicated in print -- OK, I'm a traditionalist -- but comics.con isn't shabby at all!) I'm just wondering why in the world they're starting the strip on a TUESDAY instead of the traditional Monday or Sunday. Guess everything is skewed in cyberspace. I still wanna know more about the prospects for newspaper syndication. Jay's column indicates they're going to see how newspaper editors respond to it on the web -- but I don't know how they plan to measure that. No one from the syndicate has even ever asked me if I look at comics.com. Oh well, maybe they're waiting for a groundswell of public opinion -- which Jane is fully capable of stirring up! Have I told you how much I think the strip has improved in the past year? Your pacing, your story-telling, your ability to make the most of ''quiet moments'' or the little incidents of life and weave them into your storyline. Your work has just gotten much better since you left the AJC. (I'm sure there's no connection there! LOL).. Anyway, hope everything ELSE is going as well as Jane is right now. Let me know how you are. Frank Frank Rizzo is the comics editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Latest Atlanta News and Sports: http://www.ajc.com Get The Atlanta Journal-Constitution delivered! http://www.ajc.com/subscribe Saturday, May 5, 2001 Subject: YEA! Punk-O-Matic! You made the big time! I'm very proud of you! I've always said that you would be a big deal. I have even saved everything you ever drew or signed so that one day . . . I, too, can bargin on e-Bay. Love, Kelly Friday, May 4, 2001 Subject: Jane1s World plug by Terry Moore Hi, Paige,  Just reading the message boards over at Strangers in Paradise.com, and Terry Moore plugged your work very nicely. Made me want to stop over and check out "Jane's World".  I hope the Jane Mart has comics and collections of your work... definitely interested when you re-open the store. And, you went to the University of Tennessee?? Cool. I'm originally from east Tennessee (Bristol, on the Virginia/Tennessee border), so I'm a bigger fan of yours already. Thanks!!  Robbie Thursday, May 3, 2001 Subject: !!!!!! Hey there! Wow, that's great. What a terrific article. And kudos to United Media for having the guts to do it! XOXOXOXO Chip  Note to Jane readers: Chip Kidd is an amazing designer with Pantheon Books.  If you love comics, you1ll love his work. He recently put together collections of Batman, Wonder Woman and an amazing compilation on the work of Chris Ware.  Due out this fall is an art book on Charles Schulz with never before published drawings and early strips.