Thu, 10 Jun 1999 Hey. This comic is sooo cool. I love it. I love Jane's personality. Keep it up cause I'm hooked. Shari Thurs., 10 June 1999 Paige, Just a short note to tell you I'm still realllyyyyy loving JanesWorld! Remember my comment about Jane maybe getting deeper that kinda started our "correspondence"? Well, the 5/7/99 strip is the perfect expression of what I was trying to articulate! Congratulations! Jane is so complex, but you handle her dimensions so well! I'm also really interested in watching Sara and Mia, they are a great story! Oh, and the ashes and keychain idea really busted me up! How offbeat, and wonderfully black of you! Thanks for JanesWorld! Best Regards, Dave Mon., 17 May, 1999 Subject: oh dear, I need my sunglasses. Wow, that's some shirt you gave Jane. heheheh I love your story, I'm like devoted to it now and i cant wait untill the new drawings are uploaded. Are your drawings published anywhere where i can read them off the computer? It would be a wonderful thing. Mariel Sat., 15 May 1999 First, I would like to say that I LOVE your strip. I've added it to my list of links on my homepage, hopefully giving someone the discovery I had about a year ago. Being young, and finding out you're different can have it's rough moments. Just something to keep in mind, but a younger character may add a new dimension to the strip. Regardless, your cartoon gave me the realization that being gay didn't mean giving up a normal life. Just one final thought - I'm a soccer player, and felt you made Mia seem like the typical girl jock. We're not all high on our sport and air headed! No1GkChick Fri., 14 May 1999 I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy Jane's World. A long time ago, I was turned off to comic strips when everyone I enjoyed reading retired, feeling like they couldn't do any more good work in the comic strip format. All that was left was mass-merchandised, poorly drawn, and generally unfunny strips (in my opinion). Newspapers in my area were unwilling to carry strips that pushed the envelope. Your strip is a refreshing change of pace, and I often find myself laughing out loud. Constantly, my wife will poke her head in my studio and ask what is so funny. Like me, she finds your writing to be a delightful pause in the day. I became aware of Jane's World when you visited SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design), and wanted to let you know how much I appreciated it. Comics on the web provide a nice outlet for creative ideas that syndicates are reluctant to touch. I hope someday to see Jane in the paper, but I feel like something would be lost. By the way, thanks for adding color on 5/14's strip. Again, you proved there are things you can do on the web that you just can't accomplish in syndication. Thanks for the laughs, Jerry Thurs., 13 May 1999 Just a Hello From Newport Just wanted to say that I enjoy your work and to keep up the good work,,,, I may be just a college kid but I love your work...Write back if you get a chance.... -Jessica o+ Tues., May 4, 1999: Hello, I am your probly # 1 fan! I love all your work but i am asking for one little thing, a picture of a bulldog drawn by you. You do not know how much this will mean. It would mean so much i could beg of u please thank you Anthony, age 13 Wed., 28 Apr 1999 Oh Paige, I do love your strip. I stumbled across "Jane's World" via the online version of my local paper (which I never expected to carry or link to a pro-gay strip, but that's beside the point). What can I say? I'm hooked. I read through about a year and a half of archived strips at one go, and now I tune in religiously three times a week. Poor Alexa! I think Sarah owes her a big apology (and a present wouldn't hurt) for so much misdirected animosity and general bad karma. That kid has enough challenges to her sense of self and self-worth right now. You know what I'd like to see? Jane's World greeting cards. Any chance of that? --David G. Thu, 11 Mar 1999 Paige, I just had to write to tell you how much I've liked the last few weeks of Jane's World! I've laughed out loud several times, the most recent time being when Jane found out that her sister came out to her daughter. That was truly funny, in that bittersweet, true to-life way. For me, that's one thing that makes your comic better than so many others, the belly laughs really mean something, it's not just "funny". I might be treading on sacred ground here, but I'd like to tell you what I'd like to read in the next few strips... I see Jane as being this deep, experienced, world weary "not quite-sage, but close enough for our times" kind of person. I'd love to see Jane shed some of that toughness, those curt expressions, and spend some real time with Alexa telling her what being a woman in love really is, and what being gay is. At 12, I think Alexa is at a good age to begin understanding these things. I never understood gayness until one night my wife and I were celebrating in a tiny, packed sushi restaurant. The tables were one upon the other, and you did share personal space with your fellow diners. We were sitting next to these two men, and after a while it was clear that they were romantically involved. A while later it hit me, these two guys were a couple, just like my wife and I were. They were in love, and they were celebrating an event ofmutual importance. Somehow, those realizati! ons changed gayness for me. I wonder if that kind of an epiphany can be translated into a comic strip???? Anyway, just my 2 cents! Thanks for a great strip! Cheers, Dave JaneJaneJaneJane, Congrats on the rocking cartoon which I have discovered just right now (due probably to my own stupidity and laziness, or something like that). Love Jane and Sarah (as well as the rest of the cast), love them together and separately, intertwined in a passionate embrace or doing laundry, buying a house together or taking off on a wild, adventuresome cross-country trip - love them almost as much as my favorite pair of pajamas inherited from my brother. I must admit, however, that although I worship both of them, I have a secret fondness for Sarah and in the light of Jane's recent behavior I think that Sarah should have a fling on the side. A short lived, amazingly passionate, beautiful thing with an attractive and definitely charismatic NYU Metropolitan Studies undergraduate? Couple of weeks and then can Jane, Sarah and Mia work out their dilemma - c'mmon what dya say Paige? Have a heart, spring is so far away from NYC...