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PopImage Mail Sack Hi Folks, welcome to the first PopImage Mail Sack. I'm Scottie Grunewald, the publisher here at PopImage. I hope to have at least enough letters and correspondence to keep this column running monthly, but in order for that to happen, I need you readers to e-mail me at popimage@hotmail.com. Now, onto the letters!
Hello- Phil just sent me over to look at your site? Very elegant, very fast loading, and most important, cool content. I don't do a lot of surfing online, I'm usually too busy messing with my own sites to look at other peoples unless somebody makes me, but I've seen enough bad design to know when I see a good one. Anyway, I've bookmarked your site so that I can check up on what's going on in the world of comics once in a while. I really should do that once in a while. Thanks! - Kaja Foglio Kaja, Hey, no problem. If you keep coming back, we'll keep doing the site! [Editors Note: Christopher here. I'd just like to take this opportunity to give props to Matt Fogel, who developed PopImage's June re-design. All of the compliments and kudos we've received should be sent his way!] And for you folks out there, Kaja and Phil Foglio are the folks behind the delightfully perverted and fun XXXenophile comics. Buy them, and enjoy them, and if you're embarrassed to buy them at your local store, then make a point of buying them from the Studi Foglio website.
Hi, my name is David Ryan. I am the writer, penciler, and publisher of PENANCE. Your review of PENANCE #2, without the book even out yet, is more then a little unjust. There is no porn in the comic book at all. Nor is there any foul language. The character appearing on the cover is shown on three pages in the interior. The book is an enjoyment to me for my love of art and mythology. The advertisement plug of "Mythology with P.M.S." was to be of a comical nature, not intended to insult or offend anyone. Frankly, I couldn't give a shit if it does anyhow. When a dolt that gave the review voices his opinion about something I hold so dear on the basis of an ad with further looking into the first issue or even trying to reach me for a comment concerning what the book is about it only furthers my opinion of his being a dolt. A side note: don't screw with people's livelihood on an asinine, unwarranted opinion. When issue number 2 comes out I will send you a copy for a proper fair review. I am a self-publisher in times where it is almost impossible to compete with the industry as it is. Penance is funded purely out of my pocket, which may I say, is not as deep as Marc Alessi of CrossGen. Thank you for your time, Dave
Hi Dave I did not review your book; I mentioned it in my Previews column. The column is an opinion piece, and is essentially my thoughts about what I see in Previews. I wrote what your book looked like to me based on the ad and solicitation copy, and I never claim to have any foreknowledge of the books that I write about. PENANCE may be a brilliant book that everyone should read, but that's not what I saw in your solicitation copy. What I saw was a misogynistic cover and a tag line that reeked of male chauvinism. I'm very sorry if that isn't what you intended to come across, but that's what I saw. If your book is not about a half naked 'bad girl' wearing clothes that would make a stripper blush, then you went wrong somewhere when you chose how to advertise your book. I understand how you feel, really, I've gotten some bad press myself, and as with you, I fund my magazine out of my own pocket. But as you say, comics are in a horrible state right now and perpetuating comic cliché's and female stereotypes are not the way to fix those problems. All I can do as a journalist, even an amateur one, is tell people what is on my mind. The ad copy and image offended me. I wrote about it. I'll enclose my business address and will take you up on that offer of a copy of your book. If what I read is a high quality book without any of the negative elements that I perceived, then I will write a retraction at the very top of my next column and do what I can to get the word out about your book.
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in my In Box every day, mail me your thoughts and opinions about the site, the articles
that we publish, or just about anything else. And if you don't want your letter to appear in this column but want to send us an
e-mail, then please tell us not to reprint your letter. Scott J Grunewald PopImage, Publisher
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I sent this response to Dave Ryan via e-mail, and am including it here to make my
promise part of public record. 
