If Sim ever explained his aversion to fax/e-mail, I never saw it. I'd hazard that it could just be "get-off-my-lawn"-itis, where anything new is perceived as a threat.

OTOH, I have to admit that the Internet does suck up a huge amount of time. OTOH again, since he's not producing a regular series-- maybe only doing commissions for all I know-- one would think he has more time than he used to. 

He did condescend to do a publicity tour of several net forums in 2008, to promote GLAMOURPUSS. Some of it was pretty entertaining, as when he debated Gail Simone on a forum whose name escapes me. 

i *think" IDW are planning on publishing the 1st trade - but entirely redrawn - and not by Sim. could be entirely wrong though.

I had the same reaction to the first two issues of Glamourpuss - great artwork, some of the best I've seen in a comic book, but the whole idea of the fashion ad stuff left me cold and the heavyhanded attempts at humour in those sections were an embarrassment. The history of comics artists bits were very interesting, though, and again, beautifully drawn. If they collected it, I'd buy it, and even if they don't, I might look for the back issues, just because the artwork is so very good.

i cant remember the strip, but he shows you the inky blotchy mess of the printed panels in the newspaper and then the incredibly fine delicate ink work of his re-creation of the original panels before printing. that was really interesting - showing how printing techniques (or over inking the originals to make them print) could real kill an artist's work.

Ah, here's what you're talking about:



That sounds like it could be very interesting, actually.

I would find that interesting, too, so long as it wasn't supposed to take the place of the original issues.

I'd be particularly interested to see someone who followed the series to the end attempt to create more symmetry in the early issues.

I don't think that's what we'd get. I'd imagine it would be people who have expressed admiration for Sim's work in the past, and haven't dropped that admiration even as they have criticized his views. That's a list that includes people like Eddie Campbell, Steve Bissette, Gary Spencer Milledge, Neil Gaiman, Rick Veitch, etc. Plus, when you consider that what IDW has been doing with Artist Editions and some of the artists they're currently publishing books for, you get people like Walt Simonson, Darwyn Cooke (a fellow Canadian), John Byrne, Mike Grell, Tim Truman, etc. I don't think we'll end up with Geoff Johns and Jim Lee's Cerebus.