David, THANKS FOR THE Gibson DVD!
TUE, 10/7/03, 4:41 a.m. - In Response To: Re: Who are you and what do you do? (David Thornton)

David,
That was really nice of you! I love that documentary! I love to listen to documentaries and interviews when I work and that is probably my favorite recent interveiw/documentary. I've seen it four times so far (try to catch it whenever it is on tv) but now I have all the extra minutes and extra features from the DVD that I can't wait to check out!

Thank you very much. It is a great gift!
I'm glad that I will see you in Dallas in November.
Best,
David

Very nice of you!

I'll post our photos of the art show soon. It was a pretty big space and we should have lots of photos from the opening night.
Let me know what you think of the Echo story.
Best,
David

My best for the coming year. Hope it is even better than the last one.

Would have liked to attend the NKU show, but I can at least still look forward to reading the first two installments of Echo which I have, but have not yet had the time to start.

NB: Any plans/hopes for an Echo HC with both stories in one TPB? Would sell very well I think!

Thanks a bunch for the kind words. I'm glad you were able to read it all from the beginning at once time. I urge everyone else to do this. Especially before the new series comes out THIS JANUARY!

The new series is a brand new era in Kabuki's life. It is NOT going to recap anything from the previous stories. I've made sure that all six Kabuki volumes are in print and available in collections, so I hope people will use that as an oppertunity to read everything that has come before and hopefully read it all at once like you did.

In the new series THAT is all Kabuki's past. There won't be any flashbacks to it. No catch up. But it is still a great place for new readers to start because it is a brand new start for Kabuki that is very much it's own story, not dependant on previous stories. You don't need to read the past to understand the primary thrust of the new story. But if you do, you will love the contrast and the oblique and subtle hints at her past. And you will see the fruition of many of the seeds planted in previous issues! Seeds that you didn't know were seeds, but now you will see them blossom into something spectacular and mindblowing.

The truth is, after you read this new series, you will want to go back and read the previous stories again and you will see them in a new way that is going to make you appreciate them in a brand new dimension as well as the ways that they are already charming to you. They will still hold that charm, but you will have a brand new perspective to appreciate them from. It will be like looking at pictures of yourself as a child. You always appreciated the pictures for what they were, but now that you are grown up, you can see how those moments shaped your present life.

But the new series is specifically designed to be her NEW life. And it is essentially an instruction manual on creating a NEW life, creating the life of YOUR OWN PERSONAL DREAMS AND INTERESTS, that should be practical and applicable to anyone who reads it. It is a recipe and blueprint for creating your own reality, your own career, and your own fresh start. It is a spell for creating your own magic. Taking the baggage of your life and turning it into something positive and useful. Turning your garbage into gold.
KABUKI: The Alchemy is scheduled to ship in January and will be the cover of the January Previews.
We won't be overprinting, so please make sure your retailer orders ahead of time from the catalogue.

It is going to be great to have the Kabuki letter collumn again! I'm going to cram this issue with all that I can. Sketches, etc.

Please read the previous Kabuki stories like JD so you are ready for it!
Bestest,
David

Just wait until the new series! Info on it...