Hey kids! Whaddya say we see what’s in the PWCW mailbag this week? Why it’s a profile of the CMX line and how nicely its doing! Oh, and a look at Donna Barr’s upcoming book, Afterdead! And here’s an interview with author George R.R. Martin on the comic adaptations of his work! A story on Kodansha’s next big international manga contest! Oooooo. And a neat feature story on Periscope Studios in Portland, Ore.:

The studio, which is located in an office building downtown, came together in early 2002; its initial members were Ron Randall, Karl Kesel, Terry Dodson, Matthew Clark, Paul Guinan, David Hahn, Rebecca and Pete Woods, and Steve Lieber. “The first action we took was figuring out the basic rules of the place,” according to Lieber. “There weren’t a lot. I think the main one was, ‘you can have porn, but you can’t put it up on the wall.’ ”

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Periscope has expanded over the years, too. Besides the founders, its 20 or so members—nobody’s clear on the exact number—now include Colleen Coover (Banana Sunday), Jesse Hamm (Good as Lily), Dylan Meconis (Wire Mothers), Jeff Parker (X-Men: First Class) and Rick Remender (Fear Agent). (A bunch of them shared an aisle in Artists’ Alley at this year’s Comic-Con International.) “There’s a lot of good-sized cities out there where you couldn’t name 20 cartoonists, much less get ‘em all into the same room,” Lieber notes. “It’s possible here because we’re in Portland, which is the most cartoonist-rich environment anywhere in the English-speaking world. It’s the last affordable city on the West Coast, it’s an incredibly literate city, it’s got crappy weather that keeps people inside and great coffee to keep them motivated—people come to a place like Portland and they do stuff.”

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