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Gis?le Lagac? (of Cool Cat Studio) makes me feel like I'm not all alone here when she writes:

Hello everyone. First and foremost, sorry for this sudden hiatus. To be quite honest, I've been struggling to keep up as of late and it seems that my body has imposed this break on me. I guess it's what most people call a "burnout". The hardest part for me to accept is that this burnout is not only physical but emotional.

And over at Sinfest HQ, I see that Tat's missed a deadline and doesn't have a new comic up for today yet, which is odd, because he's been regular as clockwork (7 days a week!) for simply ages.

David Schumacher of ATP Productions continues with his contribution to Reiterating Comics.

And in case you missed it ('cause I know I did), my contribution to Damonk's Panel Jam project appeared yesterday.

According to Google, Zwol is one of the hardest websites to find on the web. Man, that sucks.

I am going to have a new comic soon. I really am. I'm starting to feel like Jeff Smith when he said (paraphrasing), "when I'm done, it won't matter how long it took between each installment. It will only matter that I completed the story and it's as good as it can be."

In the meantime, I'm really enjoying Max Leibman's Desiderata, which is as decent a Zwol-substitute as anything I've seen outside of one of my bigger influences, Chris Baldwin's Bruno. If you mix the two of those, you might get Zwol.

Which segues into mentioning that I ordered book 5 and 6 of Bruno last week and they arrived this week (nice and quick- Thanks, Chris! (ok, I'm certain Mr. Baldwin doesn't know who I am, but I've got to act like everbody's all webcomic buddies out here in cyberspace, right?)) and I must say that they're even more beautiful and of higher quality than I'd expected. As a fairly active supporter of webcomics (square-bound book collections, comic book format reprints, newsletters, direct donations, etc.), I'm sorry I hadn't ordered any Bruno books earlier.

In traditional print comic books this week we see the first issue of Tom Strong's Terrific Tales (no really good links, but this'll do) which features an 8-page story drawn by Art Adams, who is doing some of the best work I've seen him do in years. It would be a pity if DC Comics never released the final three issues of The Authority that he's been working on.

And should the below news postings lead you to believe that I've been completely negligent, I'd like you to know that over the weekend I spent considerable time involved in creative enveavors. Though I am no musician, I have been known to attempt to create music from time to time and over the weekend I managed to work out a couple short tunes. Incomplete, and probably derivative, but something created, nevertheless.

Hey, it could be worse- Ice Cream for Breakfast has been promising new material longer than I have.

What do you think about the Everything Jake solution? When he doesn't have a drawn comic, he posts text. (Personally, I don't think that works for Zwol, so you're highly unlikely to see that approach here.)

David wraps up his three-part RC installment. It's a little late not because of David, but rather because I didn't log in to check email (or anything else) at all this weekend. It's there now. Unless I decide to go see the Harry Potter movie tonight, there could be a new something up there tomorrow by me.

OK, in the USA the third fourth Thursday in November is a national holiday known as Thanksgiving. We're so loud about it that I'm sure most non-Americans reading this are familiar with the name of the day if not the specifics. Even so, you can probably understand my confusion that Mr. President George "Dubya" Bush has declared this year's Thanksgiving Day to be a National Day of Thanksgiving. Huh? That's like declaring that New Year's Day shall signal the beginning of a new year.