Comics Journal question

I received an email from Comics Journal asking what comics related gifts I'm giving this holiday season. Here's my response:

Dear Kristy and Michael (ie Comics Journal),

I've got a gift I'm giving to two friends who can't make it to conventions as often as I do. I'm giving them small sketchbooks.

I'm taking the sketchbooks with me to conventions. For each book I choose one writer and one artist at each show. I ask the writer to "sketch" a short one page script. The next page goes to the artist, who does a drawing based on the script sketch.

Writer Marc Andreyko (Manhunter) and I came up with this at a convention in Spain. The first writer-artist combo was Marc and George Perez.

I'd love to see this idea spread because writers don't have much to sell at conventions. Hopefully this means up and coming writers can finance trips to more shows!

Happy holy days (how's that for a politically correct greeting?),

Gene Ha