His site has a "please give me work" link. Illustrator, web designer. Sounds a bit desperate, now, but that's true of a lot of web wonks in Silicon Valley!

RE making it pay, Scott McCloud goes on about this for almost too long in _Reinventing Comics_. Well worth reading. Although it's worth it to take in _Understanding Comics_ first.

In his medium? Boy, that would be excellent. Somebody really should start thinking about how to make creativity on the net pay. I don't think the consumer is going to pay for it. We're too used to getting it for free. But, yeah, no way you can do that much work simply as a hobby.

I wonder what his day job is?

You know, in the olden days, factories maintained baseball teams by hiring players and giving them featherbeded jobs. Instead of reporting to their 'job' they reported to practice. The Caterpillar Cats etc., traveled all over the U.S. playing baseball and drumming up P.R. for Caterpillar. When the season was over, the players actually worked in the factory. Karen Joy Fowler wrote a wonderful book, _Sweetheart Season_ about this.

Wouldn't it be great if companies hired netgeeks of talent and vision as 'workers' and then let them do their thing? The P.R. wouldn't be bad and it would be pretty darned cheap.

Saturnalia was indeed weak.

My point: I think he'd be updating the site more frequently if he could make a living at it, or got some kind of comission for a project *in his medium*.

Well, yes, but I wish he'd update that site from time to time. His Christmas issue was just sort of dumb in a sophomoric 'naughty me' kind of way. So tedious!

Nevertheless, the whole thing is supported (imho) by the Thanksgiving special and his all text 'What I Almost Became'. Hmm. I think I have that name slightly wrong.

He'd get more famous if he did some print work.

That's a wonderful idea!

A LOT of Farley's stuff is SFish enough to be . . . well science fiction, and perhaps eligible for an award.

_The Jain's Death_ is well worth looking at.

And I think the Hallowe'en special should published in The Skeptic.

It drives me nuts that the guy has to scrable for work to stay fed. He's a major talent, both artistically and literarily.

What would Thanksgiving be without traditions. Electric Sheep's T-day cartoon is one of our favorites.

I even rec-ed it for a short story Nebula.