I got an e-mail this week from Serena Valentino, creator of Gloomcookie and Nightmares and Fairytales. I had received one last year, but my friend April just sent her one recently and mentioned that I had introduced her to it.

Hello!
Squishy thanks to you and your friend Apollo! It’s kinda funny, I have a
character named Apollo in this horror graphic novel I am currently working
on!
Anyhoo thanks so much for the yummy email!
Squishings,
Serena

—– Original Message —–
From: April Nicole
To:
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 6:47 AM
Subject: A yummy squish!

> Serena-
> Hi! My name is April Nicole, and I am a bit of a
> Gloom-a-holic. To be quite honest with you, I had never even heard of
Gloom
> Cookie and I didn’t read comics. But I saw a couple of coppies of your
> amazing work at a friend’s house (Apollo, his email is
> frozentruth@hotmail.com and he’d probably be tickeld if you were to drop
> him a line, though I’m sure you’ve already heard from him, he’s quite the
> fan!). Anyhow, I picked it up and was just leafing through it, and I
> noticed how great the art work was. Then I started reading it. Lex just
> amazed me, and Max turely needs to get a life. It was just great! I really
> got into the story, and I’ve been -trying- to read in ever since. It seems
> I live in the stix and no one carries Gloom Cookie! I just want to cry!
> Anyway, I just wanted to send along some yummy squshings to you and tell
> you I love Gloom Cookie (especially Lex’s language). Thanks for your
time!!
>
> -April Nicole

I need to hunt down the comics from both series that I don’t have yet… it’s really an enjoyable comic.

Off to classes… then I will likely go mail the package for Ashley… then more classes…