Yeah, it took a while. Namely 50 issues before Craig rears his head in an IFX interview
That said, Android's cover on the front is deeply moving stuff... it will indeed drive many to tears, and in print, surpasses the original digital painting from whence it came...
Bah, nuff said, steal, plead, bargain your way into buying this issue. It's well worth it, and a damn good investment if any one is totally serious about digital painting. At all.

Now i'm just waiting for Phil Hale. Soon.

It's my secret that i mostly learnt digital painting from reading IFX. every monthly long weekend when i was in boarding school, when we had the chance to go to KL, food be damned, my IFX comes first - -" even now, i suppose (though there's the matter of a permanent subscription XD )

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Fanboy rant over. Happy to say that I've kicked myself to start painting in oils again... the results were.. promising, but the lack of a larger easel means that larger canvases will have to wait for a bit... mostly practicing with control, colour mixes before anything else- but its getting there, my workload is quite manageable, thank you very much

Oh, and its another Dan Simmons book. Why him, you ask? Well, partly because Hyperion really made significance when i was reading it in tandem during my literature classes in sixth form... combining together classcial canon literature with the best of SF opera (with no meson pulse cannons, cheesy space aliens or crappy babe-in-space/alien ice-queen elements, thankfully!) makes for quite interesting reading- both in enjoying the work as it is, and then later reading said works (Proust and Nabokov jamming it out with Keats and Shakespeare in a post-human earth, anyone? XD )