These are my friends Justin Howe and his wife Jin in South Korea with their creature poster. We met Justin & Jin in Easthampton, MA. I owned a tiny little used bookstore called the Papercut there for two years, and Justin was one of my biggest supporters during that time. We got to know them, and Jin eventually introduced us to the wonders of Korean eating. All the moves later there are days when I miss Easthampton something terrible. Life moved at a different pace there and it had a strange effect on all the natives and on me.

Extending the family tree, Justin is a writer and has contributed to many projects including reviewing books for Strange Horizons. He has a story in the recent Homeless Moon collection. His livejournal, which currently is detailing his time in Korea is here.

Jin is a wonderful artist of comic/manga style work which can be seen on her website here. It’s in Korean, but I used Google Translator to make some sense of the words. The art though, being amazing, needs no translation to see her talent.

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