I mentioned these guys before – whether on the Blogspot version of Glyphs or here, I don’t recall – but it’s worth repeating anyway. The Antidote Trust is a cartoonists’ consortium/studio thing set up to mutually help each other out, that sort of thing. Kevin Grevioux is the highest-profile member, but it also includes Robert Roach, M. Torez (AKA Mike Sales), and GCA judge Hannibal Tabu, among others. I met Rashida Lewis at the Newark comics panel, and I know Bart Thompson and Korby Marks through the Net.