Herland update

Hey there!
I've been having fun with my project. So far I've re-read Herland up to chapter 8, highlighting things that I think will translate well visually, but I've only got chapters 1-5 sketched out on paper.
I've also been reading some comics to see if I can use some of their techniques in my own comic. I finished Making Comics by Scott McCloud (which is a great instructional book as well as a great comic), Garage Band by Gipi (an Italian comic about a group of boys who start a garage band and steal an amp), and a ton of mini-comics an excerpts of comics from The Best American Comics 2008. TBAC'08 has a wide variation of comics, so some of them are really awesome, intelligent, beautiful, and/or funny, and some... well, not so much.
I have also been sitting in on block printing classes with my advisor who teaches the course. I don't really do much -- just roll out ink and clean it up, but, surprisingly enough, I've learned a lot about it. It's much more involved and complicated than I had imagined, and there are so many things to consider: what type of wood or linoleum you're using, how your tools will or will not work well with your medium, what type of ink to use, what kind of paper will work best with the ink as well as your image, etc. I haven't tried block printing yet, but after sitting in on these classes I really want to try.