Dissatisfied with the current climate in publishing, Lecky had been pressuring Comeau to print the book in a hard-copy format. That might have been the end of it except for his friend, Mike Lecky, an aspiring Vancouver- based publisher. Ten days later and $1,600 richer he posted the remaining chapters. His on-line comic, co-created with designer Emily Horne, A Softer World (Xtra has just started to print some of A Softer World’s text and photo strips see page 20 or go to ), already had a rabid following of more than 50,000 readers a week, so he decided to put the first chapter of Lockpick on-line with a Pay Pal donation jar. In his final semester he fell short of cash after his student loan was denied. Lockpick Pornography was born last spring while Comeau was studying linguistics at St Mary’s University in Halifax.
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