Over at Comics.com’s ComicZone is a little strip called 9 Chickweed Lane . It’s one of my daily strips and for the most part it’s standard funny fare about cats and realtionships and the generation gaps between Edda, the daughter, Juliette the mother, and Gran…the grandmother. It’s a little edgy in the modernism of the artist’s drawings, his challenges to the standard comic space and occasional wraping of reality. What makes 9CL stand out the most is Gran’s beau, Thorax.

After a recent selling binge, I’ve topped the 50 feedback mark on eBay (that’s right, I’m a blue star man now.) and I thought it would be a good occasion to share with you people some of my winning tips for selling success on eBay, the world’s online marketplace.

For lesson one, I’d like to point to a particular auction that I think illustrates one of the key elements of successful selling — good presentation of your item.

I know this is going to suck, but I’ll shell out my 8 bucks to see if Jake Ryan is still a dreamboat (if they can find him).