Locus Magazine for July 2003 is a special Graphics Novels issue, guest edited by Charles Vess, with

• essays by Neil Gaiman, Carla Speed McNeil, Charles de Lint, Richard Pini, Harlan Ellison, and others
  
  
• an interview with Alan Moore
  
  

• Reports from this year's BookExpo tradeshow, and the inaugural Mollycon (or 'Mollycoddle') professional gathering in New South Wales
  
  
• Awards news: Bram Stoker winners; Sturgeon finalists; Chesley nominations
  
  
• People & Publishing items about Joe Haldeman, Jane Yolen, Terry Pratchett, Ray Harryhausen, 'Minister Faust', Orson Scott Card, and many others
  
  
• Obituaries of Ken Grimwood, William C. Anderson, Ben Jason, Roy Tackett, George & Jan O’Nale, Dal Coger, Dave Mooring, Al Hartley, and Lance Casebeer
  
  
• Editorial notes about Charles N. Brown's and Jennifer A. Hall's recent trip to London, and Brown's trip to Seattle for a meeting of the Guidance Committee for the new Science Fiction Museum planned there
  
  
• And lots of reviews, including Gary K. Wolfe's take on Margaret Atwood's latest, and reviews of new books by Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Charles Wilson, Robert Silverberg, Ian R. MacLeod, Gemma Files, and others, plus reviews of graphic novels by Carolyn Cushman and Karen Haber