Here's a handy – and unique – hardcover sketchbook/notebook/journal, with front and back inside pockets and elastic band.  It contains 200, 4 1/4" x 7" smoooth, flat, off white pages, with bevelled edges and discreetly numbered at the bottom left.  The (very) minimal textual elements are set in Helvetica, in a small, light grey font.  While this notebook was designed with photographers in mind, we feel that its design has the potential to serve comics makers as well.

It opens up with 4 ruled pages that are intended (and designed) to be used, ex post facto, as a table of contents.  This is followed by a universal (no days are included, so it will work for any year) annual calendar.  Then, the next 141 pages are devoted to the "Assignment and project log".  This is a series of two spreads (four pages), each of which starts with a ruled page for notes on the verso (left) of the first spread, followed by three blank pages (except for a light grey horizontal line along the top of each page above which – in a truly tiny, light grey font – is printed "Notes, observations and captions". There are 35 of these units in all (with the final log containing four blank pages).  Then there is a lengthy section of 36 consecutive pages each with three, lightly ruled 1 3/4" x 2 1/2" horizontal panels with a 1 1/4" open vertical space running along the right edge.  This section is ideal for jotting down sequential ideas and/or thumbnails and so could be especially suited for comics makers.  Then it closes off with nine completely blank pages.  And, yes, that blue horizontal band is simply part of the packaging; it comes right off. 

And, as a result of a special purchase, we're able to offer it at a substantially discounted price.