"thanks again for the pics!"

Your welcome, also not sure how i could forget but if you need inspiration for storytelling and how to build up pages, like layout etc. I would suggest that you get this comic book, which is the best comic book i have ever read. 

If you dont already know it, this is the cover of the combined 3 part series. Unfortunately i werent able to find the english name for it. 

But it was written by Bruno Chevalier and illustrated by Thierry Ségur.

But besides being a good story, it uses a lot of very sweet layout techniques.

Like this example, where these small beetles kinda of live there own life, while not being important for the story it self. 

Same with the top left corner, its a bit hard to see here, but its another example of all these small side story going on in the book, in this case a battle between these two types of critters, that again doesnt play any important part of the story, but is just something that goes on in the background while the main story is told, but it helps to make it very entertaining, because there are so many details added to it that you keep discovering new things while reading it. 

But anyway in my opinion this comic book is a masterpiece, which i think you can get a lot of good ideas from, even if you should not be into the fantasy stuff.