Hi Al, welcome!

First off: I like your artwork! I'm trying stuff in Illustrator myself, but I'm not that great yet.. MayB you can help me with that

As for your site: I looks good, but that just on the surface.. You're using image-maps, which means you have just 1 big image to load, which is not that great for the site performance.

Try snooping around in the css-forum and see if you can convert your pages tot CSS, that would improve page-loadingspeed and useability..