Thanks to those who posted comments.
BB- You really think the pins should be there? I sorta opted them out so I could have the art as big as possible without cutting half of the pins off. I could probably get 2 or 3 of them in there at the current size. I don't know about the pins at his feet though. Oh, and I forgot the SNK Bowling Center, thanks for pointing that out.
RyoGeo- Illustrator really isn't hard, you just have to master the pen tool. Once you do that it's all gravy. Photoshop is difficult but you can teach yourself it. You seem to really want to learn and that's the big step, after that it'll all fall into place.
The reason you have big file sizes is because you use all bitmaps. Trey also uses vector elements for a lot of his inserts.
First, they print very VERY well. Second, they are very small byte-wise. Third, they can be resized without losing quality.
I could blow this up big enough to cover a building and it'll still be very sharp and crisp.
This insert is all vector art, except for the screen shots. Right now it's about an 8 meg Illustrator file, which is about 6.xMB as an .eps file. Now that Big Bear is having us do inserts in .eps and .eps supports vector objects, you should be able to trim a whole lot of Megs from your files. Things like the Meg count, The background color, all of the text... try setting these as vector images in Illustrator or try downloading GiMP from Download.com and give that a whirl <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">.