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@MikeMarano Back in 2001, I used that image on the cover of my first short story collection, which I later realized was a mistake, as it drove many readers away from the book instead of drawing them towards it. I switched up the tone for the 2015 paperback reprinting.
Today's mail brings a royalty statement for 2001's The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy, where my "You’ll Never Walk Alone" was the closing story. I'm happy to see the ebook is popular, even though once royalties are split 32 ways, my share is minimal. It's good to be read!
@john_clute I dug out my 1971 Clarion anthology when I heard the news and reread his prize-winning story. And what an amazing list of names!
Sorry to learn of the death of Robert Thurston, whom I first encountered in 1971 via his award-winning story in the pages of the first Clarion anthology ... and later met in the flesh when he dropped by to chat with the members of my own Clarion class of 1979. He will be missed.
Remembering the late Dave Cockrum, born on this date in 1943. My first credited comics work accompanied one of his illos in Monsters Unleashed, and then he filled in with a replacement page for Captain Marvel after I was forbidden to tease Wonder Man at the last minute. Miss him!
Happy 83rd birthday to @iamsteranko — who at my first ever comic book convention in 1970 when I was 15 — the same con where I prepaid for a copy of his then shortly-to-be-released History of Comics — autographed a copy of the Steranko Portfolio for me. Have a great day, man!
This paper drive ad from a 1944 Golden Age comic is one reason Golden Age comics are so rare.