Jm dematteis biography sample
Short biography sample...
Jm dematteis biography sample
December is a momentous month in my house: first comes my wife's birthday, then mine, then Christmas. But there's one more seismic event I celebrate every December:
Way back in 1977, in the last years of the twentieth century (to paraphrase H.G.
Way back in 1977, in the last years of the twentieth century (to paraphrase H.G.
Wells), I sold my first comic book script. I told the tale of that first sale in a 2011 post. You can read an edited, updated version of the story below. Hope you enjoy this self-indulgent celebration.
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Comic books were a passion that grabbed me at a very early age (I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: I don’t recall a time when I didn’t read comics) and never let go.
Sure, I moved on to Dostoyevsky, Bradbury, Hesse, and Vonnegut but I never abandoned Lee, Kirby, Broome, Kane, and the other comic book masters who inspired and nurtured me growing up.
I was always creative, obsessed with drawing, playing guitar, writing stories and songs.
In many ways, these things weren’t just my