I started reading them in the 70s. We'd buy the occasional issue from a small store across the street from school and I got my introduction to John Romita, Sal Buscema, and most importantly for me, George Tuska. Tuska's work on Iron Man is what made me want to be a comic-book artist when I grew up. (Thank you, fundamentalist mother, for delaying that dream this long)
I bought much more regularly in the early 80s, then fell off for a while until the early 90s, when I discovered Jim Lee and some of his contemporaries, who made me remember how badly I wanted to be a comic-book artist as a kid. At least this time, what stopped me was that an opportunity to turn my job (mail clerk) into a career (IT tech) came along and I jumped at that instead. I kept up buying comics on and off for a few years, then fell off again in the late 90s.
I picked it up again in the 2000s, getting the books delivered by a service a friend was running. I dropped out of it around a year and a half ago because I am getting ready for my move to Ohio, where I finally plan to pursue that dream of becoming a comic-book artist and/or fantasy illustrator (more likely the former, for sure). I haven't bought any comics for about a year now, but plan to make up for it in the near future. :p
I bought much more regularly in the early 80s, then fell off for a while until the early 90s, when I discovered Jim Lee and some of his contemporaries, who made me remember how badly I wanted to be a comic-book artist as a kid. At least this time, what stopped me was that an opportunity to turn my job (mail clerk) into a career (IT tech) came along and I jumped at that instead. I kept up buying comics on and off for a few years, then fell off again in the late 90s.
I picked it up again in the 2000s, getting the books delivered by a service a friend was running. I dropped out of it around a year and a half ago because I am getting ready for my move to Ohio, where I finally plan to pursue that dream of becoming a comic-book artist and/or fantasy illustrator (more likely the former, for sure). I haven't bought any comics for about a year now, but plan to make up for it in the near future. :p
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
