I never thought I'd ever sell comics let alone attempt it as a living. I was raised as a pure collector and my family just loves comics and novels. I'm a child from the early 90's but was raised like an 80's child, my father in love with the many things the 80's had to offer the world and many of those things being the spawns of an earlier time, where comics were seductive and painted brilliantly and skillfully with gore. One of my first introductions to this world was Tales From The Crypt. At this time in life I had yet touched a comic book, it was images on the home TV screen at a young age that had me captivated, the horror stories, later that I found out had been based off of many horror stories from several horror comic book series. This TV/Comic series gave me my imagination and kick started my creativity. I dream of being a writer, of one day having an amazing horror foundation like writers Stephen King or George A. Romero, both of which inspired me so much with the movies Creep Show, The Living Dead, Silver Bullet, and novels like Salem's Lot and Dreamcatcher. These in depth stories left me battling fear as a young child to an young adult analyzing fear and caught up trying to design my own webs of spine crawling, hair raising, jaw dropping stories for others to read.
One of the first comic books I ever touched was one of my Uncle's comics. When I was young my uncle would read me Superman comics and for a long time I was submerged into those stories with their sarcastic humor and powerful villains, giving another point of view to my writing and causing me to develop supernatural powered heroes with gruesome twists on their personality and heavy struggles between right and wrong as they struggle being something the world would instantly label or give biblical meaning but is never apart of their personal struggles or structure, having them fight prejudice and preconceived religious opinions and persecution on their destiny and their destiny's fate upon the world.
After facing the lose of my father shortly before my high school graduation, I suffered long and excruciating episodes of writers block, cut off from my father as well as my horror genre guru, I was left cut off from my passion of writing, desperate for my ability back, and feeling all my heart strings have been cut, from the lose of my father as well as coping with P.T.S.D. from watching his death, my inability to write, because writing in some cases, as well as watching some old movies, triggered episodes for the longest time. I found myself holding onto the idea that maybe I needed to repair my roots, so I drove myself back into my comic collection, reading and filling gaps of my collection. Then one day after buying a box of comics containing many needed issues and also containing doubles I realized I could complete my collections with more ease by buying issues I wanted at a good price with quantity and sell unwanted issues to support my collection. After some time selling comics online and seeing it beginning to grow, it left me pursuing my comic book career instead of the dead end job I had assumed over the years. I found myself at last happy again with meaning and passion and inspiration, giving me that wonderful moment when I took my pen into my hand again, my heart strings repaired, all but one, that one dangling inside my chest swinging and bumping into other heart strings, my father, but I don't banish this string, I don't shed this heart string because my father helped make me who I am today and even though I feel the tug of the strings when his dangles but also knots and stitches me together and helps bring together my work.
So my dream is, that one day, I'll be a great writer enough so I can sell comics as a full time job and spread a little bit of that greatness in these books that I have the greatest privilege of knowing and the honor of learning with my father as my mentor in the great arts of horror and opening up my interest in the Comic Book World, without his guidance and slightly poor judgment of letting a three year old watch Jaws and Tales From The Crypt, I wouldn't be here today.
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