I loved to read as a kid but I was also drawn to visual, to you know very visually driven. So I loved comics, I was really big into comics. I mean I read novels too but I really loved comics and back then it wasn’t, they didn’t have the selection of comics that they do today in terms of like graphic novels, it was all different sort of genres I suppose within the graphic novel form.
Back then, at least the comics I was able to get were like the superhero comics so I loved like Spider-Man and X-Men and I loved you know I think reading comics and also looking at comics is another sort of way that I was inspired to want to continue to draw and inspired to keep trying to be a better artist so I would copy the pictures from some of the comics that I would read, and sort of get better at making pictures in that way.
But yeah, I was just really a big comic fan throughout most of my youth, a big comic collector.
I still keep up with comics and I, you know I read as many graphic novels as I hear about. And yeah, there’s definitely a huge boom in amazing graphic novels and memoirs and you know fiction, it’s, I think really it’s really opened things up in terms of, because it used to be you know limited to however many pages a traditional comic book would be.
But now you can make an entire novel so it’s really, it’s really exploded in terms of what you can do and how stories can be told and so it’s a really inspiring time for, it’s a really cool time to be reading comics.
People ask me like my son is a reluctant reader and I always sort of say try like Bone, you know Bone is like a really gripping story and he makes you want to keep reading it and it’s a, it’s beautifully illustrated and so comics I think are a great way to get kids started on, starting to be more and more, you know better readers.