I was hoping I'd time for a nice lunch and maybe a power nap before returning to work today, but instead, I got news that the man who first got me interested in comics had passed away.
It was the Spider-man comic strip that ran in the Daily News and perhaps numerous other newspapers when I was a kid. I looked forward every day to when my parents were done reading the newspaper so I could read Spider-man, and I was a fan ever since.
I only met Stan once, but what he said will likely impact me for the rest of my life. He had a copy of the first military comic I'd worked on, Untold Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan, and I had a compendium of the very Spider-man comic strip that first got me interested in comics. We exchanged autographs, and he clapped me on the shoulder and said, "You do good work."
It's a big reason why I'll likely never stop writing mil-comics.
Now of course the guy wasn't perfect and was involved in some controversies over his extremely long career, but I know a lot of people who have fond memories of meeting him, enjoying some of his work, and yes, even working with him. Anybody here care to share some fond Stan Lee memories?