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.
Anybody else have some special Stan Lee memories?