VIDEO: Our Favorite Comic Con Memories (Patreon)

Aw, dang.

Leila del Duca has been putting together these great long-distance video interviews with our fellow Helioscope studiomates. She's posted a handful already where we cover a range of topics, from Learning to Ink Comics to Comic Pros Share Their Favorite Advice to Art School vs. No Art School. My favorite is her tour around the studio itself :') (Though it's a shock to the system to see that place empty of other human beings!) 

Her most recent update answers the question of what our favorite comic convention memories are, and I was lucky enough not only to participate at the 19 minute mark, but to have my mentor Steve Lieber join in and share his version of the same events. My camera wasn't good enough to pick it up, but all the hair on my arms stood up and I got a wee bit teary /:) 

I'm so lucky, you guys. 

I'm so lucky my teenage interest was in a field where I could not only meet but become peers and even friends with my heroes. I'm so lucky the rock stars that I looked up to were good, kind, generous, encouraging people who took this dumb, loud, ridiculous kid under their wing and... Well, I can't figure out a less corny way to say this, so here it is: They nourished my brain and they nourished my heart. They guided me as grew up from an overwhelming teenager to a somewhat more balanced almost-40-year-old woman.

I've been in this comics ecosphere for twenty years. 

I still think of myself as being the young kid who's just barely "broken in", but nah. My roots are down deep, my trunk has withstood the storms, for better or for worse: I'm an established tree in this forest now. 

Ahk. There I go, rambling again. 

[Insert appropriate closing thoughts here]