Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s where Paul came into my own story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Comics Convention in Kansas City.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
I was living in central Missouri, working in a department store, and writing for fanzines. I had hooked up with Comics Week<\/em><\/strong>, a new glossy comics news magazine edited by Mark Waid. They were planning a cover feature on Paul\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new series and needed someone to write the article. Could I go to Kansas City and interview Paul, Steve, and Mike at the Mo-Kan<\/strong> comics convention for the article?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well, yes. Yes, I could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And with that decision, I attended my first proper comics convention. I then became a regular fixture at the Mo-Kan convention for many years. My work for Comics Week<\/em> also led to my first professional comic book writing assignment, which then led me to publish Comics Career Newsletter<\/strong><\/em> (with Paul contributing columns).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Years later, I moved closer to Kansas City and decided to get back into the comic-con scene, so I started working with Chris Jackson<\/strong> to organize Planet Comicon Kansas City<\/strong>, which led to an amazing 10 years growing that show to one of the largest in the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By the way, Comics Week <\/em>was wise to hire me to write the article; I’m a solid nonfiction writer. Asking me to take photos turned out to be a terrible idea. My shots were horrible, and they didn’t use any of them. You can see some of the odd, grainy, black & white photos of the Doom Patrol<\/em> crew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
conduct a Doom Patrol panel at the Mo-Kan convention.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n