Brill Building: A question for you all

A question for you all

There are comic book fans who got hooked on the stuff when they were kids and then never quit. There are comic book fans who never gave comics a second thought when they were young but when they became adults they got turned on to what the medium has to offer. Then there are the people in between, of which I am one.

I read X-Men and Batman comics as a kid and then got a bit more discriminating with my tastes by moving onto "ground-level" works like Frank Miller and Mike Allred's Dark Horse books but by the time I entered high school I had given up comics all together for guitars and girls (I go into greater detail in this post).

Then I was brought back when I started to get more analytical about what I read (for my senior year of high school I went to an experimental school where a lot of our class time was spent in roundtable discussions about books like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Herman Hesse's Siddhartha). I read an article in my Mom's copy of Time magazine about Chris Ware, seeked out his work and from there found there were comics that rewarded the more intellectual bent I took to reading. From there I found some interesting superhero comics in Grant Morrison's New X-Men (the idea of a creator dissecting specific characters and stories I read growing up me really excited me). I got more and more interested and look at me now. Spending most of my professional life devoted to comics.

I present that little piece of autobiography because I want to ask fans who are like me this: after you gave up comics in some point of your life (it doesn't have to be adolescence) what brought back? If you want to say why you left that's okay, too. I feel they are probably a lot of fans like me and I want to hear your stories.

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