{"id":1135,"date":"2012-04-07T13:18:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T17:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2021-11-18T10:28:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T15:28:00","slug":"slg-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2012\/04\/07\/slg-and-me\/","title":{"rendered":"SLG and me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, so long ago and far away I took a trip to Emerald City Comics.\u00a0 I was just getting into comics and I found the listing in the yellow pages while I was on my Summer vacation.\u00a0 What I found there was a slightly fear inducing, utterly magical world of tables and boxes filled with stories and pictures.\u00a0 This is where I found ‘Hero Sandwich.’\u00a0 It was a collection of about six issues that comprised one story line.\u00a0 I fell in love.<\/p>\n

I can’t say if this was really in a time before the internet or if it was just a time before I was aware of it.\u00a0 Basically, I had little access to finding more except for that same shop, Emerald City Comics, or the ad for a publishers catalog in the back of ‘Hero Sandwich.’\u00a0 The ad was already old and I wondered, as I filled out and sealed up the request, whether or not I would hear anything of it.\u00a0 A month or so later, I had mail from Slave Labor Graphics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I gathered up my meager allowance savings and placed my order for a few titles including Milk and cheese, Library Bonnet, and Pirate Patrol.\u00a0 My comic book collecting was slow in those days and everything got put on hold during the school year.\u00a0 By the time I made my second order, I had found SLG’s online site and discovered Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Rare Creature, and Lenore.\u00a0 Eventually SLG publications started showing up in honest to goodness bookstores, and then in used bookstores.\u00a0 This is how I found Rex Libris.\u00a0 That bowling ball monolith logo was all I needed to see to know I wanted the comic it lived on.<\/p>\n

Somewhere in the middle of this I got the idea in my head that I might create a comic myself.\u00a0 I’m not even sure where this initial attempt ended up.\u00a0 I think I can remember it being pretty bad, you know typical Mary Sue turned mutated super hero.\u00a0 It was the idea of SLG’s open submission policy that made me even want to attempt comicking.\u00a0 I was misguided, I know.\u00a0 I have much better reasons for drawing comics now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ok, so long ago and far away I took a trip to Emerald City Comics.\u00a0 I was just getting into comics and I found the listing in the yellow pages while I was on my Summer vacation.\u00a0 What I found there was a slightly fear inducing, utterly magical world of tables and boxes filled with… Continue reading SLG and me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,4],"tags":[207,68],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-comics","tag-nostalgia","tag-shopping"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1393,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2012\/05\/26\/mini-comic-day-going-going-going\/","url_meta":{"origin":1135,"position":0},"title":"Mini-comic day going going going","author":"leems","date":"May 26, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The cover for my min-comic.\u00a0 I am assembling as I type.\u00a0 Well...not really, I can't assemble and type at the same time.\u00a0 But, I'll be assembling as soon as I stop typing and I was doing some assembling before I began typing.\u00a0 Yes. 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