Joe Quesada's Drawing the Line Somewhere
After three-plus decades as a professional storyteller, twenty-two of them at Marvel, I've got tales to tell, opinions to give, myths to debunk, art to show, tutorials to share, and, most importantly, your questions to answer.
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The Spider-Man Divorce (opens the original)
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The Spider-Man Cameo No One Noticed For Over 35 Years (opens the original)
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First, A CorrectionThere’s something I forgot to mention. Last week's Part 23, The Two Languages, was the beginning of Act VI of this curriculum.In my defense, I went back and checked, and I never announced Act V either. At this point, unannounced acts are less a mistake and more a house style.So consider yourself officially caught up. You are in Act VI: Disappearance. And for everyone reading this series in order somewhere down the road, I went back and hung both banners on the online versions,
Stan Lee's Cadillac (opens the original)
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Cash, Cadillacs, and Closed DoorsOn April 14, 2017, I sat down for a one-on-one interview with Stan Lee on the stage of the Paley Center, raising money for the HERO Initiative.It remains one of the highlights of my entire Marvel life.We were up there for at least two hours. Probably more. And for legal reasons I have since forgotten, almost none of it can be seen today.But one clip escaped.Maybe someday the rest will too, because Stan said things that night I’d never heard him say before.And I’d
Nobody Wants Your Big Idea (opens the original)
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The Refund Window Is Now OpenFor those keeping score, that’s twice in one month the guy teaching you how not to lose your reader has disappeared. Full tuition refunds are now available.But before you flood the refund department, hear me out. There were reasons. Week two’s reason was legitimate. Week one’s was stupidity.On Father’s Day we went up to Redfish Lake, one of my favorite spots out here in Idaho. The newsletter was nearly done, it just needed a serious polish, so the plan was to sneak o
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