Orson Welles, John Lennon, Jack Kirby, Carl Sagan
All right, even more about me:
I was born in 1966 in upstate New York, and lived in that area there until my family moved to Florida when I was around 8 years old. My earliest memories of living in New York involved being given comics by my mom as I was recovering from having my tonsils out when I was six years old, and later walking down a half-mile or so to the downtown area of the town we lived in to the drugstore that had an extensive comics rack to satisfy my earliest comics fixes with Spider-Man, Archie and Richie Rich comics.
In 1985 and 1986, I attended Adirondack Community College in Queensbury, New York, majoring in broadcasting and doing a regular radio show on WGFR, the college's 10-watt radio powerhouse. I started working professionally in radio in 1986 and continue to do so to this day. I've been a disc jockey, news reporter, writer and producer, and currently work as a copywriter and production director; gratifyingly, it's actually the most fun I've had in two decades in radio.
In 1993, I married Lora, and in the ensuing years we've had two children, a daughter and a son. Both kids have inherited my love of comics, and love to draw as well.
In 1999 I began working at an all-news radio station in Albany, New York, and that was where it first occurred to me that comics might make for interesting news stories from time to time. Eventually, I was tapped by Silver Bullet Comic Books to write and edit reviews; in late August of 2000 I decided to take a chance on the creation of Comic Book Galaxy, and after a few weeks of gathering a dream-team of writers, the site debuted on September 1st, 2000.
The Galaxy's remit is to feature quality writing about comics with "Passion, Truth and Diversity," with the ever-present goal of "Pushing Comix Forward," and celebrating comics that achieve that mission.
Among my personal favourite comics creators are Alan Moore, James Kochalka, Paul Hornschemeier, Barry Windsor-Smith, Los Bros. Hernandez, Grant Morrison, Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, Chester Brown, Kevin Huizenga, Renee French, Dan Clowes, Bernard Krigstein, Chris Ware, Phoebe Gloeckner and David Mazzucchelli -- but such a list fails to explain the true breadth of my love for great comics, or my passion for, as Warren Ellis once noted, "What's new and what's next." The one thing that always keeps me immersed in comics as an artform is the fact that there's always something new and different just around the corner, always something amazing to discover. It's been my privilege to be able to share some of those discoveries with others since I began writing about comics.