Mind in the Gutter: Origins
On alternating Fridays, Leah Schnelbach waxes rhapsodic about comics, education, religion, and postmodernity. David Foster Wallace would be proud.
Okay, so it’s been a busy week, so this is going to be a short one – the obligatory comics geek origin story. (I’m fine with the term “geek”, btw, my friends and I wore the term as a badge of honor just slightly before it was cool – and anything was better than “nerd” – so I’m kind of attached to it.)
I’m 15. My best girlfriend keeps talking about this writer she’s heard of, Neil Diamond or something.
I’m like, “Neil Diamond writes comics?”
