If you think creating comics is glamorous, think again. Of course, this can depend on your definition of “glamorous,” and it can be strongly argued that of all the things the comic-book industry is, glamor ain’t one.

I did at one point think the industry was glitz, money, fame, girls and Levi 501 ads, but this was sometime around the late-‘80s, early ‘90s when comic publishing had undergone a renaissance of sorts and was, for a short but glorious period, seen as “cool.” By short, I mean like three hours on an early morning in July, mostly when everyone was asleep.

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