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I GOT MY FIRST COMIC WHEN I WAS SIX

or seven at a gas station back when gas stations had newsstands. It was a funny animal book targeted for young readers and from the first pun I was hooked. It proved to be an excellent gateway drug and as I aged out of juvenile fare, super hero comics were right there to scoop me up. What moody teen couldn't relate to Raven of The New Teen Titans or Magik in New Mutants? 
 

It feels, for me at least, like comics and I were on this parallel path: As I entered high school and started to outgrow 4-color fistfights comics matured as well, Watchmen and the Dark Knight Returns grew the medium up right alongside me.

When I got to college and had my consciousness expanded I was introduced to equally sophisticated work, like Chris Ware's Acme Novelty Library, and Raw, Indie creators like Dan Clowes and Charles Burns, deconstructing the genre as they reinvigorated it.