This is Comic Geekspeak, Episode 1381, Denver Comic-Con 2013 Spotlight panel, Denny O'Neill.

This is Jamie D.

Just got back from Denver Comic-Con, and on Friday of the Comic-Con at 5 p.m., it was my great pleasure to moderate the Denny O'Neill panel.

As you listen to this, we're going to kind of join it a little bit in progress.

There was a bit of a foul-up with the sound equipment,

and we just got, I really just introduced him and asked him my first question

which was how did you get into comics and specifically how did you get into writing because this was

comics in the classroom was the big thing so I wanted if there were any writers out in the audience

I wanted to let to find out and pick Denny's brain.

And he started out by saying that as a kid, they would trade comics and do things like that.

And he found out the best way, and he would tell stories to these children.

And the best way to tell these stories he found out was by listening to the radio and kind

of deconstructing what he heard in the radio for the visual storytelling.

So we will join this in progress.

He is speaking about the subject I just said.

And it struck me that that was a much bigger influence than comics

and a much better training ground,

because if you're listening to radio, you have to do the visualization.

Nothing is spoon-fed you.

So for somebody who's going to make a living from writing

for visual media, I don't think there could have been

a better thing for a six-year-old to do

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