This is Comic Geek Speak episode 591, an interview with original art dealer Will Gabriel.

Welcome to Comic Geek Speak. I'm Brian Deamer.

And I'm Brian Christman.

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All right, in this episode, we are going to talk about original art,

and we have a wonderful conversation with original art dealer Will Gabriel,

who we found out is actually only like an hour away from us, which is pretty cool.

And I'm looking forward to meeting him someday at a con, hopefully. I think I did meet one of the Philly cons he mentioned that he goes to. I think I did see him once in one of those cons. So if you have any interest at all in the world of original comic art, you're going to want to stick around for this interview because it is really fascinating, chock full of information. I know I learned a lot, and hopefully you will too.

All right, joining us now is Original Art Dealer, Will Gabriel.

Welcome to the show, Will.

Hey, thanks for having me.

Now, the first question we always ask everyone when they come on the show for the first time is,

when did you first start reading comic books?

Wow, probably as soon as I can remember reading, probably when I was about five years old, maybe 1975 or so.

But as long as I can remember reading, there's a comic book in my hand.

That's the way it should be, right?

There's no other way about it.

So you're about my age. I was born in 69.

Okay, 70.

Oh, wow.

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