Hey everyone, welcome to the show. This is Rob Zervations. I am Rob Leifeld. I have been making comic books my thing for 34 years. I write them, I draw them, I ink them. I have worked for every major publisher. I was one of the gentlemen who was fortunate enough to start the label of Image Comics,

which brings you such great comics as Walking Dead and Saga and Savage Dragon. And I've been doing

this podcast thing. And I love that you guys listen to me. And I think we are in for a really fun show today.

I've been around the business. Again, consuming comics since I was seven years old, those spinner racks.

I've tried to recreate that spinner rack in my office. It has comic books on it that I bought from all

of the haunts that I frequented when I was a kid.

So when you see my spinner rack, and again, for those of you who are saying, what is

spinner rack? Spinner rack is a metal, basically series of shelves, four sides. Mine has

12 rungs, and they put magazines and they put comics on them,

and they were in every drugstore, market, grocery store, you know, mini market like 7-11,

stop and go, you towed them. And that's how I encountered comics. So since seven years old,

I've been pulling those off the spinner racks. I was

sad when they went to shelves in the mid-80s and then eventually gone from most outlets. But since seven,

you know, I have been consuming comic books. So we're looking at a at a 46 year romance and a 34 year career. So this is this is a

ton of fun. I love doing this and today we are going to have some fun with a great topic which

speaks to the networking of comic books, the networking of comic books. And I and I I've really

began to,

to understand how, how much deeper this network runs now that we have included the social media

component when you can virtually knock on anyone's door. And when I mean anyone, you can

attempt, I mean, you may not be successful, but you can attempt to send Tom Cruise a message.

Okay? You could tweet at him with an at. You can, you can, you know, try and DM him to see if his

DMs are open or closed or if it's going to go to a, you know, a place where they are collected for him to see if he chooses to turn that on

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