Hey, everybody. This is Rob Leifeld. You are listening to Robeservations.

Robeserbations because I'm Rob and Observations because they're mine. And I made this column

called Rob Observations, which ran in the Wizard magazine in 1995, but even prior to that, I had an awesome,

I guess I was about to call it a blog, but it wasn't because there were no blogs.

The origin of Robservations, goes back to an APA. What is an APA? Good question. I always, I never really

like saying APA, but amateur press association. So I learned that there was a Teen Titans fan club

when I was at a comic convention in Los Angeles when I was 16 years old.

And my friend Hank Canals, you've heard me mention Hank often.

Hank and I are, we really haven't stayed in touch.

I talked to him at length three San Diego's ago.

We kind of had, you know, we didn't have lunch, but we had about

90 minutes where we just sat down and caught up. And Hank was someone that I met through these

APAs. And lo and behold, he then moved out to live in Southern California because his family

was relocating for, I guess his dad got a new a new job great family great people got to uh go out

visit hank get to know him we had a similar passion for comic books i've often cited that hank

accompanied me to the um comic convention wonder con the very first wonder con in 1987 where i got

hired to to uh draw comic books by marvel Mark Grumwald hired me on the spot.

I've covered that in several of the different podcasts. There is a very long version of it.

I think the best version I've told is a couple weeks back live from New York. I did a, I uploaded

an entire episode based on my panel that was recorded at the New York Comic-Con.

And I go through a very long, but I think very fun, because it's the way I was feeling how I got for the last, you know, people to look at my work.

And I probably wouldn't have.

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