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BTW I still love the story about how you "taught" your father to draw glass.•• For those who may not be familiar with that one. . . When I was between 10 and 15, my father supplemented the family income by working in the evenings as a freelance architect.* There are many apartment buildings in Edmonton that he designed. He had his "office" in a large (6'x9') walk-in closet in our apartment when I was around 13. One day, he was working on a front elevation of an apartment (that's a flat drawing of the front of the building) and as I passed he stopped me, saying he could not figure out how to make the windows look like glass. Knowing he and Mom did not approve of my comicbook reading, I summoned up my courage and said "In my comic books, they do it with three or four angled lines." He turned and held out his mechanical pencil to me. "Show me." I drew the appropriate lines in one window, and he saw what I meant. He took back the pencil, did a few practice strokes, and then finished the job to good effect. Something less than a decade later he gave me his drafting equipment, including that pencil, and I went on to use it to draw all my issues of WHEELIE AND THE CHOPPER BUNCH, DOOMSDAY PLUS ONE, SPACE: 1999, IRON FIST -- oh, yeah. And a couple of books called X-MEN and FANTASTIC FOUR. (A few AVENGERS thrown in there, too.) The pencil finally broke (I think the spring gave out) a few years back, and I framed it, with appropriate dates (Dad had bought it in 1956) and hung it on my studio wall. _____ * This was in the days when "Two Income Family" meant the husband had two jobs!
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