Paul Kupperberg: It Doesn't Have To Be This Way

Signed & personalized copies available... and WHILE THEY LAST!... get a signed copy of a comic I wrote that's cited in the book!

One day, we'll be able to sell our comic books shoulder-to-shoulder again! Me and @deanhaspiel pushing the funnybooks at @midtowncomics in 2014. #comics #thosewerethedays

Another gut punch. Joe Sinnott (October 16th, 1926-June 25th, 2020), from 2018. The first time I met Joe was in 2013. I was doing a signing at the Archie Comics booth at NYCC when he and Tony Isabella walked by. Tony and I, old pals from way back, waved, and they kept walking while I kept signing. A few minutes later, Joe came back to the table to apologize for not having recognized me and saying hello. I was flabbergasted and flattered as all hell... so much so, I never told him that we hadn't ever met before. I assume hearing my name from Tony and knowing my brother, Joe must have thought our paths had to have crossed at some point. At any rate, it was a lovely gesture from as sweet and genuine a man as I have ever met, and it was my pleasure to spend even a few minutes with him here and there at subsequent conventions over the years. Oh, and he was easily one of the Top 10 best inkers to ever touch a comic book page.