#bendis

So a lot of people in Portland know this, but Steve. Steve is legitimately low key because he's a low key energy person. But he is one of the most important people in modern comics in my opinion. He has spent now decades of his life helping run Helioscope Studios, which is one of the largest comic book studios which houses dozens of creators of many walks of life. I'm part of the Comic studies program at Portland State University. He is not a professor. He is just available to all the students all the time for anything they need. He goes to-- there's a comic store here in Portland called Books with Pictures, and every other Friday he shows up and he just judges your portfolio and gives you tips and sends you on your way. He doesn't do it for money, he doesn't do it for any other reason than he is wired to give back and help. He is someone who has absolutely mastered his art form. He's an exceptional artist, and he spends every free moment he has helping anyone who wants it-- help them get to their goal. I have told every one of my students if I was you, I would be stalking this motherfucker like no one's business. What a gift that Steve Lieber's floating around willing to just help you, right. (And how hard it was to find anyone to help us when we were coming up, just because you didn't know anybody right, right.) And there's someone who says, "I will be standing here on a Friday and I will help you if you need help." What a gift. So when Steve Lieber rolled up his sleeves and did that amazing Jimmy Olsen wrap-around cover for the hardcover, I think you could feel not only were we all excited to be on that silly cover, but it's like, "Oh my god, Steve Lieber drew us, Steve Lieber. We're part of-- we're part of one of Steve Lieber's great moments in comics, which by definition will be one of the Great Moments of Comics because it's Steve." So I I just I know that Steve-- I've known Steve a long time now, and I know that he will never say any of these words I just said about him out loud, and wouldn't put up with it if he was in the room. So I just thought I'd put it on record that this is what I've known to be the truth of Steve Lieber. There are some people that behind the scenes are garbage mounds, selfish assholes that do everything in their power to stop other people from accelerating or enjoying or getting anything that they have because they're so terrified that their thing is going to go away, right. And then there are these other people who just nothing about their wiring is anything but let me help you feel how I feel when I make my comics and they don't suck. And that's what-- that's what Steve Lieber's whole jam is. 

my shoulder still burns where you touched me last night