It happened right there in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man, and you probably never noticed.

Plus: On The Road Again With Stan And Jack.

Plus: A Dollar For Belonging, And The Two Languages Every Comic Is Written In

How Not To Pitch Your Story. In Comics Or Anywhere Else

A panic attack, a red pen, and one brutal lesson in how comics actually talk.

A strange Marvel office story that's worth the $400 I spent on it.

One-Point Pulls, Three-Point looms, Two-Point Watches.

Film Controls It. Prose Doesn't Have It. Comics Has to Earn It.

From Memory to Palette to Emotion

A Lesson In How To Treat The Patient, Not The Chart

Twelve Lessons to Earn Trust. One tThe unease po Break It

What Shifted?

Why the Reveal Matters More Than the Moment

The Moment Speaks For Itself

A Hard Lesson I Learned After Three Decades in the Comic Book Industry

And that's a problem.

If you control the space, you control the scene.

Have You Crossed The Line?

Plus: The Most Brutally Honest Editor You’ll Ever Have

Stick With Me. This Turns Into a Story About Control.

Shhh… Let’s Keep This Between Ourselves

When Fireworks Replaced Campfire Stories

How a 13-Year-Old Girl Changed Marvel Publishing

Plus: And I'm selling. Who Wants Some?

Plus: Secrets of The World To Come Issue #1

Plus: The Quickest Way To Reach Nirvana

It's About What Comes Next, Not What Came Before

Check out the cover for the second issue of 'Marvel Knights: The World to Come,' the new series from visionary creators Joe Quesada and Christopher Priest launching this June.

Nothing rotten here

It's Goin' Down At Planet Comicon!

I'm Back In The Saddle, And If You're In The Mood To Take A Wild Trip, I'm Taking You With Me!

Plus: Those BBQ Ribs Better Be As Good As Ben Defeo Claims they Are

Everything You Need To Know To "Experience" Me In Orlando

Plus: The US Premier Of My New And Improved Signature at Orlando MEGACON!