on my own,
and all throughout high school I made my own animations.
I convinced my 10th grade English teacher to allow me
to do my book report on Stephen King's "Misery"
as an animated short. (Laughter)
And I kept making comics.
I kept making comics, and at the Worcester Art Museum,
I was given the greatest piece of advice by any educator I was ever given.
Mark Lynch, he's an amazing teacher
and he's still a dear friend of mine,
and I was 14 or 15,
and I walked into his comic book class halfway through the course,
and I was so excited, I was beaming.
I had this book that was how to draw comics in the Marvel way,
and it taught me how to draw superheroes,
how to draw a woman, how to draw muscles
just the way they were supposed to be
if I were to ever draw for X-Men or Spiderman.
And all the color just drained from his face,
and he looked at me, and he said,
"Forget everything you learned."