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...high school, I went down to New York to visit Marvel and DC and the editors there were encouraging. They said I had talent but that I should come back in a year. So I went to art school in the interim. I went for a year, and then quit and went back down to New York and was rejected again, although again encouragingly so. But that was around the time I was losing interest in superhero comics anyway. I started self-publishing mini-comix in 1983. Then, in 1986 Vortex comics approached me to start publishing "Yummy...
...reminder anyone stuck on page six of a troublesome paper on the footnotes of “The Wasteland” sorely needs); and an iTunes selection undoubtedly second to none (and having noticed the prevalence of classic tunes like “Quit Playing Games With My Heart” on said shared music lists it is clear that even the most dedicated velvet-blazer and black-beret garbed indie kids lounging in Lamont must be hoarding the entire Backstreet Boys back-catalogue on their computer...
Rosgen's drive to restore rivers was born of rage. As a young Forest Service worker, he was assigned to inspect an area in his native north Idaho. There, he saw a pristine stream that had been ruined by runoff from timber clear cutting. Rosgen lost his temper, eventually quit the Forest Service and started his own stream-restoration consulting enterprise. Federal agencies that had ignored his complaints are now among the clients that pay Rosgen to teach employees about doctoring streams. He retreats between trips to his horse-ranch headquarters north of Fort Collins, Colo. These days...
...longest tenure of the seven coaches in the NBA's Atlantic Division; he has been on the job for less than 10 months. "These knee-jerk reactions reflect poor decision making from management and don't take the long haul into account," says Miami Heat president Pat Riley, who quit coaching this year after an eight-year run with the Heat burned him out. "God, it doesn't look good for our profession...
...screamers like Bob Knight earn more enmity than respect. According to both coaches and stress experts, volcanoes shouldn't be welcome in the white-collar world either. "Every time you embarrass a player on the sideline or in a huddle, it's a mistake," says Jim O'Brien, who quit as Boston Celtics coach in January after new general manager Danny Ainge traded away several of his favorite players. "You have to be man enough to apologize." That doesn't mean you can't be demanding or get close to employees in other ways, say the experts. "The good leaders...