A Quote by Greg Mottola
My own personal geek culture years were when I was much younger. I collected comic books up until a certain age. I wanted to be a comic book artist when I was younger.
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As far as geek culture, I didn't grow up in the comic con geek culture lane, then I started doing Comic Cons seeing the impact of it. The character, Rufio living on.
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I grew up with comic books, and I'm from the Caribbean, so comic books were really a great interrogator of American culture for me.
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I'm kind of a comic book geek, but I'm not really a super hero comic book geek.
I'm a big comic book geek and I've been reading comic books since pretty much since I was five or six in 1971 or something like that. So, I mean, I read it all and there's certainly a lot of different iterations of Superman that I personally have enjoyed more than others.
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I am a total geek. I'm not even a closet comic book geek. I am the comic book geek.
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