What Pros Owe Fans

digresssmlOriginally published February 4, 2000, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1368

The fan walked up to me in the hallway at the convention with a look of great urgency in her face. “Mr. David,” she said.

As usually happens when someone addresses me that way, I reflexively glanced behind me to see if my father was standing there. Belatedly realizing that she was talking to me, I said, “Yes?”

She shook my hand firmly and said, “I wanted to tell you… that conversation we had at this convention several years ago changed my life.”