



When I was a young boy, I taught myself to draw (yes, I'm self-taught). I also loved stories but had yet to develop my writing skills.





Then something really cool happened.





DC Comics published those awesome 100 page Super-Spectacular comics in the early 70's which included, in every issue, reprints of short Golden Age classics.





This, to me, would prove to be an invaluable tool to teach myself the art of visual story-telling (though at that young age I didn't know what it was called. I was just happy I now had short stories I could draw my way).





That simple exercise taught me TONS about visual story-telling.





I'm including this information, and the related Doctor Fate webcomic, in hopes of inspiring the next generation of self-taught comics artists to practice and learn visual story-telling. After all, comics are all about story telling!





Good luck, and, as always...





Have fun!





Andre