5-Minute Time Out: Tiny Titans
The Tiny Titans scribe on rewriting Batman - as a six-year-old.
by Vivian Manning-Schaffel
November 7, 2008
That's cool — two weeks on, two weeks off . . .
Now that summer's here and the babysitter's here, I'm trying to do three issues a month.
Has your son checked out your comic books?
My four-year-old, Gordon, is starting to pick up books and read them. It's kind of cool. I gave him a Tiny Titans book to look at and he read the first page to me. He's starting to read a lot. It's cool, because when we give him stuff to read and he learns a new word, we started putting a post-it note on his door. Now he's got them all over the door.
How'd you pull off making your fantasy gig a reality?
I was a graphic designer in the ad world, but I hated my job. I couldn't take it. And my wife just told me to quit. I said, "We won't have any money." And she said we'd figure it out. I've been full-time cartooning since 2001. I just said, "The heck with it. I'll just starve." And I took a chance.
So you're actually doing what you always wanted to do when you grew up.
You know when you first put a superhero cape on and jump off your couch? I kinda never took the cape off.
©2008 Vivian Manning-Schaffel and Nerve Media
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Vivian Manning-Schaffel has written for Parents, Parenting, The Advocate, The New York Post, Business Week and a variety of other publications. She lives and works in the heart of breeder Brooklyn with her husband and two kids. She's on the web at vivianmanningschaffel.com. |
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