How I got into the world of comics
Twenty-one years ago, I was working for a legal publisher in Rochester, NY. And things were not going well, both professionally and personally. I did what I could to get some relief, and that meant either going on the Internet or watching television.
TV Land was running the 1966 Batman series, a show that really excited me as a youngster when it came out (and yes, I am dating myself). The pilot episodes, which had Frank Gorshin as The Riddler and Jill St. John in a very prominent guest role as Molly, especially packed a punch for the then-6? year old that January 1966.
By this time, I was clearly grown up, but as I kept watching the show, I wondered how the Catwoman character was faring in the comic book world. So I did some checking online, and discovered that she had her own ongoing comic book series.
And I got hooked!
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The impact of all of this has been (and is) comparable to a multi-megaton hydrogen bomb. I soon hooked up with message boards, which were the thing to do before social media came about, and that led to the creation of my first major website, Catfan's Feline Fatale Follies. Launched in 2004, it received its own domain in January 2006. By this time, I was working with Adobe Dreamweaver and I had hoped to move ahead professionally with this new skill.
I also met celebrities through my message board contacts, and made new friends, many of whom are connected with me on Facebook (and at least one on LinkedIn).
By 2007, I began production of a fan film, Batman 1969, which was a reimaging of the 1966 television series. That first video outing, which was largely done in Ontario, Canada, took three years and four months to complete. It was a rough process, but the film debuted in August 2011. Though far from perfect, it was an amazing process. And it was truly a collaborative process!
The video work has continued. In 2019, my two major sites were converted over to WordPress, as the emphasis shifted from coding to content creation. Covid has slowed things down, and I am still dealing with the fallout from that and with other things. But the end result is that the trajectory of my professional life has been impacted in so many ways. We'll see what happens next!