Jason and I both went on to write for Savant Magazine, which was a cultural touchstone at a very precise moment in the history of online comics writing, and was home to a (then) little known aspiring writer named Matt Fraction. With all of the great retailing available in the San Francisco Bay Area (Lee’s Comics, Hijinx Comics, Comic Relief, Comix Experience, Isotope, etc.), my friend Jason Crowe and I frequented Spacecat for a couple years because Tim gave us insane privileges (something like a 30% discount on new books, full credit for returns, free swag, etc.). Tim was working as an Editor/Contributor to a self-published anthology called GARISH ZOW COMICS, went on to be the artist of my first mini-comic, THE MERCY KILLING, and now runs with Dylan Williams and the Sparkplug Comics crew up in Portland. It’s a quick digression, but for a few years Spacecat was an exciting hotbed of comic book activity within my social circle. Though it had been released two years prior, he had a few copies on a small display near the center of the store. My friend Tim Goodyear was managing the store at the time and would frequently make solid recommendations.
The year was 1999 and I was in Spacecat Comics in San Jose, California. I remember exactly where I was the first time I bought a Brian Wood book.
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