Joe’s partner in comics, Pat Gruber passed away a few weeks ago, and this week, we share stories and pay tribute to Pat. Joe met Pat in High School over a shared love of comics. They started a convention based business together and then bought Hot Comics St. Paul in 1992. Joe and Cory!! Talk about:
- How Cory!! met Pat.
- Pat accidentally putting adult themed trading cards into MCBA giveaway
- The Pat character in a minicomic made by two people at Hot Comics
- “The Shed”
- The infamous Wisconsin Dells comic convention
- How Pat outwitted a scammer by making sure he got cash
- The Poker game at MCBA cons and how Frank Cho lost a LOT of money and had to do commissions to make up the losses.
- The infamous “blind guts” game
- Pat meeting Traci Lords
- “Hot Artist!!!!”
We also discuss Diamond Distribution news, freaking and geek, and the usual shenanigans.
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