When I was a kid, I loved reading history, science fiction, detective stories--but especially comics (连环漫画). I had many of them and kept talking my dad into making more shelves for me. One day, I read about a 13-year-old who had actually written one of my favorite comics, Legion of Super-Heroes, and I said, “I can do that too!”
A few years later, a friend and I started our own fan magazine about comics. It became the first place that often told people when their favorite comics were coming out and which writers and artists were working on them. Because of the magazine, I won awards for The Comic Reader, but more important, it got many of the people in the field to know who I was.
One day, when I was visiting DC Comics for news for my next topic, one of the editors gave me a chance to write text for his comic. Suddenly, at 16, I was getting paid to write.
I was able to pay for my college classes working as an assistant editor at DC Comics stories. Over the years, I worked as an editor and an executive (主管) for the company, finally becoming its president and publisher, until earlier this year. Now I’m back to my first love, writing comics again.
Every morning, I open my e-mail and find pages of art. When I’m tired of working on the stories, I can go online and find my readers commenting on my stories or telling me when I make mistakes!
Keep reading and writing...it’s a wonderful way to live.
5. The underlined word “
that” in Paragraph 1 refers to ___________.
A.reading history | B.writing comics |
C.making shelves | D.drawing pictures |
6. According to Paragraph 2, the fan magazine about comics___________.
A.was created by the author himself. | B.was started when the author was 13 . |
C.published comics by famous people. | D.made the author known by more people. |
7. Now, the author works as ________.
A.a president | B.a publisher |
C.a comics writer | D.an assistant editor |
8. In the text, the author mainly tells us about ___________.
A.his life in comics | B.his work experience |
C.how he loves writing stories | D.what he does in his free time |