{"id":1416,"date":"2011-03-05T20:08:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T02:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2011-03-05T20:10:58","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T02:10:58","slug":"aaron-kansas-city-comics-scene-helped-launch-his-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?p=1416","title":{"rendered":"Aaron: Kansas City comics scene helped launch his career"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1417\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1417\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Jason_Aaron.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1417\" title=\"Jason_Aaron\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Jason_Aaron-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Aaron, Tony Moore, and Matt Fraction\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Jason_Aaron-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Jason_Aaron.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jason Aaron, Tony Moore, and Matt Fraction<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In his <a title=\"Where The Hell Am I\" href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/?page=article&amp;id=31105\" target=\"_blank\">latest column<\/a> for <em>Comic Book Resources<\/em>, Kansas City comics writer <a title=\"Jason Aaron\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?page_id=1373\">Jason Aaron<\/a> reminisces about his early days in the comics business and the importance that the local network of comics creators had in shaping his career.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first week I was here, I found a comic shop and started a pull list: <a title=\"Elite Comics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.elite-comics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elite Comics<\/a> in Overland Park. I&#8217;ve been buying my books there ever since. Through that shop I first met local comic folk like <a title=\"B. Clay Moore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?page_id=1320\">B. Clay Moore<\/a>, <a title=\"Ande Parks\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?page_id=1314\">Ande Parks<\/a> and <a title=\"Jai Nitz\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?page_id=1371\">Jai Nitz<\/a>, and later some fellow KC-transplants like Tony Moore and Matt Fraction. Here were people who actually made their living making comics. I couldn&#8217;t believe it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Aaron credits his interaction with local creators, and their assistance and advice in shaping his career. &#8220;I honestly don&#8217;t know that I would be here today if it wasn&#8217;t for them,&#8221; he writes.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his CBR columns, you can keep up with Jason Aaron on his website, <a title=\"Jason Aaron\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonaaron.info\" target=\"_blank\">jasonaaron.info<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his latest column for Comic Book Resources, Kansas City comics writer Jason Aaron reminisces about his early days in the comics business and the importance that the local network of comics creators had in shaping his career. The first week I was here, I found a comic shop and started a pull list: Elite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?p=1416\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Aaron: Kansas City comics scene helped launch his career&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420,26,32],"tags":[640,641,666,643,644,447,308],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-creators","category-news","category-writing-tips","tag-ande-parks","tag-b-clay-moore","tag-elite-comics","tag-jai-nitz","tag-jason-aaron","tag-matt-fraction","tag-tony-moore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}