A Geek, Confirmed

A Geek, Confirmed

One of the greatest honors I've had was being selected as one of the 52 geeks for Len Peralta's Geek A Week project. Len (with a lot of advice and help) selected a number of people who represent geek culture, interviewed them, drew wonderful cartoon versions of them, and made them all into trading cards. For mine, he took my love for Dr. Strange and D&D wizards and made me into one. He even put in a little Cthulhu reference, which is appropriate. You can now buy the cards from Think Geek. Mine is in set #2, which was just released.

The best part about being in this project is the company that it puts me in. Just look at that list. John Hodgman, Wil Wheaton, Adam Savage, Weird Al, Penn & Teller, Felicia Day, Neil Gaiman, Thomas Dolby, Guillermo Del Toro, Kevin Smith, Stan Lee... and it just goes on and on. It's amazing.

I'm not a fan of bragging, and try to avoid it at all costs (self promotion: yes, bragging: no). So when I'm in a crowd of other writing professionals, I don't typically say much about my work or accomplishments unless asked. But being on a Geek A Week card? That I'll bring up. It's just such an honor to be recognized amid a crowd of people that has brought so many people (including me) so much intellectual, nerdy joy.