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Comic Genius Adrian Reyes makes “graphic facilitator” a very successful career. B Y J ESSE STEN B AK
Novelist/graphic novelist Joe Hill (l) with Reyes.
How do you prepare to be a comic-book facilitator?
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or twenty-eight straight years you go to the San Diego Comic Con with your dad. For five or six years you sell high-end watches. Then you start selling high-end comics as a side hustle. You get an MBA at National University in San Diego. You have to travel in this business. I am a facilitator for grading companies. There aren’t many of us. I witness signatures and sometimes fly them by air directly to a collector. It’s lucrative to be a witness. OCTOBER 2021 37