Factoid about me #1: I once sold Evan Dorkin a vintage BBQ grill cover on Ebay

From time to time, Angie and I have sold some of the cool stuff we pick up on Ebay. In this case, one of our items was a vintage barbecue grill cover from Sears that we scored at a garage sale for 50 cents. It was pretty cool. It had a yellow background with artwork of little barbecue related items (tongs, grill aprons, hamburgers, hot dogs, etc) all over it in black, red and blue.

We ran into problems with the winning bidder responding to us. It had been over two weeks since the auction closed. I was getting pretty pissed and was close to filing a non-paying bidder alert with Ebay. They finally contacted us and apologized profusely for the delay. It seems there had been a severe illness in the family and they had to leave town suddenly to take care of the person. I expressed my sympathies (and felt like a bit of an ass over the tone of my previous emails). So we exchanged addresses to complete the transactions.

Wait a minute. Sarah Dyer? The Sarah Dyer? Creator of Action Girl Comics and the significant other of Evan Dorkin? Yes, indeed it was. So I went into fanboy mode and gushed about how I loved the scripts they'd co-wrote for Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and Superman: The Animated Series, especially the character Livewire they created for the Superman series. Because of course I couldn't just gush about Evan's stuff...though I really wanted to. A few days later I got a nice letter from Sarah (which of course I held on to) along with the $25 or so for the grill cover.

Yes, I know. I kinda mislead you. I never had any contact with Evan in all of this. But the grill cover is in his possession. Who knows...maybe the happy little hamburgers inspired something in the background of an issue of Dork! comics. Yes, I know I'm really stretching. The next factoid will be better. I promise.