Fred Van Lente

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Comic Industry Insiders · Fred Van Lente on Setbacks, Second Chances, and Surviving as a Comic Book Writer · 19 Mar 2026 podcast

And one of the things that Ryan and I do now is we make comics for the City of New York's Department of Education, specifically the the the social studies curriculum.

Uh and and I keep doing you know, I just Tom Faller did the Game Masters, the role playing game history book that Clover Press did, that Hank edited.

Uh,

Yep.

And uh uh so that's very important, so I can do that.

You know, I got the future is gig initially, as I'm sure you recall, because you were like, Oh, this good they you you thought they wanted to do nonfiction hacker stuff, so you approached me on that on that range.

I could tell another funny story, another Marvel Valiant study.

So okay, let's

So uh

Uh Hunter Gorenson, the great Hunter Gorenson, who currently runs Oni, who we worked with at Valiant, who's a terrific um he came up to me at New York Comic Con not long.

I mean, like I was like uh sweating for a good I it turns out I only need to worry for like a month.

Like when I got fired from Marlowe's I'm uh like life is over.

Honey, honey, I gotta get a job.

Um, but then uh Hunter but then Neurocomicon was not long thereafter and Hunter came up to me and was like, Do you wanna do Archer Armstrong for Valiant?

And you know, again I was like, Sure and then my head was like, Archer what?

I have no idea what you're talking about.

I went home and I Googled it.

I'm like, this sounds insane.

No wonder they want me to do it.

And Archer and Armstrong, uh if you don't know, is uh Valiant series.

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