Fred Van Lente

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792 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 19 Mar

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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

It's just this funnel.

And they got digital technology.

So I w I wonder if I had access to

you know, cameras that were were, you know, the size of a Yay big and I wouldn't have to spend all my money on color film and all the money developing color film.

It's stupid expensive.

to be a film student and shoot on actual film and I had all thumbs when it came to technical stuff.

Uh and it was just a total I just didn't like it.

But what I did uh find was that um

Uh the uh I went to this uh I grew up in this um small town in Ohio called Chagrin Falls.

Not a made up name.

Not a name uh Reuben Bowling made up for Tom the Dancing Bug.

I was like, dude, why'd you do that?

You know, I'm from there And he's like, You're from there?

Like people are uh if you ever read Tom's or rather Ruben's Tom The Dancing Bug, it's it's great 'cause it's he d the Chagrin Falls are like the like generic, like Trump supporting like you know, middle Americans who are c totally ignorant and and don't know anything about anything.

know, right?

Yeah.

And my wife is from Wappinger's Falls, so we've got Falls falling all over the place.

The the fun the funny thing, like I tell the story a million times and I hopefully haven't told this story in this podcast.

I think I've told it to you in private, but so so to give you an idea what Chagrin Falls is like, I got an email one day that I have been nominated to be in the Chagrin Falls High School Hall of Fame.

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