True story. I was a convention where Mark Bagley was one of the guests. Bagley’s always been a favorite of mine, so I couldn’t pass up the chance to meet him myself. We talked a bit, he signed my book and even did me a GL Kyle Rayner sketch. As I was getting ready to leave him, there two kids ran up. A bother and sister. They had some issue of Ultimate Spider-Man for Bagley to sign. The sister then asked Bagley if he could do a sketch of Spider-Girl for them. Now, Bagley hadn’t brought any paper for sketches. I got mine, only because I always bring my own sketch pad with me. So, I torn out a sheet for him and said to “go for it.” On top of that, I gave the kids a copy od Ultimate Spider-Man #7, which I had signed by Bagley and Bendis, because in the pile of issue they brought, they didn’t have a copy of that book. They were both very excited to get the book and sketch. And i know that for as long as they live, they will always the remeber the cool comic show where that happened to them. It will probably help them to foster a love of comics for the rest of their lives.

Imagine if all fans did stuff like that, what a wonderful hobby this would be.