{"id":28141,"date":"2021-10-01T09:21:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T13:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=28141"},"modified":"2021-10-01T09:24:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T13:24:13","slug":"renee-witterstaetter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2021\/10\/01\/renee-witterstaetter\/","title":{"rendered":"Snack on shredded jellyfish with Ren\u00e9e Witterstaetter in Episode 155 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Come along with me to D.C.’s AwesomeCon<\/a> for dinner with writer, editor, and colorist Ren\u00e9e Witterstaetter<\/a> at Chinatown’s New Big Wong<\/a> restaurant.<\/p>\n

Witterstaetter started her comics career as an assistant editor at DC Comics working on the Superman<\/em> books. She later worked at Marvel Comics on Silver Surfer<\/em>, Conan<\/em>, Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em>, and other titles. In addition, she spearheaded the reintroduction of She-Hulk<\/em> at Marvel, where she actually appeared in the comic!<\/p>\n

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But she’s much more than only comics, as you’ll soon learn.<\/p>\n

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We discussed how Jerry Lewis launched her interest in comics, the way science fiction fandom led to her first job at DC Comics, the differences between the Marvel and DC offices of the ’70s and ’80s, what made Mark Gruenwald such an amazing editor, her emotional encounter with Steve Ditko, the inflationary info we learned about the writing of letter columns during the ’70s and ’80s, her work with John Byrne on She-Hulk<\/em>, how Jurassic Park<\/em> caused her to leave Marvel, the prank Jackie Chan asked her to help pull on Chris Tucker, and much more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can take a seat at the table with us — <\/p>\n

1) Subscribe at Apple Podcasts<\/a> — where I hope you’ll be tempted to sample a few of the 154 previous episodes.<\/p>\n

2) Use the RSS feed of http:\/\/eatingthefantastic.libsyn.com\/rss<\/a> on the device of your choice.<\/p>\n

3) Or simply listen using the embed below.<\/p>\n