{"id":36174,"date":"2024-12-20T09:52:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T14:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/?p=36174"},"modified":"2024-12-20T09:52:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T14:52:26","slug":"tom-brevoort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2024\/12\/20\/tom-brevoort\/","title":{"rendered":"Settle in for a steak dinner with Marvel’s Tom Brevoort in Episode 243 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that the Glasgow Worldcon is in the rearview mirror, it’s time to head off to this year’s Baltimore Comic-Con.<\/p>\n

First up — dinner with Tom Brevoort, who holds the record for being the longest-running editor ever at Marvel Comics, having been hired there in 1989 right out of college. Over the decades, he\u2019s overseen titles such as New Avengers<\/em>, Civil War<\/em>, and Fantastic Four<\/em>. He became Executive Editor in 2007, and in January 2011, was promoted to also serve as Senior Vice President of Publishing. He\u2019s an Eisner Award-winner for Best Editor, and is currently the Group Editor of The X-Men<\/em>. <\/p>\n

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We discussed how a guy whose first love was DC Comics ended up at Marvel, why he hated his early exposure to Marvel so much he’d tell his parents not to buy them because “they’re bad,” the pluses and minuses of comic book subscriptions (and the horror when issues arrived folded), how Cerebus the Aardvark<\/em> inspired him to believe he could build a career in indie comics, the most unbelievable thing he ever read in a Flash<\/em> comic, how he might never have worked at Marvel had I not gone to school with Bob Budiansky, the prevailing Marvel ethos he disagreed with from the moment he was hired, what it takes to last 35 years at the same company without either walking off in disgust or getting fired, the differing ways Marvel and DC reused their Golden Age characters, how to prevent yourself from being pedantic when you own an encyclopedic knowledge of the history of comics, and much more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can join us for dinner at Rec Pier Chop House<\/a> — <\/p>\n

1) Subscribe at Apple Podcasts<\/a> — or wherever<\/a> you choose to consume your podcasts — where I hope you’ll be tempted to sample a few of the 242 previous episodes.<\/p>\n

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

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