Now living his dream, Jason Aaron worked several other jobs before breaking into comics, per this article in the New York Daily News:
“I’ve read comics since I was a kid, I knew for a long time that I wanted to be a writer, but I had no idea about how to even go about trying to break into the comic industry,” says Aaron, 34.
So Aaron listened to his parents and went to college, where he majored in journalism, only to discover he hated the field. He wrote movie reviews; waited tables at a barbecue restaurant; worked in a warehouse that stocked adult novelty items, and managed a shift at a video rental store. At night, he kept dreaming in four color panels.
“I just had a lot of bad crappy day jobs,” says Aaron. “Jobs that were low on stress, I could daydream at work. And once I walked out the door, I was done, I could go home and work on things I really wanted to.”
Aaron continues to write Scalped, with upcoming work including Wolverine, Image’s 24seven anthology and Top Cow’s Ripclaw Pilot Season.
