{"id":20484,"date":"2021-09-30T11:06:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T15:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=20484"},"modified":"2021-09-30T11:06:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T15:06:52","slug":"comic-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/comic-genius\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Genius"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23e6e6e6&amp;d=portland_monthly_magazine_october_2021&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=38&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Adrian Reyes makes \u201cgraphic facilitator\u201d a very successful career.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">By Jesse Stenbak<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">How do you prepare to be a comic-book facilitator?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">For twenty-eight straight years you go to the San Diego Comic Con with your dad. For five or six years you sell high-end watches. Then you start selling high-end comics as a side hustle. You get an MBA at National University in San Diego.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">You have to travel in this business. I am a facilitator for grading companies. There aren\u2019t many of us. I witness signatures and sometimes fly them by air directly to a collector. It\u2019s lucrative to be a witness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Was COVID able to stop Superman?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Before, as a fan, you could go and get a signature. Covid shut that down when the conventions stopped. For the first three months of the pandemic, everything was shut down. Instead of stopping demand, it increased. We lost a lot of stores. What we did was double down on signatures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-20486\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/OCT21-Comic-Genius-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"OCT21 Comic Genius\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/OCT21-Comic-Genius-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/OCT21-Comic-Genius-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/OCT21-Comic-Genius-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/OCT21-Comic-Genius-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/OCT21-Comic-Genius-620x326.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/OCT21-Comic-Genius.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Reyes makes \u201cgraphic facilitator\u201d a very successful career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20484"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20549,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20484\/revisions\/20549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}