In the first episode of My Five Minutes, Dan Vado looks at the arrogance required to create anything at all.
Before there is a book, a comic, a song, a podcast, a company, or a stage, there is usually one unreasonable belief: that the idea in your head is worth bringing into the world.
As SLG Publishing celebrates its 40th anniversary, Vado reflects on the confidence, delusion, ego, and blind faith involved in starting an independent comic book publishing company in 1986 — and somehow keeping it alive for four decades.
This episode sets the tone for My Five Minutes: short, personal reflections on creativity, memory, mistakes, publishing, music, failure, and the strange art of not quitting.