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Interview with James Frazier by David Kempf

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Intro James Frazier is the owner of Cyborg One (est. 1992), a small comic book shop in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, just north of the city of Philadelphia. Interview with James Frazier by David Kempf When did you first become interested in comic books? Comics were always around me as I grew up, but I think I turned the corner into hardcore fandom after the arrival of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the 1989 Batman film. How did you get involved with Cyborg One? After graduating from Penn State, I moved out to the Philadelphia area to pursue training in professional wrestling, believe it or not.  I wound up working at Cyborg to make ends meet, with the thought of saving up for wrestling school, and four years later, the owner sold me the business.  It’s been almost twelve years now, and running the business has become my career. How do you think that comic book fans are different from other readers? I’ve never worked at a book store, or a prose-specific...

Interview with James Frazier by David Kempf

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Intro James Frazier is the owner of Cyborg One (est. 1992), a small comic book shop in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, just north of the city of Philadelphia. Interview with James Frazier by David Kempf When did you first become interested in comic books? Comics were always around me as I grew up, but I think I turned the corner into hardcore fandom after the arrival of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the 1989 Batman film. How did you get involved with Cyborg One? After graduating from Penn State, I moved out to the Philadelphia area to pursue training in professional wrestling, believe it or not.  I wound up working at Cyborg to make ends meet, with the thought of saving up for wrestling school, and four years later, the owner sold me the business.  It’s been almost twelve years now, and running the business has become my career. How do you think that comic book fans are different from other readers? I’ve never worked at a book store, or a prose-specific book store, if you wil...

Interview with James Frazier by David Kempf

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Intro James Frazier is the owner of Cyborg One (est. 1992), a small comic book shop in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, just north of the city of Philadelphia. Interview with James Frazier by David Kempf When did you first become interested in comic books? Comics were always around me as I grew up, but I think I turned the corner into hardcore fandom after the arrival of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the 1989 Batman film. How did you get involved with Cyborg One? After graduating from Penn State, I moved out to the Philadelphia area to pursue training in professional wrestling, believe it or not.  I wound up working at Cyborg to make ends meet, with the thought of saving up for wrestling school, and four years later, the owner sold me the business.  It’s been almost twelve years now, and running the business has become my career. How do you think that comic book fans are different from other readers? I’ve never worked at a book store, or a prose-specific...

Interview with James Frazier by David Kempf

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Intro James Frazier is the owner of Cyborg One (est. 1992), a small comic book shop in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, just north of the city of Philadelphia. Interview with James Frazier by David Kempf When did you first become interested in comic books? Comics were always around me as I grew up, but I think I turned the corner into hardcore fandom after the arrival of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the 1989 Batman film. How did you get involved with Cyborg One? After graduating from Penn State, I moved out to the Philadelphia area to pursue training in professional wrestling, believe it or not.  I wound up working at Cyborg to make ends meet, with the thought of saving up for wrestling school, and four years later, the owner sold me the business.  It’s been almost twelve years now, and running the business has become my career. How do you think that comic book fans are different from other readers? I’ve never worked at a book store, or a prose-specific book store, if you wil...