Whilce Portacio on Meeting Jim Lee

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FB Whilce Portacio on Meeting Jim Lee
Omar: How did you come to meet Jim Lee? What was, when did you first meet Jim?
Whilce: It’s funny because, everybody when I do interviews, they’re always like searching for that, “okay, I'm Asians, so obviously, there's this barriers and stuff, right?” Well, the injury’s so small; oh, you can do it, “oh great”. If you were a purple people eater, but you could drop the pages, they’ll let you in.
Omar: Yeah.
Whilce: But I did have a little bit of that. It's weird because Carl Potts was the guy who discovered me. He was the Punisher editor at the time. Well, he discovered me in San Diego, I think he discovered Jim in St Louis Missouri, but actually about the same time, I think it was just a week apart.
Omar: Oh, wow.
Whilce: Because remember I said that here, they were sending the editors around…
Omar: Yeah. They were sending the editors around on a hunt for good stuff.
Whilce: Yeah. So, then Jim made the move to go to college in Berkeley, so now, he was at California. So, Carl calls me up and he goes, “hey, you got to meet this new guy Jim and he's Asian, you guys will get along”. And we did get along. I called up Jim, I think it was, I called up Jim, and then, we talked for a little bit on the phone. And then, he was thinking about getting closer to other professionals, and there were a lot of professionals in San Diego at the time because of San Diego Con. And so, Scott, Williams and I convinced him to move down to San Diego and we formed our first little studio in a wood [unintelligible 00:01:36] apartment, in a two bedroom, and then, we did Homage, and then, we did Wildstar.
Omar: Oh wow.
Whilce: And so, it was just, you know, we were the Asian, and Scott was like the token Asian because he was from Hawaii.