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SBX Classic: Interview with League of Comic Geeks Founder, Jordan Blanco

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League of Comic Geeks began 11 years ago as a news-and-releases site built with family and friends.

A free tool comes first. The guest traces League of Comic Geeks from a family-and-friends comics, movies, and games site into something meant to make comics easier to enter. Money is not the scorecard. What matters to him is whether the project helps new readers find books and gives the comics community something useful. The host comes at it as a user. He talks through browsing solicitations, scrolling covers, and getting the feel of a comic shop shelf that is easier to sort through. That shelf feeling carries the episode. The conversation spends real time on high-resolution cover images because comics sell curiosity before a reader knows much else. The guest does not dress it up too much. To him, covers are artists making a quick invitation, a reason to pick up the book. His graphic design background shows in the way he talks about user experience. You can have developers, but taste still matters. The tone stays loose. A joke about judging books by their covers sits next to useful talk about discovery, availability, and how shops arrange stock. The app talk stays grounded in what a reader sees while hunting for comics. The ending turns thankful, with a long roll call of supporters before the familiar Short Box sign-off from Jacksonville. Very Short Box: a comics question opens into fandom, design, user experience, and the hope that better tools bring more people into the hobby.

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