jimmy gownley

is one of my most favorite people in the world. He draws Amelia Rules, a comic that is very cute and innocent in this provocative world. Jimmy & I went to college together. (His wife also attended the same college and I know her as well, but I knew Jimmy first). I remember hanging out with Jimmy while listening to the Beatles and watching him draw his other comic, Shades of Gray. Jimmy did not drink or act wild. He was (and is) a very sweet and mellow man. I always could be myself with him even when my life was dreadfully dramatic which was all of my college years. I saw him this past week at Comic Con. (It had been eleven years since I last saw him.) It was amazing that he is still the same man I remembered only in an older body. It makes me feel so good that he and his wife are happy with two children. I also got a glimpse of my younger self and a perspective that I could never have seen when I was in college. He reminded me that I did not like him when we first met because he yelled at me for talking during a video. I had forgotten. I showed him a pic of himself taken in my dorm room and my MU id card which had us laughing at our much younger selves. We both admitted to leaving the foil seal/lid on the Pringles intact to make others think the jar is not open. It was a trick he devised in college. There are good men out there. It is nice to be reminded.