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Harris, Director of Marketing Communications at Atari, traces his lifelong comics fandom from DC Legion stories as a child through college rediscovery via Starlin's Warlock. He describes his career path from writing VIC 20 manuals at Commodore (including the best-selling computer book of all time, the C64 Programmer's Reference Guide) to taking over Atari's magazine and customer support, and argues for a natural overlap between science-fiction, computing, and comics readership.

Stelfreeze discusses his origins in commercial and fashion illustration in Atlanta, his early work for Comics Interview Group, and how a rejected Batman sketch he drew for Comics Revue #50 — deliberately violating DC's style guidelines — ended up winning Denny O'Neil's attention and led to his contract painting the first twelve covers of DC's new Shadow of the Bat series. He talks about his graphic approach to anatomy, his mixed-media painting technique combining airbrush, acrylics, and colored inks, his enthusiasm for Gaijin Studios (a creative collective with Adam Hughes, Tony Harris, Joe Phillips, Cully Hamner, and Jason Pearson), and his reaction to the Image Comics breakaway.