Hey guys. I somehow got talked into writing for The Collector Times every
month after my last article, so I'm back once again. I figured maybe you guys would
like to know about the person behind the articles. My life isn't too exciting, so I'll
try to spice up the article as much as I can, but don't expect too much out of this one.
Okay, my name, as you can so plainly see at the top of the column is Jerilyn Nicole
Winton. Or is it? Actually, my middle name is Sue. So it should read Jerilyn Sue
Winton, since I strongly dislike the source of my middle name I legally changed it to
Nicole. I think it sounds much nicer, don't you?
Anyway I'm rambling. I'm a 16 year old redhead from Hell. Or Missouri, whatever you
choose to call it.I attend Fort Osage High School, where I'm a senior (Thank God!)
which is kinda funny, because I'm supposed to be a junior. Why am I supposed to be a
junior? I am skipping my senior year. It's really complicated, so I won't go into that. I
recently received a journalism scholarship to Central Missouri State University so I'm
a happy camper at the moment.
I love writing and drawing. Once upon a time, I wanted to go into the comic
book industry, but then I got a brain. I decided that being an investigative reporter
was the thing I wanted to do after writing for the school newspaper. I also have a
knack for delivering boring stories in an interesting and exciting way (Well, except for my
life story. That one needs a little bit of work).
Another one of my favorite things in the entire world, besides writing, is my
clarinet. I need it to live (along with my pen and notebook.). I've been playing
clarinet since sixth grade, and I loved it since I first laid hands on it. And for any
one who thinks band is a slacker class? You are sooooooooooooo wrong.
And since this is a comic magazine, what kind of article would this be with
out my comic faves? It definitely wouldn't be a comic magazine article, that's
for sure! My first comic was the second X-Men series. Actually, I got hooked
on comics in 1993 when the Pizza Hut/Marvel offer was running. You'd get a
Pizza, a small X-Men comic book and an X-Men video tape. I watched the tape
with my dad and my little sister and automatically fell in love. So I started
buying X-Men. And recently, a friend of mine has got me hooked on Legion, and
I'm starting to pick up a little on Transmet. And of course with liking comics,
there is always the thing with favorite writers and artists, so I'll tell you
about mine. My absolute, hands-down, favorite artist in the entire world is
Joe Mad. He is the God of art. I absolutely loved his run on the X-Men, and I
really wish he wouldn't of quit. As for my favorite writer, it's gotta be
Fabian Nicieza. He's just the greatest that's all there is to it.
I also have a part time job, which I'm in the process of quitting: it's in a
mall (It happens to the same mall where I met my online friend Jason, the writer of
Great X-Pectations. Although the mall looks way different now than it did in August).
It's called Ruby's Dinette, originated from So-Cal. The uniforms there are retarded. All the
girls look like little candy stripers, and I don't know what you'd say the guys look
like (except for maybe freaks...)they have to wear bowties and gasoline caps, and
it's just weird. As I said, I'm quitting that job, but I'll soon be working at Wilson's
leather. I already know I got the job, along with my best friend Kristen, who is
quitting Ruby's as well, because our best friend sleeps with the manager. I'm thanking
God that she's a nymphomaniac at the moment.
Anyway, that's a peak into my strange little life, and a peek for you, at the
writer of the absolutely awesome writer of the absolutely awesome articles that you'll
be reading for the months and years to come.