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How an eight-year-old's ink sketch sparked a lifelong impulse to share stories
In September 1963, I was eight years old and apparently already thinking about reaching an audience. My mother wrote to my grandparents: "David Lee sent an ink sketch in to a local children's TV program last week and today received a letter from the m. c. of it. They have been showing children's drawings in between cartoons and Superman episodes. His had action poses of the various heroes and villains, and we are waiting for it to be shown."
I don't remember if my artwork ever made it onto the screen, but I remember the thrill of the possibility—that something I created with my own hands might be seen by people I'd never meet, in living rooms across the Washington, D.C. area. At eight, I was already discovering what would become a lifelong impulse: the desire to share stories and images with a wider world.
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Dave Tabler
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I think it was in the eighth grade where our English teacher asked us to write a short story. My twin brother, Roger wrote mind-boggling science fiction story about brain injury. I tried to write about an adventure canoeing a roaring river but I didn't like the story because it was rather doll and never wrote another story until 60 years later.
Ron