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It’s crazy to think how different the world would be if Anthony Bourdain became a comic book artist instead of a renowned chef. What I love most is how he actually circled back to his childhood dream later in life. He didn’t just stay a fan, he co-wrote a food obsessed graphic novel Get Jiro! for DC Comics / Vertigo, followed by Hungry Ghosts for Dark Horse. 📚
Seeing a global icon tap into his inner kid and finally publish his own comic books feels so inspiring. It’s a great reminder that our earliest passions always find a way back to us if we let them 💕 what’s even more amazing is that Adult Swim is officially adapting Get Jiro! into an animated series
Have you read any of Tony’s graphic novels? Or did you only know him from his travel shows? 💭👇
Let me know in the comments!
#anthonybourdain #comicbooks
Transcript
Better rejected saved Anthony Bourdain's career twice. It happened ten years apart from two different people. Before he was a chef, he wanted to draw comic books, and he obsessively collected Marvel comics. In the nineteen seventies, he sent his artwork into a publisher for the first time, and he got rejected. Ten years later, he showed the same work to a writer named Joel Rose, and Rose just said it straight up that his artwork sucked, but his writing was pretty good. Same rejection, different decade. But then the worst thing happened to him. He sold his whole collection in the eighties to fund his drug habit. The kid who wanted to draw had nothing best. No comics, no art career. So he became a chef instead. Years later, fame brought him back to that old dream. He wrote Better Gyro, then a prequel Good and Sushi, then a third book Hungry Ghosts, all of them built on his love of Japan. The door didn't open because he got better at drawing. It opened because he got famous somewhere else first. So don't be afraid to take a different path towards your dream like Bourdain did.
