The Game of Life Chapter One 1987 • Meet Billy Leavell
Friday, May 4th, 2018Welcome to Friday’s Mega Comics Group Updates!
Our blog is even shorter and sweeter this week due to the Alpha-Omega #200 deadline! The deadline to contribute to A-O #200 is May 7th.
The Game of Life – Chapter 1
Autumn of 1987 in A-O # 16 we had the first chapter of the Game of Life
Last week we promised to share the first chapter of The Game of Life with you. So here we have it.
Again this was the brain child of Billy Leavell, whom sharp eyed fans will recognize as Legacy Comics ace letterer. However, Billy was far more than just a letterer, if such a thing exists. Billy wrote, drew and inked as well as did the lettering on a barrel full of comics for no telling how many years. A lot of folks don’t know, but Billy has been deaf all his life.
Billy was born deaf in Montgomery, Alabama and was educated at hearing schools in Montgomery and Birmingham. After he graduated from high school, he went to David Lipscomb College (now University) where he received his B.A. degree in 1961.
Immediately after this, he became full-time minister to the deaf at Central Church of Christ in Nashville, Tennessee, where he served for 13 years. In 1975 he and his family moved to Memphis, Tennessee where he became minister to the deaf at East Frayser Church of Christ for 23 years. In 1998 he and the deaf group relocated to White Station Church of Christ, where they continue today.
Billy is married to the former Marilyn Allgood, who is an interpreter for the deaf. From this union three children were born, and later, five grandchildren and three step-grandchildren.
Billy has traveled across the United States holding gospel meetings, conferences, and seminars. He also has traveled to foreign mission fields to work with the deaf, including the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, the Czech Republic, Belize (Central America), and three countries in Africa (Kenya, Uganda and Ghana).
Billy is currently a board member of DeafConnect, the agency in Memphis that serves the deaf. So he is well known by many Memphis deaf.
Billy also has established a publication for the deaf which has been read the world round. He is a gifted artist converting Bible stories into pictures and cartoon characters. He displays his many talents on his web site and publication by the same name Light for the Deaf.
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Due to the DDD (Dreaded Deadline Doom) for Alpha-Omega #200 we did not have time to revise pages in PNM #3 this week . Check back next week as we continue updating these books for printing with Ka-Blam Comic Book Printing and digital sales at IndyPlanet as well as DriveThru Comics.
Remember, we have digital editions at IndyPlanet and DriveThru Comics RIGHT NOW! You can still download Project: NewMan #1 and Humants # 1 for absolutely FREE! Project: NewMan # 2 and Humants # 2 can be downloaded now, for immediate gratification, for a mere 99ç each! And if you want actual hard copy prints the Indyplanet will sale those to you for only $2.99 each! And we also have Mega Tales #1 featuring the debut of the other long ago project Mark and Greg Legat did called Tess, The Living Tesseract.
What are you waiting for? Go grab some Mega Comics Group / Legacy Comics right now! Check out the cover link to the left here which will take you to Indy Planet. Here’s the link if you had rather got to DriveThru Comics.
CU Next Week!
