Good Swiping Is An Art In Itself.

I Don't Know How Comic Artists Feed Their Families, If They Do. But It's A Fascinating Form And So I Think That After A Long Period Of Nothing Happening And Work, Nothing Very Impressive, We Are Into Another Golden Age Of Comics. Unfortunately, It's Not A Golden Age For The Artists Themselves Economically. I Don't Know How They Get Along.

I Didn't Have A Job. Employers Were Afraid Of Losing Their Reputations. I Didn't Have A Reputation. I Had Zilch. So, I Had The Freedom, Which Unemployment Gives You, And That Was To Behave As Badly As I Believed I Should Under The Circumstances. And The Circumstances Were Quite Awful.

I Think We Overrate Experience And What We've Been Through In Terms Of Our Success At Doing The Work We Do. There Are Many People Who Get Beat Up, Who Suffer, Who Are Victimized, And Then They Sit Down To Write And They Write Crap.

I Found It Was My Good Fortune To Somehow Be Able To Work In These Forms That I Loved When I Was A Kid. I Love Movies And I Could Write Screenplays. I Love Theater And I Could Write Plays. I Mean, They Would Be My Own, I Could Never Write What Was Used To Be Called The Well-made Play. But My First Play, "little Murders," Turned Out To Be A Great Success And A Great Influence On Plays At That Time.

When You Do The Kind Of Work I Do, Everything Is Challenging, But Probably The Most Challenging Thing Is Getting Up In The Morning And Getting On With It Because It's So Easy To Stay In Bed And Not Get On With It.