Humor Has Historically Been Tied To The

A Key To My Thinking Has Always Been The Almost Fanatical Belief That What I Was Engaged In Was A Literary Art Form. That Belief Was Compounded Out Of Ego And Necessity, I Guess, A Combination Of The Two.

Before World War Ii, I Was Living A Very Cloistered Existence, As Most Cartoonists Do. The Work I Was Pouring Out Did Not Come From Any Real, Personal Life Experience; This Was All The Residue Of The Accumulation Of Rafael Sabatini, O. Henry, All The Short-story Writers That I'd Been Reading.

Thus, Sped By Currents Of Curiosity Afloat The Swift River Of Rumor Do Secrets Sail To Strange Ports.

Still,[...] In All Forms Of Comics The Sequential Artist Relies Upon The Tacit Cooperation Of The Reader. This Cooperation Is Based Upon The Convention Of Reading And The Common Cognitive Disciplines. Indeed, It Is This Very Voluntary Cooperation, So Unique To Comics, That Underlies The Contract Between Artist And Audience.

We Have This History Of Impossible Solutions To Insoluble Problems.