It Is Not Size Or Age That

When I Write A Play, My Whole Intent At Bottom Is To Get The Audience To Be In The Cast, To Get That Audience On Stage With The Actors And To Get Them Thoroughly Involved In What's Going On.

There's No Rap Against Comics That Isn't True. They Were Sexist, They Were Racist, You Name It - And They Kind Of Gloried In That.

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.

Maturity Is Only A Short Break In Adolescence.

There's The Excitement Of Adding Color, Which I Didn't Know Anything About Until 1997 Or So, When I Did My First Picture Book. So, The Kid's Book In Particular Have Been Exciting For Me Because It Forced Me To Go Back To The Work I Loved As A Young Boy Reading Sunday's Supplements And Comics In The Sunday Papers When I Was Six, Seven, Eight, Nine. And Number Of Which Have Been In Wonderful Collections, Beautifully Reproduced.