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I Don't Know Where The Hell I'll Be In 5 Years. Maybe I'll Be Producing Movies Maybe I'll Be On A Corner Selling Apples. I Don't Know, But I'm Having A Hell Of A Lot Of Fun.

Quality. That's The First Word, The One Word That Comes To Mind When I Think Of The Books Published By Abrams. In A World Where So Many Companies Are Willing To Cut Corners, To Do Things The Easy Way In Order To Enhance The Bottom Line, It's Gratifying To Know That There's One Company That Obviously Takes Such Pride In Its Finished Product, One Company That Can Always Be Counted On To Design And Produce A Book That Is, Itself, As Much A Work Of Art As The Illustrations On Its Pages.

I Was In The Beginning When [comic Book Superheroes] Started, But Not Anymore. Now I Expect It. I've Gotten Very Used To It.

Some Artists, Such As Jack Kirby, Need No Plot At All. I Mean I'll Just Say To Jack, "let's Let The Next Villain Be Dr. Doom" ... Or I May Not Even Say That. He May Tell Me. And Then He Goes Home And Does It. He's So Good At Plots, I'm Sure He's A Thousand Times Better Than I. He Just Makes Up The Plots For These Stories. All I Do Is A Little Editing ... I May Tell Him That He's Gone Too Far In One Direction Or Another. Of Course, Occasionally I'll Give Him A Plot, But We're Practically Both The Writers On The Things.

I Have A Reputation For Doing Superheroes, But I Like All Kinds Of Writing. In Fact, Hardly Anybody Knows This, But I've Probably Written As Many Humor Stories As Superhero Stories.