A Man Without Hope Is

"comic Book" Has Come To Mean A Specific Genre, Not A Story Form, In People's Minds. So Someone Will Call Die Hard "a Comic-book Movie," When It Has Nothing To Do With Comic Books. I'd Rather Have Comics Be The Vehicle By Which Stories Are Told.

A Man Without Hope Is A Man Without Fear.

I Grew Up On The Crime Stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, And Noir Movies Like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I First Showed Up In New York To Write Comics Back In The Late 1970s, I Came With A Bunch Of Crime Stories But Everybody Just Wanted Men In Tights.

This Should Be Agony. I Should Be A Mass Of Aching Muscle - Broken, Spent, Unable To Move. And, Were I An Older Man, I Surely Would ... ... But I'm A Man Of Thirty - Of Twenty Again. The Rain On My Chest Is A Baptism - I'm Born Again.

'cartoonists' Dirty Secret Is That We Tend To Come Up With Stories That Involve Things That Are Really Fun To Draw.