There's No Rap Against Comics

There Are Many People Who Get Beat Up, Who Suffer, Who Are Victimized, And Then They Sit Down To Write And They Write Crap. How Many Of These Graphic Novels Over The Years Are From Really Talented People? Most Of Them Actually, If You Look At Them, Are Self-pitying Confessionals About "poor Me".

I've Had Enormous Luck And Enormous Pleasure In Working In Such Forms As Movies And Plays That I Loved When I Was A Kid And I Just - Because I Could Always Write Dialogue, Because I Always Had A Sense Of How People Spoke. And Because I Had A Strong Narrative Sense; Growing Up And Loving Stories, Loving Novels, I Just Seem To Know How To Tell A Story And I Read A Lot, I Went To A Lot Of Movies, I Went To A Lot Of Plays, And It Rubbed Off On Me. And That's All. It Just Rubbed Off On Me.

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.

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'm Well Beyond Dyslexic: I Have No Sense Of Direction; I Never Know Where I Am.