When I Was A Kid,

I've Been Very Lucky. All I Wanted Was To Pay The Rent. Then These Characters Took Off And Suddenly There Were Hulk Coffee Mugs And Iron Man Lunchboxes And The Avengers Sweatshirts Everywhere. Money's Okay, But What I Really Like Is Working.

One Of The Keys Is, And It May Sound Funny, Talking About Characters With Super Powers, But One Of The Keys Is To Make Your Characters As Realistic And Believable As Possible. Even If They Have Super Powers, You Say To Yourself, "well, If Somebody Had A Super Power Like This, What Would His Life Be Like? Wouldn't He Still Maybe Have To Go To The Dentist Or Wouldn't He Have To Worry About Making A Living? What About His Love Life?" You've Got To Make Characters That Your Reader Can Believe Exists Or Might Exist.

To Be Honest, When I Was Writing These Stories A Million Years Ago, I Never Thought About Movies At All One Way Or Another. It Would Have Seemed Almost Miraculous For These Things To Be Movies Someday. To Me, They Were Just Comic Books That I Hoped Would Sell So I Could Keep My Job.

Movies Help The Sales Of The Comics.

So I'm Happiest When I'm Working With Artists And Writers, And Involved In Stories, Whether We're Talking About Animation Or Movies Or Comics Or Television.