A Character To Me Can't Be Contrived.

I Didn't Like Army Life. I Didn't Like Taking Orders. I Didn't Like Discipline. I Didn't Like Being Yelled At. You'd Get 10 Years For Punching A Sergeant So I Couldn't Punch A Sergeant.

I Won't Do Anything Bad, And I Resent Very Deeply Bad People Who Haven't Got The Ability, Who Try To Interfere With The Kind Of Work I'm Trying To Do Because Nobody's Going To Benefit From It.

I Wouldn't Call Adolf Hitler A Corporal. Adolf Hitler Was Looked Up To. He Was Revered Almost Like A God Because He Was Feared. Adolf Hitler Took All Of Europe, And My Generation Had To Confront Adolf Hitler.

The Artist Is The Lowest Form Of Life On The Rung Of The Ladder. The Publishers Are Usually Businessmen Who Deal With Businessmen. They Deal With Promotional People. They Deal With Financial People. They Deal With Accountants. They Deal With People Who Work On Higher Levels. They Deal With Tax People, But Have Absolutely No Interest In Artists, In Individual Artists, Especially Very Young Artists.

I Taught Myself How To Draw, And I Soon Found Out It Was What I Really Wanted To Do. I Didn't Think I Was Going To Create Any Great Masterpieces Like Rembrandt Or Gauguin. I Thought Comics Was A Common Form Of Art, And Strictly American In My Estimation, Because America Was The Home Of The Common Man - And Show Me The Common Man That Can't Do A Comic. So Comics Is An American Form Of Art That Anyone Can Do With A Pencil And Paper.