I Don't Want To Take Somebody Else's

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.

I Wasn't The Kind Of Student That Pratt Was Looking For. They Wanted Patient People Who Would Work On Something Forever. I Didn't Want To Work On Any Project Forever. I Intended To Get Things Done.

The Average Politician Was Crooked. That Was My Ambition, To Be A Crooked Politician. I'd See Them In These Restaurants, And They'd All Hold These Conferences. I'd See Politicians Who Were Supposed To Be On Opposite Sides Of Issues All Together At One Table.

Aw, Where We Come From The Anti-life Equation Is One Of Many Others--almost As Awesome!! But They Merely Exist!!