The Only Real Politics I Knew Was

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 Don't Want To Take Somebody Else's Beating. That Makes Me Unhappy.

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.

A Character To Me Can't Be Contrived. I Don't Like To Contrive Characters. They Have To Have An Element Of Truth.

Speaking As A Human Being, Not As A Businessman - The Unions Are Great. The Unions Are Great For The Working People Because They Protect You, But I Didn't See Them That Way As A Young Man. First Of All, The Papers Would Connect Them With Thee Communists - Labor Unions Were Communists.