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Humor Has Historically Been Tied To The Mores Of The Day. The Yellow Kid Was Predicated On What People Thought Was Funny About The Immigrant Irish. When You're Different In A Society, You're Funny.
Kids
Yellow
People
[before The Spirit] I Had Been Producing Comic Books For 15-year-old Cretins From Kansas [i Wanted To Aim For] A 55-year-old Who Had His Wallet Stolen On The Subway. You Can't Talk About Heartbreak To A Kid.
Book
Kids
Kansas
Before World War Ii, I Was Living A Very Cloistered Existence, As Most Cartoonists Do. The Work I Was Pouring Out Did Not Come From Any Real, Personal Life Experience; This Was All The Residue Of The Accumulation Of Rafael Sabatini, O. Henry, All The Short-story Writers That I'd Been Reading.
Real
War
Reading
A Key To My Thinking Has Always Been The Almost Fanatical Belief That What I Was Engaged In Was A Literary Art Form. That Belief Was Compounded Out Of Ego And Necessity, I Guess, A Combination Of The Two.
Art
Thinking
Keys
Thus, Sped By Currents Of Curiosity Afloat The Swift River Of Rumor Do Secrets Sail To Strange Ports.
Rivers
Secret
Curiosity
Ive Spent My Whole Life Working In A Medium That Was Regarded With Contempt Largely Because Of Historical Reasons.
Historical
Reason
Whole Life
Still,[...] In All Forms Of Comics The Sequential Artist Relies Upon The Tacit Cooperation Of The Reader. This Cooperation Is Based Upon The Convention Of Reading And The Common Cognitive Disciplines. Indeed, It Is This Very Voluntary Cooperation, So Unique To Comics, That Underlies The Contract Between Artist And Audience.
Reading
Unique
Artist
I Write About What I Know And What I Have Experienced. This Keeps Me An "honest" Writer.
Writing
Honest
Knows
Superheroes Are Mostly Aimed At Young Teen-age Males Concerned With Their Manhood. The Medium Will Have To Address Itself More To Content. . . . I See 22 Year Olds Draw Massive Schwarzenegger Types, Outfitted With Metal Studs, Pressing A Mostly Naked Woman To Their Breastplates. And I Think Poor Girl, Thats Got To Be Cold.
Girl
Thinking
Years
The Term Comics Long Ago Became Obsolete And Inaccurate. It Merely Defined The Content Of The Early Joke-based Comical Strips. Sequential Art Is A More Accurate Description Of The Form. I First Suggested It Because I Believed Something Needed To Be Done To Correct The Feeling Of Inferiority By Artists And Writers In This Field.
Art
Long Ago
Feelings
Comics Deal With Two Fundamental Communicating Devices: Words And Images. Admittedly This Is An Arbitrary Separation. But, Since In The Modern World Of Communication They Are Treated As Independent Disciplines, It Seems Valid. Actually, The Are Derivatives Of A Single Origin And In The Skillful Employment Of Words And Images Lies The Expressive Potential Of The Medium.
Lying
Communication
Independent
I Want To Point Out To Adults That There Is A World Of Good Material Available To You Now In Comic Form - In This Medium - And Learn To Give It Your Support Because The More You Support It, The Better The Material Will Be As It Comes Out.
Giving
Support
Adults
Born: March 6, 1917
Died: January 3, 2005
Occupation: Cartoonist
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