I Had A Publisher Who Felt Comics

I Had Been Writing Comic Books For Years And I Was Doing Them To Please A Publisher, Who Felt That Comics Are Only Read By Very Young Children Or Stupid Adults. And Therefore, We Have To Keep The Stories Very Simplistic... And Those Were All Things I Hated.

To Tell You The Truth, I Never Thought Of Myself As Much Of A Success.

Everybody Wants To Feel That You're Writing To A Certain Demographic Because That's Good Business, But I've Never Done That ... I Tried To Write Stories That Would Interest Me. I'd Say, What Would I Like To Read?... I Don't Think You Can Do Your Best Work If You're Writing For Somebody Else, Because You Never Know What That Somebody Else Really Thinks Or Wants.

When Writing, I Model All The Heroes After Myself. Of Course, It's Hard To Make Them Quite As Wonderful As I Am, But I Come As Close As I Can.

I'm Lucky. I Don't Have To Produce The Whole Movie. What I've Been Doing Is Just Coming Up With Ideas For Movies. I Write A Concept, A Treatment, An Outline, And If I Sell That To A Studio, Then Someone Else Does The Actual Production And I Go On To Another Project, Although I Keep The Title Executive Producer.