I Had Very High Respect For The

My Monsters Were Lovable Monsters. I Gave Them Names - Some Were Evil And Some Were Good. They Made Sales, And That's Always Been My Prime Object In Comics.

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.

It's Not In The Draftsmanship, It's In The Man. Like I Say, A Tool Is Dead. A Brush Is A Dead Object. It's In The Man. If You Want To Do It, You Do It.

I Had Very High Respect For The Pratt Institute, But I Thought That I Had Done My Best, And That Was Not Their Version Of The Best.

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.