If Nobody Is Looking For A Story,

Quality. That's The First Word, The One Word That Comes To Mind When I Think Of The Books Published By Abrams. In A World Where So Many Companies Are Willing To Cut Corners, To Do Things The Easy Way In Order To Enhance The Bottom Line, It's Gratifying To Know That There's One Company That Obviously Takes Such Pride In Its Finished Product, One Company That Can Always Be Counted On To Design And Produce A Book That Is, Itself, As Much A Work Of Art As The Illustrations On Its Pages.

The Cliché I Tried To Avoid Was I Hated "teenage Sidekicks." I Always Figured If I Were A Superhero, There's No Way On God's Earth That I'm Gonna Pal Around With Some Teenager. So My Publisher Insisted I Have A Teenager In The Series, Because They Always Felt Teenagers Won't Read The Books Unless There's A Teenager In The Story; Which Is Nonsense.

That's What Everybody Tells Me. "i Would've Had A Great Comic-book Collection, But My Mother Made Me Throw Them Away." But When I Was Growing Up, My Mother Didn't Care. As Long As I Was Reading, She Didn't Care If My Room Was Filled With Comics. I Could Have Saved Everything. I Was Just Too Stupid To Do It.

Comic Books Themselves Are Getting More Literate. And There Are People Who Are Screenwriters And Television Writers And Novelists Who Are Writing For The Comics, For Some Reason, They Love Doing It And Some Of The Art Work In The Comics, I Mean It Rivals Anything You'll See Hanging On The Walls Of Museums, They're Illustrations More Than Drawings And All The People Are Discovering This And They're Turning On To It.

It's Hard Not To Be Enthusiastic When You Like What You're Doing And I Love What I Do. I Love Writing Stories, I Love Coming Up With Ideas For New Projects And I Love The People I Work With, Because I Work With Great Writers And Artists And Directors And Actors.