In A Sense, The Artwork Is The

I Like Silver Surfer Because He's The Most Philosophical, Always Philosophizing About The Human Race And The Human Condition And Why People Are The Way They Are, Why They Don't Appreciate This Wonderful Planet They Live On... He Has A Nice Moral Tone.

Singing A Song, Playing Sports - Anything That Entertains, That Takes People Away From Their Own Problems, Is Good.

Once, I'd Written A Western Story, And One Of The Panels Was Just A Hand Holding A Six-shooter, And There Was A Puff Of Smoke Coming Out Of The Barrel, And A Straight Horizontal Line, Indicating The Trajectory Of The Bullet. So That Page Was Sent Back To Me From The Code Office, Saying That The Particular Panel Was Too Violent. I Asked Them What They Meant, And They Told Me--i Swear--"the Puff Of Smoke Is Too Big." Well, Of Course. So I Had The Artist Make The Smoke A Little Smaller, And The Youth Of America Was Saved.

I Think Almost Everybody Enjoyed Fairy Tales When They Were Young, Tales Of Witches And Ogres And Monsters And Dragons And So Forth. You Get A Little Bit Older, You Can't Read Fairy Tales Any More.

I'm Sort Of A Pressure Writer. If Somebody Says, "stan, Write Something," And I Have To Have It By Tomorrow Morning, I'll Just Sit Down And I'll Write It. It Always Seems To Come To Me. But I'm Better Doing A Rushed Job Because If It Isn't Something That's Due Quickly, I Won't Work On It Until It Becomes Almost An Emergency And Then I'll Do It.