In The Army When We Had Judo

I Feel My Characters Are Valid, My Characters Are People, My Characters Have Hope. Hope Is The Thing That'll Take Us Through.

I Began To Learn About The Universe Myself And Take It Seriously. I Know The Names Of The Stars. I Know How Near Or Far The Heavenly Bodies Are From Our Own Planet. I Know Our Own Place In The Universe. I Can Feel The Vastness Of It Inside Myself. I Began To Realize With Each Passing Fact What A Wonderful And Awesome Place The Universe Is, And That Helped Me In Comics Because I Was Looking For The Awesome.

I Took A Great Joy With Inventing New Kinds Of Mechanisms. I Invented New Kinds Of Machines. I've Been A Student Of Science Fiction For A Long, Long Time, And I'm Very Well-versed In Science Fact And Science Fiction.

I Was Being Brought Up On Peasant Stories; My Mother Came From Europe And She'd Been A Peasant And That Was The Area Where The Frankensteins And The Draculas Came From And It Was Entertainment For The People. Nobody Had Tv, And That Was The Way Peasants Would Entertain Themselves, By Telling These Stories.

If You're Drawing A Western Town, You Can Duplicate That Western Town From Instinct Alone. Some Artists May Take It From Other Illustrations Or Duplicate What You've Drawn, But It Will Never Have That Gut Reality That's Instinctive In The Artist.