I Hated To Fight All The Time

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.

There Was Violence Because First Of All, There Were Ethnic Differences And Names. If You Were Small, They Called You A Runt, And You Had To Do Something About That Even If There Were Five Other Guys.

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.

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.

Mort Meskin Was A Consummate Professional, Dedicated To His Work. A Great Talent.