What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.
For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in the comic book industry.
I was into comic books as a kid.
It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing.
It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.
I'm in a comic book now. That was cool. That's something that I'm still sorta reeling about, 'cause I read comics as a kid. Someone drew me, and actually did a pretty good job!
I love comics. I like to do everything I used to do when I was 14-years-old.
I vividly remember my first 'Superman' comic, which my granddad bought me when I was about 7. From that point on, all I wanted to do is draw comics. And specifically, superhero and science fiction comics. Basically I used to copy comic books, and draw my own comics on scrap paper.
I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.
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