Every comic went through their Mitch Hedberg phase - the glasses, the hair in the face - and you knew immediately when they were doing it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There are great comic books, these great geniuses that manage to tell you a story in one frame, and that became the thing that opened my eyes.
I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.
At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics.
Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do.
Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.
Comic timing... is how to have a relationship with the camera and deal with the camera without looking like you are.
Suddenly, I was reading these comics. I was looking at those bubbles, those dialogue bubbles, and suddenly there were words... recognizable words.
I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.
I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history.
Especially those first few years of my comic book career, I had no idea what was going to happen the next day.