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Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.

Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.

I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.

In my own case, my folks didn't actually object to comics, as many parents did, but they pretty much felt the things were a waste of time.

I was into comic books as a kid.

We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement.

As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.

I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.

What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.

I came to comic books when I was about 15.