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.
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.
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.
In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.
I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.
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.
My interests were in fantasy more than comics growing up.
It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.
My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist.
I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
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