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There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.

When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.

I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.

I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.

I like that feeling of discombobulation that comes in creating an absurd world that doesn't make sense. 'Monty Python' does a good job of it; 'Bugs Bunny,' too.

Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.

By itself, just to draw crazy creatures has limited appeal - if I had to give up one thing, it would be the wild imagination. When the work becomes too detached from ordinary life, it starts to fall apart. Fantasy needs to have some connection with reality, or it becomes of its own interest only, insular.

Quite often, intent on conveying how things can go wrong for a culture (science fiction) or an individual (horror) or all of magical creation (fantasy), works of fantastika often preclude comedy, because humor gets in the way of messages of doom or struggle.

Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.

Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.