Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.
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The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.
Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.
One of the things about comics is people can linger on images and words as long as they want.
I have always had a need for attention but didn't plan to be a comic.
I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.
As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form - in this medium - and learn to give it your support because the more you support it, the better the material will be as it comes out.
I'm not a comic person at all. It never reached me in the north of Ireland, in the '60s and '70s growing up. We used to get stupid comics like 'The Topper' and 'The Beezer,' things like that.
I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.
As a comic, I think I'm very verbally oriented about a lot of the stuff that I've written or thought up and how I say it.
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