I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.
I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.
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.
I wrote comedy sketches in college.
I worked at comedy clubs - if I can use the term 'work' - for several years. I middled at one point. I never made it; I was never a headliner. I never made enough time to write enough good material, in my opinion.
I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended up a senior cameraman with my own crew. I'd had my first short story published in 1947, and when my writing really started to take off I decided to go freelance, and eventually left the BBC in 1965.
Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.
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