The cliche that comics always use is that whatever is happening in the news is 'the gift that keeps on giving.' I always thought that was a bunch of nonsense.
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Every comic can report a few 'gift from the gods' moments.
Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.
On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.
One of the things about comics is people can linger on images and words as long as they want.
It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
At some point, all comics have to go out and be retail salesmen doing door-to-door. And this idea of somebody who totally knows their craft having to get up for free in front of a crowd to work out some stuff they're thinking in their head, still, after as much success as you can get, is really interesting.
I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.
Comics are given serious attention now and I'm quite surprised. You see them reviewed in major newspapers and exhibited in serious museums. I wouldn't have predicted it.
The comics work is very slow, and it basically involves working for sometimes years in isolation and not knowing how the work is going to be received.
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