I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form.

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I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers.

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I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.

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I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.

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It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.

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I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.

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My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.

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I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys.

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I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.

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Things improved a little bit in the '80s; there was kind of a revival of alternative comics, but then they went downhill in the '90s.

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