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• ‟ I was influenced by autobiographical writers like Henry Miller, and I had actually done some autobiographical prose. But I just thought that comics were like virgin territory. There was so much to be done. It excited me. I couldn't draw very well. I could write scripts and storyboard style using stick figures and balloons and captions.

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• ‟ It dawned on me that comics were not an intrinsically limited medium. There was a tremendous amount of things you could do in comics that you couldn't do in other art forms - but no one was doing it. I figured if I'd make a try at it, I'd at least be a footnote in history.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me with influencing them.

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• ‟ There hasn't been enough change in comics to suit me. I don't know why exactly.

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• ‟ It's real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go home and write about it. It's that quick.

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• ‟ I worry about getting work, and then when I get it, I worry about doing it well. I don't want to just go through the motions and give people stuff. This stuff is really important to me.

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• ‟ I want to keep doing as much work as I can, and I want to keep the level high. I'm wondering if something is going to happen to me to screw it up.

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