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

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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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I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes.

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I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in.

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I'm a guy that likes to sit in one place.

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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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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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It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you.

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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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It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 8th, 1939

Died: July 12th, 2010

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