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- I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I…
- I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following…
- I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my…
- I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes…
- I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't…
- Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.
- My inner chemistry had been hijacked by a mad scientist, who poured the fizzy, volatile contents of my heart from a test tube marked SOBER REALITY into another…
- ...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does…
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