I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers.
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.
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.
I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.
It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.
I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist.
I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys.
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.
I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes.
It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you.