Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy.
He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.
I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
I dont want to write, Id rather draw.
And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.
I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86.
It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.