But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

When you have a brush in your hand, inking a beautiful woman is a lot like running your hands over her.

And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.

I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.

I moved to New York and was told, "Go back home. We don't need you. Go pump gas. You're from Vermont. We've got no use for you. You're not drawing guys in tights." So, I learned how to draw guys in tights, and I put them in as many crime situations as I could.

I find that if somebody is writing and drawing a comic book, planning it to be a movie and a game at the same time tends to lead to a pretty lame job.

I'll make it. I won't die. I've got too much I have to do to let myself die.