Coming into the business, you'd pass through these little agencies until you got to understand what was happening in the business, unless you were really able to have a style strong enough to go directly to the publishers.

I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.

All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time.

Comics were going down for the second time and here, all of a sudden, came this thing and for the next fifteen years, romance comics were about the top sellers in the field; they outsold everything.

Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything.

If I had one quality that really ruined me and at the same time helped me, it was the fact that I never stopped looking, and by that time I was really working at it.

I was hired as a penciler.