Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.

The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.

I'm not the sort of fellow who does the same thing all the time. I began using a lot of science fiction apparatus. I came out with the atom bomb two years before it was actually used because I read in the paper that a fellow named Nicola Tesla was working on the atom bomb.

I'd had a belly-full of being subservient. I had to find something else to do, and I did. I went to the animation houses. I went to new fields.

My monsters were lovable monsters. I gave them names - some were evil and some were good. They made sales, and that's always been my prime object in comics.

I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.

Life at best is bittersweet.