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" The first work I ever did in comics was for Archie Comics, and I didn't do that very long because I did other stuff. "

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" I don't get involved in criticizing or extolling really good artists who do their job. That's for other people. "

" I think that Curt Swan, when he did Superman for the longest time, became the definitive Superman artist, and everybody got it. That made him very, very special in the annals of comic books. "

" I really kind of always wondered, if I did Superman, what I would do, and what I would be able to do, because it's a little harder for me, being kind of a realistic guy, to imagine doing a character who almost has no limits to his powers. "

" Nobody is looking for work who doesn't need work. That's why we look for work. "

" Some people don't realize that I did most of the 'Deadmans.' People don't know that I wrote two 'Spectres.' "

" Every business makes big mistakes along the way. "

" I used to work on a carousel on a boardwalk in Coney Island. "

" I'm a fan of Superman as created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Remember that Jerry and Joe created a character that was the biggest superhero of all. "

" I live in New York and California, and I get to travel. "

" I'm not someone who complains in any way about how things move forward, unless somebody actually does a really crappy job. "

" I think of myself as a storytelling, and one of the reasons why people have held my stuff close to them is because it's one thing to draw pretty pictures, and it's another thing to create a story. That's what I've always done, whether it be for advertising clients or commercial clients or comic books. My hand is in there, and I am the storyteller. "

" My view is that comic books are meant to be long-form stories. They're meant to be novels. "

" Sometimes you're forced to do the cover before the story is done. "

" You could say everybody's a fan of Jack Kirby. I would say I'm a fan of Jack Kirby. I'm a fan of Jack Kirby the man. "

" When I did get into comic books, it was after a whole other career, and when I got into comic books, they didn't even know who I was. "

" Back in the olden days when we were rubbing sticks together, everybody wanted to have a comic strip, to live in Westport Connecticut, to have a Jaguar and to have a wife and two and a half kids and to have a girl in town in their studio in Manhattan that they'd romance, and then they'd have people ghost their strip. It was like this big dream. "

" 'The Dark Knight Rises,' it turns out, is a classic Batman epic. "

" I know Coney Island more than I know Queens and Brooklyn! And I understand everything about it - Coney Island is my home. "

" What populates a comic-book convention? Well there's actors, and there's dealers, and there's comic-book artists and writers, and there's cosplay people, toy sales people, people who are selling trading cards, and people selling swords. It's not a flea market. "

" The thing about advertising is that you make more money. You can put kids through college so they don't come out with loans. My kids don't, and my grandkids don't, and advertising paid for that. "

" You don't get dead and there not be consequences. "

" As far as I know, no kid ever bought a children's book himself with his own money, but they'll buy comic books. So we better make them good. "

" The great opportunity with Deadman was that you had a character that nobody had really done anything with - Arnold Drake and Carmine Infantino created the character, which is terrific, but Carmine only did one issue with him - and it gave me a chance to do things that I hadn't seen done in comics all of my life. "

" I believe in advancing the story with the cover so that the audience gets taken in immediately with that cover. "

" Nothing is gained by not being kind and courteous. "

" Times have changed. And as the audience changes, so do the superheroes. "

" I think, sometimes, if you get too much attention, then everybody watches you more closely, and they make these broad generalizations about you that aren't really true. "

" The thing about covers that's relatively important to remember is that it doesn't matter how good an artist you are: if you don't have good ideas, the covers don't stand out. "

" I created the first black superhero who was not a gangbanger or an African chief but was rather a college graduate and a professional, which I think is a big accomplishment. "