Occupation: Artist Birth: August 28, 1917 Death: February 6, 1994
I never had stock endings. I didn't believe in stock endings. To make the [reader] happy was not my objective, but to make the [reader] say, "Yeah, t….
I didn't save my money for a lawyer. I was a very young man, and saved my money for having a good time..
I won't do anything bad, and I resent very deeply bad people who haven't got the ability, who try to interfere with the kind of work I'm trying to do….
I've done things that I wouldn't ordinarily seem capable of doing. And I've proven myself in situations where there's life and death at stake. And so….
Everybody was wary. This was a time when communists marched through the streets, waving flags and shouting. The unions did the same thing so you bega….
Aw, where we come from the Anti-Life Equation is one of many others--almost as awesome!! But they merely exist!!.
I taught myself how to draw, and I soon found out it was what I really wanted to do. I didn't think I was going to create any great masterpieces like….
I've never done anything bad. I can't do anything bad. It's got to be professional. It's got to look professional. It's got to read professional. In ….
If you're drawing a Western town, you can duplicate that Western town from instinct alone. Some artists may take it from other illustrations or dupli….
If you're a thorough professional, and they won't let you do a professional job, nobody's going to benefit from it. The people who produce it won't b….
I get a lot of comics, and I can look at a comic and tell immediately whether I'll enjoy it or not. There are elements in the stories that I have no ….
I was happy because I made enough money to give to my parents. I made enough money to get married on. I made enough money to enjoy myself a little mo….
An artist has to be humble, an editor must be officious, and a publisher must be somewhere out in the galaxy enjoying godhood. It was a caste system,….
I would've liked to have been a better businessman when I was younger. And of course, I couldn't, because it wasn't part of my atmosphere. I never li….
The artist is the lowest form of life on the rung of the ladder. The publishers are usually businessmen who deal with businessmen. They deal with pro….
My own son feels I'm uncool but my grandson loves me. Being cool or uncool is a generational thing. But as a personal thing, I really love everybody ….
I feel that every professional is the art school for the next guy. I feel that maybe a lot of the dynamism in my own work, having been felt by the re….
I didn't resolve the questions... and I find that entertaining. And if my life were to end tomorrow, it would be fulfilled in that manner. I would sa….
I always enjoyed doing monster books. Monster books gave me the opportunity to draw things out of the ordinary. Monster books were a challenge - what….
All life on Earth is subject to the rumbles and rockings of the parent stucture which has no control over the disastrous effects of its stresses and ….
I never duck out of a fight; I don't care what the hell the odds are, and I'm rough at times, but I try to be a decent guy all the time. That's the w….