They never complain and want more money and leave the series to go off into films or anything. They behave themselves very, very well. To you, the world of comics is a very serious world, and you ve taken on very serious subjects in all of this not just Shakespeare and A Midsummer Night s Dream. These are not Batman coming in to thwart a robbery. You deal with death and with the imagination and with horror in a way that comic books, when I was growing up, didn t do.
Pictures are great, adults like pictures, pictures hang in art galleries.
And you have words, and words are wonderful things. You can get the Nobel Prize for Literature just by using words. Somehow, as soon as you put them together, you are perceived to be doing something that s either for children or for subliterates, and there s no reason for that. Words and pictures are magnificent, wonderful things, and they can work together, they can work in ironic counterpoint, and you can use them in pretty much any way you like. So what I wanted to do was write comics for somebody like me.