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A Key To My Thinking Has Always Been The Almost Fanatical Belief That What I Was Engaged In Was A Literary Art Form. That Belief Was Compounded Out Of Ego And Necessity, I Guess, A Combination Of The Two.

Superheroes Are Mostly Aimed At Young Teen-age Males Concerned With Their Manhood. The Medium Will Have To Address Itself More To Content. . . . I See 22 Year Olds Draw Massive Schwarzenegger Types, Outfitted With Metal Studs, Pressing A Mostly Naked Woman To Their Breastplates. And I Think Poor Girl, Thats Got To Be Cold.

We Have This History Of Impossible Solutions To Insoluble Problems.

The Term Comics Long Ago Became Obsolete And Inaccurate. It Merely Defined The Content Of The Early Joke-based Comical Strips. Sequential Art Is A More Accurate Description Of The Form. I First Suggested It Because I Believed Something Needed To Be Done To Correct The Feeling Of Inferiority By Artists And Writers In This Field.

Humor Has Historically Been Tied To The Mores Of The Day. The Yellow Kid Was Predicated On What People Thought Was Funny About The Immigrant Irish. When You're Different In A Society, You're Funny.