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Born: 1926-04-06
Profession: Artist
Nation: American
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All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time.

Tags: Done, Finish, Time

But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.

Tags: Big, Mouth, Started

DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it.

Tags: Company, Print, Used

Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything.

Tags: Sensory, Structure

I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.

Tags: Deep, Focus, Work

I was hired as a penciler.

Tags: Hired

I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.

Tags: Boy, Hired, Stories

I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything.

Tags: Constantly, Off, Smart

In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages.

Tags: Paper, Words

It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.

Tags: Drawing, Infinity, Line

Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough.

Tags: Enough, Tricky, Turning

Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.

Tags: Precision, Qualities, Work

Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems.

Tags: Problem, Real, War

But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a person who was working there in order for you to find a space.

Tags: Art, Happen, Hard

Comics were going down for the second time and here, all of a sudden, came this thing and for the next fifteen years, romance comics were about the top sellers in the field; they outsold everything.

Tags: Here, Next, Time

Coming into the business, you'd pass through these little agencies until you got to understand what was happening in the business, unless you were really able to have a style strong enough to go directly to the publishers.

Tags: Business, Strong, Understand

First of all there was a guy named Charles Nicholas, who used to do all of the inking that Jack and Simon didn't do. Simon used to do splashes and covers, but Charles Nicholas, after a while, did the inside of all of the stuff.

Tags: After, Used, While

I just saw the emotion in everything, so I got to feel everything that was going on and that I was viewing, but I couldn't think in terms of structure, which is the whole point of deep focus.

Tags: Deep, Focus, Whole

If I had one quality that really ruined me and at the same time helped me, it was the fact that I never stopped looking, and by that time I was really working at it.

Tags: Fact, Time, Working

As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.

Tags: End, Patience, Win

I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do.

Tags: Film, General, Public

The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book.

Tags: Alone, Book, Mean

My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don't have too many secrets. I'm a very open and honest person, sometimes too honest for my own good.

Tags: Good, Honest, Sometimes

Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter of time before non-fiction turned into fiction again. But I never consciously set out to become a writer and I never thought I'd be doing the things I'm doing today.

Tags: Book, Time, Today

For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in the comic book industry.

Tags: Book, Strange, Work

Having said that, I'm a huge Jack Nicholson fan because he just goes nuts in everything he does. Having Jack in his heyday would also be a dream come true.

Tags: Dream, Said, True
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I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.

Tags: Fiction, Respect, Writing

I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day; we never stop. I just hope people keep on liking what I do. That gives me such a kick.

Tags: Hope, Learning, Mistakes

I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don't care how much they say it doesn't bother them. That's why we used to huddle in caves and light fires when the sun went down.

Tags: Care, Dark, Why

I know it's popular to say this because she's the woman of the moment, but Halle Berry. Not only does she have obvious audience appeal and star quality, but she's a damn good actress too.

Tags: Good, Moment, Woman

I love a good laugh as well, I think that's so important in life, which is probably why I've dabbled in comedy writing as well as horror. I think if you can make someone laugh or smile it's the most special thing in the world.

Tags: Good, Life, Love

I sometimes wonder what would've happened if I'd entered the competition instead - I'd probably have come nowhere and given up on the whole fiction game.

Tags: Game, Sometimes, Whole

I'm fortunate in that I'm a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with.

Tags: Friends, Life, Special

I've had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel. I can also tap dance, and don't know many other authors who can.

Tags: Dance, Positive, Seem

It was relatively easy to write 'The Cave of Lost Souls', though, because it came to me one night in a dream. I remember waking up and having this idea for a complete story - from start to finish - in my head, so I jotted it down, then later began writing the thing.

Tags: Lost, Night, Writing

Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists.

Tags: Might, Others, Sure

Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it.

Tags: Best, Black, Work

This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for two years and went through a few publishers before finding a stable home.

Tags: Few, Home, Writer

Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you want them to - they usually have a life of their own if you've done your job properly.

Tags: Done, Job, Life

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.

Tags: Business, Lonely, Writing
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