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Born: 1922-01-01
Profession: Artist
Nation: American
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Even though at 17 it was limited, I had a life before Batman.

Tags: Batman, Life, Though

I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things.

Tags: Dull, Felt, Heroes

We really lived, ate, drank and slept Batman - ideas, characters and stories.

Tags: Ideas, Lived, Stories

We were just emerging from the Depression. Superman started in 1938. Batman started in 1939. So, we were just recovering.

Tags: Depression, Started, Superman

I did 32 years of political cartoons, one every day for six days a week, I wrote and drew every word, every line. That body of work is the one I'm proudest of.

Tags: Political, Word, Work

Looking at the Batman pages is like revisiting my youth. My first seven years in New York were the first seven years of Batman itself. While my time on Batman was important and exciting and notable considering the characters that came out of it, it was really just the start of my life.

Tags: Life, Start, Time

So once I thought of the villain with a sense of humor, I began to think of a name and the name "the Joker" immediately came to mind. There was the association with the Joker in the deck of cards, and I probably yelled literally, 'Eureka!' because I knew I had the name and the image at the same time.

Tags: Humor, Mind, Time

So, I'm thinking of a name for a villain that has a sense of humor. I thought of 'The Joker' as a name, and as soon as I thought that, I associate it with the playing card, as my family had a tradition of champion playing; my brother was a contract champion bridge player. There were always cards around the house.

Tags: Family, Humor, Thinking

When comics came along in the 1930s there was a talent pool waiting. And one reason is so many areas were closed to Jews. Colleges, advertising agencies, many of the corporations - the doors that were closed led to the one that was open.

Tags: Reason, Talent, Waiting

You look at Superman, the story of an orphan coming to America, keeping his identity secret and even the names, Kal-El and Jor-El, you can trace lines to the background of the creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, both Jewish. Overall, there was a remarkable confluence of events that led to the medium and the Jewish participation.

Tags: America, Secret, Story

The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment.

Tags: American, Dream, Happy

People's attitudes have been changing over the past 15 years, but China is still the world's biggest consumer of dogs.

Tags: Biggest, Dogs, Past

The American Dream is really money.

Tags: American, Dream, Money

There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.

Tags: Life, Love, Time

I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies.

Tags: America, Crazy, Movies
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