At the beginning of the decade, writing comics had become something that I used to do.
I can’t tell you why to this day. There was no watershed moment that killed my interest, no dramatic revelation that led me away from the world of funnybooks. When I’d first started writing them ten years before, there had [...]

When I was eight years old, a librarian refused to let me check out a book.
The issue wasn’t a matter of content; the book was a biography of Houdini, and the most salacious thing I can remember about it after all these years was a single occurrence of the word “nude” (used to describe the [...]