WHAT competition?

Bill Schipek was the person who gave me my first (unsuccessful) interview at H-B. I only had samples of my underground comix to show him, yet he was very nice and encouraging and asked me to practice drawing H-B characters and to come back in a year or so. Within about a year, I was hired to work freelance on the H-B comic books as an inker. A few years after that, I was invited to work on staff on THE NEW FRED AND BARNEY SHOW. When I told my coworkers how encouraging Bill Schipek had been (by then, the poor guy had died sitting on the toilet in one of H-B's bathrooms), people couldn't believe me -- apparently, he was an ex-Marine and had a reputation for being the harshest guy in the studio!

Neal Adams was right.

Hmm, let's do the math here........



You drew The Flintstones for an ad agency.....you drew the not highly regarded DC Comic Captain Carrot.....what are you doing these days? Drawing Simpsons comics?



Last I checked, the Flintstones were a Hanna-Barbera cartoon, Matt Groening created the Simpsons, and Roy Thomas was the writer and brains behind the Capt. Carrot characters. Even Rhino Records owns the rhino mascot.



Over 40 years and you still can't tell the difference between a cartoonist and an illustrator?



Here, let me school you: Cartoonists create ORIGINAL characters of their own, illustrators are hired to draw other people's characters....You're just an illustrator.



So Monk is right (about Neal being right).......

Dang, this is a tough crowd!