What are your personal quirks as a writer?

I have never read Shakespeare or Dickens or any of the classics, although I have seen some movie versions. My parents didn't read and there were no books in the house but this was the 1930s and this Not unusual but I did read a lot of books, comics and the biggest discovery of my life was finding a thrift store that sold cheap comics.

Actually they were not comics, but comic pages from newspapers, from American newspapers, not British newspapers. I wondered why a thrift shop in the suburbs of London had such material, but then, I found out reason.

British ships sailing to America would not have enough cargo to bring back, so they had to be loaded with ballast, which stabilized the ships as they rolled over completely empty. In this case the ship will produce waste paper, i.e. tons of unsold newspapers, of which the comics section will be part

I don't know why the comics section is separated and ends up in the old shop, but it was, and for twopence I could have bought a whole lot of it. I was eight years old at the time and twopence was half of my weekly pocket money

As an American comic, some cartoons like Popeye were also cartoons and in the 1930s cartoons were shown in movie theaters There are also small cinemas that only show cartoons. You can go to such a cinema to watch cartoons continuously for 3 pence. My mom would take me to a movie theater like this, park me there while she went shopping, and then pick me up on the way home

I decided one day I could be a cartoonist and try to copy characters in comic strips, but I didn't realize at the time that comics were more than just drawings, there had to be a scene, joke or story

I started cutting cartoons out of newspapers and magazines and trying to figure out They are interesting because I found that in some cases the drawings were interesting, in other cases the situations were interesting, but in other cases the conversations were interesting

As a teenager I managed to Published a cartoon in a club magazine but found that my drawing skills were not good enough so I focused on writing and tried to write some jokes.

Based on this, I sent some sketches to a radio show that used them

From there, I applied for a job in advertising and discovered that my The knowledge of comic strips was very useful in making cartoons, and eventually I had my own comic strip

I lived happily ever after