Why I will Not Be Here For A Week.
I just told Karen Berger I was going on holiday for a week. She pointed out that the last time she could remember that I'd actually, honest-to-goodness, taken a real week off, was in 1988.
Holly organised it. There will be no snow where I am going. Nor, as far as I can tell, will there be any internet connection. Quite possibly no working telephones. There will be daughters, however. (I'd hoped not even to bring a computer, but Holly wants something to write her midterms on.)
So I plan to walk and swim and, er, well, seeing I'm bringing a fountain pen, write my novel...
(Look, it's still a holiday, even if you're writing a novel. I went on one in 1988. I know these things.)
...
And as I go, I leave you one lovely link; Alan David Doane's excellent interview with Alan Moore, at ADD's website. "...if I've had any benign influence upon comics, I would hope that it would be along those lines; that anything is possible if you approach the material in the right way. You can do some extraordinary things with a mixture of words and pictures. It's just a matter of being diligent enough and perceptive enough and working hard enough, continually honing your talent until it's sharp enough to do the job that you require. I hope that if I had any sort of benign legacy at all, that that would be it, but I don't know, I think that my legacy, somedays, like I say, I think that my legacy is more likely to be a lot of humourless snarling, sarcastic psychopaths, but that's just on my black days, pay me no mind..." and lots more equally fascinating stuff.
Holly organised it. There will be no snow where I am going. Nor, as far as I can tell, will there be any internet connection. Quite possibly no working telephones. There will be daughters, however. (I'd hoped not even to bring a computer, but Holly wants something to write her midterms on.)
So I plan to walk and swim and, er, well, seeing I'm bringing a fountain pen, write my novel...
(Look, it's still a holiday, even if you're writing a novel. I went on one in 1988. I know these things.)
...
And as I go, I leave you one lovely link; Alan David Doane's excellent interview with Alan Moore, at ADD's website. "...if I've had any benign influence upon comics, I would hope that it would be along those lines; that anything is possible if you approach the material in the right way. You can do some extraordinary things with a mixture of words and pictures. It's just a matter of being diligent enough and perceptive enough and working hard enough, continually honing your talent until it's sharp enough to do the job that you require. I hope that if I had any sort of benign legacy at all, that that would be it, but I don't know, I think that my legacy, somedays, like I say, I think that my legacy is more likely to be a lot of humourless snarling, sarcastic psychopaths, but that's just on my black days, pay me no mind..." and lots more equally fascinating stuff.
