A lot of people overwrite comics – usually people who think that making a graphic novel is just putting somebody who can write words together with someone who can draw pictures.
If you’re a cartoonist (and this has something to do with the way cartoonists are perceived in literary and scientific circles), a lot of people I wrote to, space journalists and space historians, weren’t sure what I was and what I was doing.
There seems to be so much more opportunity here [USA], and I admit that I got tired of wading against the tide back home.