Established writers rarely mention the hard times they faced early in their careers. We don't think of William Faulkner as a night watchman or T.S. Eliot as a banker--but both writers had those jobs.The hardest part about writing is believing that you are a novelist/poet/journalist even though you haven't been published yet.
Today we have a very special guest, Woody Wilson--the man who wrote the Rex Morgan M.D. comic strip story you see above.
For more than 15 years, Wilson written the iconic comic strips, Rex Morgan, M.D. and Judge Parker, but he struggled to become a newspaper comic strip writer--just as hard as any starving artist.
Welcome to my deceptively simple feature, Five Easy Questions. In the spirit of Jack Nicholson's mad piano player, I run a weekly set of quality interviews with writing pioneers—delivering some practical, unexpected advice about web publishing.
Jason Boog:
How did you become involved writing comic strip scripts?
Woody Wilson:
In 1978, I met the late Jim Andrews, editor and founder of Universal Press Syndicate. I was living in San Francisco and had been toying with the idea of writing a comic strip.