He believes that the British comics industry, by not following the European market or using a model like Games Workshop, or sharing the publishing rights and revenues with the creator, has seen people having to rush their work in order to make a living – and that has restricted the growth of the medium. and a time when he wrote on very long wallpaper in a typewriter, so that the act of simply changing the bore wouldn't bore him further. But also of an era writing with John Wagner in a garden shed, to a formula that utterly bored him, for kids comics. He talked about always being driving, as having submitted his first story to the BBC when he was nine, thinking he was running out of time. As the creator of 2000AD, the room was packed, and he had lots to talk about, especially with the release of a new novel written with Kevin O'Neill, Read Em And Weep, that fictionalises their early writing and publishing experiences, as a series of thrillers set in the seventies. Pat Mills was at the 2000AD 40 Years Of Thrill Power event, held in Hammersmith today.
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